Abstract:
General Yang Si was a regional god to be worshiped in people in Hunan and Hubei in the Qing Dynasty. In the midst of the dynasty, the worship of General Yang was brought to southern Shaanxi by the immigrants from the two above-mentioned provinces, where it was synthesized with the worship of Yang Congyi, a local god. This not only completed the process of nativization of the worship of General Yang Si but also resulted in the transformation of the worship of Yang Congyi from a god of water irrigation to part of regional worship. The shaping of this folk worship resulted partly from the large-scale migration campaign in southern Shaanxi since the midst of the Qing Dynasty, which helped introduce worship of god of water irrigation, and more importantly from prosperity of business economy in the region in times of the Ming and the Qing Dynasty, which contributed to a conversion from worship of local gods to worship of the combination of local gods with regional gods.
