封建时代,几乎每个行业都崇拜一个偶象,作为本行业的祖师和主宰之神。比如木工行业的鲁班、银钱业的赵公元帅、玉器行的邱真人、颜料行的葛、梅二仙等等。而采煤业则把老君奉为煤窑之神。老君是个什么样的神?说来有趣,就是《西游记》中那个用八卦炉烧炼仙丹的太上老君,即李聃。由于此神主火,而煤又是火的燃料,这样,老君就逐渐被附会为煤窑的神灵。由是,许多煤窑修建了窑神 Feudal era, almost every industry worship an iconic, as the industry’s founder and God of domination. Such as the Luban woodworking industry, Zhao Yuanluo silver industry, Qiuzhen jade line, the pigment line Ge, Mei Erxian and so on. The mining industry put Laojun as the god of coal. Laojun is what kind of God? To be funny, that is, “Journey to the West,” that with gossip furnace burning immortal Dan Laojun, that is, Li Kui. Because of this God’s fire, and coal is the fuel of fire, so Laojun will gradually be attached to the god of the coal. Since then, many coal kilns built kiln gods