Qin Qiong, what is the origin of people sticking Jingdezhen on the door as a door god?

In the ancient mythology of China, it is said that there is a ghost world, in which there is a mountain, a big peach tree covering three thousand miles, and a golden rooster at the top of the tree. Whenever the golden rooster crows in the morning, the ghost who travels at night will rush back to the ghost domain. The gate of the Ghost Domain is located in the northeast of Taoshu District. There are two gods standing beside the gate, namely Shen Tu and Lei Yu. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ying Shao quoted the Book of the Yellow Emperor from Customs Tong: In ancient times, two brothers, Nash and Lei Yu, lived on Dushuo Mountain. There is a peach tree on the mountain, and the shade is like a cover. Every morning, they will review the ghosts under the tree. If an evil spirit harms the world, tie it up and feed it to the tiger. So all the ghosts in the world are afraid of Shen Tu and Lei Yu.

So people carved them into peach trees and put them at their doorsteps to ward off evil spirits and prevent harm. Later, people simply carved the names of Shen Tu and Lei Yu on the mahogany board, thinking that this could also eliminate disasters. In the Chronicle of Jingchu Age written by Liang in the Southern Dynasties, it is recorded that on the first day of the first month, "making a peach board to touch a household is called fairy wood, painting two gods to stick to a household, and the left god naphthalene and the right dragon are called door gods." This kind of red board was later called "Fu Tao".

The door gods and Spring Festival couplets are both formerly known as Fu Tao, also known as "pottery board". The ancients thought that peach wood was the essence of five trees, which could make a hundred ghosts. Therefore, since the Han Dynasty, peach wood has been used as a tool to ward off evil spirits, such as peach man, peach seal, peach board, peach symbol and so on.

However, the door god recorded in real history books is not a dragon, but an ancient warrior named Cheng qin. According to the biography of Han Guang written by Ban Gu, the portrait of Cheng qin, an ancient warrior, was painted on the gate of King Guang Chuan (Quping), wearing shorts and holding a sword. & lt/FONT & gt；

In the Tang Dynasty, besides Harmony, people also regarded Qin and Weichi Gong, two military commanders of the Tang Dynasty, as gatekeepers. According to legend, Emperor Taizong was ill, heard ghosts screaming outside, and stayed up all night. So he asked the two generals to stand by with weapons in their hands, and there was no ghost harassment the next night. Later, Emperor Taizong had the images of these two generals painted and pasted on the door, and this custom began to spread widely among the people.

The narrative of Journey to the West is more detailed: King Jinghe committed a crime in order to bet with a calculator, and he should be punished. The Jade Emperor appointed Wei Zhi as the supervisor. King Jinghe pleaded with Emperor Taizong for his life. Emperor Taizong agreed, and when it was time to kill the dragon, he summoned Wei Zhi to play chess with him. Unexpectedly, Wei Zhi took a nap in the rain, and his soul ascended to heaven and beheaded the Dragon King. The Dragon King complained that Taizong had broken his word and cried outside the palace day and night for his life. Emperor Taizong told his ministers that General Qin Baoshu said, "I would like to stand outside in uniform with Wei Chijingde." . Emperor Taizong agreed. There was really nothing that night. Emperor Taizong couldn't bear the hardships of the two generals, and ordered Dan Qing, a highly skilled painter, to draw the true faces of the two generals and stick them on the door.

Later generations followed suit, so the two generals became gatekeepers of thousands of families. Today, on the two doors of some old-fashioned gatehouses, we can still see Shencha, Lei Yu or two warriors. The images look the same, but after careful observation, one of them holds Strafe and the other holds an iron mace. Wei Chijingde is the whip bearer, and Qin Qiong is the scepter bearer. & lt/FONT & gt；