Among the folk customs, there is a custom that makes foreigners feel most strange, that is, why people believe that a person who has not been canonized has the right to administer the gods, and that this honorable god will be invited to bless peace during the New Year's Festival.
This is not because of the emergence of the novel list of gods, which created the special status of Jiang Taigong, as early as the history of the sealing of Zen books, it is recorded that the eight gods will exist since ancient times, or that Taigong has been doing it since then.
At that time, Jiang Taigong was already a god worshipped by the Han people.
In the legend, Jiang Taigong helped the zhou wen king Zhou Wu wang father and son to overthrow the Shang Dynasty, and in this war, the gods and immortals in the heavens all came down to intervene, because the immortals died and injured too much, just when Sanqing wanted to establish a heavenly court to manage human affairs, Yuan Shi Tianzun gave Jiang Taigong a list of gods, allowing him to manage the work of sealing the gods of the dead and injured immortals.
However, after the completion of the sealing of the gods, there was no place for Jiang Taigong himself on the list of gods. Therefore, Yuan Shi Tianzun gave Jiang Taigong a whip to allow him to supervise the gods of the world, although he was not a god, but Jiang Taigong could manage the gods and picket the illegal behavior of the gods.
When people post Jiang Taigong here, the most important thing is to deter the evil demon, the ancients felt that since the Taigong can manage the gods, then the evil demon itself is not a word, after the labeling of Jiang Taigong here is not taboo, the evil devil does not dare to enter, people naturally have no taboo.
But the reason is related to what Jiang Taigong did, and jiang Taigong in the eyes of the ancients was very fierce.
For example, in the Qing Dynasty novel "Fengjian Spring and Autumn", there is: "When Jiang Taigong beheaded the gods during the Xingzhou Dynasty, the god who saw his treasure number did not dare to invade, and each of them did not dare to come forward." ”
In the eyes of everyone, Jiang Taigong planned to kill many gods and spirits in the Shang Zhou War, and the ghost gods saw Jiang Taigong and left, and the guests and the main family did not have to worry about committing taboos and provoking the ghosts and gods.
However, in daily activities, people post Jiang Taigong here, and the red paper with no taboos is also a reminder to guests not to care about those taboos, because there is Jiang Taigong here. So that people can let go of restraints and have a happy holiday.
This article was published by Xueguoxue Network (WeChat: lexueguoxue).
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