Jìshān

Jishan's religious landscape joined Buddhist temples with worship of Houji, the legendary patron of agriculture. At Qinglong Temple west of the county town, Yuan-period halls and murals continued to be repaired during the following centuries. Work in the early Zhizheng era altered parts of the painted decoration after earlier earthquake damage. The figures included Buddhist guardians and beings assembled for rituals that addressed both the living and the dead.

County officials also sponsored agricultural cults. A Ming inscription preserved in the county gazetteer describes magistrate Sun Guan's rebuilding of the Houji temple on the mountain south of Jishan. Construction began in 1569 and was completed the next year. The works included a main hall, a terrace, a separate shrine to Jiang Yuan, kitchens and rooms for officials. Together these sites show how religious patronage took different forms within the same county: temple painting and Buddhist ritual, alongside official ceremonies honouring the ancestral figure associated with the cultivation of grain.