Chinese Folk Gods (Color Illustrations and Text)

Author: Ma Shuti
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Features: Hundreds of precious images vividly present the world of Chinese folk deities. Chinese folk deity culture is filled with blessings, kindness, harmony, sincerity, and simplicity. Today, deities like the Eight Immortals, the Three Stars of Fortune, Happiness, and Longevity, the Harmony Twins, Guanyin, and Guan Gong have become more humanized, with a stronger sense of warmth, and are now revered as auspicious gods in people's hearts. Folk culture is the culture of all people, and folk festivals are the festivals of all people. The folk deity culture, which embodies people's passionate pursuit and longing for a better life, has thus endured. This set of "Chinese Folk Deities" primarily introduces the Chinese ancestral gods, love and marriage deities, deities of fortune, longevity, happiness, and wealth, life-protecting deities, production-protecting deities, and trade deities. Among them, the Fertility Goddess Jinhua Lady, the Wealth God Jin Yuan Qi Zongguan, the King of Medicine Wu Ben, the Lord of Guangze Gu Hongfu, the Holy King of Opening Zhang Chen Yuan Guang, the Heaven Emperor Chongzhen Emperor, and the Jingdezhen Fire and Fire Immortal Tong Bin, who have a significant influence in Guangdong, Fujian, Taiwan, Jiangxi, and other regions, are included in the "Chinese Regional Deities" book. Mazu (Tianhou) may have hundreds of millions of followers and a very wide influence both at home and abroad, but she is primarily revered in coastal areas like Fujian and Taiwan, so she is also included in the "Chinese Regional Deities" book, along with her sub-deities like the (), (), and (). We kindly invite readers to refer to it.