As a new social fact appearing ever since the reform and opening-up, re-building of temples is being a problem of great importance in the field of folk religion research. Based on the ethnography in middle Hunan Province, this paper exhibits the homeomorphism phenomenon in the temple re-building process. Under the frame of "nation-state-local government-actor", the author analyses the re-building process as well as the power structure, tactics of action of the masses and the dilemma of state institutions and local government, which are indica...