Why are the door gods Qin Qiong and Weichi Gong?

Weichi Gong in the Qin Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty were the first gods in the world. Although Qin and Weichi Gong came from the Tang Dynasty, the earliest extant documents that recorded them as gatekeepers are two gatekeeper generals in the Divination of the Three Religions in Yuan and Ming Dynasties and the Divination Book in Daozang: "It is said that when Tang Taizong was not sleeping, he threw bricks and tiles outside the door, making ghosts cry and wolves howl, and the six hospitals and three palaces were restless at night. Emperor Taizong was afraid to tell his ministers. Uncle Bao said, "I've killed people all my life and accumulated corpses and ants. Why are you afraid, kid? "I am willing to wait with Jingdezhen in uniform." Emperor Taizong can fight, but there is no police at night.

Emperor Taizong Jiaji said that the two men couldn't sleep at night and were ordered to paint their portraits, all of which were full of anger. As usual, they hung on the left and right doors of the palace, and the evil spirits died. Future generations follow, and it will always be a door god cloud. "This story was written in The Journey to the West, so it spread more widely. The Journey to the West also said, "The back door is uneasy. It's time for Wei Zhi to guard it. "So Wei Zhi also became a goalkeeper. Wei Zhi's Portrait of the Gatekeeper often has the words "Town House" and "God of Blessing", so it is called "God of Blessing Wei Zhi".

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Since then, people have followed suit, and Qin and Weichi Gong have also become "door gods". In the Song Dynasty, it evolved into a woodblock New Year picture. Later, people rushed to follow suit, and after several evolutions, they formed their own unique style, that is, today's New Year pictures. The earliest existing New Year picture in China is the Song version of "A Picture of North America". In addition, some doors are painted with opera stories, Wu Caishen, chickens, cats and other animals.

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