This study puts forward the concept, origin and evolution of the " Five Fortunes Pantheon" that is including Lucky gods , Prosperity gods ,Longevity gods, Happy gods ,and Wealth gods. Mainly, 1, From the time and space to grasp the situation of the development and transformation of the Five Fortunes Pantheon system in China, 2, From mythical Legend to grasp the degree of "deification " of the Five Fortunes Pantheon system in China. 3. from temple, customs and images to master the degree of "livability" of China's Five Fortunes Pantheon system in China.
The research framework of this study is based on the perspective of social change theory to understand the source and evolution of the Five Fortunes Pantheon, discussing the phenomenon of symbolic interaction, and conflicts and reconciliations in the process of interaction, and thus achieve some explicit and implicit functions, so that Chinese society can maintain a certain degree of balance in beliefs and actual behavior.
Secondly, from the theory of cultural change to understand the interactive cycle of cognitive and social forces, to cognize the cultural creation and evolution, and how the culture of the Five Fortunes Pantheon will change due to invention, communication, acculturation or loss. From the perspective of cultural evolution, it is hoped that through the process of cultural evolution, we will understand the adjustment of the Five Fortunes faith and the expansion of natural selection.
Holding the basic finding of is the concept of China's Five Fortunes Pantheon has already been constructed, but the completion of the faithful faith of the Five Fortunes Pantheon, must depend on the establishment and integration of the various gods that were individually developed. Among them, Lucky gods ,Prosperity gods, and Longevity gods, has appeared before the Qin and Han Dynasties, but formatting the collective name for the “Three Fortunes” gods also appeared after the Song and Yuan Dynasties.
As for the Happy gods and Wealth gods, they were typed in the Tang and Song Dynasties, while Wealth gods were finalized during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is almost modern work to combine two gods--Happy gods and Wealth gods , into three gods--Lucky gods ,Prosperity gods, and Longevity gods, so that construct the system of Five Fortunes Pantheon.
In the combining process, the merger of the Five Fortunes Pantheon is the first two blessings (Lucky gods and Longevity gods).while plus Prosperity gods so become the three blessings, lately plus Happy gods as the fourth blessings, and then add Wealth gods finally typed the five blessings.
This study also finds the development path of the mythical legend of the Five Fortunes Pantheon, have present three paths that are accommodatingly the Starization path (from star to god), the deification path(from human to god) and the immortalization path (from god to Immortal). The integration process of immortalization and deification is always by God, through the mythical Legend of man and star story can be regarded as the mainstream thinking mode of modern Chinese folk faith.
This study also attempts to construct the deification model of the Five Fortunes Pantheon of China, and discovers that the origin of the deification is mainly being in the history of the Dynasties and the novels. Therefore, the authors of these history and novels are all god-creators. When the god-creators weaves the fairy tale of the Five Fortunes Pantheon , it is mainly deified by virtue power or energy power, that were someone specially acted and behaved, but also directly starized by the stars. As for the spread of the faith of the Five Fortune Pantheon, it is through the drama storytelling and ritual models as a channel to express and deepen the Chinese folk faith.