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Old Mountain
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+86 400 667 1797

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Southeast of Qinglong County, Qinglong County 066500, China

The Wǔfāng Shàngdì , or simply Wǔdì or Wǔshén are, in Chinese canonical texts and common Chinese religion, the fivefold manifestation of the supreme God of Heaven . This theology harkens back at least to the Shang dynasty. Described as the five changeable faces of Heaven, they represent Heaven's cosmic activity which shapes worlds as tán 壇, altars, imitating its order which is visible in the starry vault, the north celestial pole and its spinning constellations. The Five Deities themselves represent these constellations. In accordance with the Three Powers they have a celestial, a terrestrial and a chthonic form. The Han Chinese identify themselves as the descendants of the Red and Yellow Deities. They are associated to the five colours, the five phases of the continuous creation, the five key planets of the Solar System and the five constellations rotating around the celestial pole, the five sacred mountains and five directions of space , and the five Dragon Gods who represent their mounts, that is to say the material forces they preside over . They have also been defined simply as five special forms of the worship of the God of Heaven, different accesses or perspectives, suitable for different situations, to serve Heaven.According to Zheng Xuan, the influence of their activity begets different categories of beings on earth. Explaining the ancient theology about the origins of kings from Heaven's impregnation of earthly women, he commented: 王者之先祖, 皆感大微五帝之精以生 — Every ancestor of him who is the king was given birth to as the result of an influential movement [gǎn 感] made by the spirits of the Five Deities.
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