Who was the god of the door in the past?

Bi Gan

No, it's the one from the Shang Dynasty, but Bi Gan is the national god, and the real god of wealth is Zhao Gongming

Qin Qiong and Yuchi Jingde became the god of door because of a historical matter, look at the following information

Guan Yu didn't take the title of the god of door and god of wealth away from them because Qin Qiong and Yuchi Jingde are still the real traditional god of door, and Guan Yu is included in the list of the god of door statues, because everyone likes to put the ancient loyal and righteous people as the god of door

Guan Yu was worshiped because of loyalty and righteousness, which was offered by businessmen to protect the god of wealth. All like to take the ancient loyalty and righteousness as the door god

Guan Yu is worshipped as the god of wealth, because of loyalty and righteousness by the businessmen for the protection of the god, and over time also become the god of wealth

Guo Shen Bi Gan, after the surname of Zi, the people of Moyi (present-day north of Weihui City). He was born on the seventh day of the fourth month of the summer calendar in 1092 BC, and died in 1029 BC. He was the son of King Tai Ding of the Shang Dynasty, and his name was Gan. He was smart and diligent at an early age. At the age of 20, he took the high position of Tai Shi to assist Di Yi, and was entrusted with the task of assisting Di Xin. Gan was in politics for more than 40 years, advocating the reduction of taxes and levies, encouraging the development of agricultural and animal husbandry production, advocating smelting and casting, and enriching the country and strengthening the army. At the end of the Shang Dynasty, Dixin was more than just a promiscuous man, and Bigan said, "For the ministers, they have to fight for their lives." He was strongly advising Zhou. Zhou said angrily: "I heard that the saint's heart has seven orifices." He dissected Bi Gan and looked at his heart. Mrs. Gui, the wife of Bi Gan, was just three months pregnant. Fearing trouble, she fled from Chaoge and gave birth to a male named Quan (the founder of the Lin family name) in a stone room in the Changlin Forest. Bi Gan was the first ancestor of the Lin Clan. And nowadays, the descendants of the Lin surname have remarkable achievements in various fields.

Later King Wu of Zhou for the sealing of Bigan Rang, Rang as the state god. Giving descendants of the Lin surname; Wei Xiaowen Emperor Tuoba Hong set up a temple; Tang Taizong imperial decree conferred a posthumous title of "Zhonglie Gong" and "Taishi"; Song Zong Renzong for the "Lin genealogy" poem, Yuan Renzong for the Bikan monument and statue, the Qing Emperor Gaozong ritual text inscription, Qing Emperor Xuanzong restoration of the main hall of the Bikan Temple and so on.

The Records of the Grand Historian (史记). Yinbenji (The Records of the History of Yin and Shang Dynasty) states that at the end of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, many vassals betrayed Zhou and submitted to Xi Bo. As a result, Zhou gradually lost his power. Prince Bi Gan tried to persuade Zhou, but Zhou refused to listen and became even more promiscuous. Weizi had advised him many times, but Yue did not listen to him. Weizi then consulted with Taishi and Shaoshi, and then fled from the state of Yin. Bi Gan, however, said, "As a minister to others, I cannot help but fight to the death for advice." Then he tried his best to advise him. Zhou was furious and said, "I have heard that the heart of a sage has seven holes." So he cut open Bi Gan's chest and dug out his heart to watch.

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The Culture of the God of Wealth ```````````````````````````````

Lucite windows, vermilion-lacquered doors, the hall is dedicated to the Great God of Wealth; the Great God of Wealth, out of the mortal world, three gatherings and three dispersions of the Yue Wangchen; the Yue Wangchen, a rich and noble body, holds in his hand a treasure bowl; the treasure bowl, known to all the world, the wealth rolls over the Qiankun;... ...

--Nursery Rhymes of the Han Dynasty

The God of Wealth is one of the common gods of Taoism, and is the god of wealth and prosperity worshipped by the Chinese people. The world aspires to a life of wealth and prosperity, and the realization of this quest is often related to the amount of wealth possessed by the individual, so many people devoutly worship the God of Wealth, hoping that the God of Wealth can deliver wealth. The belief in the God of Wealth appeared in the Song Dynasty, and then gradually became popular, with a broad base of belief in folklore. "People die for wealth, birds die for food", praying for wealth is human nature. "The world, all for profit, the world is bustling, all for profit", "have a thousand fields want to ten thousand fields, got the silver mountain want to gold mountain" is the practice of the common people; "the gentleman loves money, take the right way" is the principle of the elegant scholar. The principle of the elegant scholar. Although the saying is different, but the same reflect the pursuit of money and worship for thousands of years, so that the rise of a wealth culture, the core of this culture is the "God of Wealth", the main idea is to educate people to take the wealth of the way, to encourage people to be kind and charitable.

