This is an involved question, but one of the main reasons might be that Chinese civilization developed in the temperate zone, while most others, such as in Egypt and India for example, arose in the tropics.
泛靈信仰所崇拜的自然神、靈魂神與物神，在現代眼光看來，似乎無稽、不可思議，然而，瞭解它的發生背景之後，就不會覺得如表面看來那樣不合理性。