Huang Li said that this year is a plague year.

The five plagues in folk beliefs are: Zhang in spring, Liu Yuanda in summer, Zhong and Shi in autumn, and Zhong and Shi in winter. According to legend, these five plagues were in charge of the diseases of working people in ancient China for one year.

In ancient times, many people were afraid of getting sick because of underdeveloped medical conditions and backward productivity, because once they got sick, they would waste time and money on treatment. And it is very likely that he will die of this disease, so everyone began to fantasize that it would be nice if there was a fairy in charge of the disease, so if you ask the fairy, you don't have to get sick, just like all the immortals in Taoism. In fact, there is a plague every season, so everyone will have it. Send the plague? And this activity is also very grand, because many people want to send away the plague, the disease and the disaster.

And one of these plagues has always been misunderstood by everyone. In fact, he is not a god of plague, but a god of wealth. But for some reason, everyone regards him as a god of plague, and that is Zhao Gongming, the god of plague in autumn. In fact, in The Romance of Gods, Jiang Ziya personally named him the God of Wealth, but many people always thought that he was the God of Sorrow. But by the end of the Ming Dynasty, people generally believed that Zhao Gongming was the God of Wealth, so they began to worship the God of Wealth again. In fact, this is the contradiction between Taoism. In the past, Taoism thought that Zhao Gongming was the god of wealth, but in the later period, Taoism thought that Zhao Gongming was the god of plague.

In fact, these five plagues still represent some fears of our ancient ancestors about nature. People are always afraid of the unknown, but many people are not so afraid of disease in the face of interests. On the contrary, they expel interests, just as people worship Zhao Gongming, worship him for the sake of interests and change their direction for the sake of interests.