Wen Caishen Bigan

 

Wen Caishen Bigan

 

Agudengba smiled at the carriage driver A Zhuo and said: In Chinese Spring Festival folk customs, there is the custom of worshiping the God of Wealth. The God of Wealth is divided into five categories, including the Wen God of Wealth and the Wu Wealth God. In fact, there are differences among the gods of wealth.

In Taoist culture, in the old days, the God of Wealth was divided into civil and military gods, and those who valued literature and martial arts had their own affairs. People who are good at literature worship the God of Wealth and Wealth, and people who are good at martial arts worship the God of Wealth and Wealth. Although their ways of civility and martial arts are different, they all have their own wealth. In addition to Zhao Gongming, the martial god of wealth, there is also Bigan, the literary god of wealth. In the folk New Year pictures, the statue of Bigan is dressed as a civil official, wearing a prime minister's gauze hat, five long beards, holding a wishful thinking in his hand, wearing a python robe, and carrying ingots at his feet. The dress of Wen Caishen is similar to that of Tianguan. The difference between the two is that Tianguan has a kind expression and a smile on his face, while the statue of Wen Caishen Bigan has a serious face and a clear face.

The coachman Azhuo asked: How could Bigan become the God of Wealth if he did not do business and had no wealth?

Agudengba tells the Taoist legend of Bigan:

In Taoist legend, Bigan is the uncle of King Zhou of Yin and a loyal minister. At that time, King Zhou of Yin was tyrannical and immoral, and was dissolute and unruly. According to "The Romance of the Gods": King Zhou listened to Daji's evil words, inflicted torture and killed his admonishing ministers. Although ministers such as Shang Rong and Bigan remonstrated directly, King Zhou never repented. After the Lutai was completed, King Zhou believed Daji's lies and prepared to meet the Fairy Fairy and the Fairy at Lutai.

Daji came up with a plan. On the night of the 15th, she invited many demon foxes in Xuanyuan Tomb to turn into fairies, gods, and fairy concubines to Lutai for a banquet, where they could enjoy the Emperor's Nine Dragons Banquet and confuse King Zhou.

On the table, those foxes stunk. The demon fox, who had little kung fu, even showed his tail. Uncle Bigan, the king of Zhou at the banquet, saw it very clearly. After the banquet, he informed King Wucheng Huang Feihu of the situation. After investigation, it was found that all the demon foxes were vixens from Xuanyuan's tomb. Bigan and Huang Feihu led the troops to block the demon fox cave, set fire to all the fox spirits and burned them to death.

Bigan also picked unburnt fox skins and made a robe, which he presented to King Zhou in the severe winter to confuse Daji's heart and make her unable to live in peace with the king. When Daji saw that the fox fur coats and robes were all made of the furs of her descendants, her heart was cut with a knife. She hated Bigan deeply and vowed to dig out his heart.

One day, King Zhou was having breakfast with Daji and Xinna witch Ximei, when he suddenly saw Daji vomiting blood and unconscious. Ximei said: It was Daji's old illness that relapsed, and Linglong's heart had to be treated with decoction. She also deduced that only Yabiqian was the heart of Linglong's seven orifices.

King Zhou asked Bigan for his heart. Bigan angrily said: "The heart is the master of the body. It is hidden in the lungs and sits in the six leaves of the two ears. It is immune to all evils and will die if it invades. If the heart is right, the hands and feet will be right; if the heart is not right, the hands and feet will not be right. The heart is not right. It is the spiritual seedling of all things and the root of the changes in the four phenomena. My heart is hurt, how can I survive! Although the old minister is dead, he is just a country with all his virtuous and talented people. Today, the faint king listens to the words of the enchantress Xina, and gives me a heart-pleasing treat. Disaster, I am afraid that if Bigan is here and the country is there, if Bigan is gone, the country will be lost!"

King Zhou said angrily: "If you ask your minister to die, if he fears death, that is disloyalty. If a minister destroys the king, it means he has betrayed his loyalty. If you don't obey my order, the warrior will take the sword and fetch Bigan's heart for me!"

Bigan cursed Daji loudly, and after praying eight times at the Imperial Ancestral Temple, he cut open his belly with his sword, threw his heart to the ground, walked out of the fifth gate, mounted his horse and left.

In fact, when Jiang Ziya left Chaoge, he went to the Prime Minister's Mansion to say goodbye. He saw Bigan's gloomy complexion and knew that he would be in trouble in the future, so he gave Bigan a magic talisman and told him to turn the talisman into ashes and conquer it in times of crisis. , guaranteed to be safe. Before entering the court, Bigan also knew that he would be in great trouble, so he drank the talisman water left by Jiang Ziya, so he could move forward without bleeding after having his heart cut open. There is also a legend that Bigan did not die after taking the elixir given by Jiang Ziya, but came to spread the treasure among the people.

Agudengba said: Bigan was upright, loyal, fair and selfless by nature. After his heart was hollowed out, he became an unintentional person. It was precisely because he was unintentional and fair in doing things that he was revered as a god by Taoist descendants. It is said that the merchants doing business under the protection of Bigan at that time were impartial, fair transactions, and did not cheat each other. Therefore, Bigan was widely praised and respected by merchants and the world. Bigan is neither in business nor wealthy, but merchants regard him as the God of Wealth because they must be fair in doing business.

Agudengba sang a short ballad "The Demon Fox Daji":

 

Demonic foxes gathered in Xuanyuan Tomb,

Transformed into a fox fairy and went to feast on Lutai,

Enjoy the emperor’s banquet in Kowloon,

Daji was ordered to deceive King Zhou.

The smell of foxes on the table was unpleasant,

The demon fox actually showed its tail.

Bigan saw it very clearly,

Inform King Wucheng Huang Feihu.

The two men led the troops to block the fox's den,

Set fire to burn the fox to death.

Daji was so angry that her heart was cut like a knife,

I swear to dig and dry my heart to relieve my hatred.

Daji lied about a recurrence of her old illness.

Linglong Xin Jian Decoction is required for treatment.

King Zhou anxiously asked Bigan for help.

Bigan angrily scolded the foolish king for the ruin of his country.

King Zhou took his sword and took out his heart and said angrily:

If you want your minister to die, you must die.

The people worshiped Bigan devoutly,

It is said that the God of Wealth is impartial and impartial.

In fact, he denounces the tyrant’s innocence,

Pray for fairness and justice in the world.