Historical-Cultural Geographical Study Of Belief In Qingshui The Founder

Temple is a materialcarrier of folk faith,the rise and fall and the distribution of which reflects the evolution of folk faith.Under the direction of historical-cultural geographical, religious and anthropological relevance theory, this thesis takes belief in Qingshui the founder as the object of study, and unifies the method through the literature material analysis and field study, in the foundation of elaboration the causing of belief in Qingshui the founder in the natural geographical and cultural environment.Meanwhile, it analyzes the relationship between Qingshui Temple and faith, and discusses emphatically on the spatial diffusion of faith and the diversity by the distribution of divisional incense. In addition,we also interpret belief in Qingshui the founder in the folk society and the peculiar culture of faith in the complex link of temples. The research shows that it is possible to study on the pattern of folk faith by focusing on temples, from the historical-cultural geographical angle.