Sheng Shrine

A Sheng Shrine is a shrine for a living person. There are two types of enshrinement: enshrining the spirit of a living person who has made a significant contribution and enshrining one's own spirit.
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=== Sheng shrines in China ===
When Han Former Han's Reunobu was the prime minister of Yan Kingdom (Han dynasty), he built his shrine between Yan and Qi (state) and called it the "Reun Gong Shrine". Also, when Shiqing was the prime minister of Qi, the Qi people built the "Shiqing Shrine". This is the beginning of the birth shrine.Zhao Yi, "The New New Ancestral Hall", Volume 32, "Ancestral Hall", "This is the beginning of the establishment of an ancestral hall.
In the Tang dynasty, there were certain restrictions on the construction of monuments and shrines by officials in office. According to the Tang Code Rulings and Ordinances, those who erected shrines or monuments without permission were subject to a penalty of one year of imprisonment.The Tang Code, Volume 11 (The Law of Office)。The Tang Dynasty called it "the difficulty of building monuments and shrines on the first day.
In the Ming dynasty, peasants in Tengzhou built a shrine to commemorate Zhao Bangqing, who was appointed to Yanjing for his clean politics. The shrine was built to commemorate him.
During the reign of the Tianqi Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, ruled the world by conducting his own politics, and those who flattered him or feared his authority were given a He made a living shrine for him. In May of the seventh year of the reign of Emperor Tianjing (1627), Lu Wanling, the prefect of the State Council, wrote: "Confucius wrote the Spring and Autumn, and Chung-Hsien wrote the Essentials. In May of the seventh year of the reign of Emperor Tianjing, Lu Wanling, the prefect of the State Council, wrote that Confucius had written the "Spring and Autumn" and Chung-Hsien had written the "Essentials. In April of the 7th year of the reign of Emperor Tianjing, Yuan Chonghuan and Yan Mingtai of the Ministry of War (imperial China) made an appeal to the government to praise the merits and demerits of Wei Zhongxian and to establish a living shrine for him in both Qiantu."Ming Xi Zong Jizhu": "in April of the seventh year of the reign of Emperor Tianqi, the governor of Thistle Liaoning, Yan Mingtai, and the governor of Fuxing Yuan Chong Huan, praised the merits of Wei Zhongxian, and requested the construction of a shrine in front of Ning, giving the name Mao De." The government of the Liaoning Province has been inscribed in gold and stone, and there is no room for extra duties. The minister's single-mindedness in patrolling, strict warning of the battalion generals, do not dare to greed cowardly selfishness, do not dare to give away the hidden string, change the virtual into the real, into the real, easy timid into brave, to have today. Sustainability ancient internal minister who has the right!" ("Ming Xi Zong seven years of the Imperial Court of the Department of the Experiment" Tianqi six years in October)。After that, Wei Zhongxian's raw shrine was "all over the world", "the cost of each shrine was at most hundreds of thousands, at least tens of thousands", "stolen the people's fortune, invaded the public safe, and was cut down. There are countless trees. " When Huang Yun Yasushi made a statue and greeted the statue, he said, "Goto Sansho," and "leaded the general of Bunbu, lined up under the stairs, and worshiped as the beginning."
Gu Yanwu lamented, "In this generation, there is no official who does not build a living shrine. And within a few years of leaving office, he would destroy the statues and change their masters. He said.《Nichi Chi Roku》 vol. 23 (Sheng Shi), p. 644.。
=== Sheng shrines in Japan ===
Shosha, the worship of one's own spirit, was performed in order to obtain a long life or to become a god after death. It is said to have originated from the legend of Ōkuninushi-no-mikoto, who enshrined his Mitama Kozoshin in Mount Miwa.
The earliest documented case of shosha enshrining one's own spirit is that of Haruhiko Matsuki (824), a priest of the outer shrine of the Ise Grand Shrine in 92 of the Heian period. - 924 years), enshrined and enshrined his own spirit on a stone in Obe, Ise Watarai District, Mie. In the Edo period, Matsudaira Sadanobu established his own nascent shrine in 1797 at Shirakawa Castle in Oshu. The number of shosshiki increased during the Edo period, probably due to the influence of Chinese thought. In the Edo period, Yamazaki Ansai devised a Festival to enshrine his own spirit, referring to the rituals of Confucianism. The Shusei ritual was established in 1671 at the Tarukarei Shrine in his residence in Kyoto. After this, the Shinto family and the Kokugaku scholars of the Hirata school enshrined their own spirits in their own unique rituals.
Kato Genchi (1873 - 1965) is famous for his research on Shusei. According to Kato, there are 670 known Shuso enshrines, and the newest one is that of Nishi Tadayoshi (father of Nishi Yoshikazu, who was enshrined in Urakawa-cho, Hidaka Province, Hokkaido in August 1931). This is the one of Emperor Meiji
Emperor Meiji was enshrined at Ishinomaki Port, Miyagi Prefecture in 1876 (Meiji (era), and at Yahiko Shrine in Ono Village, Kamiina District, Nagano in 1893 Yahiko Shrine in Ono Village. Emperor Meiji and Empress Shōken were enshrined in two places in 1887 and 1904, and Emperor Taishō was enshrined in 1911 in 1944. Emperor Taishō was enshrined at two locations in Hokkaido: Hidaka, Hokkaidō, Monbetsu village, Empress Teimei was enshrined in 1913, Taisho, Hirose-cho, Hiroshima Prefecture, and Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu and Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu were established in 1924 (Taisho 13) in Himeji, Doshin-cho.
The birthplace of Emperor Hirohito was established in 1923 (Taisho 12) in Yoshitsune, Honbetsu Village, Tokachi District, Hokkaido, Hokkaido, and the birthplace of Emperor Showa and Empress Kōjun was established in 1928 (Showa 3) in Hirose-cho, Hiroshima City.