Tu Di Gong, the Chinese Lord of the Soil and the Ground, who in Vietnamese is known as Tho Cong, is in Vietnam typically one of two deities placed in small home altars (fig.), the other one being Than Tai (fig.), the Vietnamese name for Chinese wealth deities, who are generally referred to as Cai Shen (fig.). These house shrines always should face the entrance door, and its deities offered fruit, food and drinks, the latter usually in the form of tea traditionally offered in either 5 or alternatively 3 small cups (fig.).