Fortune teller's trip to the city _ What spirit does the Lord seek?

Lord Huang Cheng is the patron saint and the god of justice. His main duties are: to protect the city and the country, and to be responsible for the living and the dead, to reward good and punish evil, life and death, and to promote happiness and interests.

There are many city god temples in many parts of our country. Many people burn incense and offer sacrifices, and there will be a city god temple meeting, which is very lively. So what kind of god is the duke? Let's get to know each other.

0 1 Turn Left refers to the sacrifice of riding on four ridges in the Spring and Autumn Period, while The Book of Rites records that the water god in the "Ba Shen" sacrificed by the Zhou Emperor is regarded as the predecessor of the city god. Water is a moat, mediocrity is a wall. The original intention of the city god is to add a moat to the city wall, and the duty of the city god is to protect the city.

In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Lord began to take charge of the book of life and death, because central officials like Lord Yan had no time to register and manage the lives and deaths of thousands of villages and towns and hundreds of millions of dawn.

Many city god temples will be divided into several city god gods at the same time. In Suzhou City God Temple, Jiangsu Province, ten God of City God Temple, including Wei, Bai Juyi, Liu Yuxi, Fan Zhongyan and Wen Tianxiang, will be dedicated. In the Song Dynasty, the worship of the city god in some areas was incorporated into the national sacrifice ceremony and became an official sacrifice, which was led by the county chief.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an imperial decree, which divided the world gods into three classes, six classes and nine classes, and laid the pattern of world gods from then on. For example, the first class is the city god of Yingtianfu, with the highest level, which is equivalent to the capital of the city god world. City God is the king of many city gods, whose name is "Chengtian Jianguo Siming Shengfuming Wangling"; The second category is that in the process of Zhu Yuanzhang's rise to the world, the city god of an important city was made king; The third category is "Wei Linggong", the capital god with "rank two"; The fourth is the "Lingyou Hou" of the city god of each state with "rank three products"; The fifth category is the "rank four products" of the county god's "showing help to the uncle" There is no city god below the county level, and it is managed by the landowner, which is equivalent to the township head and village head.

The town god is not only qualified, but also has a very complicated status. He crossed the boundary between yin and yang and had the power to surpass one side. He was regarded by the ancients as the parents of the ghost world, specializing in injustice. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, every year, Tomb-Sweeping Day, July 15th and October 1st birthdays, Chenghuang Temple will hold tourism and temple fairs.