The most important feature of folk belief in the God of Wealth is that the God of Wealth is not just a "person" but a group of people, a collection of gods of very different origins, including Zhao Gongming, the God of Wealth, the just and uncaring uncle of the King of Zhou, Bigan, the Tao Zhugong of the Taoist priest Fan Li, and the loyal and trustworthy Guan Yu, etc. Bigan is the prototype of many of the gods of wealth. Bi Gan, the earliest of the many God of Wealth archetypes, is also an expectation of equality and justice on earth because of his "heartlessness".

The God of Wealth carries people's beautiful prayers of attracting wealth and treasures, and hopes that people's families will be rich and prosperous, and it has become a ****same belief for all social classes. As written in a couplet on the temple of the God of Wealth: "Jade hidden pearl, good Jaguar solid all Monterey; heart cultivation pen weaving, cold Confucian can also recommend the fragrance." The god of wealth is undoubtedly one of the most popular deities in the Chinese Taoist pantheon. What is the real image of Guan Yu? We know from the Records of the Three Kingdoms that Guan Yu first came to prominence in a play called "Warm Wine and Beheading Hua Xiong", in which the actual beheading of Hua Xiong was performed by Sun Jian. And one of the most famous battles led by Guan Yu - the flooding of the seven armies - according to the history books, Guan Yu's victory was not due to his intelligence, but to luck. Cao Cao was forced to retreat from Fancheng due to the incessant fall rains. As for the story of the Thousand Mile Ride, it is even more inexplicable. At that time, it was only 500 miles from Xuchang to Jizhou to cross the Yellow River in a straight line. But in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu chose a strange curve and traveled 2,000 miles to Jizhou. Chen Shou, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, described Guan Yu's loss of Jingzhou and his walk to the city of Mecheng as "rigid and self-possessed, and he was defeated by his shortcomings". The real Guan Yu was only a great martial artist, but he was not outstanding in politics or military affairs. The history books say that he was "quite arrogant and overbearing", so how did he earn the name of a saint later? This is related to the "Duan Gong Dance" that has been passed down in Jingzhou for many years. People dance to worship the dead, believing that those who died unjustly will not be allowed to ascend to heaven, and will be transformed into ghosts to take revenge on earth. Guan Yu's death was very tragic, and as Lu Meng and Cao Cao died soon after, it was believed that Guan Yu's ghost had come to take revenge. As a result, Guan Yu was worshipped as a ghost in the Jingzhou region for three hundred years. Three hundred years later, during the Sui Dynasty, a wise master came to the area to spread Buddhism. Since Buddhism is something foreign and the icons in Buddhism have strong exotic features, it was hard to be accepted by the locals, and that's when Guan Yu appeared. According to legend, Master Zhi Shi wanted to build a temple on Mount Yuquan, but there was a spring on the top of the mountain and a bottomless pit under the water, making it impossible to build a temple. So Master Zhi Zhi meditated and practiced here every day. One day Guan Yu flew through the sky and shouted under his breath, "Give me back my head, give me back my head." The Wise Master said to him, "When will injustice end, and who is the one who asked for the head of the man whom you crossed the five hurdles and cut off the six generals on that day?" Guan Yu then stopped to listen to the Wise Master, and later had an epiphany and brought people to build a temple on Mount Yuquan, which was completed in seven days. From then on, Guan Yu changed his image of a stern ghost and became the protector of Buddhism. Two hundred years later, in the Tang Dynasty, Confucian scholars thought that Guan Yu's "loyalty, righteousness, faith and courage" were in line with Confucianism, so they put a copy of the Spring and Autumn Annals in Guan Yu's hand. From then on, Guan Yu did not read the Spring and Autumn Annals, and became a Confucian general. The first saint of martial arts in China was Taigong Luwang, and Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhou Yu all entered the Temple of the Sage of Martial Arts as his companions. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, the Great Ancestor of the Song Dynasty, insisted that Liu Bei, who was of royal blood, was not fit to be a king's divine recipient, and instead promoted Cao Cao's orthodox status because he was a commoner to be an emperor himself. Guan, Zhang, and Zhou were expelled from the Temple of the Saints of Wu by Zhao Kuangyin. Guan Yu went from the upper class into the folklore and into the stories of the storytellers. Since Liu, Guan, and Zhang had the same poor origins as the storytellers, and the Three Ties in the Peach Garden was the most desirable interpersonal relationship in society at the time, Liu Bei was sympathized with by the storytellers and portrayed as the ideal benevolent ruler, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei both became heroic figures who upheld justice. One hundred years later, the salt lake in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, Guan Yu's hometown, somehow stopped producing salt. At that time, the income from the salt lake accounted for one-sixth of the tax revenue of the Song court, and Emperor Huizong of Song was worried about it. Huizong believed in Taoism, and at this time, there were many Taoist sects, each of which ostracized each other. Zhang Jidao of Longhu Mountain was one of Emperor Huizong's honors, and Zhang Tianshi took the initiative to go to Shanxi to solve the emperor's problems. However, a few years later, the salt lake still does not produce salt. At this time Zhang Tianshi thought of the year when Emperor Xuanyuan and Chiyu war, Chiyu died as a salt pond, now it must be Chiyu monster. So Zao Ming Huizong, to invite the local gods Guan Yu to battle Chi You. Legend has it that Xuanyuan Huangdi surnamed Zhao, is the ancestor of Zhao Song, so the battle with Chiyu is not only about finances, but also related to Zhao Song kingship. Emperor Huizong sealed his year to Guan Yu - Chong Ning Zhenjun, ordered him to