Just as Europeans think that Zeus, the great god, lives on the Olympic Mountain, so China people who lived in the Central Plains in ancient times also think that God lives on the mountain, and the biggest God lives on the highest mountain. In the Central Plains, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea on one side, the highest mountain in the densely populated area between the Yellow River and Jishui is Mount Tai. In fact, Mount Tai was originally named Dashan, the highest mountain. With the expansion of people's horizons and knowing that it is not the biggest mountain, it is written as Mount Tai or Mount Tai as a difference. Records of the Historian: A Book of Zen Buddhism records the worship of Ba Shen in Qi State: heaven, earth, soldiers, yin, yang, sun, moon and four o'clock, in which the God is in Tianqi Garden, the capital of Qi State, and the landlord is in Mount Tai. It shows that Mount Tai is the residence of the God of the Earth.
There is no word "Five Mountains" in the ancient books of pre-Qin Dynasty (although it exists in Zhou Li, its books are unreliable). Shun Dian, written in the Warring States Period, once said that Shun visited four mountains in four seasons, but did not name them. The only one who pointed out the name of the mountain was Dai Zong. It is said that when Shun traveled eastward in February, as for Daizong, a ceremony of burning firewood was held. It can be seen that only Daizong-Taishan was regarded as the only holy mountain at that time. Why pay homage to Mount Tai? In the thirty-first year of Gong, the biography of the Spring and Autumn Ram said, "Do you want to sacrifice the rivers and seas of Mount Tai?" There are mountains and rivers that can cover hundreds of miles, and the emperor ranks for sacrifice. Touching the stone, the skin is close to each other, and it doesn't worship the DPRK when it rains, only Taishan II. Rivers and seas are thousands of miles away. " It is said that the Yellow River and the East China Sea can run for thousands of miles, and ordinary mountains and rivers can only run for hundreds of miles, but the clouds and rain on Mount Tai can nourish the world. The ancients often personified the power of nature. Mount Tai is said to be the grandson of the Emperor of Heaven-Tiansun. Later, a mirror of the immortals of past dynasties also said that his name was Hotan, the son of Pangu. Tang Dynasty named him King of Tianqi, Song Dynasty named him Emperor of Tianqi Rensheng, and Yuan Dynasty named him Emperor of Tianqi Shengdaren Shengsheng. His wife, Queen Shu Ming of the Song Dynasty, has five sons and one daughter. The third son, especially the folk belief, is called "Mount Tai Saburo". In the later Tang Dynasty, Mingzong specially named him a general, and in the Song Dynasty, he was named a duke. His eldest brother was Ling Hou, his second brother Hui Ling Hou, his fourth brother was said to be a Buddhist at home, and he was named Master of Fine Sword and his fifth brother Xuan Ling Hou. However, there is a story of Qilang in the Collection of Strange Tales of Different Records in the Southern Dynasties. There is also a daughter of Mount Tai. According to the Jin Dynasty Natural History, she married Xihai and became the wife of Xihai prodigy. According to Legend of God, Taishan women marry Hebo women. According to Roy's biography, the grandson of Mount Tai became the Emperor of Heaven again, of course, the son of the goddess Mount Tai. There are different opinions about the blood relationship and even the name of Mount Tai God, so I won't list them here.
Taishan God is also very powerful. According to the biography of the ram, he can make clouds cause rain all over the world. Yi Tong, a custom in the Han Dynasty, said: Mount Tai is revered as the ancestor of A Dai. "The ancestors are also long, and everything begins, and Yin and Yang explain it, so it is the length of the five mountains." Earlier, I said in White Tiger Yi Tong: "If your majesty changes his surname, he will be promoted to Mount Tai. Why? The meaning of the report is also. " "So will be in mount tai? Everything is difficult at the beginning, and there are explanations. " Therefore, Mount Tai governs Yin and Yang, and life and death change. Therefore, emperors of all ages have to go to Mount Tai to worship Zen and report to heaven. At the same time, Yi Tong Customs also said that "generations have a golden jade policy, so we can know the length of life", and Natural History quoted "filial piety helps the gods" and also said: "Mount Tai, the grandson of God, calls people's souls. From the beginning of everything in the East, we know the length of human life. " Mount Tai holds the power of human life and death. It has been recorded in many documents since the Han Dynasty that the soul will return to Mount Tai after death. For example, "When China people die, the clouds and souls return to Daishan". (Biography of Wu Huan in the Later Han Dynasty) Serina Liu gave Cao Pishi a gift, saying, "I am always afraid to visit Daizong and never see my old friend again." The vouchers unearthed from tombs in the Eastern Han Dynasty often say, "The living return to Chang 'an in the west and the dead return to Mount Tai". After Buddhism prevailed in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the myth of Yan Luowang, the god of hell in Indian folklore, was also introduced and combined with Taishan's theory of treating ghosts. Even when translating Buddhist scriptures, the word "hell" is translated with "Mount Tai". For example, Wu Zhiqian's "Eight Ji Mantra" says: "Mount Tai is a hell. "At the foot of Mount Tai, Li Haoshan also built an eighteen-story temple of hell. There is a river nearby called Naihe, which has the same name as the river in China Buddhist hell. There are so-called seventy-five divisions (some are seventy-two divisions) in Dongyue Temple and other places in Beijing. More counties and cities have carved statues of ghost judges in the Chenghuang Temple. Folks say that after death, people go to the local Chenghuang Temple for a preliminary examination and then hand it over to the Emperor Dongyue. Some people even think that Yan Luowang should also be under the jurisdiction of Mount Tai.
In a word, Taishan God has many functions, and each generation has its own emphasis. In ancient times, it was the master of the earth, which made clouds cause rain and benefited everything. After death, the soul will return to Mount Tai. During the Warring States Period, the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements prevailed, and Mount Tai became a meditation mountain where emperors changed dynasties and the world was ruled and made contributions to heaven. After the Han dynasty, it combined with the legend of hell in India and became the supreme master of the underworld. As the God of Mount Tai, the Emperor of Heaven, the Emperor of Qi, Ren and Da, his authority remained very stable until the early Song Dynasty. Unexpectedly, I came out on the way. Suddenly, after a weak goddess came out, it was a presumptuous guest usurps the host's role, making a good man believe in a woman "Mount Tai" and only have one eye for Bi Xia and Yuan Jun.