Tu Di Gong also known as Tu Di (土地), Tu Gong (土公), and Dabo Gong (大伯公), is a Chinese earth god worshipped by Chinese folk religion

Chinese folk religion

Chinese folk religion or Shenism , which is a term of considerable debate, are labels used to describe the collection of ethnic religious traditions which have been a main belief system in China and among Han Chinese ethnic groups for most of the civilization's history until today...

 worshippers and Taoists. A formal name for Tu Di Gong is , meaning the earth god of wealth and merit.

In China

China

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, every village had a shrine to Tu Di Gong. It was this deity who was in charge of administering the affairs of a particular village. In traditional times, village concerns were primarily agricultural or weather-related.