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In the village of Zhang Hu's friend, it is not uncommon for a land temple to be worshipped at the beginning and then rebuilt or expanded into a land temple. There is nothing wrong with it.

The situation where the land god is represented by historical figures or famous legendary characters has existed for a long time.

The land temple is an important place of folk belief in ancient China, and its historical origins can be traced back to the period of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

The early land gods carried the colors of land worship, had the dual functions of agricultural gods and protective gods, and were worshipped by everyone from emperors to common people.

In the Shang Dynasty, people had already begun to worship the land. After the Zhou Dynasty, people called the land god "She Shen", also commonly known as "Tudi Ye" or "Tudi Gong Gong".

The history of the God of Land is long, involving a series of sacrificial activities on the Community Day of "She, offering sacrifice to the land." The Community Day activities were at their peak during the Han, Tang and Song dynasties, and gradually declined after that. In many places, people only worship the God of Land, but there is no Community Day.

It is said that the historical prototype of the land god was Zhang Fude, an official of the Zhou Dynasty. He was born on February 2, the second year of King Wu of Zhou. He was an honest official who worked diligently and loved the people. He died in the third year of King Mu of Zhou at the age of 102.

It is said that there was a poor family who built a stone house with four large stones to worship him. Soon they became rich. The people believed that the god was blessing them, so they jointly built a temple and made a golden statue to worship him. They took his real name and revered him as "Fu De Zheng Shen".

During the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, the land god was often a historical figure who had made contributions to the local area.

For example, Shen Yue in the Southern Dynasties donated his father's tomb to Pujing Temple, and the monks in the temple respected Shen Yue as the land god.

After the Song Dynasty, the belief in the God of Land (commonly known as the God of Land or Land Grandpa) became popular. Almost every village had a land temple, and each residence, garden, temple, and mountain also had its own land god.

But at this time, the land god had become a subordinate of the city god, and its patron god function was transferred to the city god. The function of the agricultural god was not obvious either. He was just a small god with a clear jurisdiction and limited functions.

Because of his low position and low power, the image of the God of Land is very general. Most temples of the God of Land portray an old man with white hair and beard, who is amiable and amiable, and he is paired with a counterpart, called the Grandmother of the Land or the Mother-in-law of the Land.

There are also some places that still regard historical figures as land gods, and there are also folk legends that someone was appointed as the land god of a certain place by the Emperor of Heaven after his death.

After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, people began to use celebrities as gods of land. For example, Jiang Ziwen in the Three Kingdoms period. Another example: Han Yu, a great writer in the Tang Dynasty, was worshipped as the god of land by the Hanlin Academy and the Ministry of Personnel in the Qing Dynasty. In the Hangzhou area, Yue Fei is worshipped as the god of land.

Customs vary from place to place, and many historical celebrities have been worshipped as local land gods.

The God of Land is called by many names in Chinese folk, such as Tuzheng, Fudezhengshen, Tudigong, Tudigong, Tudiye, Sheshen, Tubo, etc. and his temples are called Tudi Temple, Tudi Shrine, Bogong Temple, Fudezhengshen Temple, etc.

It is said that starting from the Southern Song Dynasty, people felt that the land god was too lonely, so they gave him a partner, called the land mother-in-law.

In the southwestern part of Hunan, the Miao, Dong and Yao people also gave the God of Land a concubine. In this way, the God of Land had two wives. The god was secularized by the people and was no different from humans.

People generally say that the status of the land god is low, but in fact, the land god is tolerant and can bear grievances, and never cares about gains and losses with humans. For example, in the opera "The Legend of the Goddess and the Fairy", the land god is a kind and benevolent old man; in "Journey to the West", the land god is a good man who is often teased and bullied.

In central and southwestern Hunan, there is a special profession called "Dancing Land God". People who engage in this profession dress up as land gods and go from village to village singing land songs and sending blessings in order to get alms, which is actually a form of begging for a living.

In my country, which temple is the smallest? The answer is indisputable. There is no temple smaller than the land temple. In some places, three bricks stacked together in a "one horizontal and two vertical" pattern are a land temple. In other places, three stone slabs are stacked together to form a land temple.

The land temples built in cities are far more spectacular than the small shrines and land temples next to rural fields.

By analogy with the phenomenon of the City God Temple in rural areas, as the most basic deity, almost every natural village has a land god temple. Every time there is a wedding, beam raising, pillar raising, childbirth, death of an elder, or festival, the head of the family goes to the temple to worship the land god.

In the minds of the Chinese people, the closest person to them is the God of Land. The God of Land is the closest to the people, but among the Chinese people, he is both the most respected god and the one who is often treated carelessly.

If we were to say which deity the common people fear the least, it would be the God of Land. Other gods have "divine power" and the common people are afraid of them and dare not disrespect or offend them in the slightest. But it is different with the God of Land. People do not have a fear of him and think that he is like a family member who lives with them all the time and there is nothing to be afraid of.

It's like when a soldier meets a squad leader or platoon leader, he doesn't think they are scary. But when he meets a company commander, battalion commander, or regiment commander, the higher the rank, the scarier he feels.

Therefore, there are always incense burning in front of the land Bodhisattva, the god of a village, all year round, especially before New Year's Eve. In some places, villagers follow the custom of counting one household for every chimney, and every household has a male head who goes to the land temple to worship.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people are scrambling to be the first to burn incense. Some do not even wait for the clock to strike midnight before they start to stream back and forth to the temple. At this time, people who worship the land god do not greet each other when they meet, but only pray and whisper to express their wishes when they kneel before the Bodhisattva.

Zhang Lan told Zhang Hu the solution and then hung up the phone. Zhang Hu, who was holding the phone, told his friend the solution but did not leave in a hurry to see the tree. Instead, he and his friend watched A\B\C throwing the Holy Grail there.

According to Zhang Hu's idea, what Zhang Lan said about getting the Holy Grail nine times in a row was unlikely to happen, and he didn't know when the three of them would lose it.

To Zhang Hu's surprise, the people in the Niangniang Temple decided to use this method and burned incense in front of the Niangniang statue and said so.

After A among the three had been throwing the Holy Grail for more than ten minutes, he threw it nine times in a row. The people watching suddenly burst into an uproar, and then everyone lowered their voices and began to whisper.

Zhang Hu, who was standing by, was also stunned. He thought to himself, is it really that magical?
After A successfully threw the Holy Grail nine times and was taken away by his parents, the remaining B and C felt even more pressured, and the number of onlookers and cars that occasionally stopped out of curiosity also increased.

More than an hour later, just when the onlookers were gradually losing their patience, C, who was kneeling on the ground, threw the Holy Grail nine times in a row amid the onlookers' gasps.

Although C still couldn't speak, his parents beside him were obviously relieved. They kowtowed quickly and pulled C up to leave the temple. (End of this chapter)