义民爷,台湾民间又称作义民公、忠勇公、将军、大将军等,为祭祀那些死于保乡卫民、除暴安良的“忠义”之士的用名。民间认为这些人的鬼魂孤寂无祀,便将他们的遗骸收集埋葬,并称他们为义民爷,墓地称作义民塚,所建祠庙称为义民庙。义民爷与台湾民间信仰中的大众爷有相似之处,均为孤魂之祀,所不同的是,前者多死于所谓“义”,而后者则多死于非命。在台湾历史上,绝大多数的义民,是死于朱一贵、林爽文、吴福生事件和分类械斗中的。我们知道,分类械斗属于不同祖籍的人们所组成的地方集 Yoshitada Yoshitada, Taiwan folk also known as the righteous public, loyal brave, generals, generals, etc., for the sacrifice of those who died in the protection of the people, except the safety of the “loyalty” of the name. The folk think these people’s ghosts lonely, they will be buried in the remains of the collection, and said they are righteous people, the cemetery is called the righteous people mound, built the temple called the righteousness temple. Yoshinoyu and Taiwan’s folk beliefs in the public have similarities are sacrificial allusions, the difference is that the former died of so-called “righteousness,” while the latter are more dead. In the history of Taiwan, the vast majority of the righteous people died in the fighting against Zhu Yiguang, Lin Shuangwen and Wu Fusheng. We know that the classification of fighting belongs to a set of places of people of different ancestral home