ps: 2, the five gods of helping the needy

The legendary Wutong God is a god who helps the poor and the poor. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info As long as he patronizes that family, there is endless food in that family's pot, and that family's granary and the bottles and cans of grain are always full.

2. The five gods of helping the needy

The legendary Wutong God is a god who helps the poor and the poor. As long as he patronized that household, there was endless food in that household's pot, and that household's granary and the bottles and jars of grain were always full.

On this day, Wutongshen came to a village and saw an old woman and a little boy sitting at the entrance of the village. The little boy held the old woman's hand and cried non-stop: "Grandma, I'm hungry, I'm hungry.......". The old woman stretched out her skinny hand and stroked the child's head, suppressed the rumbling of her stomach, and comforted the child helplessly: "Don't cry, child, maybe the well-wisher will come after a while, and the kind-hearted person will give us a little food, even if it is a little leftovers, you will be able to survive for a while." The child still shook the old woman's body and cried, "No, I don't, haven't we been waiting for days, why hasn't anyone given us food?" I'm hungry, I'm hungry ......".

Listening to the cries of the old and the young, Wutongshen couldn't help but walk over and ask them which village they were from and why they were sitting here. The old woman told him that they were from this village, and that the child's parents had worked for the rich man's family, and the father was tired to death, so he borrowed money from the rich man's family for burial, but he couldn't pay back the money, and the rich man wanted the child's mother to pay off the debt and become a little wife, and the child's mother committed suicide by throwing herself into the river. The mother-in-law and grandson are left, and they haven't been able to open the pot for several days and haven't eaten. Because every family in the village is poor. Even if there were kind neighbors, they could not help, so they had to sit here and hope that the good Samaritans passing by would give them a little food or a little money to buy rice to satisfy their hunger. Wutong God listened to the old woman's narration. I thought to myself, such a poor old and a young, I don't help, who else needs my help? Thinking about it, he took out two wheat cakes filled with moldy dried vegetables from his arms and said to the child, "Don't cry, child." This is what I brought with me to eat on the road, so let me satisfy your hunger first. Go home, I promise you and grandma have something to eat every day, maybe you have a pot of food waiting for you when you get home? Wutong God said as he helped up the mother-in-law and grandson who were sitting on the ground. After listening to the words of Wutong God, they didn't know that standing in front of them was the well-known Wutong God, and the old woman said to Wutong God in disbelief: "Good Samaritan, if you save us what you eat on the road, we will be grateful, but you said that we will have food every day when we go home." Unless the gods of Wutong patronize, how can I have rice to cook at home? The god said, "Go back, believe me, good intentions will be rewarded." Under the persuasion of Wutong God, the mother-in-law and grandson turned around step by step to thank Wutong God and helped each other to go home.

When the mother-in-law and grandson returned home, they immediately rushed to the stove to remove the lid of the pot, and looked, ho. A pot of rice was steaming hot, wafting out bursts of rice aroma, causing the little boy to drool. And the wafting fragrance of rice attracted the neighbors to come to watch, and they were amazed. Ask the old woman where she got the rice. The old woman told the villagers about the kind people she met at the intersection, and the villagers all said: "That must be the five gods, otherwise where would you get rice?" The old woman knew that what she met on the road was the god of Wutong. Busy kneeling at the door with his grandson, he bowed and bowed in the direction of the five gods he had just met, and then shared the rice in the pot with the villagers. It's strange to say. The rice in the pot was almost finished, but I used a spatula to shovel a few times. Hot rice came out of the pot again until the villagers were full.

2. Basic classification

1. God of Wealth

In the primitive religion of the people, people have created a giant god who can make people rich, and the God of Wealth is the most representative deity. From the Tang and Song dynasties to the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Wutong God, which is widely believed by the people in the south of the Yangtze River, is not as well-known as the God of Wealth, and the believers are not as popular and extensive as the God of Wealth, but there are also many "followers". People only need to worship sincerely, "all the money in and out of the loss, must first be intrigued", the five gods said to people: "If you can worship me, you should make the king rich all over the world", "can make people rich" ("Yijian Ding Zhi" volume 13). But this god is also very stingy and cannot afford to offend, and if he offends him, all his wealth will immediately be "taken away from him" and "the money he has accumulated will fly out in all directions, and within a few miles, he will get something" (Yijian Zhizhi, vol. 3). Ancient books say that the five gods can make people rich, but also can make people destitute, this capricious, narrow-minded, and stingy god is really incomprehensible, crying and laughing. Despite this, people still believe in him and worship him.

2. Five manifestations

In the folklore of the Song Dynasty, Wutong God is also known as Wuxian God, which is the common name of a group of folk gods and ghosts, and each of them can be called Wutong God alone. Among them, there is one who is "shaped like a child of five or six years old, and is called the God of Peace." "Yijian Zhizhi" volume 10 said that the five gods enshrined in the Yunju Mountain Great Zen Temple in Jianchang County, Nankang are "very supernatural, called the God of Peace", he often talks and chats with the monks, "I don't see its shape, its voice is like five or six years old", and it is more mysterious.

Wutong God, also called Wulang God, Wurampant God. It is a general term for rampant in the countryside, like lewd wives and female monsters, and lonely souls, and does not specifically refer to that kind of ghosts and gods. Usually the statue of five statues to worship blood food, known as "five links", many people worship, another said to have the ability of the god of wealth.

There are two stories about the five links in Liao Zhai, one is entitled "Five Links", and the other is a supplement to "Five Links", entitled "Again". The five links in "Liao Zhai" are also the most obscene spiritual objects, they all appear in the image of beautiful men, specializing in adulterous wives and daughters, "There are beautiful women in the private family, and they are occupied by adultery, and their parents and brothers dare not breathe, and the harm is still fierce." Later, the "three links" that were killed by Wansheng were one horse and two pigs, and the "one pass" that was cut off by Wansheng did not know what it was. Pu Songling commented at the end of the article: "The five-way frog has been confusing for a long time, so he let it be **, no one dares to talk about it privately, and the world is really fast." The "Again" chapter writes about the castration of the daughter of the Golden Dragon King, and says at the end of the article: "This matter is ...... If after the use of force in ten thousand lives, Wu Xia will only be half-passed, and it should be not enough to harm it. (To be continued.) )

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