This article currently deals with the Chinese gods

(1) Shrine gods

The god of a household, usually the ancestral spirit, must be canonized by the god of the land, and does not belong to the righteous god, but is the preparatory class of the righteous god, and its function is to protect the safety of the family and resist the invasion of evil spirits

(2) The god of the land

Also known as "land lord", one of the most common gods in folk beliefs, all towns and villages have this god, and the control area of a land god is different

It is prevalent in the Huaxia area and some areas influenced by the Huaxia culture.

The coverage of land gods in Asia is very large, while there are also a large number of land gods in the Americas, with Europe being the least

The land god belongs to the local protector god, and wherever there is a Chinese people, there is a land god. Sacrificing to the god of the land is to sacrifice to the earth, and in modern times, it mostly belongs to the meaning of praying for blessings, keeping peace, and ensuring harvests.

In this world, the god of the land is held by those who have merit or who are cultivators after death, and they worship the land on the second and sixteenth days of each month.

Duties of the land god: The land god belongs to the gods at the grassroots level, belongs to the city god, is in charge of the household registration of the deceased in the township, and is the administrative god of the prefecture.

At the same time, the land god has a certain power to regulate land production

According to the custom of the Huaxia people, everyone who is born is registered with the local land god - that is, the land temple to which they belong, similar to each person's place of origin; After the death of a person, when doing the transcendence ceremony, they will go to the land temple to do sacrificial activities, and the family of the newly deceased will go to the land temple to tell the name and birth date of the deceased, so that the land god will guide the deceased.

The god of the land can bless agricultural harvests, businessmen and travelers, and even protect tombs from evil spirits. The land god is a highly functional deity. It is the god of a village and a mile.

Land Society, the place where the folk worship the "land god", belongs to the most widely distributed sacrificial building, the countryside is distributed all over the place, the area is not large, the first day of the new year, the month and a half to the land temple to burn incense.

In the past, when burying the dead and building a tomb, it was necessary to build a temple of the land god in the grave area, but now, more spiritual pagodas are built, and if someone in the family dies, they must go to the land temple to report the funeral. The elders of the village hold white lanterns and lead the male descendants of the deceased to wear filial piety clothes to the temple to report their death, and after cremation, the ashes are returned to the spiritual pagoda.

(3) The god of the city god

Chenghuang is also the patron saint of the place, but it is the patron saint of the city, in order to observe the good and evil of the people and the good and the bad. The god of the city god has a netherworld monitoring system, and his job is to cut off the evil and lead the souls of the dead.

As early as the Zhou Dynasty, after each harvest, on Chinese New Year's Eve, people had to sacrifice to the eight gods, of which the seventh god was the god of water yong, water is the god, the god of water is the city, and the god of water is the god of the city god.

Since the beginning of the Three Kingdoms, there have been City God Temples among the people, and the earliest recorded City God Temple was established by Sun Quan in Wuhu, Anhui Province. By the time of the Sui Dynasty, there was already a custom of sacrificing animals to the city gods.

During the Tang Dynasty, belief in the Chenghuang was quite common, and many literati and scholars wrote poems to worship the Chenghuang.

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

The god is generally the superior of the god of the land, and since the city is the center of the economy, the god can bless businessmen with smooth business and travelers with a safe journey. Has the ability of the God of Wealth.

(4) Houtu

The female god who dominates the mountains and rivers of the earth, the mother of the earth in Chinese mythology, is the mother of all earthly life, the supreme god of all land gods, and has the existence of an emperor-level godhead.

In ancient times, the soul of all things was scattered after death, and the earth saw this mercy, so he incarnated the six realms to protect the soul, which is the origin of the underworld, and has always been worshiped as the first goddess of mercy, the supreme god who governs the land and the underworld in this article