Chinese folk religion is the most explicit and common form of religious practice in the immediate lives of the bulk of Chinese people who live in rural villages.

Reverence for the ancestors (a concern for where we come from)

• the dead ancestors of family and the larger society continue to be seen as active members of the family/society - an interaction between the world of the dead and the world of the living.

• The living perform ritual offerings to the dead as a way of giving them what they need to be comfortable, especially respect due to one’s elders.

• Without this attention, the dead spirits might haunt us in their craving for attention (called "hungry ghosts")

• Priests perform ritual exorcisms or cleansing purification of spaces to drive out evil spirits

Astrology: Related to gravitational pull of all bodies in space in relation to each other. Seeks to understand how the energy at work in the cosmos at the time and place of one’s birth influences one throughout one’s life and how one’s own energy interacts with various energies of others and of objects, colors, numbers, etc. (the basis of Feng Shui, the Chinese art of placement).