清代四川民间信仰与经济发展相辅相成。一方面,经济发展促成了祠庙、会馆等信仰中心的大量兴建和兴盛;经济的发展使农业神、水神、财神等神灵被大量崇祀;手工业的繁荣使行业神崇拜尤为兴盛。另一方面,民间信仰会以各种形式反作用于清代地方经济。祠庙、会馆的兴建促进场镇的形成和繁荣;不断积累的祠庙经济日益成为地方经济体系的重要补充;异常突出和活跃的庙会、迎神赛会对于地区经济交流和商业的发展同样起着非常重要的促进作用。区域经济发展状况与开发格局也同样是民间信仰的区域差异形成的重要原因。
The development of popular religions and economy of Sichuan in Qing dynasty were complementarily connected. On the one hand,economic development contributed to the construction and prosperity of a large number of temples and other guild belief centers, and economic development led to more gods ’ worship,such as God of agriculture,water god,God of wealth. Handicrafts ’ prosperity caused the industry gods worship especially prosperous. On the other hand, the popular religions reacted to the local economy in Qing dynasty in a variety of forms. Temple hall construction everywhere promoted the formation and prosperity of towns. The continued accu-mulation of temple economy increasingly became an important supplement to the local economic system. Prominent and active temple, an idolatrous procession for the development of regional economic exchanges and trade also played a very important role in improving. The pattern of regional economic development and exploitation was also an important reason for the formation of regional differences in the popular religions.