Who is the Great Emperor Wuxian?

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Wuxian Emperor is a god

It is also called Five Saints Emperor, Wutong Emperor, Huaguang Bodhisattva, etc. In Hakka folk custom, he It is from gods to humans, and from humans to gods and gods. Legend has it that the Jade Emperor named him the "Emperor with the Jade Seal of the Best Good King among the Buddhas" and kept him in the middle realm forever. From then on, all people admired him. He asked for boys and girls, and he got girls. Businessmen went out to make profits, scholars were named on the gold list, and farmers Those who have good harvests will have abundant harvests and will receive whatever they ask for. In rural areas of Xunwu County, Jiangxi Province, a grand temple fair is held every year on the 28th day of the ninth lunar month, the birthday of Emperor Wuxian, to celebrate his birthday and pray for good weather and good crops. In Yongding County in western Fujian, Emperor Wuxian is the God of Wealth, especially winning the pious worship of cigarette merchants. On the first and fifteenth day of every lunar month, cigarette merchants go to the "Wuxian Temple" located at the south gate to burn incense and make offerings. Every year from the fifteenth to the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, the four major gates of the east, west, north and south welcome the Wuxian Emperor for one day each. After Emperor Wuxian returned to the temple, Yan Shang Ding quickly picked up the "five animals" (chicken, duck, fish, pork, beef), incense, candles and paper cannons and rushed to the temple to offer sacrifices.

Introduction to the Wuxian Emperor

It is also called the Five Saints Emperor, the Wutong Emperor, the Huaguang Bodhisattva, etc. In Hakka folk customs, he evolved from gods to humans, and from humans to gods and gods. gods. Legend has it that the Jade Emperor named him the "Emperor with the Jade Seal of the Best Good King among the Buddhas" and kept him in the middle realm forever. From then on, all people admired him. He asked for boys and girls, and he got girls. Businessmen went out to make profits, scholars were named on the gold list, and farmers Those who have good harvests will have abundant harvests and will receive whatever they ask for. In Wutong Palace of Xiage Town, a grand temple fair (acting) is held every year on the 28th day of the ninth lunar month, the birthday of Emperor Wuxian, to wish him birthday and pray for good weather and ripe crops.

Introduction to Xiuzhuan Kaiyuan Academy in Zhao'an

"Kaiyuan Academy" is located in Huangwuba, Huantang Village, Xiuzhuan Town, Zhao'an County. Kaiyuan Yuan was built in the Longwu period of the Ming Dynasty. It was the guardian courtyard of the Xiuzhuan Huang family and was dedicated to the Wuxian Emperor. The original building of Kaiyuan Yuan consists of a gatehouse, a front hall, a patio in the middle, and a main hall in the upper hall. There is a wing room through the door on the right, and it is built with an earth-and-wood bracket structure. The entrance hall is three rooms wide and two rooms deep. The main hall is 20 meters wide. The hall is made of round and square logs and stone pillars, with bluestone drum-shaped pillar bases underneath and stone reliefs on the door pillows. The roof is cut and glued. The inner hall has murals such as Eighteen Levels of Hell and Twenty-Four Filial Piety. The outer wall is decorated with four King Kongs, whose eyes are lifelike. The "Jian Xia Bi" section of Xiushui flows eastward in front of the door, and the Xiuzhuan Huang Family Ancestral Hall is to the west.

Introduction to Xiage Wutong Palace

Wutong Palace is located on the bank of Dongxi River at the foot of Jilong Mountain in Wutong Village, Xiage Town, where Hakka people live in Zhao'an County. It was built in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty and has a history of 601 years. It is an ancient building that retains the architectural features of the Tang and Song Dynasties. It is reported that the incense of Emperor Wuxian enshrined in more than 50 Five Elements Palace and Wuxian Palace in Taiwan are all introduced from Wutong Palace in Zhao'an.

Historical records:

The Five Manifestations of the Spiritual Official, also known as the Great Emperor Lingguan, is the god worshiped by Taoist shamans; Buddhist books refer to it as "Huaguang Tathagata", commonly known as "Five Gongs" Bodhisattva". Lihai gathered clouds: "September 28th is the birthday of the Five Manifestations. The gold cover is the mother of qi. The Five Manifestations are the transformation of the five elements and the five qi." He also said: "The Five Elements Great Emperor, according to custom, is the Qing Emperor of the East and the Red Emperor of the South. Emperor, White Emperor of the West, Black Emperor of the North, and Yellow Emperor of the Central Region"

The Origin of the Five-Xian Emperor's Fierce Eyes

The Five-Xian Emperor, also known as the Birthday of the Huaguang Emperor, the full name is the Five-Xian Huaguang Emperor birth. The birthday is on the 28th day of the ninth lunar month. Legend has it that Emperor Huaguang is the god of fire and has three eyes, so he is also called the Three-Eyed Huaguang. He likes to play with fire. Once, because he was playing with fire, the Jade Emperor's Jiulong Dun was burned down. The Jade Emperor was so angry that he ordered him to descend from heaven to earth on the first day of August every year. Every year during the eighth and ninth lunar months, the weather is dry and fires are prone to occur; on the day of Huaguang's birthday, that is, the day when the ritual ceremony ends, residents bundle flammable charcoal, paper scraps, etc. into handfuls and place them at the door, and wizards and monks collect them from house to house. , concentrated on paper boats, and threw them into the rivers and seas to burn, which was called "fire-sending boats". At that time, every household will visit the Huaguang Emperor Temple, the God of Fire, to offer firewood, rice, oil, salt, ingots, incense, etc. to pray for a safe year. There are also a series of celebrations on the day. The statue of the Five-Hand Emperor is enshrined, while the Wutong Palace performs plays to reward the gods.

Currently, Guangdong, Taiwan, Macau, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places enshrine the Five Hsien Emperors. On the 28th day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, the customs of visiting and celebrating the birth of Emperor Wuxian are basically the same.

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