When we were watching The Journey to the West, it was common for the Monkey King to hit the ground with a golden hoop when he had something he didn't know. Because he is in charge of local affairs, he knows what is happening there.
When the land is the land god, it is also called the land owner and the land king. This is a little god with a very low status, who only manages a certain piece of land and a certain section of land, and is also the patron saint of the village community. As the saying goes, "If you are not afraid of officials, you are afraid of management." As the owner of the land, the land god can naturally spit out everything and let agriculture develop. In the underdeveloped ancient agriculture, farmers had ample food and clothing, and people lived and worked in peace and contentment. The land god is called the land god and the land god among the people. Land Lord is one of the most commonly worshipped gods among the people in our country, and large and small land temples and local temples are all over urban and rural areas. People worship the land god, hoping that he can manage the local situation, ensure the safety of one party, the prosperity of people and animals, and increase the well-being of the people, which is directly related to the national economy and people's livelihood and social peace.
Because the land god only cares about a section of land, there are all kinds of land lords in some places. Most villages only know that there is a local master in the temple, but don't know his name. Legend has it that Wang Weng, the king of each village, is a highly respected person who has done good deeds and accumulated virtue all his life for the benefit of one party. When he died a fair death, he became the village god-Wang Weng.
Yu Wang, also known as King Pingshui, celebrated his birthday on the 23rd day of the eighth lunar month. Local landlords all over the county have their own birthdays. According to the custom, the people make sacrifices and hold land temple fairs every year. The ceremony was very grand. Five or seven Taoist monks were invited to do the Dojo and set a fire. The gongs and drums are loud, the Buddha's name is loud, and good men and women bow down before the candle case. There are also many people who make cakes, zongzi and steamed buns themselves and distribute them to pilgrims in temples, which is regarded as "affinity", praying for peace, blessing each other and fasting together. That night, the Buddha and the woman chanted prayers and worshipped water, calling it "Wu Shou" until dawn.
The local land god is a symbol of unity in a village. It can also be said to be a microcosm of the harmonious culture of ancient villages, because every village in Zhouning initially had a surname to live in, and then, the ancestral temple was built, resulting in clan culture. According to the natural development law of human beings, every village is related to emotions. Over time, people with foreign surnames have become "son-in-law" and "door-to-door" in the village, gradually breaking the pattern of single surnames living in various villages and changing the "clan" consciousness generated by ancestral halls. Sectarianism seriously affects the unity of different surnames in rural areas. Therefore, the ancestors invented the "Weng Wang", which is a "village god" shared by the whole village regardless of surname, and played its due role in village unity. Weng Wang is the supreme only village god in each village, and each village only worships its own "village god".
The altar dedicated to King Weng is a "tower" rather than a temple. The tower of Weng Wang is not the tower of Tallinn in an ancient temple, but its appearance is similar to that of the "tomb" in Qing Dynasty. For example, Weng Wang in Dongshan Village of Lidun Town is said to have been built in Shunzhi period of Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1644 ~ 16 1). The towers of King Weng in each village are built in the east of the stream flowing downstream, commonly known as the "water tail" (village entrance), which means that King Weng guards the village entrance and blesses the people and animals in the village to prosper and the crops are abundant. On the first and fifteenth days of the lunar calendar, villagers burned incense to King Weng and prayed for good luck. When pig farmers buy piglets to raise, they should burn incense to Weng Wang and pray for the prosperity of six livestock. When planting in spring, they should pray for good weather and abundant crops. Therefore, when every household in the village kills pigs, it is necessary to prepare two or four offerings (odd numbers) of whole pig heads to be dedicated to the Wangweng Pagoda. If you want to taste the new rice in the New Year Festival, you should also offer it to Wang Weng first.
Weng Temple in Xixi Village is located in Dawanglin, Xixi Village. It is said that people only symbolically piled up a few stones in front of the earliest Zhu Fu Temple for people to worship. There is only one path from Anqiaotou to Dawanglin. Few people walk at ordinary times, and the road is covered with dense shrubs and weeds. Wei Ri, a villager, sprays vegetation with glyphosate every year to take care of the path so that people who go to worship Dawanglin can pass.
In 20 16, under the auspices of Wei Dunqing, Huang Shengkang, Ye Deliang, Fan Longjie and others, the masses were mobilized to raise funds and donate 44,530 yuan (see the famous monument), and a praying god was built, with stone tables and benches for offering sacrifices, thus widening the road from Anqiaotou to Dawanglin. Now it is two or three meters wide, enough for cars to pass, which greatly facilitates the villagers to worship the Lord. In the first month of every year, more and more people come to Dawanglin to worship the Lord.
-Yan Shanyan? April 2020 17