chinese folk religion is a religion that has been practised in china for thousands of years. there are at least 800,000,000 followers of chinese folk religion worldwide (estimate). most if not all of these followers are also followers of buddhism, confucianism and taoism, as these three philosophy-religions are major influences of china's folk religion. the influence from and to these three philosophy-religions goes to the extent that some mythical figures from folk culture have merged into those philosophy-religions and vice versa.