Chinese Popular Religion is a wide spread belief in a multitude of deities, with each community – province, city or village – having its own pantheon of deities which include spirits of national and local worthies and heroes from recorded history as well as heavenly and nature deities. During the Ming and Qing dynasties popular religion images proliferated in temples and on home altars throughout China and were considerably more modest that the imperially and government sanctioned renderings.
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Over the centuries, worship of Buddhist and Taoist deities, ancestor figures, official imperial images, and “popular gods” has been an intricate part of the fabric of Chinese life. This image was not placed on a home altar as it was not consecrated. The intricacy, fineness, selection of materials, and overall quality of the images was…
Tudi Gong is one of the Chinese Earth-Gods referred to by many names including the Land God or Village God and often fondly referred to as “Grandpa.” He is a syncretic deity defined by the blend of Taoism, Buddhism, Popular Religion and Confucian traditions, and as a tutelary deity is responsible for administrating and protecting…
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