Why is Guan Yu worshipped as the god of wealth by the current merchants?

In the Song Dynasty, people's attention to Guan Yu was manifested in the construction of Guanwang Temple, which slowly became a landscape at that time. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Guan Yu received the highest title of Taoism, "The Great Emperor of the Three Realms of Demon Suppression, Shenwei Yuanzhen, Tianzun Guan Shengdijun". In the Qing Dynasty, "all thoroughfares and poor rural areas, there is no land", the wind of building Guanwang Temple, increased unabated, and Guan Gong became the protector of all walks of life.

Perhaps because they felt that Guan Gong was not paid enough attention to this, people asked Guan Gong to take the position of "God of Wealth" again. So in the Qing Dynasty, the role of Guan Gong changed.

The reason why Guan Gong's role changed in the Qing Dynasty has a lot to do with the prosperity of non-governmental commercial activities during the Kangxi and Qianlong periods. At that time, all walks of life took advantage of the "Three Kingdoms" to worship Guan Gong as their industry god. According to legend, Guan Yu sold tofu when he was young, and the tofu industry also used this to worship Guan Yu as the god of the tofu industry; The candle industry is worshiped as a god because Guan Gong holds candles and abides by the etiquette of his uncle and sister-in-law; What's more interesting is the barbering industry, slaughtering industry, and knife and scissors shop, because their tools are all knives, and Guan Yu's weapon is the Qinglong broadsword, which also worships Guan Gong as a god......

Guan Yu's later image is deeper, which is not unrelated to various legends. Yang Qingru wrote in the book "Ask": "Several legends have deepened the image of Guan Yu's God of Wealth, one is that Guan Gong was good at financial management during his lifetime, good at accounting business, once invented the bookkeeping method, designed the Nissin book, and clearly understood; Another theory is that after Guan Gong's death, the true god often returned to the world to help in the war, and if the merchant could get Guan Gong's help after his business was frustrated, he would make a comeback.

It can be seen that the businessmen chose Guan Gong as the God of Wealth, valuing his image of loyalty and righteousness and the almighty Godhead of punishing evil and promoting good, protecting the people and protecting the people, and they very much hoped that Guan Gong could protect their lives and property safety.

There is also a theory that Guan Gong's becoming the god of wealth is related to Shanxi merchants. Shanxi merchants regarded Guan Gong as a protector when they were away from home, and built Guan temples in their guild halls all over the country. Because they also need to take care of each other and face difficulties together, they often imitate the 'Taoyuan Alliance' to form a brotherly alliance with different surnames, which also makes Guan Gong's virtues of loyalty and righteousness widely spread.

Later, the Jin merchants became rich in the world, and other businessmen followed suit, and Guan Gong became the recognized god of wealth. ”

In fact, the origin of the Chinese God of Wealth is quite difficult to examine, and the gods sacrificed are also different from time to place. Guan Yu is just the "God of Martial Wealth" in the God of Wealth, representing "integrity". In addition to Guan Yu, there were other gods of wealth in ancient China.

The "God of Wealth Paper Horse" that appeared in the folk during the Southern Song Dynasty should be the original form of the God of Wealth. The God of Literature and Wealth evolved from ancient civil officials, such as Bigan and Fan Li; Of course, the God of Martial Arts evolved from military attachés, such as Zhao Gongming and Guan Gong. That is, the so-called "God of Wealth" Zhao Gongming, "God of Wealth" Bigan, Fan Li, "God of Wealth" Wulu God, Lishi Xianguan, "Quasi-God of Wealth" Liu Haichan.

Fan Li represents "wisdom", while Bigan and Zhao Gongming represent "justice".

In fact, only southerners believe in Guan Yu, and we northerners basically don't bird him. Because Guan Yu died in Eastern Wu, Guan Yu appeared in history as a powerful ghost. We northerners are not afraid, but southerners are afraid, so we later changed his image for the better, for fear that he would make trouble.

Now look at the unearthed New Year paintings, you can see that Guan Yu was still a ghost during the Tang and Song dynasties, and it was very funny.

It's very simple, Guan Yu is mighty, and he is wealthy.

Although Guan Yu is a military general, he is very famous in Chinese history, many people respect him as the "Five Tiger Generals" and "Martial Saints", and many people respect him as the "God of Wealth", what is the reason for this?

OneThe name Guan Yu is known to everyone, and he is also the only figure worshiped by modern people in the Three Kingdoms period so far. And now more and more people worship Guan Gong as the God of Wealth, so why did Guan Yu change from a "martial saint" to a "God of Wealth"? This dates back to the Ming and Qing dynasties, when many people were worshipping Guan Gong, and there was a special Guan Yu temple at that time, because the ancient people were also more superstitious at that time, and believed that they needed a little reliance to make their business more prosperous.

IIIn fact, after Guan Yu's death, he was gradually deified by the people, and was also called "Guan Gong" by the people, and in the Qing Dynasty, he was called "Martial Saint". In addition, more and more people think that just the word heroic and martial arts cannot evaluate the great Guan Yu, so many supernatural nouns have been added to Guan Yu's body, so he is gradually called the God of Wealth. And known as the God of Wealth in the Ming and Qing dynasties, in this period of the folk ** is very prosperous, and the quality of business is definitely very related to character, if you want to make the business bigger, the most important thing is integrity and righteousness, so the people at that time are more superstitious, many businessmen will choose a fixed date to go to Guan Yu Temple to worship, so as to bless their business more and more prosperous, and in ancient times, after the business expanded to form a business gang, and the business gang paid the most attention to the word righteousness.

IIIEspecially in the late Ming Dynasty, the Jin merchants were the representatives of the merchant gang, and they put forward the slogan to win the world with integrity and profit with righteousness, so they wanted to find a sustenance for this slogan, and this sustenance was Guan Yu. Because Guan Yu has always been a representative figure from ancient times to the present, so they began to make Guan Yu a protector, with the continuous expansion of the scale of the Jin merchants, the influence is getting bigger and bigger, so Guan Yu is also known as the God of Wealth.

is because Guan Yu is indeed rich, he inherited his father's inheritance, and he has won a lot of rewards for fighting, and his family is very wealthy.

Because from the beginning of the Song Dynasty, they faced a strong enemy in the north, the Song Dynasty began to be in a very weak position, out of the needs of the people's hearts and minds, so the story of the Three Kingdoms period in the past was widely spread among the people, Guan Yu was naturally gradually deified in the people, with the wide spread of film and drama, storytelling, and miscellaneous dramas, Guan Yu's image began to penetrate into the hearts of the people, and in the hearts of the people he became a loyal, righteous, and brave incarnation.

In ancient times, businessmen attached great importance to righteousness, and Guan Yu was precisely a military general who valued righteousness. In ancient times, there was a practice of worshipping Guan Yu in order to prosper in business.

Mainly because he was very lucky. No matter what you do, you can always succeed. And his family is indeed very rich.