英文摘要:The “Ma-Tzu Belief” was originally from Meizhou at Putien in Fukien province during the Northern Sung dynasty, and became more popular. By the Chinese settlers in 17th century, the “Ma-Tzu Belief” was brought in via Penhu to Tainan, and further, to the northern and southern parts of Taiwan. As we know, all the Ma-Tzu temples situated in Tainan enjoy a significant and predominant status for not only having accumulated rich temple architectures and religious antiques, but also having cultivated many statue sculptors who, later on, pushed the “Art of Ma-Tzu Statue” to a level of style paradigm, and the influences were all over Taiwan. It is no doubt that Tainan is one of the important places to visit for any ongoing research on the “Art of Ma-Tzu Statue”. Since the lifting of martial law in the 1990’s, the academic circle has refocused its attention on localized folk culture. Studies related to religious culture have been upgraded in quality and quantity, particularly, the researches on “Ma-Tzu belief” has been going stronger than ever. But, compared to the result of studies on religious spiritual culture, the similar studies on religious material culture is still at its very beginning. Since 《 Folk Art in Taiwan 》(《台灣民間藝術》) written by Si, Der-Jean(席德進) and 《 Religious Art in Taiwan 》(《台灣宗教藝術》) written by Liu, wern-san(劉文三) being published in 1979, there are few related articles on the “Art of religious Statue” have been written, except for the 《Study on the Iconography of the Sculpture Arts of “Ma-zu” in Taiwan》(《台灣媽祖造像群圖像藝術研究》) by Wang, yern-e(王永裕), in 2002, and the 《Study on Aesthetics of the Sculpture Arts of “Ma-zu” in Taiwan》(《台灣媽祖造像美學研究》) by Wu, Rong-Tsyh(吳榮賜), in 2006. The need for more related articles or periodical journal articles on the topic of “Art of Ma-Tzu Statue” and/or aesthetic characteristic is still left desirable. Still, the articles on contemporary style of Ma-Tzu statues in different dynasties are far from being reached. In fact, the spiritualism and materialism of “Ma-Tzu Belief” has differed and changed from time to time, space to space and different demands of people. Although, the “Sculpturing of Statue” has its internal rule and professional technique to follow, the contemporary style resulting from the process of changes in different dynasties is visible. Viewing this, this research will take the existing “Ma-Tzu” temples situated in Tainan district as the object of study, and it is meant to describe the following items: One, the evolution of mythical description and statue style of “Ma-Tzu” from the “Ma-Tzu” legend being manifested to the Ming dynasty. Two, style evolution of “Ma-Tzu” Statue under the influence of politics, economy and culture after the “Ma-Tzu” Belief widely being accepted in Tainan district. Three and the final, Study on the religious, social and artistic characteristic of aesthetics of "Ma-Tzu" Statue.