the three senses

In the Taoist god system, there are several gods that appeared earlier than the three gods of the Qing Dynasty and have a very high divine rank, and the three gods of heaven, earth and water are one of them, which are the earliest deities worshipped by Taoism, and are also known as the “Three Gods of the Three Gods”, the “Three Gods of the Three Elements”, and the “Three Gods of the Three Gods”. It is also known as “San Guan Da Di Di”, “San Yuan Da Di”, and “San Guan Di Jun”.
The belief in San Guan Da Di originated from the ancient Chinese ancestor’s natural worship of heaven, earth and water. In the primitive era, the sky, the earth, water is people’s production, the necessary conditions of life, without them, human beings can not survive and life, so people are always in awe of the heart, pious worship. Such as “ritual – Haji ritual”: “burnt wood for the sky, sacrificed to the mountains and rivers, sacrificed to the mountains and rivers, sacrificed to sink, sacrificed to the earth Dizhi.” Its note burnt wood for: “rise, sinking, and Dizhi” rituals, is the son of heaven. In the country to perform the same rituals and the alliance of the vassals of the gods also,
Jin Dynasty Fu Jian and Qiang Yao carambola believe in the “three officials”, the Tang Nanzhao Wang Yi Mouxun and the Tang envoys to make an alliance, the “alliance text” began to “on the invitation of the sky, the earth, the three officials of the water, the five yue and four blasphemies, and management of the rivers and valleys of all the deities with the invitation to come down, and forever as evidence.
In the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, the eunuchs and foreign relatives dominated the countryside and the people were in darkness, the people were in deep disaster, and the resistance was fierce, so Zhang Ling, a native of Fengyi, Pei Province (present-day Fengxian, Jiangsu Province), gave up his official duties and went to Sichuan, where he studied Taoism at Mount Heming (present-day Dayi County, Sichuan Province), and set up a folk primitive religious beliefs, and wrote a book of Taoism, which was the original Tao of Witchcraft of the local ethnic groups, and created the Way of the Wudoumidao (Five-doumei Tao). Because of its initial main Taoist prayer and Jiuyu ghosts, and to charm the water for people to cure the disease, so it is known as the Taoist talisman school, but also because of the Taoists honored Zhang Ling as a heavenly master, so the five-doumei Tao later also known as “heavenly masters Tao”. On the one hand, Wudoumidao honored Laozi as the ancestor of the religion, and taught Laozi’s Tao Te Ching by offering wine; on the other hand, it took heaven, earth and water as the three officials, believing that they were able to communicate with ghosts and gods, and were in charge of praying for the patients. Prayer method is mainly found in the “Three Kingdoms Zhi-Zhang Lu biography” note quoted in the ‘canonical’ book said: “write the patient’s name, persuade the meaning of the crime, for the three passes, one of which is on the sky, on the mountain, one of which is buried in the ground; one of which is immersed in the water, known as the Three Officials handwritten.” It was believed that the three officials could bestow blessings, heave sins, and relieve jinxes, i.e., the heavenly official bestowed blessings, the earthly official healed sins, and the water official relieved jinxes. Later, when Luo Guanzhong of the Ming Dynasty introduced the Tai Shou Zhang Lu in the 59th item of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he recounted in detail that his ancestor, Zhang Ling, preached about the Three Officials’ veneration. Since then, this belief has been prevalent until the Tang Dynasty. 1982 May, in Henan Songshan found on the top of the Tang Wu Zetian when a pass of gold Jane, the cellar that is begging for the “three officials nine House”, for Wu Zetian against the crime of praying for blessings. This is the one on the sky, the mountain “please pray for the law” of the evidence. There is another saying that the three officials for the gold, earth, water three officials, “ancient and modern book integration – Shen Yi Dian” Volume 46 cited “Li Mei set” said: “gold for the birth of, wait for the earth gas, earth into, wait for the earth gas, water for the chemical, wait for the water gas. …… Therefore, it is also said that the three officials.” If its specificity is to guard the door of the sky Tang, Ge, Zhou three generals, according to “casting Ding Yu wen” records: three official club Zhou Yu Wang Jian giant, the number of the three generals of the sky door, after death for the God, more temples around. It is also said that the three generals refers to Yao, Shun, Yu, “Gods and Immortals Through the Ages” Yun Yuanshi Tianzun: “the body to fly to the Taixu Pole, take the beginning of the Yang nine gas, in the nine earth hole Yang, take the seven gas of the Qingxu, but also in the hole in the Yang wind and Ze, take the morning Hao five gas, the total inhalation of the mouth, and the Sanjiao stage in one place. Nine nine of the period, the feeling of which is integrated into the platform through, forming a spiritual body of the Sacred Body. Just as the thunder of the moon in spring and January, the baby was spat out from the mouth, and the appearance was bright. And in the fall of January, the day of hope, and winter of January, the night of hope, and again spit out two sons.” These three sons were Yao, Shun, and Yu, “all of whom are the greatest achievements of heaven and earth, and the teachers of the world.” Later on, Yao, Shun and Yu, who were transformed into the three sons by Yuan Shi Tian Zun, were honored as the “Three Great Emperors of Heaven and Earth”.
