In China, it is a Xi to invite the God of Wealth, believing that the God of Wealth can bring blessings and wealth. The five main gods of wealth are Bigan, the god of wealth on the east road, Chai Wangye, the god of wealth on the south road, Guan Yu, the god of wealth on the west road, Zhao Gongming, the god of wealth on the north road, and Wang Hai, the god of wealth on the middle road.
1. Take charge of the financial resources of the East Road.
Bigan was the second son of Taiding of the Shang Dynasty and one of the three loyal ministers of the Yin Shang. At the age of 20, he became a Taishi and assisted the emperor at that time. He was loyal to the country, asked for the people's life, and dared to give direct advice. Later, because the king listened to the slander, he dug out his heart. In the "Fengshen List", he was named "Wenqu Xingjun". Because he had no heart, he treated everyone and everything equally, and was honest and trustworthy, so he was given the responsibility of managing the wealth of the world and became the god of wealth.
2. Guan Yu, who is in charge of the financial resources of the West Road.
Guan Yu, commonly known as "Guan Gong", was one of the five tiger generals of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Jin merchants dominated the world, and they often helped each other to make a fortune together. Because Guan Yu is a celebrity in Shanxi, so Jin merchants all over the country have built a Guandi temple in different regions, and the people of the whole country also follow the trend to the Guandi temple to incense and make wishes, and over time Guan Yu is worshiped as the god of wealth by the people. Because Guan Yu is the general of Xishu, he is in charge of the financial resources of the West Road.
3. Take charge of Chai Rong, the financial source of South Road.
Five generations later, Zhou Shizong Chai Rong, commonly known as "Chai Wangye", was named Tiancai Xingjun. When he was a child, his family was in the middle of the road, and in order to subsidize his family, he went out to do business, and he was quite business-minded. After Chai Rong inherited the throne, he loved the people like a son, and he commissioned craftsmen to sculpt statues of farmers and peasant women in the palace and set them up in the palace, always reminding himself not to forget the suffering of the people. Since the Song and Yuan dynasties, Chai Rong has been worshiped as the god of wealth by the people of the Central Plains, and is also the protector of potters, builders and transportation. Because Chai Rong made a fortune pushing a small truck all the way south when he was a teenager, he was in charge of the financial resources of the south road.
4. Zhao Gongming, who is in charge of the financial resources of North Road.
Zhao Gongming, also known as "Marshal Zhao Gong". The earliest records of the myth of Zhao Gongming began during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, but at that time his role was not to be in charge of the fortunes of the world, but one of the five plague gods. The legendary Zhao Gongming has a black face and a thick beard, wears armor, rides a black tiger, and holds a silver whip and ingots in both hands. In the Ming Dynasty's ** "Romance of the Gods", Jiang Taigong named him the god of martial arts. Legend has it that Zhao Gongming was born in the north of the Central Plains, so he was in charge of the financial resources of the North Road.
5. Wang Hai, who is in charge of the middle road financial source.
Wang Hai, according to legend, was the seventh monarch of the Shang Kingdom of the Xia Dynasty. He helped his father manage the floods, invented the ox cart, and encouraged people to use the ox cart to pull goods out to trade. Because most of the people engaged in this kind of trade at that time were people from the merchant country, people called those who engaged in ** "merchants". It can be said that Wang Hai opened up a precedent for Chinese commerce, so he is known as the "ancestor of Chinese businessmen" and "the god of wealth in the middle road". Ancestor Wang Hai was named the god in charge of the financial resources of the middle road.