On The Folk Beliefs Of The Northern Shaanxi

The Northern Shaanxi folk belief is people of Northern Shaanxi formed in the longhistory of the custom culture, with distinct regional characteristics, it not only reflects thesocial environment, living conditions and economic development level of the people, andthe reaction of the Northern Shaanxi people’s daily life and spiritual world.The Northern Shaanxi folk gods mainly divided into stems from the nature worshipGod folk customs, myths and legends of the popular God, an important historical figurein popular God, Buddhism and Taoism popular God four categories. Often the Lord, aBuddism godness Guanyin Bodhisattva, Zhenwu founder Guanshengdijun three populargod worship, but can’t be counted with the Buddha, Shakya Muni, has Ruzu Kong Fuzi,have the highest god of Taoism Sanqing etc.. The psychological needs of the people inthe north of Shaanxi and related, probably a Buddism godness Guanyin and Guan Gongin Zhenwu, help people in distress aspects come the fastest, most closely linked withpeople’s relationship, so their status in the teaching the supreme object of worship.Visible, the Northern Shaanxi folk belief has its own distinct regional characteristics.Northern Shaanxi because of its special geographical location and naturalenvironment is very flourishing, folk belief, mainly for the North Shaanxi has a numberof large temple, formed in Jiaxian County Baiyun Mountain as the center, thesurrounding radiation, taking Yanan Taihe mountain, Yulin mountain and Black dragonPool, Jingbian, offering ridge, Suide Oolong Hill five to two grade center, periphery thereare dotted with small temples Temple Circle, and has beautiful decoration. Buildings andeasy to spread the rap book. The social impact of extensive and profound, has become animportant part of people’s life. This is due to the development of the Ming and QingDynasties folk belief state and local political environment, the local clans actively promote and folk belief itself, and the folk God belief meet people’s spiritual needs, hasthe moral functions, enhance community cohesion, the stage and so on for folk culture.Now, the Northern Shaanxi folk belief as a special ideology, there are deep social basisand the mass basis, it will exist for a long time in a socialist society, we can only continueto inherit and carry forward the favorable factors, and into a new era of content, to keeppace with the times, at the same time, desalination and abandon its negative factors,health can thrive Development to go down, the better for the construction of harmonioussociety and service.