The custom of God of Wealth in Zhao Gongming

Zhaoda Village and surrounding villages have formed a typical custom of worshipping Zhao Gongming, the god of wealth. Zhao Gongming's birthday is on March 15 of the lunar calendar every year, and the temple fair of the god of wealth is held in the village for 3 days. June 6th is the anniversary of the death of Zhao Gongming, the god of wealth, and commemorative activities will also be held. Before the meeting, the elders in the village formed a temple fair organization, arranged for the deacons to do their own duties, raised funds for the meeting, posted invitations to treat guests, wrote plays to set up a stage, arranged sacrificial ceremonies, performed ceremonial drumming, divided booths, managed merchants and maintained public order. I sang for three days and four nights at the meeting. There is a large-scale ceremony to pay tribute to Marshal Zhao Gong, and tens of thousands of people from four nearby towns will visit and sightseeing. On the day of the formal meeting, an endless stream of pilgrims were all composed of societies handed down from ancient times. In particular, more than a dozen descendants of Zhao in the village are all direct descendants. Nearly 200 people of Zhao family, such as Yuxing Village in Zhongnan Town, Sanjiazhuang Village in Louguan Town, Shang Jie Village and Jinpen Village, as well as the Zhao family in several villages around Zhaoda Village in Jixian Town, also teamed up to worship their distant ancestor Zhao Gongming. The ceremony includes singing, setting off firecrackers, paying tribute, offering incense, kowtowing and bowing. Solemn and neat, dedicated and solemn, awe-inspiring.

There are countless temples of God of Wealth in China, from the capital to the interior, from merchants and manufacturers to farmhouses. Most of them are dedicated to Zhao Gongming. I hope the God of Wealth will bless them with good luck. Eat jiaozi (the symbol of Lantern Festival) on New Year's Eve in 2008, and then stay up all night, waiting to meet the God of Wealth in the morning. In the middle of the night, poor children and street vendors dress up as the God of Wealth, take photos of the God of Wealth, walk the streets and sell from door to door: send the God of Wealth. On New Year's Eve, sometimes a family will receive more than a dozen gods of wealth. When the god of wealth arrived home, he crossed more and more.

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Sacrifice to Zhao Gongming and burn incense on the first day of the Lunar New Year. The villagers got up in the middle of the night, stood in the cold wind and waited. When the rooster crowed for the first time, they poured into the temple of the god of wealth, lit a wick and respectfully presented it to Zhao Gongming. It is said that the first wick incense can bring good luck to the whole family for a year. On the first and fifteenth days of each month, villagers also go to worship the God of Wealth.

Zhao Gongming, the God of Wealth, is widely distributed in Chinese mainland, Taiwan Province, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, affecting Southeast Asia and Chinese communities around the world. Zhao Gongming, the God of Wealth, was provided by Chaoshan, Guangdong. Nearly one million people in Fu You Palace, Dali City, Taiwan Province Province believe in the God of Wealth. The descendants of Zhao are also proud. Since the late 1980s, they have been searching for Zhao Gongming's hometown in the mainland for more than ten years. On 1997, the marketing manager of a travel agency in Xi 'an saw the author's articles such as Zhaoda Village, the hometown of the God of Wealth, and then saw the front page article Zhaoda Village, the hometown of the God of Wealth, written by reporter You Lingbo and others in Xi Evening News published on 1999. The travel agency conveyed this information to Taiwan Province compatriots in Dali City, Taiwan Province Province in time.

Believers and descendants of Zhao in Dali City, Taiwan Province Province rushed to tell them and were overjoyed. Many people vowed to go to Zhouzhi Zhaoda Village in Xi to pay homage to Zhao Gongming. 1In March, 998, Fu You Palace in Dali organized a delegation of the God of Wealth for the first time and arrived at Zhaoda Village under the guidance of a tour guide. Many Taiwan Province compatriots are very excited when they touch the ancient stone tablets, bricks, columns and doors of the Temple of Wealth. A grand ceremony was held in front of the ancient temple to pay homage to the ancestor Zhao Gongming. On the spot, he donated more than 70,000 RMB to the newly-built Temple of Wealth. Since then, the newly-built Temple of Wealth in the south of the ancient Temple of Wealth has been completed. Every year, Taiwan compatriots in Dali will form a pilgrimage group of nearly 100 people and go to Zhaoda Village to pay homage to the God of Wealth. China people from Hongkong, Macau and Southeast Asia also visited the Zhaoda Village God of Wealth Temple in Zhao Gongming.

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Han people generally offered sacrifices to Zhao Gongming, which may have started in the middle of the Ming Dynasty or earlier. The main reason is that "buying and selling for money" is one of his main duties. The statues of the God of Wealth in Zhao Gongming are all wearing helmets and armor, robes and whips, black and beards, and their images are formidable. There are often cornucopia, big ingots, spheres, corals and the like painted around. According to Jia Qinglu (Volume 3) in the Qing Dynasty, his birthday is on March 15th in the Wu lunar calendar. On this day, people should offer sacrifices, such as the god of wealth, build a temple or make statues at home. Among them, it is the most common for businessmen to sacrifice to the god of wealth. "Hebei Yangyuan County Records" said: "God of Wealth, every businessman has a number. The first month of every year is a special time for people to worship the god of wealth, such as heaven and earth. Every February 18, I also pay for the theatre. "