Confucianism And Folk Religion

Folk belief is one kind unofficial, the non- religious lower level belief, the folk belief main body is the ordinary populace, the folk belief although has the unofficial nature, but actually also has the very complicated relations with official.This article first part first carry on the analysis to the Shandong area distribution folk belief temple, which folks Shandong approximately has to believe, folk belief type, reason and the characteristic of Shandong folk belief the Shandong folk belief in the historical developing process, have gradually formed the utility to the Ming and Qing Dynasties time, the confusion,entertainment and characteristic.thus .Thus we can have an overall to the Shandong folk belief understanding.The second part of Confucianist to folk belief control and management. The Confucianist extremely takes to the folk belief control is stems from to the populace carries on enlightened the goal, thus is advantageous to strengthens to the populace the control and the management, but because folk belief in populace ingrained, the traditional strength is extremely formidable, Confucianist some times also make some concessions in the certain degree.The third part of folk belief Confucianist thought. The Confucianist through to the folk belief explanation, causes the theory, the value idea which the Confucianist believes in and so on gradually to permeate the folk belief, thus becomes in the folk belief the value critique criterion.Fourth part is the correspondence and conflication between Confucianist and folk belief. The Confucianist on the one hand takes the folk belief control and the management, on the other hand despises this kind "is vulgar" the folk belief, when the folk belief and the Confucianism has the conflict, the Confucianist cannot tolerate this kind to affront the behavior, defends the Confucianismvigorously legitimate.This article tries hard through enable the people to the Ming and Qing Dynasties Shandong folk belief elaboration to have an approximate understanding to this time Shandong folk belief, further elaborates the Confucianist and the folk belief relations in this foundation, thus may see belongs to "the big tradition" the Confucianism with belongs to "the small tradition" between the folk belief interaction influence.