There have been major changes in the sacrifice activities of contemporary hipsters, and in some places, the mass ancestor worship activities have been led to the commemoration of the entrepreneurial merits of the ancestors; the gods have been led to healthy entertainment competitions; religious beliefs have been led to the development of kindness and love, and more public welfare and charitable deeds have been carried out to contribute to society; and the worship of the ancestors and heroes has been led to the study and academic discussion of patriotic rejuvenation... These are all good new fads.
The Chaoshan people have always been full of rivers and rivers and respected the sages. For the outstanding sages in history, or the famous eunuchs who are honest and honest officials, or those who have made meritorious contributions to the local area, "those who have tried to pass on the merits of the people will be worshipped." (Qing Qianlong's "Chronicle of Chaozhou Prefecture")
Among the sages, Confucius is the most well-known and has the widest scope of influence. In the old days, there were Confucius temples in all counties of Chaoshan Province, and there were prefectural and county officials in various parts of the Qing Dynasty who presided over confucius Christmas ceremonies.
Han Yu was also a Confucian politician and thinker with great influence in the Chaoshan region. In 819 AD, Han Yu was demoted to the Teochew Thorn History for "greeting the bones of the Buddha". He ruled the tide for nearly 8 months, expelled crocodiles, released slaves, set up schools, and did many things that were beneficial to the people. People remembered him very much, so they called Beacon Mountain Hanshan and Evil Creek Hanjiang, and built a Hangul Shrine on Beacon Mountain to make his idols for people to worship. In the old days, most of the Chaoshan counties had Han ancestral halls, and the sacrifice was Han Yu. Many places in Chaozhou are still named after Han Yue, such as Jinghan Academy, Hanshan Normal Academy, Han Di, MuHanli, Hanci Road, Changli Road, Changli Primary School, etc., which shows the great influence and depth of Hanyue's influence in Chaoshan Province.
In addition to Confucius and Han Yu, the Chao people also admired other sages and eunuchs who had contributed to Chaoshan and built shrines, temples, and workshops to commemorate and enshrine. For example, there used to be the "Eight Sages Ancestral Hall" in Chaozhou, which was dedicated to the eight township sages of Chaozhou during the Tang and Song dynasties: Zhao De, Xu Shen, Zhang Kui, Liu Yun, Lin Xun, Wang Dabao, Lu Tong, and Wu Retro. Chao'an's "Stork Nest Ancient Temple" is dedicated to Chen Yaozuo, who served as a chaozhou judge in the Song Dynasty. During his reign, he killed crocodiles, built the First Han Wen Ancestral Hall, did a lot of things that benefited the people of Chaozhou, and first praised Chaoshan as "Seaside Zoulu", so he was deeply remembered by the Hipsters. South Australia Shenzhen Ao once built the "Three Bao Gong Temple", commemorating the Ming Dynasty navigator Zheng He. Along the coast of Chaoshan there are temples of the Princes of Zhou, which are dedicated to Zhou Youqing, the governor of Liangguang, and Wang Lai, the governor of Guangdong. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial court implemented a policy of sea ban, which caused the coastal residents to move inland for 50 miles, causing the people to leave their homes and be displaced, making it difficult to survive. Later, Zhou and Wang stepped forward, risked their lives, and were allowed to move back. The people were grateful to Dade and set up a temple to worship. The Temple of the Holy King of Anji on the Han River in Chaozhou is dedicated to King Kan of the Shu Han Yongchang Taishou during the Three Kingdoms period, who had opened a warehouse to release grain during the year of severe famine.
In addition, there were also famous eunuchs in the ancient Chaozhou capital, which were dedicated to foreign state officials who had made remarkable achievements in ruling the tide since the Tang Dynasty, a total of 34 people, including Zhao Ding and Wu Qian, the former prime ministers of Chaozhou in the Song Dynasty. The counties below the prefectural government also have famous eunuch shrines and township sage shrines, which are dedicated to some county orders or township sages who have meritorious service and virtue to the people. Famous people of the ancestral shrines of various counties, such as Wang Dai of Qing Chuzhi County of Chenghai Famous Ancestral Hall; Yang Yu, the first Zhixian of Raoping Ancestral Hall; Lan Dingyuan of Qing YongzhengZhi County of Puning Famous Ancestral Hall; and Lin Daqin of Ming Dynasty Yuan of Haiyang Township Xian Ancestral Hall; and so on.
The Chao people also worship heroic gods who have made heroic sacrifices for the country and the people, mainly related to the Saint Emperor Jun, the Shuangzhong Saint King, Marshal Yue, Marshal Wen, Lu Cheng Xiang, Marshal Chen, Lady Xu, the Kaizhang Saint King, and the Flying Dragon Lord, all of whom are personality gods with their own personalities in history.
