Zhang Zhenhua fortune-telling

Emperor Taizong asked Weichi Gong to be the gatekeeper? 1 Journey to the West: The old dragon in Jinghe near Chang 'an made a bet with the fortune teller and broke the rule. The Jade Emperor sent Wei Zhi to execute the old dragon at 3 noon. The day before, Lao Long asked Tang Taizong to intercede for him, and Tang Taizong readily agreed. The next day, Emperor Taizong announced that Wei Zhi had entered the DPRK and left Wei Zhi to accompany him to play Go. Unexpectedly, at three o'clock at noon, Wei Zhi dozed off and dreamed of beheading the old dragon. Lao Long resented Emperor Taizong's treachery, pestered him, and made trouble in the palace every day, which made the six gods of Emperor Taizong uneasy. Knowing that the emperor was afraid, Wei Zhi sent two generals and Weichi Gong to guard the palace gate. Sure enough, the old dragon dared not make trouble. Emperor Taizong remembered their hard work of guarding the door at night, so he asked the painter to paint their portraits and stick them at the palace gate. The result still worked. As a result, this move began to spread among the people, and Weichi Gong became a keeper.

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For a time, Li Shimin was in a bad mood. When he sleeps at night, he often hears bricks and tiles thrown outside the bedroom and ghosts screaming, which makes the harem restless every night. He was afraid and told the monarch and his subjects about it. General Qin said: "I have been an officer all my life, killing enemies like melons and collecting corpses like ants." Why are you afraid of ghosts? " I am willing to guard the palace gate with Jingde. "Li Shimin agreed. Nothing happened that night. Since then, I have put two generals on guard every night. Later, Li Shimin suspected that the two men had worked hard, so he ordered the painter to draw the full-length portraits of the two guards hanging at the door, and the evil spirits disappeared from then on. If you are good on earth, you will follow, so the gatekeeper has spread to the people. Up to now, people have always attached importance to the images of Qin Qiong and Jingde. Qin Qiong and Weichi Gong are five door gods. They were worshipped as door gods only after the Yuan Dynasty, but they were actually from the Tang Dynasty. According to the records of searching for gods in The Complete Works of Three Religions and The Mirror of Immortals in Past Dynasties collected by the orthodox Taoist in the Ming Dynasty, these two immortals were two generals (Qin) and (Weichi Gong) in the Tang Dynasty. According to legend, Emperor Taizong was in poor health, and there were evil spirits howling outside the bedroom door. Six hospitals and three palaces, there is no peace at night. So Emperor Taizong told all the ministers about it, and Qin said, "I've killed people all my life and accumulated corpses like ants. Why should I be afraid, kid? "I am willing to wait with Jingdezhen in uniform." Taizong allowed them to stand on both sides of the palace gate at night and have a safe night. After Emperor Taizong rewarded the two men, he felt that it was really hard to keep them at the palace gate for one night, so he ordered the painter to draw two portraits, both full of anger, holding Yu Fu in his hand and practicing bows and arrows with a belt whip. As usual, he hung them on two palace doors, and the wild ear was calm from then on. It was not until the Yuan Dynasty that people followed this practice and regarded it as a door god. There have been similar records before, but none of them indicate that it is these two people. For example, the anonymous "Maple Window Raft" in the Southern Song Dynasty said: "Before Jingkang, there were many door gods in the side, wearing tiger helmets, and the princes' doors were decorated with mud gold." He Shi's "Biography of Soldiers" said: "On New Year's Eve, the two generals will wear armor in the town hall." It was not until the Ming and Qing Dynasties that it was recorded as Qin Qiong and Weichi Gong. For example, in Qing Guru's "The Door-keeper of Qing Karoku", he said: "Night is easy to be a door-keeper. Qin He's vulgar paintings were printed on paper, and the small family posted the new theory of searching for gods by Li in the Qing Dynasty: "I cherish each other in this life, or draw a civil servant, or a book god, or a military commander, thinking that Taizong was ill, and made Weichi Gong guard the door for illness." According to the current Zhang Zhenhua Changhua's "China Times Customs", it is recorded that "the door-sticking gods are used in different ways in different places and different times. White-faced Qin and black-faced Qin are commonly used in Beijing. So far, residents still do this and pray for good luck in the coming year. " It shows that Er Shen is still worshipped by people since he was worshipped.