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The city god is the local patron deity of folk beliefs. Ancient Chinese cities, generally use soil to build city walls, the walls are dug around the moat trench, there is water called pool, no water called god, so this kind of moat trench is called "god". Chenghuang originally refers to the moat of the city, and Ban Gu's "Order of the Two Capitals": "Jingshi repairs the palace room, and juncheng god." ”。 There is also a sentence in "Yi Tai" that "the city is restored to the god".
In the pre-Qin Dynasty, one of the eight sacrifices of the Heavenly Son, the "ShuiYong" sacrifice (sacrificial water ditch), the "Lijiao Special Animal" Yun: "Tianzi Da La Eight, Shui Yong lived in its seventh," and later evolved into a local protective god. Later, it gradually evolved into a belief in the city god, which began to become popular in the Wuyue region, and according to the Northern Qi Book of Murong Yu, it was officially called the city god during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
He was knighted during the Tang Dynasty and crowned as a king in the Fifth Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, it was included in the national ceremony, and temples were erected in Fuzhou County. The Yuan Dynasty built the City God Temple in Kyoto, and named its god "Yousheng Wang", becoming the guardian deity of the country. During the reign of Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty, Daxing was enfeoffed with the god of the city, and there were six kings in the Kyoto area, and the prefectures, prefectures, and county seats were correspondingly enfeoffed as gong, hou, and bo. Later, Hongwu went to his title for three years and called him a county town in a certain province according to the administrative level of various places.
The City God Temple imitates the official government system, and has under its jurisdiction the gods such as civil and military judges, the gods of various divisions, generals of Ganliu, generals of Fan Xie, generals of cattle and horses, gods of day and night, and generals of shackles. Among them, the staff of the city god is each division, and each division is not the same according to the configuration of each temple, there are three divisions (such as the Yin and Yang Division, the Rapid Report Division, the Picket Division), the Six Divisions and even the Twenty-Fourth Division or the Thirty-Sixth Division, and the names of each division are not the same, most of which are headed by the Yin and Yang Divisions. The Yin-Yang Division was the first assistant official of the City God Master, and after coordinating the various divisions and supervising the cases, Fang Chen reported to the City God. A complete system of officials of the Hades Dynasty was formed. Gradually, it evolved from a patron saint to a "yin official" corresponding to the "yang official" sent by the human government, who was responsible for the affairs of the large and small hades in this area. However, all new officials need to go to the City God Temple to fast before taking office, and on the day of taking office, they need to complete the sacrifice in front of the City God before taking office, and ask the City God to assist in local political affairs. In the Northern Song Dynasty Ouyang Xiu's writing of the Sacrifice city god, it is mentioned that "the officials exert their strength, the gods and spirits, each serves his duties, and is worthy of the people", showing the respect of the officials at that time for the city god and the relationship of interdependence with the city god.
Because ChenghuangYe is the chief of the underworld in people's minds, the city god masters in many places are generally served by the loyal and virtuous people in history, hoping that their heroic spirits can protect the people as before they died, and eliminate violence and peace. For example, the Fujian Capital City God Temple enshrined Liu Bang's imperial master Zhou Jiao, who was sentenced to cooking because of his loyalty and indomitable loyalty and reprimanded Xiang Yu. There are also some state lords or officials who have made great contributions to the local civilization and wisdom and the improvement of people's livelihood, such as Li Yangbing, the first zhixian of Jinyun County in Sichuan, and "Qing officials" who are "honest in performing official duties, supporting the government and loving the people", such as The City God in Beijing is Wen Tianxiang, and the Qingyang City God Temple in Anhui is the Qing official Hai Rui, and so on.
As a result, most of the city god temples have plaques such as "Strict Discipline," "Magnificent righteousness," "Protecting the country and sheltering the people," "Selflessness in our office," "Articles on Righteousness," and "Carrying Forward Righteousness," as well as "It is useless to burn incense when doing evil deeds and evil ren'er, and seeing with an upright heart that I do not worship what it is to do," "Good and evil will eventually be rewarded, and right and wrong are self-evident," "Good deeds are not ashamed at this point, and evil is more than my door is afraid to be cold." The core of these plaques and the Yang Lian is to praise the merits and virtues of the City God, and to exhort people to do good and not to do evil.
After absorbing its beliefs, Taoism expanded into a state of protection for the country, cutting off evil and eliminating evil, reconciling wind and rain, and managing the souls of the dead. Even when officials at all levels go to their posts, they must take the oath of office at the City God Temple as usual to obtain their blessings. Taoist priests build a dojo to "transcend the undead", and they must send documents to know the city god (commonly known as "city god"), in order to detain the undead soul and go to the altar. In recent times, people have often used the city god to promote the retribution of good and evil. In the old folk customs, often in the spring, autumn and winter, held a grand city god out of the tour, named "collecting ghosts", "visiting ghosts", "release", a large number of people, a huge momentum, lively and extraordinary.
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