The Confucian direction in popular religion is a special phenomenon in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, i. e. the sacrifice to the supernatural spirits was made to comply with the Confucian standard.

• 摘要信仰儒家化是明清时期民间信仰中值得关注的一类特殊现象，它是指神灵在纳入国家祀典后，其形象被改造成符合儒家道德标准的现象。