Folk beliefs (Sanping Patriarch Beliefs), local traditional folk customs in Pinghe County, Fujian Province, are one of the national intangible cultural heritages. Sanping Patriarch Beliefs are rich in content, including "Servant" wheel sacrifice, "Tiger Servant", alms, Sanping Patriarch pilgrimage, borrowing money, poetry, shaking fortune cups, etc. The belief originated from Sanping Patriarch (781872 AD), who was born in Futang (now Fuqing City) and gradually evolved into a Buddhist secular god after his death. The thousand-year-old Sanping Temple, located in Wenfeng Town, Pinghe County, was founded by the late Tang monk Yi Zhong Zen Master in the fifth year of Tang Huichang (845). The temple is built on the mountain, low in front and high in the back, with a symmetrical structure. The architectural pattern of three and a half halls is rare in the country. The temple enshrines Yi Zhong Zen Master (781872 AD), who was named Master Guangji and commonly known as "Sanping Patriarch". Sanping Patriarch's ancestral home is Gaoling, Shaanxi Province. He was born in Futang (now Fuqing City) and gradually evolved into a Buddhist secular god after his death. Sanping Temple is popular with worshippers all year round. Worship activities for the Sanping Patriarch of Zhangzhou and Taiwan are held every year. Especially on the sixth day of the first lunar month (the birthday of Sanping Patriarch), the sixth day of the sixth lunar month (the anniversary of Sanping Patriarch's becoming a monk), and the sixth day of the eleventh lunar month (the day of Sanping Patriarch's death), the incense is even more prosperous. The religious activities of Sanping Patriarch are rich in content, including "servant" round sacrifice, "tiger servant", alms, pilgrimage to Sanping Patriarch, borrowing money, poetry, shaking fortune cups, etc. "Servant" round sacrifice custom: There is a kind of black non-venomous snake growing in the Sanping Village area of Wenfeng Town, Pinghe County, Fujian Province. The small ones are more than one foot long. The local people regard snakes as gods that protect their homes from harm and they respectfully call them "servants". The custom of believing in "tiger servants": the ancestral hall and the pagoda hall of Sanping Temple both enshrine Sanping Patriarch, who is also worshipped as "snake servant" and "tiger servant". The custom of giving alms: if you meet "people who go out to make a living" along the way, you should be compassionate and give them coins. The custom of making pilgrimages to Sanping Patriarch: worship the statue of Sanping Patriarch. The custom of borrowing money: pilgrims who are engaged in business or farming can also ask for several coins from the stone niches in the pagoda hall of Sanping Patriarch, intending to borrow money from Sanping Patriarch in order to make a fortune. The custom of believing in poem sticks: in order to meet the needs of good men and women seeking Buddha's advice and medicine, the abbot used the Chinese herbal medicine prescriptions left by Yi Zhong in the form of poem sticks to help all living beings. The custom of shaking the stick cup: a small bamboo piece engraved with the sequence symbols of the stick poems and used for divination is called a stick, and two clam-shaped wooden or bamboo blocks are called a cup. In 2009, Sanping Zushi Belief was included in the third batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage list by the People's Government of Fujian Province; on November 11, 2014, folk beliefs (Sanping Zushi Belief) were approved by the State Council of the People's Republic of China to be included in the fourth batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, with the project number X-85.