In Taoist pantheon, several appeared earlier than sanqing god, and god order high god, heaven, earth and water, three officer is one of them, it is the earliest Taoist worship of the gods, which is also called "three officer emperor", "three yuan emperor", "three official permit".

Three officer emperor of ancient Chinese ancients the nature worship of heaven and earth.In primitive times, heaven, earth, water is necessary for production, including people, without them humanity cannot survive living around, so people often cherish the heart of fear, devoutly worshipped.Such as yili Jin ceremony ", "worship the burnt wood, the mountains and rivers, ling, the sichuan heavy, offering Yi."Its appearance burnt wood: "rise, sink, Yi" cult, is the son of heaven.In the guild with ritual and governors of god,

Jin di clan FuJian and qiang Yao Chang believe in "three officers", tang NaZhaoWang vision seeks to find and book tang make au, au to the beginning "please heaven, earth, water, three officers, on its four blaspheme, and GuanChuan valley, the spirit to come, as evidence.

In mid and late eastern han dynasty, the eunuch consorts authoritarian, in darkness, and the people of disaster, the backlash is intense, FengYi Yu Shipei countries (now jiangsu venture) were Zhang Ling abandon officer to sichuan, learn Yu Heming mountain (now sichuan dayi county territory), and "Taiwan folk primitive religious beliefs, literature books, relapsed leather local ethnic original wu tao, create a bureau.Because of its initial mainly doctrine pray and Jiu ghost, and to cure diseases, therefore, known as Taoism ofuda pie, and for taoists respect Zhang Ling tianshi, so the bureau later called "tianshi dao".Bureau, on the one hand, Lao tze be JiaoZu, drink offering to teach the daodejing Lao tzu;On the other hand is three officer with heaven, earth, water, can believe the ghosts and gods, please pray for head of patients.Please pray method is mainly driven by the reflection Zhang Luchuan "note led" Canon "book:" writing the patient's name, said a guilty, tee, one day, on the mountains, one buried in the earth;One is drowned in the water, a third officer calligraphy."Think three faculties is blessed, Hector sin, eritrea, namely cheongwan officer blessing, land, sin, solution of urban water officer.Later Ming dynasty guan in the romance of The Three Kingdoms 59th orders, introduces the satrap Zhang Lushi, is described in detail its progenitor Zhang Ling promote three officer to admire.Since this belief has been in vogue to the tang dynasty.In May 1982, on top of the henan songshan found a Jin Jian when tang wu zetian, the cellar to beg "three official nine fu", praying for wu zetian against the crime.This is one day, on the hill "please pray method".In addition there is an argument, three officer three officer for gold, soil, water, the ancient and modern books integration relationship of Canon volume allocation lead "ziyingdian may set" yue: "for a gold, wait to enrage, soil, hou to enrage, water and moisture....Therefore, yue three officer also."If its shape is guarding the door tang, ge, general on Wednesday, according to "cast ding yu wen" records: three officer every week you king about giant, number three general tianmen, for after the death of god, there are many around the temple.There are three officer refers to yao, shun, yu, in the celestial TongJian cloud beginning Buddha: "after fly to too arrogant, beginning Yang nine gas, in the nine holes, take seven qi qing xu, more in hole Yang feng ze, five gas, take the morning hao total suction mouth, and the sanjiao (triple energizer) is set in one place.Period of jiujiu, sleep with melting stage, the body form a spirit.As a month at the spring thunder, the baby out of his mouth, the most light.Again in autumn your back in January, winter at night in January, after two sons."This is the third yao, shun, yu, "heaven and earth is a great deal of work, division of law is king".Breathe out later beginning Buddha into the yao, shun and yu are "three officer emperor".

