After all, such a big thing happened in Chenjia Village, and hundreds of people in the whole village have become wandering spirits, if this does not alarm the city god, we have ten dares not to advocate for them to return to the yang.

Chenghuang can be found everywhere, whether in the city or in the countryside.

It's just that the City God Temple has been banned in many big cities, and there are many such temples in the countryside.

Kyushu has a long history of culture, and the gods worshiped in different places are different, but the first stop to manage the Yin Soul is the City God, but some places have different names.

Just like in Yuzhou, from the nineties to the early twentieth century, there were still many land temples in the countryside.

This kind of land temple is simply furnished, that is, two bluestone slabs are piled up, very short, not at all like a temple should be, the locals call it the land temple.

According to my speculation, it should be the same as the role of the City God Temple.

It's just that this kind of Chenghuang is likely to be an errand runner arranged above, that is, the younger brother of the orthodox Chenghuang master, some ghosts with Taoism.

They also did this to manage the local ghosts, because the underworld is the same as the human world, they also have a system, and the city god has a life and death book in his hand, which records in detail the increase in the local population, just like the current police station.

It's all over the country.

They are all under the administration of the prefecture, and the first person responsible is the judge.

They have detailed records of birth, old age, sickness and death in a place.

And the first stop after death is the City God Temple, and as for some northern areas, the five masters are believed, and the responsibilities are similar.

Although the City God Temple does not sound good, it is very powerful, and some celebrities can only become City God after they die.

Chenghuang is the magistrate of the underworld, and his authority is equivalent to that of the county prince of the yang realm (it is the official position that is really responsible for the life of Fushoulu and the evil punishment Ming, and it is not a god, and he is called Chenghuang, judge, etc.).

Note that this is the big city god, who is in charge of the life and death of a county, and he also has districts, towns, villages, and first-level management under him, which is in good order.

There are governors and governors in the county.

Lord Chenghuang is not a god, and in some sense, he should still belong to a ghost.

After the Ming and Qing dynasties, Chenghuang became an official position of a god, rather than a god. The capital city god is enshrined by the provincial-level administrative region, which is equivalent to the governor of the yang world. The city god is equivalent to the prefect of the yang world, and the county town god is equivalent to the county order of the yang world.

The city gods in each region are appointed by different people, and even by the local people themselves, and the selection criteria are loyal martyrs who died in the country, or historical figures who meet Confucian standards of integrity and intelligence.

For example, there are three major city gods in the southeast: Suzhou City God, Chun Shenjun, Huang Xie, Hangzhou City God, Wen Tianxiang, and Pudong Second City God, Qin Yubo.

For example, the Chenghuang Temple in the capital of Fujian Province enshrines Liu Bang's imperial historian Zhou Cao because of his loyalty and unyielding, and he was sentenced to be executed.

Huang Xie, the spring Shenjun of the Warring States Period, named him the great commander and the Hou of ten thousand households, and was enshrined as the city god of Suzhou because of his meritorious service in resisting Qin.

There are also some national lords or officials who have made great contributions to the local civilization and people's wisdom and improve people's livelihood, such as Li Yangbing, the first magistrate of Jinyun County.

Zhejiang Shaoxing City God Temple is for the people of the Pang Yu general, Ninghua City God Temple City God for Wu Luo Jun, Guangzhou City God is the Southern Han Emperor Liu Yan during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

There are also "clean officials" who are "honest and honest, support the government and love the people", such as Hangzhou Chenghuang Zhou Xin, when Ming Chengzu ascended the throne, he was appointed to supervise the imperial history, many impeachments, and the nobles were afraid.

The imperial capital area is the Ming Dynasty generation of loyal Yang Jisheng, Anhui Qingyang City God Temple is the Qing official Hai Rui and so on.

Chenghuang has civil and military judges, great gods of various divisions, Ganliu generals/army, Fan Xie generals/army, cattle and horse generals/army, day and night wandering gods, shackle generals/army, etc

Among them, the wingmen of the city god are the divisions, and the divisions are configured according to the temples, which are not the same, there are three divisions, six divisions and even to the twenty-four divisions or thirty-six divisions, and the names of each division are not the same, such as the head city city god temple is divided by officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers. Only the Yin and Yang Division is the head of all the divisions. The Yin and Yang Division is the first assistant official of the City God, coordinating the divisions and supervising the cases, and then reporting to the City God.

Three Divisions: Yin and Yang Division, Express Division, and Picket Division.

Seven Divisions: Yin and Yang Division, Express Division, Picket Division, Reward and Good Division, Punishment Division, Zenglu Division, and Sushi Injection.

Eight Divisions: Yin and Yang Division, Express Division, Picket Division, Reward and Good Division, Punishment Division, God of Wealth Division, Sushi Note, and Merit Division.

