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Land Public. It is also known as the god of good fortune.
Shrine gods are one of the Chinese folk beliefs.
The second day of the second lunar month (in ancient times, it was the fifth day after the beginning of spring) is the Christmas day of the land lord. The earliest land lord.
It is the tomb of the Han Dynasty.
present-day Nanjing). In southern China.
For example, in Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other regions, the land is generally worshipped. The belief in the land embodies the good wishes of the Chinese working people to ward off evil spirits, avoid disasters, and pray for blessings.
Although there are many titles of land gods, exploring their origins is actually related to the gods of society and grass in the "heaven, earth, society, and ji" sacrificed in ancient Chinese society. In ancient times, the land god and the place where the land god was worshipped were called"Society"According to folk customs, every sowing or harvesting season, farmers have to set up a shrine to worship and pray or reward the land god.
Culture and customs. The land god is also a folk belief and Taoism.
One of the most well-known gods in myths and legends, he is the guardian of a land, and he is a god who forms a coexistence with that land, so the land lord in that land knows everything. As a local guardian deity, although its status is not high, it is the most common among Chinese people. Temples that were previously erected for them can be found in almost every village.
Legend has it that the land could go to heaven at will, but it was kept for the sake of the people. Usually the land god appears in the form of an elderly couple, and the male is called"Land father-in-law", the female is called"Land mother-in-law"。The worship of the land god is actually the first to be the land worship in ancient times, and later, this kind of nature worship began to move towards personification, and gradually some real people appeared to play this role, which was called by people"Lord of the Land"。
Since there are countless land gods in China, there are not many who really have names. The temples erected for them in general were small in size and were called"Land Temple", which enshrines an elderly couple sitting side by side. By the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), their worship began to flourish, and this worship spread to other peoples.
In China, a grand festival was held every year to worship the god, and later this gathering evolved into the most distinctive phenomenon in China, the temple fair, which became an important custom.
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Online encyclopedia or others say that the land father-in-law is a Taoist immortal, but through the hall of the debutant of the horse immortal as evidence, the land father-in-law should be equipped with the Boruo Jackfruit Multi-Heart Sutra, and the Boruo Jackfruit Multi-Heart Sutra is Buddhism.
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Hello, glad to answer for you. The Daosui Sutra believes that the land lord is the god of the land, the god who protects and guards the land, and has an important role in guessing the model and function. Therefore, in Taoism, people pray to the Lord of the Land for peace and a good harvest of the land, and burn incense and offer bird sacrifices to express respect and gratitude.
Burning incense is an ancient way of sacrificing to express people's respect and belief in the gods through incense sacrifices, and at the same time, it can also purify the soul and achieve the effect of concentrating and calming the spirit. When burning incense, people will offer incense candles in front of the shrine of the Lord of the Land, and pray that the Lord of the Land will bless the local land with fertility, good weather, peace and smoothness.
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The land lord is a Taoist immortal.
The land god, also known as the land lord or the land lord, has a low status in the Taoist god system, but it is extremely common in Chinese folk beliefs, and is the local protector god in Chinese folk beliefs, popular in all parts of the country.
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He is the god of the land. It is called the god of good fortune, and it is a god worshiped by [Taoism] and [folklore]. In ancient mythology, he was called the god of the shrine, and he was the god who managed a small piece of land.
Later, it was transformed into a sacrificial god, and it was closely related to all the products on the earth, livestock, crops, etc. It is the people who worship the god of fortune and wealth. Farmers, merchants, fishermen, financiers, carpenters, etc., all have worshippers.
In addition, it is also regarded as the god of the tomb keeper, or the earth of the earth. Legend has it that after the death of a good man and a gentleman, he can be appointed by the Lord of the City God as the lord of the land in various places. In Taoism, the gods of Taishe, Taiji, Tuweng, and Tumu are all gods who are in charge of the land.
However, these deities are not from the Buddhist scriptures.
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You say this is Taoism, right?
In fact, there are many officially recognized folk gods in China, and even folk gods with an official nature.
For example, you are the god of the stove, who is responsible for supervising the good and evil in the world, as long as it is a Han nationality, it is offered by every family. Even now, the so-called invitation to God to send God during the New Year refers to the God of the Stove.
And then there is the land temple you mentioned, and now many people don't take the land seriously! Isn't that in the past, can the happy events of birth, old age, sickness and death still not be reported to the Land Temple? The countryside is the land temple, and the city is the city god temple, which is more powerful in the past than in the current place.
Not only is it a happy event, but you have to report to have a child, even if you pass by, you have to kowtow!
And these temples seem to be spontaneous but they are not, in ancient times, they were under the jurisdiction of the Chenghuang Temple, but the imperial power was not under the county, and after the county, it changed, and it became an unmanned temple, relying on the consciousness of the people's faith to manage. Further down the people's sacrificial activities are ancestral tombs and ancestral halls!
Therefore, this land temple and stove prince, in essence, belong to the secular management of the imperial power, since ancient times in China, the political power is greater than the divine power, so the land temple is small, but it is the god, regardless of Taoism and Buddhism, you have to burn incense to the land lord.
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It should be called burning incense to the land bodhisattva to bless the five grains with abundant harvests.
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According to Taoist orthodoxy, Taoist incense is common with one pillar, three pillars, and nine pillars, and a pillar of incense represents the heart incense, expressing the respect for the gods; The three incense sticks represent the three treasures of the Taoist scriptures, and also represent the three talents of heaven, earth and man, which are the most commonly used; The nine-pillar incense is used for the birthday of the immortal saint.
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