The mound-altars of the Hakka people are descended from just such "earth gods," and similarly the great leafy trees that usually grow alongside today's Earth Lord temples are themselves a throwback to those early "tree gods."
客家墳塚式的土地壇就是「土社」的延續，而眾多土地公廟總有棵蒼翠大樹在身後，則是「樹社」的遺風。