What are the religious activities in our history?

Religion is a historical phenomenon of the development of human society to a certain stage, for thousands of years, religion is almost omnipresent, profoundly affecting all aspects of human beings. As a part of human civilization, religion is not only closely related to philosophy, culture, art, law and morality, etc., it is also extremely close to geography. It shows a unique style in architecture, settlements, costumes and other cultural landscapes. Therefore, it is extremely important to study religion from the geographical point of view. Religion as a cultural phenomenon has an extremely close relationship with tourism and is an important tourism resource. Different regions and different kinds of religions form religious cultural landscapes with different characteristics. The study of China's religious geographic features, study the role and relationship between religion and cultural landscape, religious tourism for the depth of development of tourism resources, the sustainable and stable development of tourism is of great significance.

I. Religion and Cultural Landscape

Cultural landscape is a complex of cultural phenomena on the surface of the ground, which reflects the geographic characteristics of a region. Religion is an important part of culture. It remains in the cultural landscape of the imprint is very obvious, constituting a characteristic religious tourism resources.

The influence of religion on the cultural landscape is mainly manifested in the influence of architecture. Religious architecture in the history of architecture occupies an important position, many of its commonly used artistic techniques have been influencing the form of architecture for thousands of years, with special expressive power. Religion influences the form, orientation and density and distribution of religious buildings. In those primitive religions with close ecological relations, the distribution of religious architecture is not widespread, and its status is not prominent. Religious buildings in national religious systems are not only widely distributed, but also magnificent. If you look at the war in Iraq, in Arab towns and villages, beautifully ornate and magnificent mosques abound, and even in small, remote villages, Muslims build mosques in order to pray and give.

Religion and cultural landscape are interacting with each other. Religion influences the formation and evolution of cultural landscapes in different regions, and the special religious atmosphere of cultural landscapes formed under the influence of different religions also makes religion more attractive and mysterious, thus promoting the development of religion.

The world's famous mountain monks accounted for more. After years of construction, famous mountains with beautiful scenery were occupied by Buddhist and Taoist monks and became religious mountains, and it was these cultural landscapes with religious contents as the core that constituted the bases for the development of religions and reliance on them. These bases became the source of religious development, from which it spread and spread to various places.

In order to promote the development of religion, the religious forces did their best to apply their exquisite artistic skills to the sacred cause, so that the light of the divine spirit would add the splendor of art. Sculpture, painting, and drawing created solemn and benevolent images of the gods and provided objects of worship for the faithful. Music, dance and poetry infuse the deity with the spirituality and emotion of love, care and salvation of mankind. This material and immaterial cultural landscape is a form of sensual emotion through image, vocal music, poetry and modeling to strengthen people's religious mentality and religious feelings, to attract more believers and to promote the development of religion.

Two, strengthen the religious research, improve tourism development

Tourism is one of the world's fast-growing sunrise industry. Religious tourism is a tourism activity with development potential. Participate in religious tourism activities, including both to the religious shrine pilgrimage cloud tour of religious sites, religious ceremonies held in religious sites of religious people, but also by the attraction of its religious atmosphere to come to the non-religious believers. China's human landscape resources are very rich, and religious landscape is an important part of it. As far as mountains are concerned, there are four famous Buddhist mountains; there are even more famous Taoist mountains, known as the "36 Cave Temples" and "72 Blessed Places", in addition to numerous grottoes and countless religious buildings. In addition, there are numerous grottoes and countless religious buildings. Many of them have become the symbols of the scenic outlines of different parts of China.

Religious tourists are mostly non-religious believers, as the so-called "half of the incense for tourists", most of them are borrowing the "Buddha" to go out to visit the scenery, see the fun, buy things. In fact, after years of evolution in our country, many religious activities have lost their original meaning into an influential folk activities, thus constituting an important element of tourism. Popular in the country's temple fair is so. The temple fair is actually a major trade fair, cultural and entertainment gatherings. Every day, thousands of people come to the fair, and it is a very lively event. This is all because of the "temple". It can be said that the temple fair is a kind of religious tourism.

Three, try to draft the Taoist tourism development in Maoshan Mountain

Project name: Maoshan Mountain - Taoism on the please send tracing cultural tour. (1) Resource background: A. Mao Shan is a famous Taoist mountain, Shangqing School, the birthplace of the talisman school, the spread and development of Taoism in China and Southeast Asia has a significant impact. The mountain has a long history and is rumored to be the place where the three Mao brothers practiced Taoism. Stone carvings and celebrity inscriptions can be seen everywhere in the mountain, constituting a humanistic landscape with Taoist culture as its content.

B. Taoism is an authentic, indigenous Chinese traditional religion, is a treasure of Chinese traditional culture, Taoist culture is compatible with a hundred schools of thought, extensive integration and absorption of ancient China's brilliant traditional religious and academic culture, a home-grown. All the ancient traditional religions, the Qin and Han dynasties, Taoism, Yin-Yang and Five Elements, Confucianism, folk medicine, health science, etc., are all under the main theme of immortality, help the world to help people, and converge into the Taoist cultural system. Mr. Lu Xun said well, "China's roots in Taoism".

(2) Program Functions:

A. Explore the source of traditional Chinese culture, mainly for tourists with higher cultural level.

B. Sightseeing tours, aimed at ordinary tourists.

(3) Project Development:

A. Taoist pilgrimage tours, tracing tours, picking up the steps, visiting the statue of Laozi, watching the inscriptions, etc., to feel the Taoist culture.

B. Restoration of normal religious activities, the opening of Taoist music appreciation and Taoist martial arts practice, the ornamental value of the scenery should strive to develop and explore, the formation of mountains, water, caves, view, forests, monuments combined with the scenic spots.

C. The addition of the Museum of Taoist History, Taoist Medical Research Society and so on.

D. Taoist commodities: medicinal wine, potion and Taoist books.