go to war Chi You. Soon after the salt lake resumed salt production, Guan Yu officially entered Taoism. Thereafter, the Northern Song Dynasty fought with Liao and Jin, Guan Yu was again as an inspiration to the soldiers of the god of war was sealed - Yi Yong Wu An Wang. According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms and the poems of the Tang Dynasty, Guan Yu's weapon should be a sword, why did it later become the Green Dragon Crescent Blade? It turns out that in the Song Dynasty's portrait of King Wuan of Justice and Courage, there are two soldiers behind Guan Yu, one holding the "Guan" flag and the other holding a mooncovering sword. In the Song Dynasty, it is written in the "General Summary of Martial Arts" that the "Moon Blade" was not used for killing, but as a weapon to represent bravery in ceremonial battles. Guan Hanqing of the Yuan Dynasty was the first person to put this mighty sword into the hands of Guan Gong. Because the yuan dynasty government look down on the han intellectuals, prohibit the south people practice martial arts, worship, like guan hanqing such han literati can't go the way of the civil service has to write drama for a living. They hoped that a great hero like Guan Yu would appear and save the people from fire, so Guan Yu was constantly deified in folk theater. During the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of China, believed that the folk's practice of martial arts and the peasants' revolts were a threat to the imperial power. Guan Yu was once again expelled from the Temple of Martial Arts and his title of King of Righteousness and Courage Wuan was revoked. How did he rise again this time? Let's visit the Guan Di Temple in Dongshan, Fujian Province, where Zhou Cang, who was a servant, was actually molded to the same size as his master Guan Yu. According to legend, the last emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, the last of his kind, Bing Zhao, and his left prime minister, Lu Xiu Fu, fled to this place and were so desperate that they threw themselves into the sea together to die for their country. The soul of Lu Xiu Fu was put into the statue of Guan Yu in the Guan Di Temple, while the soul of the last Zhao Bing was put into the statue of Zhou Cang. After all, Bing Zhao was the king and Lu Xiu Fu was the subject, and the statues of Guan Yu and Zhou Cang here were molded to be of equal size. Thanks to Lu Xiu Fu, Guan Yu was added to the image of a loyal official who resisted foreigners. During the Jiajing reign of Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty, when Japanese invaded the southeastern coastal area, Guan was once again used by the court, and Yue Fei and Lu Xiufu were added on either side of him. Toward the end of the Ming Dynasty, Guan Yu officially replaced Jiang Shang as China's second martial arts saint. The story of Guan Yu was popularized by folk artists and lower-class literati during the Song and Yuan dynasties. By the Ming Dynasty, the image of Guan Yu was further rewritten due to the upper class literati and aristocrats' love of theater. There are three obvious points in the Three Kingdoms Chronicle that state that Guan Yu surrendered to Cao; how could there be a stain of surrender on this great hero? So Luo Guanzhong wrote an allusion to being in Cao's camp and the later allusion to traveling a thousand miles on a single horse to cross five hurdles and defeat six generals. After such a description, not only covered up the fact that Guan Yu surrendered, but also made his image more perfect. The protagonist of "Single Ride" was Lu Su, who faced Guan Yu without any fear, and righteously wanted to get back Jingzhou, why did the protagonist in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" become Guan Gong? If Liu Bei borrows Jingzhou and does not return it, then Guan Yu becomes the dominator of Jingzhou, and thereafter loses Jingzhou and walks to the city of wheat on the lack of tragic colors. Luo Ben, who is also from Shanxi, added a fictional character, Zhou Cang, to the play. Zhou Cang said, "The land of the world is only for those who are virtuous, and not only for you, Dong Wu," which turned the whole situation around. The whole situation is reversed. Liu Bei, as a virtuous ruler and the rightful ruler of the Han Dynasty, took Jingzhou as a righteous act to restore the Han Dynasty, and Guan Yu also became a righteous master. Yuan Dynasty, there is a "Guan Gong Chop Diaochan" play, although traditionally great heroes will not be touched by the female sex, but let Guan Yu personally chopped a defenseless weak woman, or damage to the image of the hero. So to the Ming Dynasty, this play has another version of "Guan Gong and Diaochan" this time Guan Gong and Diaochan lifted the misunderstanding of mutual adoration, but ultimately Guan Yu or for the cause to give up the love, and Diaochan is still to die, the difference is that this time is to cut his own throat and die. The portrayal of Guan Yu has been perfected through drama, theater, and novels, but how was Guan Yu accepted by the Qing government as an image of a Han loyalist who fought back against foreigners? It turns out that before the Manchus entered the country, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was translated into Manchu as a political and military textbook within the aristocracy. Nurhachu compared himself to Liu Bei, than Mongolia for Sun Quan, so Guan Yu as a hero has long been accepted by the Manchu and Mongolian, in Fushun's palace was built in the temple of Guan Di. After the Qing Dynasty, successive emperors continued to Guan Sheng Di additional title, Qianlong added to eleven words, to the Guangxu time has twenty-six words. In the folk many industries recognize Guan Gong as the industry ancestor. Such as making bean curd, iron, scissors, shaving, and even make lamps and candles because of Guan Gong read "Spring and Autumn Annals" and recognize him as a grandmaster. In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Guan Yu was enshrined in the Jin Chamber of Commerce as the God of Wealth due to the success of Jin merchants in the business world, which was spread all over the country. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were tens of thousands of Guan Di temples in China, large and small, far outnumbering the Confucian temple of Confucius, the sage of literature.

