Biography of General Yang Si

1. General yangsi, also known as General Yang Si, is a folk Taoist water god who originated in Hunan and is widely spread in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

He was born in an employee's family, studied in a private school, and worked as a helper on a merchant ship after dropping out of school. At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhong Xiang rose up and yangsi responded, becoming a famous leader. After Zhong Xiang's death, yangsi used the wide water surface of Dongting Lake to camp in the tributaries of rivers and lakes and continue fighting. At its most powerful time, it swept through 7 states of Dongting Lake 19 county, with a population of 200,000.

3. As a regional god, the belief in generals spread widely in northern Hubei and southern Shaanxi after being brought to southern Shaanxi by immigrants from Hubei and Hunan in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and merged with the original local god Yang in southern Shaanxi since the Song Dynasty, which not only completed its localization process, but also transformed the worship of Yang, a water conservancy god who should protect local agricultural production and became an integral part of regional belief.