Ch'eng-Huang

Ch’eng-Huang was the god of moats and walls. All the villages had its own Ch’eng-Huang. The god usually was a person who was important and then when he died they called him a god. Ch'eng-Huang protects the villages from attacks and makes sure that the King of the Dead does not take any souls from his jurisdiction without proper authority. Ch'eng-Huang exposes evildoers in the village and usually does it by dreams. He has two assistants are Mr. Ba Lao-ye and Mr. Hei Lao-ye which means Mr. Day watchman and Mr. Night watchman.