When people first began to learn farming and to develop a close relationship with the soil, they believed that the land gave birth to all things for the nourishment of mankind, and hence they started worshipping gods that governed the land.
人們在進入農耕生活後，開始與土地發生密切關連，初民認為土地生養萬物以滋養人們，因而開始崇拜土地社神，所謂「社」就是土地之主的意思。