The belief later entered deeply into the popular consciousness. In the sixteenth-century novel Hsi-yu chi, or Journey to the West, for example, Sun Wu-k'ung, or Monkey, always asks the local earth god to appear and report on what's happening whenever he arrives in a strange place.
後來深入民間，例如「西遊記」裡即常描述孫悟空每至一生疏地方，不免請土地公出來問個究竟。