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Fukurokuju, Japanese god derived from "Shou" deity of Sanxing; He-He Er Xian (和合二仙), Immortals of Harmony and Union, associated with happy marriages; Seven Lucky Gods, similar group of Japanese auspicious deities; Tai Sui (太歲)—60 Heavenly Officials who will be in charge of each year during the Chinese sixty-year cycle; Wufang Shangdi
Caishen (traditional Chinese: 財神; simplified Chinese: 财神; lit. 'God of Wealth') is the mythological figure worshipped in the Chinese folk religion and Taoism . He has been identified with many historical figures, viewed as his embodied forms, among whom Zhao Gongming ( 趙公明 , Wade–Giles : Chao Kung-ming ; also known as Zhao Gong ...
The Chinese idea of the universal God is expressed in different ways. There are many names of God from the different sources of Chinese tradition. [17] The radical Chinese terms for the universal God are Tian (天) and Shangdi (上帝, "Highest Deity") or simply, Dì (帝, "Deity"). [18] [19] There is also the concept of Tàidì (太帝, "Great ...
During the Han Dynasty, the Daoist book Record of Canonical Texts (典籍實錄) states that Zhao Gongming is the 'essence of the sun'. [8]During the Jin Dynasty, the Records of the Search for Spirits (搜神記) recorded: "The Heavenly Emperor appointed three generals, Zhao Gongming and Zhong Shiji, each to supervise the subjugation of spirits and the retrieval of human souls".
Along with Chinese folklore, Chinese mythology forms an important part of Chinese folk religion (Yang et al 2005, 4). Many stories regarding characters and events of the distant past have a double tradition: ones which present a more historicized or euhemerized version and ones which presents a more mythological version (Yang et al 2005, 12–13).
He is the god of wisdom, luck, longevity, wealth and happiness. This god receives certain credits, such as being one of the Chinese philosophers who could live without eating (breatharian). Moreover, he is the only god who was said to have the ability to resurrect the dead.
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Longevity is commonly recognized as one of the Five Blessings (wǔfú 五福 – longevity, wealth, health, love of virtue, a peaceful death) of Chinese belief [3] that are often depicted in the homophonous rendition of five flying bats because the word for "bat" in Chinese (fú 蝠) sounds like the word for "good fortune" or "happiness" (fú ...