Old Shengjing people, as long as they talk about the City God's Temple, the first thing most people think of is the City God's Temple in Fengtian.
The history of this temple is hundreds of years older than that of Shengjing City. According to the old man’s ancient story, the City God’s Temple was built as early as the Liao and Jin Dynasties. I heard that during the Jingkang Rebellion at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin State escorted the Northern Song Dynasty’s clan northward, and there was also a temple near the City God’s Temple. Set up camp.
Later, during the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, the war reached Shengjing, and the City God was razed to the ground. The City God’s Temple we see now was actually rebuilt by the Zhu Dynasty. Emperors of the Hongwu, Hongzhi, and Jiajing dynasties built the City God’s Temple larger and larger, and gradually transformed it from a small temple to a small one. It turns into a complex of City God buildings!
At that time, they were just ordinary City God's temples. At the end of the Zhu Dynasty, after Huang Taiji was established, the Jin Dynasty set the capital in Shengjing, and then upgraded the City God's Temple to the Capital City God's Temple. Since then, the status of the City God's Temple has been determined to be the highest level sacrificial temple. View.
Even if the previous dynasty entered the pass and made the capital the capital, it did not downgrade the Chenghuang Temple in Shengjing. Instead, it upgraded the Chenghuang Temple in the capital to the same status and was called the Chenghuang Temple at the same time. It was only distinguished by adding Jingshi or Shengjing in front.
This City God's Temple is located near the Drum Tower on Siping Street, adjacent to the Shengjing Palace. It is surrounded by squares and is divided into front and rear courtyards and main side halls according to the central axis. It enshrines the Earth God, the God of Wealth, Wenquxing, Wuquxing, Bodhisattva, Heaven and Earth Officials, and Human Officials. Waiting for the primary and secondary gods, I heard that incense is very powerful. If many people want to obtain fame, seek fortune, and relieve their illnesses, most of them are willing to come here to pray to gods, worship Buddha, and offer incense to add oil.
Not only among the people, since the reign of Zhu Ming Dynasty, the City God's Temple has been one of the three official sacrifices. During the New Year's Day, the court would send people to kneel three times and worship nine times to pray for blessings, rain and endless feasts.
With the support of the government and private believers, over the years, the gates and courtyards of the City God's Temple are as bustling as the city. It is not bad at ordinary times. On Lantern Festival, New Year's Eve, and the Qingming Festival, the street of lanterns and flowers in the City God's Temple can stretch to the north gate.
At this time, strong men will carry the priests through the Flower Street according to custom, and finally stop at the prosperous Siping Street to accept offerings from the people and officials, and then detour back to the City God Temple, in order to ask the City God to inspect the world and bless the world. All living beings.
From then on, the streets and alleys near the Chenghuang Temple began to form a wild market around the temple. At its peak, there were nine rows and sixteen markets, selling fruits and dry goods, flowers, birds, insects, fish, furs and clothes, cattle and horses, vegetables, gold, silver, copper and iron, and imported foreign goods.
Later, after Shengjing was opened as a port, warlords from all walks of life smelled the money from opening the port and continued to expand commercial roads and build commercial buildings on Siping Street. The shops originally surrounding the Chenghuang Temple were all moved to various alleys near Siping Street. .
At present, there is still a wild market near the temple fair, where only flavored snacks are left. Then there are street performers, jugglers begging for money, personal items for sale, and antiques. People often come here to try their luck. Maybe they will become rich by picking up the missing items. People who buy things on Siping Street often go around the Town God's Temple to enjoy the excitement and freshness.
Of course, these are just the City God Temple during the day!
With day and night as the dividing line, once the shops close at night, lanterns will be lit again near the Chenghuang Temple. However, most of these lanterns are white and have Yin characters hanging on them.
At this time, the City God's Temple is no longer a place for praying to gods and Buddhas, but has become a wild temple for worshiping ghosts and praying for monsters. After midnight, many people will find the tunnel near the City God's Temple.
Once you enter the tunnel, even if you arrive at the Ghost Tower in the Yin City, the laws of the human world will no longer apply.
Things in the Yang world are sold in the Yang world, but things in the underworld are not messed with.
Anyone who is doing serious business wants to open a shop openly and welcome visitors from all directions. However, there are also some people who are engaged in secret business and specialize in making money from outsiders. These people are a mixed bag, and the things they sell are often not high-quality. On the countertop, we can only use the underground as a cover to sell off quietly in the dark.
Human skin map, skull lacquerware, panacea, wild fairy statue, magic weapon and evil object, talisman and seal pendant, secret arts of Jianghu, unique evil book, monkey slave and cat servant, yin and yang pawn, searching for people and asking questions, trance divination, magic pressure Victory, witches and bewitched women, antiques, stolen goods and hired murderers... Most of the things with a bit of evil can be found here.
There is a saying that birds of a feather flock together, bees fly around flowers, and flies burrow around smelly meat. Anyone who can come here will catch ten of them, and nine of them have ulterior motives.
People visiting the City God's Temple, as well as ordinary people living their daily lives, all come to this place. There are all kinds of serious religions, nine streams, and all kinds of people, all with the idea of taking advantage of the side.
As the saying goes, Taoism uses Confucianism to disrupt the law, and chivalrous people use martial arts to violate the prohibition. People here travel between the rivers, lakes and the underworld, which is even more difficult to manage. When you get here, you are like entering a den of thieves.
I heard that someone dug up the tomb of a certain imperial concubine in Dongling. The government sent General Sheng Jing to arrest it for a long time but could not find it. I heard the Master said that he escaped into the ghost tower of Yin City. At the end of the previous dynasty, chaos broke out in Fengtian, and there were many people in the city. There are children from poor families missing.
After a long investigation by the Fengtian Security Bureau, they found out that they had been taken advantage of by people from the Yin City and sold to a vaudeville troupe as apprentices. Or, even more sinisterly, they had cut off the ears of raw animals, broken their arms, legs and feet to become beggars, or even made them into Made livestock cats and dogs.
