Chapter 9 Talk about God of Wealth

I remember that when I was a child, I finished offering sacrifices to the stove on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. The next day, I invited all the Bodhisattvas and all the gods to come back to the incense wax shop. Otherwise, it would be a joke to bring him back before he left to report on his work.In addition to the Bodhisattvas of the heavens, there are also the Great Emperor Xietian, the God of Wealth, the Commander of the Eastern Kitchen, the Empress of Eyes, the Son of God Zhang Xian, and the gods of the twenty-eight mansions.The so-called God of Wealth on duty came to the world as early as the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month and before New Year's Eve.

According to the older generation, things are busy at the end of the year, so please bring the God back early to be safe, in case you forget about it, and when it gets dark on New Year's Eve, urchins will go door to door yelling to send the God of Wealth to you.Anyway, in the psychology of ordinary people, the more wealth the better, and it would only cost a few pennies to hire an extra copy of the God of Wealth.If you don't plan to talk to him, just call him yes, and those little troublemakers will stop talking; if you don't ask the God of Wealth to say yes, then you are deceiving the gods, and you don't plan to make money this year and everything goes well.

In the past, people from every class of the three religions and nine streams offered to the God of Wealth, so all kinds of Gods of Wealth were prepared. Most of them offered Xuanguan, Zhufu, wearing plain clothes, holding ingots and treasures in their hands. god of wealth.Some people enshrined Master Guan, the great emperor of Xietian Fumo, as the God of Wealth.Some people even worship the God of Wealth and Martial Arts separately. It is said that the God of Wealth and Wealth is the prime minister of King Zhou, and the God of Wealth and Martial Arts is Zhao Gongming, the black tiger Xuantan.Prime Minister Bigan, who had his heart disemboweled and dug out, was to be sacrificed with Zhao Gongming in civil and military affairs. One had no heart and the other was blind.

No matter the businessmen in the north or the south, there are five gods of wealth, led by Zhao Gongming, the real person of Black Tiger Xuantan Taiyi, and the four companions, Jinbao Langjun, Lucky Boy and so on.Unexpectedly, Zhao Gongming in the Black Tiger Profound Altar, since he is listed as the God of Wealth, and the God of Wealth of the Five Routes is the leader of the team, and each person carries two incense sticks, I think that among the many Gods of Wealth, Mr. Zhao can be regarded as the God of Wealth among the Gods of Bribery, the richest .Friends who want to make a lot of money should kowtow more to this god of wealth and wealth, and they will be able to respond to their requests.

Outside Guangning Gate (commonly known as Zhangyi Gate) in Beiping, there is a Wuxian Temple of Wealth, which opens on the second day of the first lunar month every year.At that time, all the city gates in Beiping were closed at the time of Jiaozi, and they could only be opened at the beginning of Jiaozuo.The businessmen in Beiping, the entertainers, and the girls from Bada Hutong all rushed to Guangning Gate to face the city gate. When the city gate opened, everyone rushed to the Temple of Wealth to burn a stick of incense like a swarm. It is said that whoever wants to burn the first stick of incense will be guaranteed to be auspicious within a year.In fact, to put it bluntly, needless to say, the people living in the city can't catch up with this stick of incense, even the residents near the Temple of Wealth can't catch up with it.Because this stick of incense is always the privilege of the temple wishers, and no one can try to snatch it from them.People, horses and vehicles huddled together in front of the city gate, and traffic accidents always followed each other every year. In view of this, the government specially approved the early opening of Guangning Gate on the second day of the first lunar month. .Later, someone suggested that on the first day to the second day of the first lunar month, Guangningmen City should be wiped out at night, and the traffic congestion eased.

Both Zhu Suyun and Jin Zhongren, who are singing Xiaosheng in Liyuan, are the directors of this Wuxian Temple of Wealth.According to the two of them, Wuxian God of Wealth is five brothers surnamed Wu.After their death, the people who had been favored by the five of them planned to worship with sacrifices, but they were afraid that the government would criticize them with excessive sacrifices, so they built a temple for the God of Wealth in the name of the Wuxian God of Wealth, so that their brothers could receive incense forever.Because the second day of the first lunar month is Uncle Wu Yuan’s birthday, and the seventeenth day of September is the festival day, so these two days are regarded as the temple period.