In the Northern Wei Dynasty, Kou Qianzhi reformed the Way of the Heavenly Master, cleaned up the “Three False Laws”, so the three officials and the Sanyuan phase conjunction stage. Ancient and Modern Books – Divine Difference“ Volume 46 quoted ”Li Mei set“ on: ”cover the weather Lord birth, the earth’s gas Lord into the water gas Lord, with the Division in the three worlds. And the three times of the month of hope waiting for the. …… three yuan just three return to the Palace, so it is also called the three officials.” Therefore, the first month 15 of the clothing calendar for the upper yuan, July 15 for the middle yuan, October 15 for the lower yuan. “too on the said XuanTian DaShengZhenWuBenChuanShenYangMiaoShingJing Note” Volume 1 “cause and effect of the scripture”: “on the first day of the first month 15 on the first yuan palace main nine air blessing heavenly official ZiWeiDaDi then, with the down to earth, school conviction of blessing; July 15 in the first yuan palace main two seven air he crime on the ground official QingXuDaDi then with the day on the earth, the school of crime and blessing; October 15, the second yuan palace main three five air relief water official Fusheng At the same time, Liu Song Lu Xiu Jing also has “three officials, life, death, suffering from the Ming Fa Cao” said. And also with the “three Qing realm phase” combination, “the beginning of the immeasurable person on the wonderful sutra four notes” volume two “three yuan product commandment sutra”: “the upper yuan heavenly officials attached to the jade Qing realm, the knot of green, yellow, white three gas, set the upper yuan three palaces, which the palace name of the yuan-yang seven jewels purple emblem palace, the total master of the upper true nature jade void high emperor, the gods on the holy gods of all the heavenly emperor. The general master of the palace was the Emperor of the Jade Void and the gods of the heavens. In the middle of the second grade earth officer attached to the Qing realm, the knot hole in the mixed spirit of the gas, condensation of the yellow of the clear and become, the Palace of which the name of the hole spirit of the Qingxu Palace, the total master of the five emperors and five mountains of the real people and the gods and goddesses who have been preached to. Lower Yuan third grade water official attached to the realm of Taiqing, knot wind and Ze gas, condensing the essence of the morning Hao into, which the Palace number Yang vulgar hole spring Palace, a said Qinghua Fangzhu Palace, the total water emperor Yang Valley God King, the nine rivers and the water government of the Hebo gods, the water of the gods and the book of the book of immortal talismans.” Also and the Taoist Yuanqi said combination, “cloud book seven Xi” volume 56: “After the stick chaos, there are heaven and earth, water, three yuan of gas, generating human life, long raise all things.
