Qi Eight Spirits / 齐地八神

Qi Eight Spirits / 齐地八神 is the local deity set Qin Shi Huang is said to worship during the eastern tour in Qinji 122-2. The episode reads these sacrifices as more than routine religiosity: by addressing former 齐国 gods, 秦始皇 also makes a claim that Qin now owns the land, its ritual geography, and the divine order attached to it.

The page keeps the detail source-scoped. The source summary does not list all eight deities or reconstruct the complete ritual system; it uses the group to show how imperial touring absorbs conquered local sacred landscapes.

Key Claims

• Local gods can become part of conquest politics when a new ruler publicly worships them.
• Qin’s post-unification order works through inherited regional sacred geography as well as through Qin-created standards.
• The Eight Spirits sequence links 封禅礼制合法性 to a more local former-Qi ritual layer.

Connections

• 秦始皇 and 秦国 - imperial actor and regime using the ritual.
• 齐国 - conquered territory whose gods become part of Qin’s tour.
• Imperial Tour Political Theater / 帝国巡游政治剧场 and Mandate of Heaven Legitimacy / 天命合法性 - legitimacy frames around visible ritual movement.
• 琅琊山 - next major stop after the sacrifices in the episode.
• Qinji 122-2 - source episode.