自魏晉南北朝以來,佛教和道教都在不約而同地對自己的宗教儀軌進行整理。到隋唐五代時期,這些儀軌已經以一種相當成熟與規范化的面目運用于各自的宗教活動中,同時也被普遍應用于民間的信仰活動中。過去儀式相對簡單、粗陋的民間信仰活動出現了程式化的趨勢。民間信仰在吸收、整合了佛道儀軌后,以一種十分復雜的面貌出現,深刻地影響著宋明以后民眾的諸類信仰活動。

Since the Wei,Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties,Buddhism and Taoism are both finishing their religious rituals.To the Sui,Tang and the Five Dynasties era,these rituals had been widely practiced in their religious activities as well as in the folk religious activities in a rather mature and normative face.Folk religion with relative simple and humble rituals had a formative trend.After absorbing and integrating the rituals of Buddhism and Taoism,the folk religion appeared with a very complex appearance,and profoundly influenced all kinds of religious activities of people after Song Dynasty and Ming Dynasty.