Zhang Fude was born in Zhou Wuwang on February 2, 2002. He has been clever and filial since childhood. At the age of 36, he was the chief tax collector of the government, honest and diligent, and loved the people. He died in Zhou Muwang for three years at the age of 102. A poor family was worshipped in a stone house surrounded by four big stones. Soon, he became rich from poverty, and the people believed in God's blessing. Joint venture to build a temple and worship the golden body, taking its name and honoring it as "Fudezheng"
2. Social deities originated from ancient people's worship of land. The land provides a place for human activities, and everything growing on the land provides rich food for human beings, so human beings appreciate it and worship it. Sacrifice to the country was recorded as early as in the Book of Songs. The Book of Rites says: "Society is the way of God and earth. The land carries everything, and the sky hangs down. Taking the wealth of the land and taking the law of heaven is to respect heaven and love the land. " Why sacrifice to social gods? In the Book of Filial Piety and Helping the Gods, it is even more clear: "The country is the general god of the five realms. The land is vast and sparsely populated, so you can't worship all over the world. Therefore, the fief is a country, and the sacrifice is rewarded. "
3. There is a legend in Suining County, Sichuan Province: the land bodhisattva under the Panlong Temple in Taihe Town is very effective, and people who burn incense and make wishes are in an endless stream. On this day, a fruit tree grower came and prayed that it wouldn't be windy these days, because the pears opened and the land bodhisattva agreed. As soon as the fruit grower left, another boatman came to pray for more river wind, because the water boat needed wind, and the land agreed. In the afternoon, a man in a gown came and prayed that he would go out for a long trip these days and not be windy or rainy. The land was nodded twice. When it was dark, a farmer came and said that it would rain before transplanting rice seedlings in dry fields. He asked the landowner to come down in the rain tonight. The land was agreed. When the matter was known by the landlady, she complained that the landlady was meddling. The landlady smiled and said, I already have plans. It rains at night, it is sunny during the day, and the wind blows along the water. I am not allowed to enter the pear garden. The four problems of praying for the people have all been solved.
4. There is a legend in Laohekou and Guanghua in Hubei: the landlord of Zhanggou in Youfang loves gambling and often gambles with the landlord of Xiaozhanggou. The landlord in Zhanggou, Youfang lost all his money, and finally even his wife lost to the landlord in Xiaozhanggou. The landlord of Zhanggou has a long face, but the landlord of Xiaozhanggou has a hard time because two women are always quarrelling. The villagers in Zhanggou, Youfang, felt sorry for the landlord. After discussion, they went to Xiaozhanggou to carry the landlady back. The landlord of Xiaozhanggou disagreed and asked the landlord of Zhanggou in Youfang for money that night. The landlord of Zhanggou, Youfang couldn't get the money, so he had to let the landlord of Xiaozhanggou take his wife away. The villagers went to bring the landlady back again, always during the day and taken away at night. After three days of tossing and turning, the villagers could do nothing. Since then, there has been no landlady in Zhanggou Land Temple in Youfang.
There is a story in Ningbo, Zhejiang province: the landlord locked his long-preserved treasure in a stone cabinet to help the poorest people in the world. One day, the landlord went out to inspect the people's feelings, gave the landlord the key to the stone cabinet, and told her to give him some gold and silver if the poor passed by. At noon, a sedan chair came and just rested in front of the temple. The landlady listened to the people in the sedan chair and said, "I'm bored to death. It's really bitter!" " "He gave all the gold and silver to the bearers, who told them to carry them into the sedan chair and only took half of them. When the landlord came back at night, he listened to the landlady and scolded, "Can the poor take sedan chairs? The talent of the sedan chair is poor. " The next day, Tu Hong went on patrol again. At noon, two fat people (the rich man and his son came to collect half of the gold and silver treasures left yesterday) carried a sedan chair, and the landlady remembered what the landlady had said. I gave them the rest of the treasure. When the land Lord came back, he flew into a rage and drove the land woman out of the land temple.
Extended data:
China, the land god, has been worshipped by the land god since ancient times, and nurtures all things: the earth carries all things, nurtures all things, and the grain nurtures the people.
There is a cloud in the popular article of Zuo Zhuan: "Where there is a society, there must be a land god. The land god is the master who guards the society and is called the superior. " . The so-called land god is the country god, and its origin is awe and gratitude to the earth:
Shuo Wen Jie Zi: "Society is also a landlord". As the name implies, a society is the master of the land, and the sacrifice of a society is a sacrifice to the land, and it is also said to be abandoned.
The Book of Rites: "After the land, the god of the country will also be there", and the chapter "Sacrifice Method" in the Book of Rites notes that "Doctor Bao lives in groups, and more than 100 people can establish a country"
Historical records? "amenorrhea Zen": "Tang is used to cut down the summer and worship the land."
The History of the Five Elements of Han Dynasty is also called "the old system, and twenty-five families are one society". The ancients respected heaven and earth. "The land is vast, and it is impossible to worship the world all over, so it is a tribute to the society and a sacrifice."
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia: Land God