Where should the Taishan stone be placed in the home?

If the house has a missing corner, you can make the side with the words on the Taishan stone face the direction of the missing corner.

If you use Taishan Stone Gandang to house, you can place Taishan Stone Gandang in the living room, study or bedroom, and the living room is generally preferred.

If you use Taishan Stone Gandang to block evil spirits, you can place it in the direction facing the evil spirits.

Taishan Shigandang is among the first batch of intangible cultural heritage announced by the State Council. In the old custom, if the door of a house faces a bridge, an alleyway or a road, a small stone tablet is engraved on the outside of the wall with the words "Taishan Shigandang" to ward off evil spirits.

In ancient times, there were many taboos and worships, and "Taishan Shigandang" is one of them: a stone tablet (three feet and three inches high) engraved with Mount Taishan Shigandang was erected at the strategic point of a bridge or built in a house On the wall, it can suppress all ominous evils and is very popular among the people. In June 2006, it was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.

Spiritual Stone Worship

Spiritual Stone Worship is a very primitive and widely popular religious custom. It was formed in prehistoric society. The class society has its customs and continuation, which depends on the backwardness at that time. At the advanced level of science, people are unable to fight against nature and can only use stones as symbols of their worship.

Spiritual stone worship has a certain origin and relationship with worshiping heaven, earth, mountains and rivers, worshiping ancestors to pray for blessings, and avoiding evil and disaster. Here we only discuss the worship of spiritual stones that have a certain relationship with "Shi Gandang" and have the function of avoiding evil and repelling disasters. "Animism is the initial stage of the development of primitive religious thought." The peculiar shapes, colors or special geographical environments of certain rocks may have been endowed with spirituality by ancient people.