Zhao Gong, the God of Wealth
Zhao Gong, the God of Wealth
The Zhaogong Ancestral Temple of the God of Wealth was first built in the Jin Dynasty and flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties. It inherits the incense of the Taoist Xuantan and enshrines the golden body of the ancestor of the God of Wealth, Zhao Gongming. It is the ancestral temple of the ancestor of the God of Wealth, Zhao Gongming, the birthplace of Chinese God of Wealth culture, and a holy place for Chinese people around the world to trace their roots and worship the God of Wealth.
Zhao Gongming, also known as Zhao Xuantan and Marshal Zhao, is the first great God of Wealth in China, the main God of Wealth among the Five Wealth Gods, and the only God of Wealth ordered by the Jade Emperor to manage financial resources. He commands four gods, namely "Zhao Bao", "Na Zhen", "Zhao Cai" and "Li Shi", and is responsible for welcoming good fortune, as well as business transactions.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Ling founded a religion and worshipped Zhao Gongming as the protector of the Zhengyi Xuantan. Zhao Gongming served as a god for a thousand years on the Zhaogong Mountain Ascension Platform. Later, people in the mountain built a temple to worship him and renamed the mountain Zhaogong Mountain.
The Zhaogong Ancestral Temple of the God of Wealth was once a royal Taoist temple in the Tang Dynasty. There are many cultural and historical relics in the temple, and the culture is rich. In history, although it was destroyed and rebuilt several times in wars, it has always been a place of constant worship and prosperity. Worshiping and welcoming the God of Wealth is a simple emotion of the Chinese working people, and it carries the beautiful wish of living and working in peace and contentment, and good luck.
The Zhaogong Ancestral Temple of the God of Wealth is located at Baiguantai, Zhaogong Mountain, Qingcheng. It is the holy place where the ancestor of the God of Wealth, Zhao Gongming, ascended to heaven. The Zhaogong Ancestral Temple of the God of Wealth was first built in the Jin Dynasty and flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties. It inherits the incense of the Taoist Xuantan and enshrines the golden body of the ancestor of the Chinese God of Wealth, Zhao Gongming. It is the ancestral temple of the ancestor of the God of Wealth, Zhao Gongming, the birthplace of the Chinese God of Wealth culture, and a holy place for the Chinese people around the world to seek their roots and worship the God of Wealth.
The statue of the God of Wealth in Zhaogong Ancestral Temple is recognized as the representative statue of the God of Wealth culture due to its unique shape. The statue features a golden face, a civil and military robe, a 24-section golden whip, and a tiger.
Over the years, a group of young Taoists with a strong cultural sentiment in Zhaogong Ancestral Temple have begun to plan the construction of the God of Wealth Cultural Museum, and are committed to the return, display and promotion of God of Wealth cultural exhibits.
Many people in the world worship the God of Wealth, but due to the long history and cultural gap, misconceptions have been spread. After the reconstruction of the ancestral temple, the Taoist priests of the ancestral temple felt the weight of their responsibility and decided to clarify the cultural context and the source. After several years of research and collation and collecting lost materials overseas, they first proposed that the culture of the God of Wealth is rooted in the two major systems of ancient Shu culture and Taoist culture, and is an important part of Chinese traditional culture.
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