The Chinese Gods currently involved in this article
(1) The God of Society
The god of a household is usually an ancestor spirit and must be enthroned by the land god. It does not belong to the righteous god, but is the preparatory class of the righteous god. Its function can protect the safety of each household and reject the invasion of evil spirits.
(2) The God of Land
Also known as "Ti Di Gong", one of the most common gods in folk beliefs. There are this gods in every township. The control area of ​​a land god varies.
It is popular in the Huaxia region and some areas affected by the Huaxia culture.
The coverage of Asian land gods is very large, and there are also a large number of land gods in the Americas, with the least in Europe.
The land god is the local protector. Wherever there are people living in the Huaxia people, there is a land god. Sacrifice to the land god means sacrifice to the earth. In modern times, it is mostly about praying for blessings, ensuring peace, and harvest.
In this world, the land god is served by those who have merits or practitioners after their death. Every month on the second and sixteenth day of each month, the land must be worshipped.
The responsibilities of the Land God: The Land God belongs to the grassroots gods, belongs to the city gods, and controls the household registration of the deceased in the village, and is the administrative god of the underworld.
At the same time, the land god has a certain ability to regulate land production
The customs of the Huaxia people, when everyone is born, they register with the local land god - that is, the land temple to which they belong, which is similar to the place of each person; after a person dies, they will go to the land temple to which they belong to for sacrifices, and the families of the newly-dead people go to the land temple to report the name and birth date of the deceased, so as to ask the land god to guide the deceased.
The Land God can bless the agricultural harvest, and can also bless the businessmen to smooth business and the travelers to safely travel. It even protects the tombs from evil spirits. The Land God is a god with extremely strong functions. It is a god of one country and one mile.
The land club, a place where the "land god" is worshipped by the people, is the most widely distributed building for sacrifice. It is distributed in all parts of the countryside, and the area is not large. On the first day of the day, it is half a month to burn incense at the land temple.
In the past, when the dead were buried and built tombs, the temple of the land god was also built in the grave area. Now, more spiritual pagodas were built. If someone in the family died, they had to go to the land temple to report their death. The elders in the village carried white lanterns and led the male descendants of the deceased to wear mourning clothes to the land temple to report their death. After cremation, the ashes returned to the spiritual pagoda.
(3) City God
The City God is also the guardian of the local area, but the guardian of the city. He uses the good and evil of the people to make good and bad fortune, so that the quiet and bright people will not be spared. The City God has a Yin Realm Supervision System, and his duties are in charge of eliminating evil and rebelling the dead souls.
As early as the Zhou Dynasty, after harvest, on New Year's Eve, people would sacrifice to the eight gods, the seventh god was the God of Water, the God of Water, the God of Water, the God of Water, the God of City, and the God of Water, the God of City.
Since the Three Kingdoms, the City God Temple has been established among the people. The earliest city God Temple was established by Sun Quan in Wuhu, Anhui. By the Sui Dynasty, there was a custom of using animals to worship the City God.
During the Tang Dynasty, it was quite common to believe in the city god, and many literati and scholars wrote poems and essays to worship the city god.
The City God is a natural god. Anyone with a city temple will build a City God Temple.
The City God is generally the superior of the Land God. Since cities are economic concentrations, the City God can bless businessmen to smoothly do business and safe travelers. They have the ability of the God of Wealth.
(4) Houtu
The female god who dominates the mountains and rivers of the earth, the mother of the earth in Chinese mythology, is the mother of all earthly lives, the highest god of all land gods, and has an imperial divine personality.
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