{"id":13222,"date":"2019-11-21T18:41:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T18:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/chinese-myth-figures-zhong-guo-shen-hua-ren-wu-08-town-god-cheng-huang\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T18:41:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T18:41:03","slug":"chinese-myth-figures-zhong-guo-shen-hua-ren-wu-08-town-god-cheng-huang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/chinese-myth-figures-zhong-guo-shen-hua-ren-wu-08-town-god-cheng-huang\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Myth Figures \u4e2d\u56fd\u795e\u8bdd\u4eba\u7269 08 Town God \u57ce\u968d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The town god, or&nbsp; &quot;Cheng Huang&quot; in Chinese, is a  local guardian god of ghostdom according to Taoism. It was originated  from sacrificial practices in ancient times. &quot;Cheng&quot; originally refers  to high wall built with earth, while &quot;Huang&quot; refers to dry moat outside a  city wall. The ancient people built city walls to guard the safety of  people in town, and therefore there appeared high ramparts, towers,  gates, city walls and moat. In their minds, god appeared in everything  closely related to people&#8217;s life and safe production, for which the city  wall and moat were sanctified as the guardian of the town. Moreover,  since the town god holds a position equal to mayor in real world,  people&#8217;s worship to the town god has evolved along with the development  of city.<\/p>\n<p>It was not until the Three Kingdoms Period that the Town God&#8217;s Temple  appeared. In the Sui Dynasty, it became a custom to offer animal  sacrifices to the town god. The belief in town god bloomed in the Tang  and Song dynasties, while in the Song Dynasty, sacrificial offerings to  the town god was ranked as national ceremony. In the Ming Dynasty,  people showed special respect to the God of Earth and the town god, as  Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of Ming, was born in the Temple of the  God of Earth. For this reason, the Town God&#8217;s Temples were built one  after another in every town during the time.<\/p>\n<p>People always regarded the town god as an ideal local official in the  shape of some famous historical figure after death, so that more often  than not, heroes, virtuous feudal officials and great generals were  honored as the town god in different places, in the hope that they would  continue to reward the good and punish the evil after death and bless  the people a rich life and good health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-848706029\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The town god, or&nbsp; &quot;Cheng Huang&quot; in Chinese, is a  local guardian god of ghostdom according to Taoism. It was originated  from sacrificial practices in ancient times. &quot;Cheng&quot; originally refers  to high wall built with earth, while &quot;Huang&quot; refers to dry moat outside a  city wall. The ancient people built city walls to guard the safety of  people in town, and therefore there appeared high ramparts, towers,  gates, city walls and moat. In their minds, god appeared in everything  closely related to people&#8217;s life and safe production, for which the city  wall and moat were sanctified as the guardian of the town. Moreover,  since the town god holds a position equal to mayor in real world,  people&#8217;s worship to the town god has evolved along with the development  of city.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2837],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-13222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-mythology","tag-chinese-myth-figures"],"views":181,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}