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Guan Gong (about 160-2 19) was born in Yuncheng, Shanxi. The famous soldier at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty has been following Liu Bei since he assembled his troops in the village. He is one of the most trusted generals of Liu Bei. After Guan Yu's death, his image was gradually deified by later generations, and he was always the object of folk sacrifice, and was honored as "Guan Gong". Praised and sealed by the court. In the Qing Dynasty, it was regarded as "the portrait of Guan Yu, a loyal and righteous SHEN WOO, showing the great sage of Guan Yu" and "the warrior sage", just like Confucius and Wen Sheng. Guan Yu's deeds are also described in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in which Guan Yu is described as the first of the "Five Tiger Generals" and Mao Zonggang called it "one of the three wonders of Romance". In addition, there was a place called Guan Yu in ancient times, and its exact location is unknown.

For thousands of years, Guan Yu, who combines loyalty, filial piety and righteousness, has a high position in people's hearts. His brave, loyal and faithful image cannot be changed, because he has the conditions to be deified. The belief in Guan Gong began in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. During the Everbright period (AD 567), Guan Gong Temple was first built in Yuquan Mountain, Dangyang County. This is not only the product of the feudal ruling class's praise and applause for Guan Gong, but also the need of people's spiritual life. The ruling class preached Guan Gong's loyalty, filial piety and righteousness from the perspective of feudal morality, which made Guan Gong's belief flourish in a short historical period, mainly in the increase of temples, reaching hundreds of thousands; Guan Gong's title keeps increasing. In the Sui Dynasty, there were many fairy tales about Guan Gong. In the Tang Dynasty, the number of temples of Guan Gong increased, and Guan Gong was often mentioned in the poems or inscriptions of literati, and began to appear at home to hang Guan Gong statues. In the Song Dynasty, it was named as "King of Manifestation", "Loyal King", "True King of Sui and Ning", "King of Tai Lie Wu 'an", "King of Zhuang Mu" and "King of Ying Ji". In the Yuan Dynasty, it was named "King Ying Ji of Wu 'an"; In the eighteenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, it was named "Emperor Xie Tianbao defended the country and was loyal to the country"; In forty-two years, it was named "Yuan Di, the Great Devil of the Three Realms". In the Qing dynasty, the ruling class of the Qing dynasty thought it was Guan Yu's blessing that they could enter the Central Plains. Therefore, the emperor shunzhi specially named Guan Yu as "a loyal minister, SHEN WOO, who led you to be kind and brave, to protect the family and protect the people, and to appease and praise Xuande Guan Sheng the Great". In some places during the Republic of China, Guan Yu and Yue Fei were both enshrined in Wu Temple. Guandi belief involves all walks of life. Some scholars say that the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty was the formation period of Guandi belief; The Song and Yuan Dynasties were a period of development; Ming dynasty prevailed; The Qing Dynasty was in its heyday. Its influence can be compared with Zun Kong. Xu Wei, a great writer in the Ming Dynasty, said in "A Letter to the Han Shu Guanhou Temple": "The former general of Han Shu, the God of Guanhou, is in parallel with my Confucius. However, Confucius in the shrine is only a county, while Hou lives in Kyushu, from the capital to the market. Although there are several fireworks, it is difficult to build a shrine. The portraits are made of bows and knives. Although women and children are enthusiastic, they are afraid of being late. Compared with this matter, Confucius almost went too far. Hey, it's full, too "The national Guandi Temple is a dime a dozen. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there were more than 200 in Beijing alone. Among the people, Guan Yu is Wu Caishen, the god who protects businessmen. It is also said that the Guandi Temple lottery is the most accurate and effective, and many literati are adding fuel to the fire by chanting poems. Now the belief in Guandi has entered a new stage. For the needs of market economy, more and more people at home and abroad worship Guan Caishen. In addition to Taoist temples, there are Buddhist places, commercial places and even houses, where you can see various statues of Guan Gong. It is said that there are 160 Guandi temples in Taiwan Province province. The statue of Guan Yu in Futenma Palace in Houshan, Hsinchu, together with the pedestal, is as high as forty or fifty meters. Most places where there are overseas Chinese are for the emperor, who is a symbol of loyalty, a protector of the country and a god of wealth.