Although it is said that these new years are not very peaceful, but the new year is coming to an end. The Spring Festival has always been the most important festival of the year in Chinese, during which everyone who works and goes to school outside the home will return to their hometown to reunite with their relatives. Thirty nights is the Chinese New Year's Eve, the first day of the New Year needs to give the elders a New Year's greeting, and the second day of the New Year is the day when the daughter who marries out returns to her mother's house. In Chinese folklore, there is also a day when the god of wealth receives the god of wealth on the fifth day of the Chinese New Year, so who is this god of wealth who Chinese worship? Did this man really exist in history?
In Chinese folklore, the fifth day of the first lunar month is the birthday of the god of wealth, so the night before the birthday of the god of wealth, it is necessary to arrange a banquet to celebrate the birthday of the god of wealth. The god of wealth is the god in charge of wealth in the folk, and the god of wealth is mainly divided into two categories, one is Taoist sealing, and the other is folk belief.
The god of wealth received here is generally the five gods of wealth or the five gods of wealth, and there are several theories about the five gods of wealth. One is to say that Zhao Gongming and his four generals, the middle road is Zhao Gongming, the god of martial wealth, and the remaining four roads are the east road god of wealth Zhao Bao Tianzun Xiao Sheng. Nazhen Tianzun Cao Bao, the god of wealth on the west road, Chen Jiugong, the messenger of the god of wealth on the south road, and Yao Shaosi, the immortal official of the city of lishi, the god of wealth on the north road.
These five roads can see their origins from the interpretation of the chinese classical masterpiece Fengshen Shen, because it is composed of Zhao Gongming and four generals, so there is also a small five-way god of wealth. The Five Manifest Gods of Wealth are different from this, and it is recorded in the "Zhuding Yuwen" that the Five Manifest Gods of Fortune are the five brothers of the Surname Chai of Southern Qi, who are called Chai Xiancong, Chai Xianming, Chai Xianzheng, Chai Xianzhi, and Chai Xiande. The five brothers were hunters, hunting beasts in the mountains and collecting medicine to treat the people. After their death, people worshipped them as the god of wealth, because the first word of the title was manifest, so they were called the five gods.
The great five road god of wealth is Bigan, Guan Yu, Chai Wangye, Zhao Gongming, Wang Hai five, these gods of wealth Zhao Gongming is undoubtedly the most popular, many merchants, residences will enshrine his wooden board printing god statue. Zhao Gongming, also known as Handan Ye, is generally depicted wearing an iron crown, holding a whip in his hand, a dark face, a thick beard, and riding a black tiger. However, Zhao Gongming is an immortal who belongs to myths and legends, and has not appeared in history.
Bigan existed historically, and he lived from about 1110 BC to 1047 BC. A shang dynasty man, he was the son of Wen Ding, the king of Shang, and the uncle of Emperor Xin of Shang. When he was young, he was wise, accepted the entrustment of the orphan to assist Di Xin, and was loyal to the king and patriotic. There is also a Fan Li who is also considered to be the god of wealth, he is also revered by posterity as a Shang sheng because he has a way of wealth. Guan Yu is a person who everyone knows better, yi bo yuntian, many people regard him as an all-powerful protector, and the god of wealth is also one of them.
Chai Rong belonged to folk beliefs, he was Emperor Sejong of the Zhou Dynasty after the Fifth Dynasty, and was also considered the First Ming Emperor of the Five Dynasties. During his reign, he worked hard to govern and was widely supported by the people, who often said that if he lived for a few more years, he would not have a weak Song. Loving the people like a son, the vast number of people in the Central Plains after his death worshipped him as the god of wealth who was in charge of promotion and wealth.
Wang Hai also existed in history as the god of wealth in the middle road, he was a monarch of the Shang Dynasty, and the ox cart was invented by him. Because he often pulled an ox cart to trade with other tribes, agriculture and animal husbandry developed rapidly. The quotient thus becomes powerful. He pioneered the commercial trade, so those who later engaged in trade activities were called merchants, and the goods exchanged for them were called commodities. After he was killed, the Shang Dynasty was established, and Wang Hai was revered as the god of wealth in Zhongbin.
References: Classic of Mountains and Seas, Great Wilderness Of the East Classic, Old Five Dynasties History, Book of Zhou, Sejong Benji