Societal Influence
According to the Records of the Grand Historian, Qin Shi Huang worshiped Chiyou as the God of War, and Liu Bang worshiped at Chi You's shrine before his decisive battle against Xiang Yu.
In one mythical episode, after Chi You had claimed he could not be conquered, the goddess Nuwa dropped a stone tablet on him from Mount Tai. Chi You failed to crush the stone, but still managed to escape. From then on, the 5 finger-shaped, inscribed "Tai mountain stone tablets" (泰山石敢當) became a spiritual weapon to ward off evil and disasters.
According to notes by the Qing Dynasty painter Luo Ping: "Yellow Emperor ordered his men to have Chi You beheaded... seeing that Chi You's head was separated from his body, later sages had his image engraved on sacrificial vessels as a warning to those that would covet power and wealth."
In the People's Republic of China, the Hall of the Three Grand Ancestors built in Xinzheng is dedicated to Yellow Emperor, Yandi, and Chi You, who are collectively revered as the founding ancestors of the Chinese nation. Construction of the Hall was funded mostly by Hmong communities overseas and the Chinese Government.
According to the controversial Korean history book Hwandan Gogi, complied by Uncho Gye Yeon-su in 1911, and later published in 1979, Chi You was also an ancestor of the Koreans. He is listed there as the 14th (out of 18) head of the State of Shinshi (or 'Baedal'), with the Korean form of his name, Jaoji Hwanung of Baedal.
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