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Chinese folk religion

Statue of a Taizu deity (deified important ancestor) inside a temple in Maoming, Guangdong.
Altar to the Five Officials worshipped inside the Temple of the Five Lords in Haikou, Hainan.

Chinese folk religion (simplified Chinese: 中国 民间 信仰; traditional Chinese: 中國 民間 信仰; pinyin: zhōng-guó mín-jiān xìn-yǎng) is a polytheistic religion that has been practiced in China and among the Chinese diaspora since the Iron Age when the Chinese civilization emerged.


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