A report on Shaanxi, Shanxi and Chinese folk religion

Xuanyuan Temple in Huangling, Shaanxi, dedicated to the worship of the Yellow Emperor.
Shaanxi People's Government
The Temple of the City God of Wenao, Magong, Taiwan.
Shaanxi cuisine
Pagoda of Fogong Temple built in 1056
Temple of Hebo ("River Lord"), the god (Heshen, "River god") of the sacred Yellow River, in Hequ, Xinzhou, Shanxi.
Terracotta Army
Yan Xishan, warlord of Shanxi during the Republic of China.
Altar to the Five Officials worshipped inside the Temple of the Five Lords in Haikou, Hainan.
Education Department of Shaanxi Province
Chinese troops marching to defend the mountain pass at Xinkou.
Temple of the City God of Dongmen, in Xiangshan, Ningbo, Zhejiang.
Shaanxi Science and Technology Museum
The Shanxi Museum located on the west bank of Fen River in downtown Taiyuan.
A sign reading "This is a place of folk belief. No religious donation or religious activities are allowed." Taken in a Chinese folk temple in Weifang City, Shandong Province
Temple of the Chenghuangshen (City God) of Weinan.
The Pagoda of Fogong Temple, Ying County, built in 1056.
Communal ceremony at the Great Temple of Yandi Shennong (炎帝神農大殿 Yándì Shénnóng dàdiàn) in Suizhou, Hubei.
Guangren Temple of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in Xi'an.
A street in Pingyao.
Statue of Mazu at a temple in Chiayi, Taiwan.
Road to the stupa of the Famen Temple (Chinese Buddhist).
Temple of Guandi in Datong.
Zitong altar in a temple of Quanzhou, Fujian. To his left there is a statue of Kuixing.
Temple of Xuanyuan in Huangling, Yan'an.
Chenghuangshen (City God) Temple of Pingyao.
Eastern Han (25–220 AD) Chinese stone-carved que pillar gates of Dingfang, Zhong County, Chongqing that once belonged to a temple dedicated to the Warring States era general Ba Manzi
Western gate of a Temple of Heshen (River God) in Hequ, Xinzhou.
Tian or Di as the square of the north astral pole. "Tian is dian 顛 ('top'), the highest and unexceeded. It derives from the characters yi 一, 'one', and da 大, 'big'."
泉郡溪靈宮 Quánjùnxī línggōng, the "Numinous Palace by the Brook in the Land of Springs", in Quanzhou, Fujian.
Temple of the Filial Blessing (孝佑宮 Xiàoyòugōng) in Ouhai, Wenzhou, Zhejiang. It is a place for the worship of ancestors.
Altar to the Stone Generals, protective deities, at the Kantai Tianhou Temple in Anping, Tainan, Taiwan.
Temple of Brahma, or Simianshen (四面神 "Four-Faced God") in Chinese, in Changhua, Taiwan. The Thai-style worship of Simianshen has its origins among Thai Chinese, and has spread over the last few decades among Mainland Chinese and Overseas Chinese populations.
A shrine dedicated to Zhenwu in Wuqi, Taichung, Taiwan.
浦頭大廟 Pǔtóu dàmiào, the "First Great Temple by the Riverside", in Zhangzhou, Fujian.
Guanji temple (left) and Huang ancestral shrine (right) in Wenzhou, Zhejiang.
People gather for a worship ceremony at an ancestral shrine in Hong'an, Hubei.
Temple of the White Sulde of Genghis Khan in the town of Uxin in Inner Mongolia, in the Mu Us Desert. The worship of Genghis is shared by Chinese and Mongolian folk religion.
Temple of Fortune and Longevity, at the Heavenly Lake of Tianshan in Fukang, Changji, Xinjiang. It is an example of Taoist temple which hosts various chapels dedicated to popular gods.
Folk ritual masters conducting a ceremony.
The Temple of the God of Culture (文廟 wénmiào) of Jiangyin, Wuxi, Jiangsu. In this temple the Wéndì (文帝, "God of Culture") enshrined is Confucius.
The City of the Eight Symbols in Qi, Hebi, is the headquarters of the Weixinist Church in Henan.
Altar to Baoshengdadi, whose cult is mostly Fujianese and Taiwanese.
The pan-Chinese Sanxing (Three Star Gods) represented in Bai iconographic style at a Benzhu temple on Jinsuo Island, in Dali, Yunnan.
Main altar and statue of Doumu inside the Temple of Doumu in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
Statue and ceremonial complex of the Yellow and Red Gods, from whom the Han Chinese are said to be the descendants, in Zhengzhou, Henan.
Shrine of Bixia at Mount Tai, Shandong.
Procession with a traveling image of a god (xíngshén 行神) in central Taiwan.
Vows to a deity at a Chinese temple in Vietnam.
A Taoist rite for ancestor worship at the Xiao ancestral temple of Chaoyang, Shantou, Guangdong.
Tray for offering sacrifices, on display in Kaiping
Guan Li, Confucian coming of age ceremony.
Gathering at a Temple of the City God of Guangzhou, Guangdong.
Temple of the Founding Father (師祖殿 Shīzǔdiàn) of the principal holy see (聖地 shèngdì) of the Plum Flower folk religious sect in Xingtai, Hebei.
Folk temple on the rooftop of a commercial building in the city of Wenzhou.
Temple of Mazu in Yokohama, serving the Chinese of Japan.

Officially part of Northwest China, it borders the province-level divisions of Shanxi (NE, E), Henan (E), Hubei (SE), Chongqing (S), Sichuan (SW), Gansu (W), Ningxia (NW) and Inner Mongolia (N).

- Shaanxi

Shanxi borders Hebei to the east, Henan to the south, Shaanxi to the west and Inner Mongolia to the north.

- Shanxi

The predominant religions in Shaanxi are Chinese folk religions, Taoist traditions and Chinese Buddhism.

- Shaanxi

She mentions the example of a Chenghuang Temple in Yulin, Shaanxi, that was turned into a granary during the Cultural Revolution; it was restored to its original function in the 1980s after seeds stored within were always found to have rotted.

- Chinese folk religion

Another example Zavidovskaya cites is the cult of the god Zhenwu in Congluo Yu, Shanxi; the god's temples were in ruins and the cult inactive until the mid 1990s, when a man with terminal cancer, in his last hope prayed (bai 拜) to Zhenwu.

- Chinese folk religion

The predominant religions in Shanxi are Chinese folk religions, Taoist traditions and Chinese Buddhism.

- Shanxi

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Landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country.

Landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country.

Shang dynasty oracle bone script, the first form of Chinese writing
A late Eastern Han (25–220 AD) Chinese tomb mural showing lively scenes of a banquet, dance and music, acrobatics, and wrestling, from the Dahuting Han tombs, on the southern bank of the Suihe River in Xinmi, Henan
Longmen Grottoes (Mt. Longmen), Luoyang, Henan
Farmland in Xiping County, Zhumadian
White Horse Temple
Henan University

Its neighboring provinces are Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Anhui, and Hubei.

The reports didn't give figures for other types of religion; 86% of the population may be either irreligious or involved in worship of nature deities, Confucianism, Taoism and folk religious sects (for example, a sect that is endogenous to Henan is the Tianxian miaodao).