Research On The Changes Of Chengdu City God Temple In The Republic Of China

The worship of City God originated from the ditch of farmland in ancient times then gradually evolve into the faith about wall and moat around the city.The succession of wars during the Southern and Northern Dynasties intensified by the City God of nature to change the personality.The belief of the City God and its temple in Chengdu also appeared in the early Tang Dynasty.After the Tang and Song Dynasties,under the promotion of the official,the scope of the worship of the city god gradually expanded,deification is also rising.In the early Ming Dynasty,the " Hongwu restructuring" will be formally incorporated the City God into the National religious rites,Town God's Temple also began to be established the most cities in the country.Town God's Temples are “rarely seen in remote ages”,but it “almost every places can be seen” since the period of Yuan Ming and Qing Dynasties.The development of the belief of the City God reflects the thought development path about the official educated the common people by supernatural beingsThe Chengdu of Town God's Temple was an important economic and cultural space in the city during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of china.The temple fair and the City God tour activities will be held in the Town God's Temple and the street of the city as the festival is coming,these fairs and other activities can be active side of the city's economy,on the other hand,is an important means for people to release themselves and unite the neighborhood.In the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China,Town God's Temple,as one of the important traditional public spaces in the city,began to change as a result of the transformation of Chengdu's urban modernization.The changes in Town God's Temple and the worship of the decline is closely related.The general feature of Town God's Temple's change is the transformation from a diversified public space into a specialized space,which is transformed from the modern traditional space to a modern space.As a traditional public space,Town God's Temple plays a dual role in the process of urban transformation.On the one hand,Town God's Temple provides ready-made space for the survival and development of modern institutions;on the other hand,some activities in Town God's Temple,such as gambling and fortune telling,have become barriers to the modernization of cities.