土地

土地 is the local land-god office discussed in 136. 春日明媚，聊聊鬼神. The episode presents land gods as low-ranking but close to everyday life: more like respected local elders, neighborhood aunties and uncles, or grass-roots administrators than distant cosmic rulers.

In the source, land gods make Local Deity Governance concrete. A death may be reported at a land temple, almost like canceling a household registration in the world of the living. The episode also notes that land-god worship often includes paired or female forms such as 土地婆 or 土地奶奶, making it one of the more intimate and gender-varied zones of folk deity practice.

Connections

• 136. 春日明媚，聊聊鬼神 - source episode.
• Local Deity Governance - concept for community-scale divine administration.
• [[Chenghuang|城隍]] - higher local city deity contrasted with land gods.
• Underworld Bureaucracy - wider system to which local reporting belongs.
• Afterlife Moral Accounting - judgment system that relies on local moral records.