Sanxing (deities)

The Sanxing (三星 "Three Stars"), who are Fu, Lu, and Shou (simplified Chinese: 福禄寿; traditional Chinese: 福祿壽; pinyin: Fú Lù Shòu), or Cai, Zi and Shou (財子壽), are the personified ideas of Prosperity (Fu), Status (Lu), and Longevity (Shou) in the Chinese traditional religion. This representation is thought to date back to the Ming Dynasty, when the Fu star, Lu star and Shou star were considered to be concrete manifestations of these three divinities.

The term is commonly used in Chinese culture to denote the three attributes of a good life. Statues of these three gods are found on the facades of folk religion's temples and ancestral shrines, in nearly every Chinese home and many Chinese-owned shops on small altars with a glass of water, an orange or other auspicious offerings, especially during Chinese New Year. Traditionally, they are arranged right to left (so Shou is on the left of the viewer, Lu in the middle, and Fu on the far right), just as Chinese characters are traditionally written from right to left.

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Sanxing

Coordinates: 23°16′N 121°11′E / 23.267°N 121.183°E / 23.267; 121.183

Sanxing Township (Chinese: 三星鄉; Hanyu Pinyin: Sānxīng Xiāng; Tongyong Pinyin: Sansing Siang; Wade–Giles: San¹-hsing¹ Hsiang¹), also spelled Sanshing Township, is a rural township in the western part of Yilan County, Taiwan.

Name

Its name means "three stars" and is the same characters as used (when using hanja) to write the name of the company Samsung.

Geography

Area: 144.22 km²

Population: 21,503 people (2014)

Administrative divisions

Yuanshan Village, Tianshan Village, Tianfu Village, Wande Village, Guilin Village, Wanfu Village, Shuangxian Village, Renhe Village, Yide Village, Jiqing Village, Yuemei Village, Gongzhao Village, Hangjian Village, Dayin Village, Dayi Village, Shangwu Village, Dazhou Village, Weiqian Village.