The names of Temples and Taoist Temples’, which are approved and awarded by the government, as well showed their legal status in the society. The monks brought the ’Permission’ through a series of regulations, these credentials also expanded the scale of the gate and admitted more and more people became monks and Taoist priest. They were very popular in Song Dynasty and Jin Dynasty, especially in the northern area. In order to remit the economic crisis, and add the cost of armies and wars, Jin Dynasty government allowed building the temples and the Taoist Temples, as well legalizing the temples by selling the names. At that that time, Shaanxi Province located on the war front between Song Dynasty and Jin Dynasty. Compared with the heavily cost of the wars, the development of en economy was too slow to pay for it, so this phenomenon often appeared. However, the academia nearly paid attention to the tablets of Temples and Taoist Temples’names, which are approved and awarded by the government in Shaanxi Province. This article tried to arrange and analyse these tablets, reveal the connotation and process, discuss the reasons of military, economy, and religion. In addition, this article compared the tablets in Shaanxi with some area else, To understand the political economic and cultural background and the basic change of the system. |