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In her search for Chinese practices and beliefs in the Middle Ages, Valerie Hansen argues that social and economic developments lie in religious changes in South Song. Because he was…

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In her search for Chinese practices and beliefs in the Middle Ages, Valerie Hansen argues that social and economic developments lie in religious changes in South Song. Because he was not familiar with the contents of the Buddhist and Taoist texts, the ordinary people hired or prayed to God who thought he could heal the patient or bring rain.

As the economy developed rapidly, the gods, like the people they worshiped, diversified, expanding their influence as some gods began to deal with the national grain market, and others advised their followers in business. In order to trace this development, the author draws information from temple inscriptions, literary notes, the law of administrative law, and local history.

By comparing different rates of religious change in lowlands and highlands in the lower Yangzi valley, Hansen suggests that commercial and social developments were less extensive than previously thought. In 1100, almost all people in southern China worshiped the gods who were local residents before they died.

Increased farmers' movement in the lowland, rice-growing areas has led to the adoption of gods from other places. Communities in isolated mountainous areas have shown much less change.

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