Originally it was just "objects": The Cheng Huang system reflects the human bureaucracy, yet the earliest Cheng Huang was not human but the subject of a kind of fetishistic worship directed at town walls (cheng) and moats (huang).
原本只是「東西」城隍系統反映人間官僚體系，然而城隍最早並不是人，而是指城牆與護城河，為「庶物崇拜」的一種。