---------Door God --------------------------------------------

The authentic traditional door gods are two famous generals of the Tang Dynasty - Qin Shubao and Yuchi Gong. The roots of Qin Qiong and Jingde as door gods came out of Huozhou, out of the battle of Huoyi in Sui and Tang dynasties.

At the end of Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang was ruthless and the world was in chaos. In 617 A.D., Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang, started an army from Taiyuan to the south, wanting to conquer Sui and build up Tang. Soldiers to Lvzhou Huoyi (today's Huozhou City, Shanxi Province), was the Sui general Song Laosheng blocked, there is no plan to go south. This Huoyi is located in the main transportation route between north and south of Shanxi Province, with the Hanxin Ridge in the north and the White Cliffs Pass in the south, which has always been a place of great competition among soldiers, and has been called "the important town of Central China and the barrier of the imperial capital" as early as in the time of Yao and Shun. The two sides held each other for more than a month. Legend has it that Li Yuan, with the help of the God of Mount Huo, conquered Huoyi and beheaded Song Laosheng, and then descended to Chang'an with a strong force. Li Yuan established the Great Tang Dynasty in Chang'an, but his base in Shanxi was occupied by Liu Wuzhou, who claimed to be Emperor Tianxing. Liu Wuzhou captured the province of Bingzhou, trapped Jiexiu, took Huoyi, and occupied Hedong, and his power extended to the center of Guanzhong. In the winter of 619, Li Shimin returned to Jin with his army. Li Shimin returned to Jin with his army and took over Hedong and restored Pingyang, and his troops reached Huoyi. Liu Wuzhou ordered his marshal Song Jingang to defend Huoyi, and Song Jingang ordered his general Yuchigong to guard Baibi Pass to prevent Li Shimin from advancing north.

Li Shimin attacked Baibi Pass several times, losing his troops and generals in vain. In 620, Li Shimin entered Huoyi along the western foot of Mount Huo. The eastern part of Huoyi's territory is known as the "rice grain river". When Yuchigong realized that Li Shimin had entered Huoyi bypassing the danger of Baibi Pass, he attacked Li Shimin and fought with Qin Shubao, the chief of Li Shimin's army, in a battle to the death at the "Rice Cereal River". The two generals fought, almost every round is Yuchigong hit three whip, Qin Qiong also two mace. Because Yuchigong's whip weighs sixty pounds, three whip force one hundred and eighty pounds; Qin Qiong's mace weighs ninety pounds, but also two mace force is also one hundred and eighty pounds. The "three whips and two mace" shows that the two generals were basically evenly matched. Li Shimin on Yuchigong's loyalty, courage and uprightness has long been heard of, its exquisite martial arts and deep admiration, this sitting and watching the two tigers fight, lest there will be a wound, so the gold retreat, in order to seek an opportunity to collect Yuchigong back to the Tang.

