Taiwan is an island in the Pacific Ocean and used to be called “Formosa” (a beautiful island). People on the island are active, free, and energetic. Due to its unique development history and open island topography, Taiwan inherits the essece of Chinese culture and absorbs abundance of culture from outside at the same time, thus creating a new and brilliant ethnic heritage. In Taiwan’s history of struggling for life, folk activities play a very important part. The folk activities do not only display Taiwan people’s traditional way of living and religious belief, but also exhibit their long history, cultural resources, conscience of time and space, and philosophy of life. In Taiwan, boisterous sound of gongs and drums can be heard in every big and small streets, and marching teams consisting of colorful artistic troupes and religious parades can be seen everywhere when there is a temple festival. Religious parades usually perform plays while marching forwards; some plays are funny, and some are highly skillful, attracting a lot of attention from people. No matter how the times change, parade plays are always an important part of the marching teams at Taiwan’s temple festivals. The performing types and marching teams at Taiwan’s temple festivals. The performing types and contents of parade plays ehibit the history of early settlers in Taiwan as well as the diverse aspects of Taiwan people in religious belief, social life, economic mode, education and culture. Therefore, this article is to make an in-depth investigation about the characteristics of parade plays at Taiwan’s temple festivals. Aside from the preface and conclusion, this article contains four parts-introduction of religious parades at Taiwan’s temple festivals, performing types of parade plays, preforming contents of parade plays, and performing time and place of parade plays and interaction with the audience.