Worship Guan Gong, forge good fortunes, learn from Guan Gong and practice good fortune
Presumably, many people are no strangers to Guan Yu, the great general of the Shu state during the Three Kingdoms period, who followed Liu Bei to conquer the world all his life, made a green dragon and a crescent knife, rode a red rabbit horse that traveled thousands of miles a day, beheaded Yan Liang, cursed Wen Ugly, captured in the forbidden, and threatened Huaxia, known as "ten thousand enemies", and historians called him "Martial Saint". ”
Chinese folk worship of the god of wealth has a long historical origin, and the various gods of wealth have been gradually formed in different historical periods and regions, and have become a cultural phenomenon that has been passed down to this day.
The five main gods of wealth enshrined in China are: Wang Hai, Bigan, Fan Li, Guan Yunchang and Zhao Gongming. With the passage of time, Guan Yu gradually evolved into the main "god of wealth" worshipped by private merchants.
Guandi Temple all over the world, there are Chinese places in the world about the Emperor Temple, in the global Chinese ethnic groups, are generally believed in the god of Guan Gong Cai, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan almost all companies, shops, families, officials worship the god of martial wealth Guan Gong. Nowadays, Guan Gong is regarded as the god of wealth by the business community, and his spirit of loyalty and honesty has become the most reasonable creed of business.
Guan Yu's evolution from "Martial Saint" to "God of Wealth" has a lot to do with the rise of Jin Shang. The "Kaizhong system" was when the Ming Dynasty used the monopoly power of salt and other monopolies controlled by the state to recruit merchants to transport grain to the real edge and use the salt price to offset the grain price to solve the problem of grain supply in the northern border towns. After the implementation of the "Kaizhong system", Shanxi merchants organized horses
Helping to collect grain and sell salt has become the most powerful regional merchant group. Guan Yu was a Native of Xieliang, Hedong (present-day Yuncheng, Shanxi), jin merchants believed in Guan Yu, Jin merchants all over the country, until today, everyone almost mentions the god of wealth to know that it refers to Guan Yu, which is the reason why Jin merchants carried forward.
Guan Gong is a symbol of loyalty and bravery, and is revered as the "God of Wealth". Legend has it that Guan Yunchang managed the Terracotta Horse Station, was good at arithmetic, invented nichiren, and talked about credit and righteousness, so it was revered by merchants, who took Guan Gong as their patron saint, and was also regarded as the god of wealth who recruited wealth and treasure.
On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the market is closed for the Spring Festival, and the market is open on this day. Early in the morning, golden gongs and firecrackers and livestock were made to greet the god of wealth.
Gu Tieqing of the Qing Dynasty quoted a bamboo branch poem by Cai Yun in his "Qing Jia Lu", which depicts the situation of Suzhou people greeting the god of wealth on the fifth day of the first year: "Five days of wealth and five days of seeking, one year's wish for a temporary reward; beware of greeting the gods early elsewhere, and rushing to hug the road overnight." "Holding the head of the road" is also "greeting the god of wealth".
Merchants who believe in Emperor Guan should offer sacrifices to Grandpa Guan on the fifth day of the first lunar month, set off firecrackers, burn gold paper to worship, and ask Emperor Guan to bless him with a year of good fortune.
Source: Xiezhou Guangong