Wutong Temple From Nanning City, Temple Of Faith To Explore The Development Of The Local Folk Religion

The Wutong temple belief is a typical representation of folk religion. From the development situation of Wutong temple belief,we can deduce the development situation of folk religion.The Wutong temple belief contains primitive religious belief, belief in Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism religion, and so on, the formation of such situation have significant relationship with the development of the society in Chengdu.The reason why People have the devout faith to the divinities in the Wutong temple is based on psychological need, social pressure, fear, and the tradition to worship the ghosts.The Wutong temple and the folk religion had important influence on individuals and society. For individuals, it can improve one's own quality, promote the harmonious relationship between human beings, make the person has a good attitude to life and also has certain curative effect on personal disease. For society, it can promote political stability, economic development, social morality construction.Nanning Wutong temple is a microcosm of folk religion. From its development history and direction, we can see the development and direction of the local folk religion. The development of folk religion underwent three stages: as a tool to paralyze the citizens before founding the nation and a feudal remnants to be criticize after founding. After reform and opening-up, the policy on freedom religious belief is implemented, and folk religion activity began to rebuild.In the process of the development of folk religion, the elites in the folk religion organization and rural religious have an important. There still exists some problems in the development of our country's folk religion, such as, its own management deficiencies and government management do not reach the designated position. To solve these two problems needs the cooperation and mutual effort between religious organization and relevant government department.In the exploration to develop the folk religion, network virtual temple provides a new development model which contains enormous opportunity for Nanning Wutong temple and local folk religion.