Old Shengjing people, as long as they talk about the City God Temple, the first thing most people think of must be the City God Temple, the capital of Fengtian.

The history of this temple is hundreds of years longer than Shengjing City, according to the old man's ancient saying, the City God Temple was built as early as the Liaojin period, I heard that the Jingkang Rebellion at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin State escorted the Northern Song Dynasty clan to the north, and also camped near the City God Temple.

Later, Jin Yuan war, the war burned to Shengjing, the capital city god was also razed to the ground, now see the city god temple is actually rebuilt by the Zhu Dynasty, Hongwu, Hongzhi, Jiajing three generations of emperors to the city god temple more and more bigger, gradually from a small temple view to the city god complex!

At that time, they were just general city god temples, and so on in the last years of the Zhu Dynasty, after the establishment of Huang Taiji, the capital was set in Shengjing, which upgraded the city god temple to the capital city god temple, so far, the status of the capital city god temple has been determined as the highest level of sacrificial temple view.

Even if the previous dynasty entered the customs and set the capital of the capital, it did not downgrade the Shengjing City God Temple, but upgraded the City God Temple of the Beijing Division to the same status, and called the capital City God at the same time, and only added the Beijing Division or Sheng Jing in front to distinguish it.

This city god temple is located near the drum tower of Siping Street, adjacent to the Shengjing Palace, the four sides are Zhouzheng, according to the central axis is divided into the front and back courtyard and the main side hall, which enshrines the land lord, the God of Wealth, Wenqu Xing, Wuqu Xing, Bodhisattva, heaven and earth officials, human officials and other primary and secondary gods, I heard that the incense is extremely spiritual, most of the people want to get fame, seek wealth and fortune, relieve the pain, most of them are willing to come here to pray to God and worship Buddha, worship incense and add oil.

Not only the people, since the beginning of the Zhu Ming Dynasty, the City God Temple is one of the official three sacrifices, every time it is the New Year's Season, the imperial court will send people to kneel three times and bow nine times, pray for blessings and rain, and feast endlessly.

With the support of the government and the people's believers, over the years, the city god temple is bustling and lively, usually fine, when it comes to the Lantern Festival Chinese New Year's Eve, Shangyuan Qingming, the city god temple's lamp stand flower street, can stretch to the north gate.

At this time, according to the custom, the strong men will carry the priests to parade through the flower street, and finally stop at the prosperous and rich Siping Street, accept the offerings of the people and officials, and then make a detour back to the City God Temple, so that the City God will inspect the world and bless all sentient beings.

As a result, the streets and alleys near the Chenghuang Temple began to form a market around the temple, and at the most prosperous time, they gathered in nine lines and sixteen cities, with dried melons and fruits, flowers, birds, insects and fish, furs and clothes, cattle and horses, vegetable markets, gold, silver, copper and iron, and imported foreign goods.

Later, after the opening of Shengjing, warlords from all walks of life smelled the smell of money in the opening of the port, and continued to widen the trade routes and build commercial buildings in Siping Street.

At present, there is still a wild market near the temple fair, only the flavor snacks are left, and then there are the rivers and lakes to sell art, juggling and begging for money, private goods for sale, literary antiques, there are often ordinary people who come here to try their luck, maybe pick up the leak and develop, people who come to Siping Street to buy things, will go around the city god temple more often, it is also a lively and fresh.

Of course, these are just the temples of the capital during the day!

With day and night as the dividing line, once the shops are closed at night, lanterns will be lit up again near the temple, but most of these lanterns are white and hung with yin characters.

At this time, the City God Temple, it is no longer a place to pray to God and Buddha, it has become a wild temple to worship ghosts and monsters, and after the time comes, many people will find the tunnel near the City God Temple.

Entering the tunnel, even if you go to the ghost building in the Yin City, the law of the yang world no longer works.

Things are sold in the yang world, and things in the underworld are not provoked.

But anyone who does serious business, everyone wants to open the shop openly and openly and welcome visitors from all over the world, but there are also some people who do a secret business, specializing in making money from the sideways, these people are mixed, and the things they sell are often not on the table, so they can only use the underground as a cover and quietly sell them in the dark night.

Human skin map, skull lacquerware, elixir, wild fairy monsters, magic weapons, talisman seals, secret arts, unique evil books, monkey slaves and cat servants, yin and yang pawns, looking for people and asking questions, jumping gods for divination, practice to win, witches and Gu women, antique old things, selling stolen goods and hiring murderers...... But most of the things that are stained with evil spirit can be found here.

There is a way to gather people by like, bees fly around a hundred flowers, flies around the stinky meat drill, but anyone who can come here, full of ten hands, nine of them have ulterior motives.

Those who visit the City God Temple, and ordinary people who can still live their lives, have come here, that is, the three religions and nine streams of the Eight Classics, all kinds of things, and the thoughts of fishing for the wrong door.

As the saying goes, Taoism is based on Confucianism, and chivalry is forbidden by martial arts, and people here go back and forth between the rivers and lakes and the underworld, which is not easy to manage, and they are considered to have entered a den of thieves here.

I heard that someone picked up a certain imperial concubine tomb in Tangling, and the government sent General Sheng Jing to arrest it for a long time but did not find it, and I heard the Venerable Master say that he fled into the ghost building of Yin City, and at the end of the previous dynasty, Fengtian was in turmoil, and many children of poor families disappeared in the city.

The Fengtian Security Department investigated for a long time, only to find that the people in the Yin City had photographed the flowers and sold them to the juggling troupe as apprentices, or even more indiscriminately, directly picking and folding ears, breaking arms, legs and feet to become beggars, and even making cats and dogs.