In addition to burning incense and praying for blessings, all pilgrims who go to the Wuxian Temple of Wealth have another item to borrow ingots.This kind of ingot is made of cardboard in the shape of ingots, and there are two types of gold and silver. You can exchange one ingot for some incense and respect.Borrow one ingot this year, and return a pair of ingots next year. Borrow gold to repay gold, borrow silver to repay silver.Obviously it was bought with money, but if you want to talk about borrowing, if you borrow ingots to go home, you have to put them in the shrine at a high level.One year, the author saw Fuxia, the younger brother of the four famous Dan Shangqixia, enter the city with a carriage full of gold and silver ingots, and happily said that she brought blessings back home.

When I went to the God of Wealth Temple to burn incense and return ingots on the second day of the first month of the first lunar month, people of all colors used various means of transportation, but there were very few people who took cars.Because Guangning Gate is a relatively remote outer city in Beiping, a southwestern official road with infrequent traffic.The road in Zhangyimennei Street is already uneven, and the road out of the city is even more difficult to walk.For the convenience of pilgrims, temporary measures had to be taken in this place. The road was paved with loess and the street was splashed with clean water. The world of mortals covers the sun and the sky, and in this burst of yellow sand, those who pull carts and carts, and those who ride donkeys and drive their feet, become clay figurines.Therefore, even the car class wants to have a happy new year and a happy new year, so as not to cause everyone to curse once the car passes, they will switch to a glass-covered carriage as much as possible.There are also advantages to riding a horse-drawn carriage. You can visit the spring and enjoy the scenery of the temple fair.Famous actors and actresses, wealthy gentry and celebrities, plus the beautiful girls of Beili in beautiful sleeves and red dresses, and more elegant and simple village girls and wild elders are embellished.

Some people say that the Wuxian Temple in the north is the Wutong Temple in the south, but brother Zheng Yimei, who was good at writing essays in Shanghai, said that there is a flying pavilion with round arches opposite the gate of Suzhou. The exquisitely carved Wuxian Temple is a building of the Ming Dynasty. Every year on the fifth day of the first lunar month is the annual temple festival. All the people in Goulan in the city make an appointment with their private friends to go to the Wuxian Temple to pray for blessings and offer incense.Sometimes the prodigal son and the girl were jealous, and quarrels and fights often resulted in murders. In the Qing Dynasty, the Suzhou government had no choice but to abolish the Wuxian Temple.The Wuxian Temple in the north worshiped the Wu brothers, the bandit, and the Wuxian Temple in the south also worshiped the five brothers, but the surname was Feng Qibai, not Wu.Because they are the same five, they are commonly known as Wuxian. In fact, the Northern Wu and Southern Feng are not related to each other.Brother Yimei's statement is well-founded, of course it is true.

I remember that old Gaixian Xia Yuanyu said that among the great philanthropists he knew, if he asked him not to count a temple for the God of Wealth, there were as many as sixteen Gods of Wealth among the immortals, and he planned to gather a few more (probably I want them to set up the God of Wealth Guild).Therefore, Fan Li, Ji Ran, Bai Gui, and Zi Gong, who were good at managing money and loving the country in ancient times, were each given titles and promoted to the God of Wealth.It's a pity that I was not there at the time, otherwise I must remind you, what kind of gods are the three of them?I don't want to slaughter sheep, but Tao Zhugong, as far as I know, has long been listed as the God of Wealth.