At the same time, the “Record of the Re-enforcement of the Authorization of the Gods” and the “Complete Book of the Three Professors of the Gods” also contain detailed records of the chronology of the Three Officials, their divine offices, and the objects and scope of their jurisdiction. According to the book, Chen Zi Prayer and the three women of the Dragon King married themselves as a room and gave birth to three sons, who grew up to be adults, all of them had great magical powers, boundless magical powers and infinite manifestations. So the first heavenly father sealed the oldest for the upper yuan one grade nine gas heavenly official Zi Wei Da Di, that is, the birth of the symbol of the beginning of the sun’s gas into the real, live in xuandu yuan yang seven jewels of Zi Wei on the palace, the total master of the heavenly emperor god king on the holy real and three Luo Wanxiang Tianjun, the seal of the oldest for the middle yuan two grades of the seven gas earth official Qingxu Da Di, live in the nine earth without the world of intimidation of the empty Qingxu of the palace, the total master of the five yue emperor and the twenty-four rule of the mountain, the nine land earth emperor, the four dimensions of the eight extreme god king; sealing of the oldest three for the lower yuan The third grade of the five qi water official Dong Yin Da Di, living in the Golden Spirit Chang Le Palace, the general master of the nine rivers and water emperor, the four blasphemies, twelve streams of real and three rivers and four plums of the God. It is also said that on the day of the Three Elements, the Three Officials come to the altar in person to examine the ascension of the immortals, human qualities, and the birth of all kinds of creatures in the ten lands of the world. The Heavenly Official who gives blessings to the Emperor Zi Wei, the Earthly Official who pardons sins to the Emperor Qing Ling, and the Water Official who solves the problems of the Yong Gu (暘谷), are the supreme deities in the world of the gods and spirits.
The birthdays of the three gods are known as Sanyuan Day, which has been a major celebration of Taoism since the Tang and Song dynasties. Tang Dynasty Sanyuan Festival by the emperor under the edict of the world’s states prohibit slaughter for three days, “so that the people are the day to stop slaughtering fishing and hunting”. Since the heavenly official was named the blessed Ziwei Emperor, the people regarded him as the “God of Fortune”, alongside the two gods of fortune and longevity. As for the scope of the duties of the three gods, after the Song and Ming Dynasties and since the establishment of the three Qing four Imperial, and narrowed, generally considered to be in charge of the earth’s misfortunes and blessings, the gods of the heavens transfer, the cycle of life and death and other things, but folk beliefs are still very common. Since the Ming Dynasty, there are many three official halls, three official halls, Sanyuan nunnery, three official temples and so on. Every Sanyuan Festival, people have to go to the temple to worship the three officials, confess their sins and pray for blessings and disasters. At that time, people who believed in Sanguan had to abstain from meat and eat vegetarian food, which was called “Sanguan Vegetarian”. During the Qing Dynasty, the belief in the three officials was more common, and there were many different kinds of paintings of the “Heavenly Officials” and the “Minshi Paintings”. The painting of the heavenly officials, dressed in red official uniforms, dragon robe and jade belt. Hand holding a ruyi, five locks of gnarled beard, the face of the cellar, a graceful and luxurious temperament. In some pictures, the heavenly officials also kindly carry five children, five children holding peaches, pomegranates, Buddha’s hand, spring plums and lucky carp lamps. In the past, people used to put up this kind of New Year’s paintings every New Year, in order to pray for Tianguan’s blessing and longevity. Sometimes, Tianguan was also regarded as the god of wealth. Qing Dynasty popular a “blessed God of Fortune”, the figure in the middle of the heavenly officials sitting in the hands of Ruyi on top of the Yuanbao, Jinshan, Silver Mountain, flowers, clouds and dragons and a large ‘Fortune’ on the top of the display, the treasure bowl, holding the “daily wealth” flag of the child The treasure bowl and the child holding the flag of “Daily Prosperity” are located at the bottom; the two immortals of Harmony and the Immortal Officials of Inviting Prosperity and Profit are standing on both sides of the painting. The painting is full of blessings and wealth, expressing people’s desire for heavenly officials to bestow blessings and the God of Wealth to send wealth to the rich ideal of life. In recent times, the heavenly officials and the staff outside the Meilang (table official Lu), the South Pole Immortal Weng called the three stars of fortune, fortune and longevity. In the old days, the lunar new year, three-star charts are often hung in the hall, symbolizing the “three stars in the household”, showing that more blessings, more life, celebrations at the door. Reflects the common psychology of the pursuit of good fortune and happiness. Nowadays, “three stars” images and “three stars” handicrafts have entered thousands of households and become popular decorations. Nowadays, in the temples in Taiwan, the three gods are generally called the three worlds, and it is said that the number of people who worship them is particularly large.