Ferocious Ghost,Plague Ghost and Money God——On the character changing track of ZHAO Gong-ming

The people in the period of east Han dynasty considered that the ferocious ghost Prince Jing of Jin state in period of Spring and Autumn dreamed was the spirit of ZHAO Gong-ming.In the period of Jin dynasty,Zhao's spirit character was considered as plague ghost.In the period of Yuan dynasty,Zhao's character was divided into two roles,i.e.ghost and god and was stressed as god one.In the middle period of Ming dynasty,with the further change of common customs of religion,the three schools i.e.Confucian,Buddhist and Taoist,gradually mixed,religion became into a kind of vocation,religion and the popularized literature concerned with the religion came into fashion,ZHAO Gong-ming finally was raised into the character of money god and was believed in by people.