著名国际汉学家饶宗颐先生指出,潮汕善堂文化的特色,是潮汕人现实主义处世观点,糅合释、儒、道的哲学思想,所形成的特色文化。潮汕慈善文化,自宋末高僧释大峰传入潮汕以来,逐步兴盛,虽一度衰落,但却以其对社会人类的功德价值而再度兴起,成为人们崇尚的美好道德标志之一,且在近代以来,成为了一种信仰,在潮汕海外华侨中广为传播,促进了他们爱国爱乡的善举,有利于祖国 Mr. Rao Zongyi, a famous international sinologist, pointed out that Chaoshan Shantang culture features Chaoshan Realism’s philosophy of life and its unique culture formed by the philosophy of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism. Chaoshan charity culture, since the Song Dynasty monk released the peak into the Chaoshan, gradually prosperous, though once declined, but with its rewards for the social and human rewards, it has become one of the noble moral symbols of advocacy, and in modern times , Became a kind of faith, widely disseminated among the overseas Chinese in Chaoshan and promoted their goodwill in patriotism and love of their country, which is good for the motherland