四川是清代中国变革最深刻、最复杂的省份之一。战争、疾病、虎患、疫病等种种天灾人祸使“天府之国”原有“土著”消亡殆尽,经济、政治、文化几近摧毁。清初以来,延续百年的“湖广填四川”的移民大潮重新构建了四川人口结构和新四川的地方性文化。在外部压力和内部变革的双重作用下,清代四川民间信仰呈现出鲜明的时代特征。神祇崇祀的人格化、务实性、世俗化、商业化倾向明显,神祇来源以本土神灵为主,兼容并蓄,信仰体系的本土性与开放性同时存在。
As one of the provinces witnessing the most profound and complicated social changes in Qing dynasty, Sichuan suffered various natural and man-made disasters such as war, epidemic diseases and tiger calamities, which caused the “natives” of the “Land of Abundance” disappear and almost completely destroyed the local economy, politics and culture. While the “Immigration of Huguang People into Sichuan”, a century-long immigration waves ever since the early of Qing dynasty, restructured the popu-lation structure and regional culture of the new Sichuan. Under the dual function of external pressure and internal social changes, the folk beliefs of Sichuan in Qing dynasty enjoy distinct features of that era. The trend of personification, pragmatically, secular-ization and commercialization of the worship of deities becomes more obvious. The deities are mainly rooted in local deities and sprits and together with those from the outside, which makes the common-existence of locality and openness of beliefs structure.