On the base of campestral investigation,the author mainly studies the characteristics and relations between Fengshui and sacrificial rites on the old lounge bridges in the east of Fujian province,and points out that the appearing signal of the old lounge bridges mixed together the bridges and the local village culture by means of their formal signal and their symbolic expression.

The words in Chuci come from the sacrificial rites of the chief of a tribe in the region of Yuan river or Xian river.

With historical development,ethnic Manchu developed into four social groups,who lived in different from each other geographical and cultural conditions,and thus their sacrificial rites underwent different changes in content and form.

In Mongolian areas Tibetan Buddhism penetrated into the people s social and daily lives,and brings great changes to Mongolian folklore,especially in funeral and fete customs.

The paper studied the relation between the Manchu shamanism and fete through Eight Banners genealogy.

Based upon an examination of the early Ming state worship objectives and the later changes,this article argues that this system carries profound religious,cultural,political,and social implications.

It concludes that the reformis derivedfromthestruggle between“idealist”and“conventionalist”is groundless ;the practice of worshipingthe“heavenly deities”and“earthly deities”does not actually create two kinds of city gods ;the so calledthird year“reform”has little todo withthe Ming policies towards Taoism;the regulations issuedinthe third year of the H.

The oracle inscriptions discovered in Yin Remains have records of Yin people worshiping Shang and Huan Rivers.