Zhao Gongming

[6][7] During the Han Dynasty, the Daoist book Record of Canonical Texts (典籍實錄) states that Zhao Gongming is the 'essence of the sun'.

[8] According to the Biographies of Deities and Immortals (列仙全傳), Zhao Gongming served as the leader of the eight ghostly legions, roaming throughout the mortal realm and causing the violent deaths of countless people.

[8] According to the religious compendium Sanjiao Soushen Daquan, Zhao Gongming lived during the late Warring States period.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Tianshi practiced the art of making pills of immortality and asked the Jade Emperor to send a god to protect him.

[9] The Annotated Compilation of Langya Gold and Stone Inscriptions (琅琊金石輯注) states the origin of the God of Wealth, known by the surname Zhao Minglang and the courtesy name Gongming.

In a distant era, when the heavens bore ten suns, the Emperor commanded the archer Hou Yi to shoot down nine of them.

Subsequently, a temple was established at the base of the sacred stone to honor him, and Tiantai Mountain was also renamed Mount Cai (財山).

[8] In Fengshen Yanyi, Zhao Gongming was a Taoist hermit with magical powers and a close friend of General Wen Zhong.

A fragmentary stele about Zhao Gongming's deeds was engraved in Zhaodai Village in the ninth year of the Wanli Ming Dynasty (1581).

Before and after this day, many people from the surrounding areas visit Tian Tai Shan to seek blessings and pay their respects.

Over time, people from various regions seeking good fortune and prosperity congregated in the vicinity of the God of Wealth temple.

In the northern regions, on the second day of the first lunar month, people hold ceremonies to worship the God of Wealth.

Each household conducts a ceremony to honor the wealth deity they received on New Year's Eve, often in the form of roughly printed images.