Guan Sheng Emperor Jun, known as the Shu general Guan Yu during the Three Kingdoms period. The unique cultural qualities of "loyalty", "righteousness", "courage", "rigidity" and "lie" embodied in Guan Yu's body were just suitable for the needs of the feudal dynasty to strengthen the rule of political ideology and culture, so he was selected as "Martial Saint" and constantly sealed, from Hou Andgong, and Wang, to Guan Sheng The Great, and constantly upgraded. Influenced by traditional Confucian thought, the common people revered the dogma of loyalty, courage, and faith, and also regarded Guan Yu as the embodiment of loyalty and righteousness, as an idol of worship. The more famous Guandi Temples in Chaoshan are the Guandi Temple on Shengping Road in Shantou City, the Beiguandi Temple on Tianfu Road in Rongcheng, Jieyang, the Guandi Temple in Chenghai Lianyang, and the Guandi Temple in Raoping Huanggang. The above-mentioned Guandi Temple is full of incense throughout the year, especially on May 13, "Guan Yesheng" is the most important. The eighteen residents of Xinjie Society in Zhelin Town, Raoping County, also agreed in the early years of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty to abandon their original surnames and change their surnames to Guan, build a Zhongyi Temple, and build a Juhuatang Ancestral Hall, side by side, in order to show intimacy, symbiosis and common destiny.
There are double loyalty shrines built throughout Chaoshan Province, especially in Chaoyang, which was established earlier and more. The Shuangzhong Ancestral Hall is dedicated to Zhang Tour and Xu Yuan of the Tang Dynasty. Because they were loyal and martyred in Suiyang, the imperial court gave them a temple to build in Suiyang City, known as "Double Loyalty". During the Song Dynasty, Zhong Ying (a Chaoyang native) of the Chaozhou Military Academy entered the dynasty to pay tribute, passed by the Suiyang Shuangzhong Temple, and out of admiration, brought back the twelve gods and a copper roller and enshrined them in the Dongshan Dongyue Temple in Chaoyang according to the divine will. Later, after hearing about the incident in the dynasty, the "Welling Temple" was specially built for Zhang and Xu Ergong, collectively known as the Shuangzhong Saint King.
Chen Yuanguang, the Holy King of Kaizhang, was a heroic figure jointly worshipped by Chaoshan and Southern Fujian. Born in the Tang Dynasty, he followed his father to recruit 58 northern immigrants with the surname in the local area (around Zhangzhou Xikou), and ruled the local government for more than ten years after quelling the rebellion in southern Fujian, so that the society in this area was stable, the culture gradually opened, and the first assassin history, so he was called "Kaizhang Saint King". The existing "Weihui Temple", "General Temple", "Saint King Temple" and "Saint King Temple" in South Australia are dedicated to Chen Yuanguang, the Holy King of Kaizhang.
Marshal Wen and Lu Cheng xiang were Wen Tianxiang and Lu Xiufu. In the third year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1278), Wen Tianxiang raised troops from Jiangxi to serve the king and moved to Chaoyang Dongshan, Haimen and other places to follow the young emperor. At the end of the same year, he was unfortunately captured at Wupoling in Haifeng, and eventually took revenge on Dadu (Beijing). When Wen Tianxiang was in Haimen, he once climbed the Lotus Peak on the seashore, looked at the Imperial Boat from afar, and carved the word "Zhongnan" on a stone under the peak, indicating his determination to fight to the death with the monarch. Today," the "Zhongnan" stele still exists. The hipsters felt their loyalty and built the "Zhongxian Ancestral Hall" in Haimen to commemorate it. In recent years, there has been a large stone statue of Wen Tianxiang, with a mighty and solemn image. Chaoyang Dongshan also has a Great Loyalty Ancestral Hall dedicated to Wen Tianxiang. There are also many Wen Tianxiang ministries in Gurao and other townships that call the graves of the fallen, collectively known as marshal tombs, and hold large festivals every ten years. In addition, Chaoyang has many memorials to Wen Tianxiang. Because Wen Tianxiang was captured at Wupoling just when the Song army made rice, the Ming people built a "square rice pavilion" in Wupoling to commemorate it, and the pavilion still exists today. As for Lu Xiufu, he had previously honored Emperor Zun to help his mother and daughter to settle in Chaozhou Peiwanggang (present-day Chenghai Lucuowei), and then assisted the young emperor to cross Chaozhou, and finally carried the young emperor to the sea and died, showing the national integrity of preferring to die and being respected by the people. Although he did not die in Chaoshan Province, There is a tomb of his mother and a tomb of Yiguan in South Australia, which has been expanded into a large-scale "Song Cheng Xiang Xiufu Cemetery". On the left of the Hanwen Ancestral Hall in Hanshan, Chaozhou, the Ming Dynasty built the Lu Gong Ancestral Hall to worship Lu Xiufu. Chenghai's prospect was renamed Lu Cuowei because Lu Xiufu once lived here, and in recent years, Xiufu Pavilion has been built to commemorate it. In addition, Chenghai also has a fall horse bridge, "Tan li" stone carvings and other commemorative Lu Xiufu's victories. Wen Tianxiang and Lu Xiufu were enshrined together, the Ming Dynasty built the Ten Phases LiushengFang in the present-day Chaozhou City, the Ten Phases Ancestral Hall in Fenghuangzhou, and the Qing Dynasty built the Sanren Ancestral Hall on the left side of the Han Wen Gong Ancestral Hall, which was dedicated to Lu Xiufu and Wen Tianxiang and others.
With the development of society and the improvement of people's ideological understanding, the sacrifice activities of contemporary hipsters have undergone major changes. In some places, the mass ancestor worship activities will be directed to commemorate the entrepreneurial merits of the ancestors; the gods will be led to healthy entertainment competitions; religious beliefs will be led to carry forward kindness and love, do more public welfare and good deeds, and contribute to society; and the worship of the ancestors and heroes will be led to the study and academic discussion of patriotic rejuvenation. All these changes are good new fads. (Wang Weishen)