Anthropological Review Of Nanyue Shengdi Faith

China since ancient times, people will, with respectful feelings of great mountains and rivers for a variety of sacred ritual and form their own unique belief system.Nanyue Shengdi faith in Nanyue District of Hengyang City in Hunan Province today circulation for thousands of years of folk belief, it is possible in the worship of local breeds, and through the active involvement of the state and Buddhism and the line became the faith of their uniquepattern, that is the basis of local, country-driven, with the worship of Buddhist and Taoist belief systems.As discussed in Chapter III of the Nanyue Shengdi this is to local nature worship and ancestor worship of the mixture.However, since been established as one of China's Five Sacred Mountains, which changed its original development process.Southern Mountain has become a symbol of national unity, one God, the Southern Mountain of God rose from one place to worship God, the height of the country, the importance attached by dynasties.This not only increased the belief in the Nanyue Shengdi the significance of the national level is important is that it largely contributed to the worship of the Nanyue Shengdi sectarian Buddhist faith belief structure, but also guide the development of local worship.Chapter IV of the preliminary study that the Southern Mountain Temple, although the material level, is a royal temple.However, the architectural history, the whole building structure, space structure and the gods Shentang layout view, the Southern Mountain Temple in the deep South in the metaphor of multi-faith belief Nanyue Shengdi cutting overlapping ecological Chinese religion - Confucianism, BuddhismRoad compatible with, national and local co-creation and faith.From the fifth chapter of the description and analysis, the core ceremony of the Nanyue Shengdi faith - Southern Mountain into the process of pilgrimage.In the course of a ceremony to launch many different, and in the process to aggregate multiple ceremony, pilgrims in the process to release their emotions, their needs are met, this is another show that belief in the Nanyue Shengdi Compatibility and superposition of multiple faith beliefpattern.Southern Mountain as one of domestic famous religious resort, its thousands of years to form the Nanyue Shengdi Shengdi religious culture.From the nature and ancestor worship, the development of the divine power and royal combination of having to enter the main line of traditional Confucianism and Taoism, and Buddhism, combines color, form the Nanyue Shengdi rich in culture and religion, so can Nanyue Shengdi Kansas is a microcosm of Chinese folk religion.