When the northern wei dynasty, the reform of KouQian tianshi, form "three pseudo method", then the three units with the ternary phase.The ancient and modern books integration relationship of Canon volume allocation lead ziyingdian may set day: "cover the main weather, enrage, Lord water main, with cheese in the three worlds.And three ShiYue hope of waiting....Three yuan as three palace, so yue three officer also."It is has, with garment through the fifteenth day of the July 15 for the yuan, on October 15 for the yuan."Said xuan days too risk to curse god zhenwu this funny by the note" volume one the karma sutra: "the fifteenth has palace Lord blessed cheongwan yipin nine Qi Chinese emperor of the day, with the human, the school conviction f also;July 15 yuan palace in the second article seven Qi Hector sin to clear virtual emperor. The officer with the human, the school f also quit his sin;On October 15th, yuan palace under the doctrine of five Qi fuso emperor. The solution of urban water officer with the human, school sin blessing and quit."At the same time, liu Song Luxiu static and "three official place of board, birth, death, test method of since Ming cao".And combined with "sanqing phase", "the beginning without measure people to taste funny by four note" part ii "three yuan product commandment through said:" has cheongwan transferred to jade qing, beside the green, yellow, white three gas, has three palace, the palace of yuan Yang shippo purple emblem palace, total master real natural jade emperor artificially high god, holy god heaven emperor.Yuan in the second article on official transferred to qing dynasty, and yuan hole mix ling qi, condensation of the qing dynasty, huang ling qing palace, the palace of hole total main sovereigns and the reality and precious little fairy has five word.Yuan under water with the doctrine of the officer transferred too clear, and the wind ze qi, condensed the essence of Chen hao, among which young common spring palace palace, the palace, a yue qing China emperor Yang valley water king, god nine river FuHe gods, the great god and water fairy 箓 BuJi."Vigour and Taoism also said, "yun shu qi xihe volume 56:" stick Dun points, there is heaven and earth water three yuan qi, generating civilization, long keep everything.

Give god, at the same time, the weight and the "three professors of god also detailed three officer JiLi, priests and governance object and scope.Said in the book: Anthony refrained prayer and three women from the fitting room, the dragon king gave birth to three sons, adults are powerful, powerful, infinite.So beginning Buddha named boss has gas cheongwan yipin nine Chinese emperor, beginning the birth of Yang qi form to true, live the xuan yuan Yang shippo on Chinese palace, the Lord sent and the high god really and three all day, named second angry officer yuan two article seven in the qing emperor, the infinite world live nine soil bully empty clear virtual palace, total 24 afforestation and the sovereigns and five, nine, huang land four-dimensional octupole emperor;Named Lao yuan under the doctrine of five gas water hole Yin emperor, ling changle palace, total nine main river four emperor, emperor, twelve creek and sanhe four mei really the emperor.And said that the date of each to three yuan, three officer emperor visit shrines, take an examination of JiDaQian world within ten side in the land of gods rise, personality test limit and all things im, cheongwan blessed Chinese officer to forgive SINS to celebrate qing spirit to celebrate, water solution eritrea jiyang valley ", has dominated for the spirit world to all the supreme god.

Three officer's birthday is three ganjitsu, so since the tang and song dynasty, the ternary section is daqing day of Taoism.Section three yuan by the emperor in tang dynasty under the troublesome world states ban tu, three days "to the people is stop the slaughter of fishing and hunting.Because cheongwan blocked for the Chinese emperor, his blessing folk then see it as a "blessing", in company with Paul, life of second god.As to three officer duty limits of god, the song later, from the establishment of sanqing four royal, and narrow, it is generally believed in charge, blessing, god ZhuanQian of ghost, death and rebirth, but folk beliefs are still very common.Since the Ming dynasty, many built around three officer temple, three of three yuan temple, three officer temple, etc.Every three yuan festival, people are going to the temple worship three officers, confessing sin, blessing from danger.When faith three officer must ban non-vegetarian meals, referred to as the "three officer".More common in the qing dynasty, the three gods, "blessed" cheongwan cherish draw New Year pictures, by the people, a wide variety.Cheongwan in painting, dressed in scarlet robes, dragon robe jade belt.Handheld, five strand QiuXu, surface pit kindly, a harmony of pits showily temperament.Some diagram, cheongwan and kindly carry five lad, 5 the boy hand holding each spring of peach, pomegranate, bergamot, mei and auspicious carp lamp.Whenever the folk New Year in the past, all the pictures, in an attempt to cheongwan blessed longevity.Cheongwan can sometimes be regarded as the god of wealth.Popular a kind of "blessing from the god of wealth" in qing dynasty, the figure for middle cheongwan with ruyi hand sits above the wing, jinshan yinshan, flowers, yunlong, Chen and a big "f" word in upper part, cornucopia, hand-held "generative" day by day the flags of the lad in below;And two fairy and fortune, fortune fairy fairy officer officer standing on both sides.Filled with blessing in the painting and type, and expressed his desire for cheongwan bless, god of wealth to send money rich ideal living around.Modern, cheongwan again and w mu lang GuanLu (table), the Antarctic WengGe called fu, lu, shou samsung.The old lunar New Year, often hung in the hall, three map symbol "samsung in households," according to luck, longevity and joy rimmon.Better reflects the people living around common psychological happiness.Now "samsung" and "samsung" image arts and crafts like into homes, has become a popular decorations.Now Taiwan temple, generally called three officer emperor three male, it is said that honor people much more special.