英文摘要:The belief of “Sixty Earth Guardian” was original from the belief of “Earth Guardian” and developed to be popular and mature in about recent 2 decades in Taiwan. Specialized spaces for “Earth Guardian Palace” exist in many large-scale temples for people’s worship in current Taiwan. According to a survey, the origin of “Sixty Earth Guardian” in Taiwan is from the conception of “Yuanchen Palace” in “Paiyun Temple” of Beijing. As time goes by, over twenty years later, this belief has been developing more and more popular since the society, political and economical condition is not stable in Taiwan. Meanwhile, people’s instable psychology caused this popular as well. The newly emerging “Sixty Earth Guardian” has becoming a folk belief gradually. Therefore, we must put emphasis on the importance of the activity “Worship the Earth Guardian”. Numbers of people streamed to different temples in Taiwan for “Pacifying Sixty Earth Guardian” activity, wishing a good luck of coming year during every New Year. However, with the hot popularity, seldom people talked about its significance because of the sense of mystery and fear to jinnee, which is the very reason superstition occurred. Therefore main intention of this paper is to research on the origin and significance of the belief of “Sixty Earth Guardian” as well as the folk conception on it. Focusing on southern part of Taiwan, with the comparison of wide discovery of literature with public opinion, we are respecting to outline the various styles and actual contents of the “Sixty Earth Guardian” belief. In respect of above mentioned purpose, this paper will focus on 3 key points: 1) Researching on the original significance and trend in the future: Various viewpoints from specialized literature books on the belief of “Sixty Earth Guardian” shall be studied and investigated to have an anatomy to the folk significance of this jinnee “Earth Guardian”. This paper will give us a complete illustration on “Sixty Earth Guardian”, Chinese Twelve Animal Symbols and sorcery from different scopes. 2) Researching on the fete status of “Sixty Earth Guardian” belief: This paper will aim at the design conception of the fete spaces, joss establishment status and multiple fete forms as well as an integrated survey on the fete space of this belief in Tainan Metropolis. Then the developing status of “Sixty Earth Guardian” belief will be learned and concluded finally. This paper is respecting that easy outline of “Sixty Earth Guardian” belief can be presented for adherents to observe, avoiding any superstition. 3) Researching on the deriving and unsolved issues and advance the future orientation for reference; “Sixty Earth Guardian” is a newly emerging topic in Cross-straits. Thus the depth and scope is still in a developing phase. The writer raises the personal viewpoint to the deriving and unsolved issues according to the conclusion of this research for future promising people’s reference.