In the traditional Chinese nation, in the courtyard of every house, the door god will be posted during the New Year's Festival. The door god is also the most common fairy system in the daily home life of the people www.biquge.info In the past, we all thought that immortals were superior, but most of them served the higher-level immortals. For example, the Jade Emperor, Taishang Laojun, King Yama, Buddha Rulai, Dragon King, and so on. But what we call the door god today is the one among the gods who serve the vast masses of us. Generally speaking, they don't arrive late, leave early, and have no holidays in a year, which means that we can see him every day. At the end of the year, we usually replace the door god and replace it with two new door god stickers. Today I will tell you what these door gods are and what stories they are.

In the past, there was an opera such as "The White-Haired Girl", and Yang Bailao owed a lot of money to the landlord and rich man Huang Shiren's family. In the first year of the year, it is difficult to close the main account, so Xi'er and Yang Bailao want to stick the door god on the door, so that the big and small ghosts can't get in, looking forward to the peace and security of the family in a year, so the door god exorcises evil spirits in the town. Of course, this is just a kind of spiritual sustenance, but it also shows the status of the door god in the hearts of the majority of people. And in the "Sou Shen Ji", it is also recorded, saying: "Today's customary law, every Chinese New Year's Eve, decorate the peach man, weewe, draw a tiger at the door, put two lamps on the left and right, like a tiger sleeping, to drive away the ominous." Therefore, later people worshipped the gods and Yu Lei as the door gods, and the peach branches as evil plants, which have been passed down from generation to generation. Later, a variety of new door gods replaced the pre-Qin door gods such as Shen Tu and Yu Lei, and the meaning, form and content of the door gods underwent a series of changes with the continuation of history. In the later period, the newly added door gods mainly included "prayer class", "Taoist class", "civil official class", "military general" and "other miscellaneous class" and so on. Prayer classes such as blessing heavenly officials, Taoist classes such as Qinglong Mengzhang Shenjun and White Tiger Supervisor Shenjun, civil officials Wei Zheng, Hum Ha Erjun, Bao Zheng and Wen Tianxiang, and even in the Ming Dynasty, the Qing official Hai Rui also became one of the door gods. And I think the most widely circulated celebrities and door gods are Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong. In the "Three Sects Source Flow Search God Encyclopedia", it is recorded that in the early years of Tang Taizong Li Shimin, he descended to Wagang, swept Dou Jiande, Zhen Du Fuwei and other rebel armies, during which he killed countless people. After the throne, the body is very poor, the night dreams are restless, many nightmares, common demons in the dormitory inside and outside the bricks and tiles, ghosts call, so that the front and rear halls, thirty-six palaces, seventy-two courtyards have no tranquility at night, Li Shimin is afraid, tell the ministers, but the palace inside and outside the palace are completely unknown, only Tang Taizong Li Shimin is afraid of day and night. After more than a month, Taizong finally couldn't stand the torture of the evil ghosts, and summoned the generals to discuss. The generals proposed to let Marshal Qin Qiong and General Wei Chi Gong wear armor and guard the door on both sides of the palace gate every night. It was night, and sure enough, there was nothing wrong, and Taizong and the military officials of the imperial court applauded in unison. However, over time, Taizong read Qin Qiong, and the two generals of Wei Chigong worked hard day and night, so they asked the palace painter to draw the portrait of the two generals, angry eyes, holding whips, hanging on both sides of the palace gate. Since then, the cult has disappeared. Later generations followed this method, and then the two generals will always be the door gods and they can become the most widely spread, the most influential, the highest prestige, the most popular, and the door gods loved by both rich and poor. Another explanation is more mythical, in "Journey to the West" records: the old dragon of Jinghe near Chang'an made a bet with a fortune teller and violated the rules of heaven, and the Jade Emperor sent Wei Zheng to supervise the old dragon at three o'clock in the afternoon. Lao Long begged Tang Taizong to intercede for him the day before, and Tang Taizong agreed. The next day, Tang Taizong announced that Wei Zheng had entered the court, and left Wei Zheng behind to play Go with him. Unexpectedly, it was three o'clock in the afternoon, Wei Zheng dozed off and dreamed of killing the old dragon. The old dragon resented Tang Taizong's words and did not believe it, and the ghost did not disperse, and he came to the palace every day to make trouble, making Tang Taizong's six gods uneasy. Wei Zheng knew that the emperor was frightened, so he sent Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong, two generals, to guard the palace gate to protect them, and sure enough, the old dragon's unjust soul did not dare to come to make trouble. Tang Taizong remembered that they worked hard to guard the door at night, so he asked the painter to draw a portrait of the two and paste it at the palace gate, and the result still worked. As a result, this move also began to circulate among the people, and Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong became door gods.

There are also some common people in China who worship Zhao Yun and Ma Chao, the general of Shuzhong during the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Bin Pang Juan, the disciple of Guiguzi during the Warring States Period, and the general Meng Liang Jiaozan under the Yang family. Maybe many of our friends and the elderly today will think that the door god was a long time ago, and today it is superstition, but in recent years, I still see many people still stick the door god during the New Year. In fact, this piece is to be divided into two to see, the door god, it is first of all a kind of inheritance of traditional Chinese culture, it represents the new year to the door god, just like now when the New Year firecrackers set off fireworks, in fact, it is also polluting the environment. But when you can't hear the sound of firecrackers during the Chinese New Year, you will definitely feel that the taste of this year is not strong enough. In the end, I think that the god of sticking to the door is not only not a superstition, but a yearning for a happy and peaceful life in the new year. Living a good life is not only a dream, it is also a Chinese dream.