What does the Chenghuang Temple mean?

What Chenghuang Temple seeks is: peace, good weather, happiness and well-being.

Town God Temple is a temple dedicated to the God of the Town God, and some places are also called the Lord of the Town God. It is one of the important gods generally worshipped in ancient Chinese religious culture, and is mostly served by famous ministers and heroes who have contributed to the local people. In China folk and Taoism, it is the god who guards the city.

Chenghuang Temple is a place where Jieyang people burn incense and worship Buddha. When the incense is strong, it is the most lively time in the temple. Therefore, the 15th of every month, that is, the day of sacrifice, big or small, is a good time to travel. On the auspicious day of the first month of every year, Lord Huang Cheng will visit Rongcheng in Jieyang to protect the prosperity of China, the safety of the people, the favorable weather in Jieyang and the happiness and well-being of the people.

Folk belief

After the Song Dynasty, the belief in the city god has become a very common belief among the people. With the development of the city god belief in China, the city god believed by the people all over the country is more personalized, localized and diversified, and most of them are regarded as the god of the city god by the dead heroes or famous ministers generally recognized by the local people.

For example, in Xi 'an, the ancient capital, many cities across the country are still offering sacrifices to Ji Xin, the general of Emperor Gaozu. Huang Xie, Chunshen in Suzhou during the Warring States Period; Wen Tianxiang and Yang Jiao; Zhou Xin in Hangzhou; Hui Ji Pang Wang; There are also Nanning and Su Zhen in Guilin.

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