Brief Expositions on Folk Beliefs of Taoism of the Qiang People

The relationship between folk religion of the Qiang people and Taoism has a very long history.Taoism absorbed much of folk religion of the Qiang people when originating and spreading in West Sichuan.The historical culture background disseminated and carried on by the Qiangs' priest takes a reflection in a close relationship of folk religion of the Qiang people and Taoism from ancient times to the modern.Polytheism of Taoism is just established on the base of the primitive polytheism deduced from the primeval ideas of animism,so it is naturally mixed together with folk religion of the Qiang people or replaces it.And the fashion of beliefs of combining Buddhism and Taoism into one shows the remarkable feature of the folk beliefs of Taoism of the Qiang people.