Taoism is a polytheistic religion, and since the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty Zhang Daoling Tianshi, Taoism has a history of more than 1800 years. Taoism originates from the mainland, so it is closely related to traditional Chinese culture, and many traditional festivals such as the Spring Festival and lantern festival have a large number of Taoist elements.
Among the many gods and immortals of Taoism, in addition to the gods such as the Three Qing Heavenly Gods and the Jade Emperor, they also absorbed many folk immortal beliefs, such as Guan Yu, a famous general of the Shu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period.
Taoism enshrined him as the Emperor voldemort of the Three Realms, the Divine Emperor of Tianzun Guan, one of the four protectors of Taoism, and the Taoist god of martial wealth. At the same time, Taoism also absorbed Jiang Ziya from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties as a Taoist immortal.
Jiang Taigong's name is Lü Shang and Lü Wang, because his surname is Jiang, so he is also called Jiang Shang, the word Ziya. Taigong Jiang helped the father and son of King Wu of Zhou overthrow the rule of the Shang Dynasty and establish the Zhou Dynasty.
Because of Jiang Taigong's strategic planning and outstanding merits, after his death, people worshipped him as a god and protected Cangsheng, and the emperor of the Han Dynasty ordered the construction of Taigong temples in various places and let the founding hero Zhang Liang accompany him. Later, Jiang Ziya was enfeoffed as the King of Wucheng by the emperor, and the Temple of Literature was dedicated to Confucius, and the Temple of Wu was dedicated to Jiang Taigong.
Jiang Taigong's becoming a god is recorded in many literary works, the most famous of which is the "Fengshen Yanyi", and in the Taoist classic Liu Xiang's "Biography of the Immortals", Jiang Ziya is also enshrined as a god.
The book records that Lü Shang was a native of Jizhou, who was born as an unusual person, could predict the future, and avoided evil. At that time, coinciding with the chaotic world of Shangxi, he went to Liaodong to stay in seclusion for forty years. Later, he traveled west to the fiefdom of Western Zhou and lived in seclusion in zhongnan Mountain.
He fished by the stream all day, but did not catch a single one, and the neighbors advised him to give up, but Lu Shang said that this is not all you can know. Soon after, Lu Shang caught a fish with a soldier's book in its belly.
King Wen of Zhou dreamed of getting a saint, and when he heard that it was Lü Shang, he went to ask him to come out of the mountain to assist. When king Wu was cutting down the silk, Lü Shang used more than a hundred plots in the book of soldiers and finally won the victory. Lü Shang took zezhi pulp and lived for more than two hundred years, but when he was buried after death, he found that the body was missing, only the six chapters of the book of soldiers were in the coffin, and the original corpse had been dissolved into immortals.
Jiang Taigong is mythologized in the folk as a god who can behead the gods and exorcise demons and serve ghosts, so why is there a saying that "Jiang Taigong is here, there is no taboo"? According to legend, after Jiang Ziya was enthroned as a god, Ma Shi, the wife of Broomstick Star's reincarnation, also wanted to seek a god position, and Jiang Ziya was overwhelmed and sealed her as a poor god.
Ma Shi, who became a poor god, harmed the people, and no matter where she went, she became very poor, and people avoided her. It even evolved into the custom of sending poor gods, according to the "Miscellaneous Records of the Years": "A man sweeps a broomstack on the day before, and when he is not doing it, he covers it with seven pancakes and abandons them to send the poor." ”
The common people told Jiang Taigong about the poor god, and Jiang Taigong was greatly surprised, so he gathered the gods and wrote the rune "Jiang Taigong is here, there is no taboo" to protect the people from the bad luck brought by the poor god.
Since then, in order to avoid the poor god and exorcise evil spirits and accept blessings, people have posted a note on the door and in the house that reads "Jiang Taigong is here, there is no taboo" to put an end to the harm of the poor god. Especially when the people are building houses, when they "go up the beam", they will paste red paper on the beam head that reads "Jiang Taigong is here, the gods abdicate" or "Jiang Taigong is here, there is no taboo".
There is another version of the legend, "Jiang Taigong is here, there are no taboos" There is another version of the legend, jiang Taigong found that there is a family that has been building a house all year round, he felt very strange and asked the owner why he had to build a new house every year. The owner of the house said depressedly that every time the house was beamed, a fire would burn down.
Jiang Taigong pinched his finger, it turned out that every time a new house was built, the ghosts and gods of the four sides would come to compete for incense, and in the process of scrambling, they would not give in to each other, which would produce the disaster of Blessing. Jiang Taigong then wrote a rune with red paper that read, "Jiang Taigong is here, there is no taboo" and pasted it to the master, instructing him to put this red paper on the beam when he built a house and put it on the beam.
The owner of the house posted a red paper according to Jiang Taigong's instructions, and those ghosts and spirits in all directions were afraid and did not dare to come to the trouble again, and the homeowner successfully built the house.