Why do Chaoshan people worship God? Why do you believe in so many gods?

This is the custom and culture left by our ancestors. The ancients had the custom and habit of offering sacrifices to ancestors, but Chaoshan people combined this custom and habit with local characteristics and formed the custom and habit of offering sacrifices to gods, which has been passed down to this day. At the same time, because natural disasters often occur in Chaoshan area, they want to pray for everything to be smooth by offering sacrifices to God.

Different regions have different national characteristics. The biggest feature of Chaoshan region is that it likes to sacrifice to the gods, and many activities are held every year because of the sacrifice to the gods. In modern civilization, offering sacrifices to the people seems difficult to understand, but it retains the characteristic culture of Chaoshan area.

Since the Central Plains entered the Chaoshan area in the Qin and Han Dynasties, there has been a custom of offering sacrifices in ancient times. Because Chaoshan area is also a place for offering sacrifices to gods, these two customs collide with each other, learn from each other and blend with each other. After historical precipitation, Chaoshan people gradually formed the custom of offering sacrifices to gods.

At the same time, because the Chaoshan area belongs to the coastal area, and because there are few people in Chaoshan area, they can only rely on sea fishing for a living, but the typhoon every year makes them frown, because once there is a typhoon, they will have no economic source. There are often many fairy tales in that area. It is said that there are gods leading the sky, and the Chaoshan area will be saved tomorrow, and the Chaoshan area is in good weather.

So there are so many gods in their atmosphere, on the one hand, to thank those who have made outstanding contributions to the local area, on the other hand, to pray for the smooth progress of Chaoshan area. In fact, this is not difficult to understand, because in people's cognition, God is very mysterious. Many people think that gods have supernatural power, so in fact, offering sacrifices to gods is just to give themselves peace of mind.