Door gods are divided into three categories:
The first is the "door god", which is often attached to the door or the whole door. It is about four or five feet high and two or three feet wide.
The second kind is the "door keeper", which is attached to the small street door, about two feet high and one foot wide. These two door gods are two gods with a black face and a white face. White left black right, white easy, black evil, each holding a slap in the face.
The third category is the "gatekeeper", which is a little smaller and more limited than the street keeper. It is also a black and white Er Shen, but there are also two black and white statues sitting like statues. At most, there is a picture of "Kirin sending a child" posted on the door, and there are two plump pink dolls with comb crowns, each riding a unicorn. This kind of door god should have been stuck on the wedding door for good luck, and later it was also used as a New Year decoration for ordinary street doors.
There are many door gods in houses all over the country, especially Beijing, which is the first good cultural area. Door-keeper is one of the most popular gods in China and Beijing. Its long history, wide spread and variety are the most prominent among folk gods. Only the book of door gods standing proudly on the doors of thousands of households in Beijing in the old days was recorded in the back.
1. Ghostbusters are mostly Shen Tu and Lei Yu, Golden Rooster and Tiger. Legend has it that there is a big peach tree in Taoyudu Mountain, which bends three thousand miles. There is a golden rooster at the top, and Er Shen at the bottom, with jade on one side and thunder on the other, holding a reed rope to guard the ominous ghost bird. This is Jiang Dan, the golden rooster in Rizhao. The rooster crows loudly. So all the chickens in the world heard it, and the golden rooster flew down and ate all the evil spirits. Ghosts were afraid of the golden rooster, and they all left, and the world was safe. What's more, after catching the ghost, Lei Yu tied a reed rope and held a tiger. In the old days, after the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, Beijingers put up door gods, decorated peaches, hung reeds and painted tigers on the doors, and put two lights on the left and right of the doors to symbolize the tiger's eyes, so as to drive away ominous, evil and ghosts.
Second, the door god for praying is not the protector of the portal, but is used for praying. The central figure is Fu Tianguan. There are also bangs, golden toad, lucky boy and little god of wealth. Most of the families of worshippers and posters are business people, hoping for fame and fortune, deer and bats being happy, and BMW bottles and saddles praying from the door gods, all of which are different in order to welcome auspicious events.
Third, the Taoist door gods were not posted in Beijing folk houses, but found in the Jingdao Temple. There are two gods in the gate. On the left is Qinglong Alina Zhang Shen Jun, and on the right is White Tiger prisoner Shen Jun.
Fourth, the military commander's door god, the military commander's door god is generally posted on the door facing the street. In order to prevent demons or disasters from entering the gate, the door gods provided are mostly armed. Such as: sword, spear, halberd, axe, fork, whip, hammer, hammer, claw, kidnapper, meteor, etc. The door gods of military commanders at the entrance of Beijing residents' courtyard are mostly Tang Dynasty famous Qin Qiong and Weichi Gong. Also known as Qin, a native of Licheng, Shandong Province, is good at martial arts. He is known as: Sai Zhuan Xu, like Meng Changjun, Shenquan Taibao, General with Double Hammer, hammering the Sixth Hospital of Shandong and galloping across the Yellow River. Weichi Gong, a general of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, was skilled in martial arts. He occupied three cities during the day and eight villages at night, which made him a duke of Hubei. After Qin and Wei Chi helped to establish the Tang Dynasty, why did they still serve as folk door gods when they were named the founding fathers?