Overseas Chinese In Southeast Asia From Religious Belief Cultural Adaptation

There is long history for Chinese migrating to Southeast Asia. Following the settlement of nationality's issues. The ethnic Chinese had no difference on the politics identity gradually in Southeast countries, the ethnic Chinese acknowledged they were the citizen in migrating country. However, as we know, it's not easy to identify different cultural background. It's a long process.In the culture ideological field, religion is the last fort of the traditional culture. Religious belief of the ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia presented distinct features: [1] Polytheism [2] Worship of ancestor[3] tolerant mind of religion [4] Utilitarianism. In short, it continued the original appearance of the Chinese traditional culture.In addition, because of the arbitrary feature and compatibility of Chinese religions, they could be in perfect harmony with a new country easily. On the other hand, their own religious culture can communicate with local religious culture in a good way and their own religious culture got prosperous development, which presented the tendency of indigenization and modernization. Therefore, we can see the penetration and communication on different ethical culture in harmonization of the religions.