笔者一向认为,民间信仰活动,是一种复杂、多元的文化现象,绝不能简单地以迷信二字概括;它的产生,它的发展,它的经久不衰,它的屡禁而不绝,也决非“迷信”两字可以解释.民间信仰活动,往往是多种社会功能的集合体,只有对它进行深入的调查与研究,弄清它的多元结构,剔除它的槽粕,挖掘它健康积极的因素,才能将其引导到有利于现代化建设的轨道上来. The author has always believed that folk belief activity is a complex and pluralistic cultural phenomenon and must not simply be summed up in the superstition; its birth, its development, its enduring, its repeated prohibition, Nor is it “superstition.” Folk beliefs are often aggregates of various social functions. Only by conducting an in-depth investigation and research on it, clarifying its multiple structure, removing its trough and digging it out Healthy and positive factors in order to guide them to the track conducive to modernization.