One year, the author went to Hai'an to see Mr. Han Zi (Guojun). He was on a black-covered boat and passed a small town called Bencha. It was like a reed. Suddenly it was cold and the raincoat and shoes were wet, so I had to abandon the boat and go ashore. .Next to the dry well in Qiuxu, I found a small temple with two entrances. It was clear and the sky was shaking, and cigarettes were curling up. The temple was called Zengfu Lingxianguan.Since the temple is called a palace, it must be a Taoist temple. The boy who answered the door was indeed a little Taoist priest, and the god he offered was Dr. Fan who carried the beauty on a boat.As for why the locals call Chiyi Zipi the God of Wealth, the little Taoist priest can't say why. It is expected that Bencharen's idea is that Dr. Fan is good at playing tricks to win, and it is only a matter of course that he is promoted to the God of Wealth. Xia Gaixian's thoughts coincided with each other! When Shengli came to Taiwan, he saw a fine brushwork God of Wealth painted by the old king Sun Puxinshe somewhere, with a black crown and red headband, a rhinoceros ring and a gold belt, and plain tanned sleeves. He looks handsome and elegant.There is also a section of "God of Wealth Kao" written by Pu himself in lower script, about 400 characters.Of course, this painting was painstakingly created by Master Pu, but it was a pity that he was in a hurry to appreciate it and could not read it carefully.Based on his extensive understanding of Hongba, there must be another argument for stripping the grass and analyzing the feathers. Back then, there was an unsuccessful artist named Li Qingmao. He and Liu Paixusheng Gao Chenkui were brothers in the same department. Stir, so the theater troupe dare not learn, poor and down, reduced to performing arts in Tianqiao.Because he was born in a major, and he is very good at things. Not only is he unstoppable in civil and martial arts, but he is also thorough in six games.Usually singing in Tianqiao, there is really a whole Beijing opera, the costumes and props used are all patchwork, bizarre and ridiculous.But he has a Ping Jin Suzhou embroidered inch python, which is usually hidden and not easily shown. Every year during the Spring Festival, he inquired that all the playboys with names and surnames in Mazhangtai were newly blooming in the famous Huazhuang Pavilion in Babu. If he hears the news, he will come to wear the crown, or dance to become an official, or the God of Wealth who hooks the face of ingots to attract wealth and treasure, sing "Xi Yingqian", and the red seal he gets is enough to sing on the overpass Ten days and half a month's income.Therefore, Li Qingmao is the most popular Living God of Wealth in the Eight Great Hutongs during the first month of Chinese New Year. The birthday celebration of the God of Wealth is celebrated on the second day of the first month in the north and the fifth day in the south.In the north, the second day of junior high school is called the God of Wealth Day, and the offerings to the God of Wealth are pig heads, roosters, and carps.The rooster is slaughtered and plucked, but the tail hair must be left, and the carp must be romping, and a piece of red paper is pasted on the eyes of the live fish.After the sacrifice to the gods, the carp must be released, and within a year, they will be blessed with good luck.In the Yangtze River area, the day of the God of Wealth is three days later, and it becomes the fifth day of the first lunar month. The offerings to the God of Wealth are most important to use the whole shark fin mat. It seems that the Southern God of Wealth uses more brains than the Northern God of Wealth. In the past, there was a Yin Xiaofeng who sang copper hammers in Liyuan, although his voice was like a bronze bell, but his face was too narrow, no matter how he sculpted his face, he couldn't show his burly and majestic air.Therefore, he vowed that the first requirement for accepting an apprentice is a young man with a big face and a hulking back.In his later years, he took in an apprentice named Wang Xinfu, who had a handsome appearance and a tall physique. At that time, everyone in the world of actors and actresses thought that this younger brother Wang was an outstanding talent.It's a pity that I didn't take good care of it when I closed the warehouse. Since then, my voice has lost its luster and I can't say a word, so I worshiped Weng Ouhong to learn facial makeup. One year we had spring wine at the home of Zhang Rennian, the chief pharmacy manager of Xiehe Hospital (Zhang once went to the sea, imitating Jin Shaoshan and singing with a colorful face for more than half a year), and Weng Ouhong presented two masks of the God of Wealth, drawn by his lover Wang Xinfu.There are 12 faces in each, 24 faces in total, one of them is the God of Wealth with a broken green face, and the other is a God of Wealth with a broken blue face.The twenty-four Gods of Wealth are not only exquisitely painted, but also vivid.Weng Ouhong researched each of the Gods of Wealth extensively and verified them one by one, and a small script in Jin and Tang Dynasties is even more meaningful.It's a pity that it seemed rushed at the time, and after many years, only a vague impression remains. Otherwise, it would be more lively to provide references for Brother Gaixian to build a temple. In this way, our Chinese God of Wealth actually has two dozen people. The world is suffering from energy shortage and economic downturn. I pray that all the Gods of Wealth will show mercy and show their power, so that the people will be prosperous and the people will be full. Ten thousand people are united.Everyone must never forget the nine kowtows in the morning and evening, and three burners of incense in the morning and evening to worship the gods of wealth, and to answer the heavens.