Twenty-four Divisions: Yin and Yang Division, Express Reporting Division, Good Wishes Division, Investigation Division, Clerk Division, Hell Division, Gong Cao Division, Case Division, Inspection Division, Epidemic Eradication Division, Academic Administration Division, Classics Division, Punishment Division, Blessing Division, Sushi Division, Food Supervision Division, Patrol Division, Induction Division, Security Division, Etiquette Division, Inspection Division, Reward Division, Punishment Division, and Examination Division.

Twenty-four Divisions: Yin and Yang Division, Quick Report Division, Gong Cao Division, Merit Division, Blessing Division, Plague Division, Induction Division, Punishment Division, Meritorious Examination Division, Meritorious Service Division, Incident Division, Prison Division, Inspection Division, Reward Division, Criminal Law Division, Investigation Division, Seeing Record Division, Coming Recording Division, Alarm Division, Reward Division, Treasury Division, Reform Division, Health Care Division, and Human Resources Division.

Twenty-four Divisions: Yin and Yang Division, Officials Division, Seal Division, Honor Division, Examination Division, Household Division, Degree Branch, Gold Division, Cangbu Division, Rite Division, Ritual Division, Host and Guest Division, Catering Division, Military Division, Staffing Division, Driving Division, Treasury Division, Criminal Division, Metropolitan Officials, Comparison Division, Division, Ministry of Industry, Tuntian Division, Yu Division, and Water Division. This group of twenty-four divisions came to adopt the sixty-four divisions of the imperial court.

Twenty-four Divisions: Yin and Yang Division, Appointment and Dismissal Division, Induction Division, Dispatch and Arrest Division, Interrogation Division, Treasury Division, Kejia Division, Agricultural Division, Craftsman Division, Shangjia Division, Money and Silver Division, Netherworld Division, Picket Division, Marriage Division, Children and Grandchildren Division, Medicine Division, Life Division, Merit Division, Quzhi Division, Prison Division, Bingrong Division, Fortune Division, Clerical Division, Land Division, Jianghai Division. This group of twenty-four divisions, the names of the divisions are all dual, quite elegant, and the level of literature and art is high; And the titles of each department are set for the people's needs.

The city god is the god of nature, and where there is a city, there is a city god temple.

The earliest Chenghuang Temple is found in the Wuhu Chenghuang Temple built in the second year of Wu Chiwu of the Three Kingdoms (239). In history, there are records of Tang people Zhang Shuo, Li Deyu, Li Yangbing, Du Mu and other people who sacrificed to the god of the city god. The City God Temple in Fuzhou was built in the third year of Taikang in the Jin Dynasty (282 years), only 43 years apart, so the City God Temple in Fuzhou is the second earliest temple in the country, more than 1,700 years ago.

After the Song Dynasty, the city god began to be personified, and most of the heroes or famous ministers after death were worshiped as the city god gods, such as Suzhou worshiped the Warring States Period Chun Shenjun Huang Xie, Shanghai worshiped Qin Yubo, Yanjing worshipped Yangjiao Mountain, Hangzhou worshipped Zhou Xin, Wen Tianxiang, Huiji worshiped Pang Wang, Nanning, Guilin worshiped Su Mian and so on.

Most of the city god temples are hung with plaques such as "strict discipline", "heroic righteousness", "protecting the country and protecting the people", "selflessness in my place", "articles on righteousness", "carrying forward righteousness", etc., as well as "it is useless to burn incense for doing treacherous and evil, and it doesn't matter if you don't worship me with an upright heart", "good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and right and wrong will be clear from the bottom", "good deeds have a clear conscience here, and evil is more than my family's courage and coldness".

There are still a lot of City God Temples, and you can still see these couplets when you go, but many of the City God Temples that have been handed down before were destroyed when they were broken and old, and most of the ones that can be seen now are built later, which is really whimpering and sad.

In the City God Temple, there are alms of money, rice, clothes, quilts, medicines, coffins, etc. every year, and the Fucheng God Temple is the largest alms on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month every year, and there are also small-scale alms on the first and fifteenth days of each month.

There are also activities to uphold justice and resolve disputes. In the old society, every year on Chinese New Year's Eve, there was a puppet "Lu opera" on the stage of the Fucheng God's Temple. Because there were many poor people at that time, because of the debt avoidance at night, it was difficult to repay the family, and there was no way out, so I had to go to the City God Temple to watch the "Lu Opera" as a "New Year's Guard".

There are people who are kind and generous, and send people to carry "red envelopes" and quietly give them to those who are poor.

These things were reprimanded as feudal tumors in the past, but this is actually a part of Kyushu culture, and it is a pity that they disappeared in the long river of history.

The four of us exited the wooden house, only to see Jiang Xuan very cautiously lit four incense sticks to the east, three incense sticks to worship the gods, and four incense sticks to worship ghosts, don't make a mistake, otherwise it is not only smiling and generous, but also may cause big trouble.