What is a pilgrimage?

How is the holy place in the hearts of believers formed? British scholar Taylor said in his book Shunshi Culture Divination that animistic worship is the source of all religions - the concept of the soul Used for all things to produce animism; used for non-living natural objects to produce natural gods and nature worship; used for dead ancestors to produce ancestor worship; and then developed into polytheism and monotheism. Most current religious scholars accept Taylor's view of the origins of religion. No matter which stage of human society and history, people as individuals will face two objects of recognition - themselves and the environment outside themselves. When the individual "I" is still young and unable to actively contact and understand the environment, they have to experience a series of physiological and psychological phenomena such as sleep, dreams, diseases, mysteries, etc., which will increase with age until death. Without the support of scientific rational understanding, primitive people unconsciously developed the concept of soul. However, primitive people do not only exist as natural persons, they must have contact with others, but they cannot explain how they came to be, which leads to the collective unconsciousness of totem worship and ancestor worship. At the same time, as they grow older, they must face their own living environment, but the initial incompetence of people in the face of natural phenomena will inevitably induce people's fear, awe and worship of natural phenomena. Subsequently, after the concept of human soul was given wings of imagination and combined with mysterious natural phenomena, the unique phenomenon of polytheistic worship of humans emerged. With the development of human society and the improvement of people's cognitive ability, systematic religion was born on the basis of primitive religion. As a result, the objects of people's worship were abstracted from specific mountains, lakes, animals, plants, etc. to personified bodies such as God, Allah, Buddha, etc. From the above understanding, the essence of "holy land" is the place where souls are located - the souls of ancestors, the souls of gods, the soul of God, the soul of Allah, and the soul of Lord Buddha. It is also the place where human souls can be controlled. place. To sum up, the essence of the so-called pilgrimage should be that religious believers use relatively fixed and programmed behavioral patterns to express their worship and awe to the sacred soul in order to satisfy their strong desires. It is the pilgrim's own soul and the soul of sacred awe. Private communication and communication between each other, and the behavioral patterns displayed by pilgrims are only tools for soul communication. Therefore, pilgrims from different religions in the world can use different communication tools, and believers of the same religious belief can also use different behavioral patterns during the pilgrimage