撰于中唐的李吉甫《元和郡县图志》(本文或简称《志》)作为正史地理志的扩充,“为我国现存最早又较完整的地方总志”~([1]),史料价值是很大的。其中所涉及宗教者,主要在于其所载之祠庙。该书所载祠庙等各类宗教场所并不多,肯定和当时这类场所实际存在状况数量上非常悬殊。那么这种情况说明了什么?仅仅记载这些有限的宗教场所,是因为当时人对这些数目有限的祠庙有着特别的重视?还是仅出于李吉甫个 As an extension of Geographical History of Zhengshi, Li Ji-fu’s “Map of the Yuanhe County” (referred to as “Zhi” in this article) written in the middle of Tang dynasty is the earliest and more complete local general record in China [1] The historical value is great. The religious people involved are mainly the temples contained therein. The book contains temples and other religious sites are not many, certainly at the time of such places and the actual number of the situation is very poor. So what does this case mean? Just documenting these limited places of worship because of the special attention paid to these limited number of temples, or to Li Ji-fu alone