Li Shimin repeatedly met with Yuchigong and urged him to surrender. He finally promised to return to Tang as soon as Liu Wuzhou was dead. Li Shimin was so eager to win the favor that he couldn't kill Liu Wuzhou right away, so he killed a man whose face looked like Liu Wuzhou's and sent his head to Yuchigong. Yuchigong failed to recognize the truth and surrendered to Li Shimin. Li Shimin was overjoyed to have Liu Wuzhou's wars quelled and to have another tiger general under his command, Yuchigong. He decided to take a rest in Huoyi and then return to the capital.

Li Shimin stayed at night in Huoyi, but he was awakened by two headless men in his dreams. Li Shimin thought carefully and realized that one of them was like Song Laosheng, the Sui general who was beheaded in Huoyi in 617, while the other one was like the one who had his head cut off while being passed off as Liu Wuzhou. These two headless ghosts harassed Li Shimin at all times, making him restless. Li Shimin summoned Xu Maogong to ask for a plan, Xu Maogong said: "the Lord killed this like Liu Wuzhou people, is because of the eagerness to surrender General Yuchi due to the Lord can be sent to General Yuchi night guard Yamen, may be able to peace". Li Shimin according to the words, so that Yuchi Gong guard the door, and sure enough that like Liu Wuzhou's ghost no longer come to disturb, and that like Song Laosheng's ghost is still to. Li Shimin once again sought advice from Xu Maogong. Xu Maogong said: "I heard that Song Laosheng although the Sui generals, but its loyalty and courage can be praised, I heard that Song Laosheng weekdays very much admire the Qin Erge as a person, try to send Qin Erge night guard Yamen, may be able to peace." Li Shimin according to the words of the additional Qin Shubao night guard Yamen, and indeed Song Laosheng ghosts no longer come.

It is because of this in Huoyi Xu Maogong out of the strategy, Qin Qiong, Jingde night guard Yamen before the car, there is the King of the Jinghe Dragon disturbed Taizong, Taizong called Xu Maogong, Qin Shubao, Yuchigong see the driving after the rut. It can be seen, Qin Qiong, Jingde two famous generals in the Tang Dynasty first met in Huozhou, fighting in Huozhou, friendship in Huozhou, two people as the root of the door god is also in Huozhou. It is said that the images of door gods depicted by Wu Chengen in "Journey to the West" are based on Huozhou door gods, and the national paintings of door gods in Yang Liuqing, Tianjin, are also a collection of Huozhou door gods.

Everyone likes to take the loyal and righteous people in the ancient times as the door god

The door god is a deity that is pasted on the door in China's folklore, and the basic intention of the custom of pasting the door god is to aspire to get rid of the disaster and get happiness. Door god originated from the ancient times of the worship of common things. According to research, China's Zhou Dynasty, there is a door god, but then the door god is still no name. In the Han Dynasty, there were three door deities, one was Chengqing, the other two were Shentian and Yubi, and in the Tang Dynasty, there were two door deities, Qin Shubao and Yuchigong. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, there were countless door gods in the folklore. Until today, the custom of posting door god paintings in Chinese New Year still exists. Qin Shubao and Yuchigong, the two martial arts door gods, are the most widely circulated and influential in the folklore.

About Qin Qiong, Jingde become the door god there is a legend: Li Shimin in order to fight for the throne, in the Xuanwumen killed two brothers, live in the palace, often have nightmares, dreaming that his two brothers into evil spirits to find him to ask for his life, all day long restlessness. Emperor Taizong had two generals, one was the brave and fierce Yuchi Jingde, and the other was Qin Shubao, who won every battle. The two generals volunteered to guard the door, which reassured Li Shimin. However, as soon as they left, Li Shimin immediately fell ill. Wei Zheng asked the painter to draw the image of Qin Qiong and Yuchigong and paste it on the door, and Li Shimin never had nightmares again. This matter spread to the people, the people know Qin Qiong and Yuchigong's powerful, also imitated the painting of their image, the New Year's Day pasted to the door, called the "God of the Door".