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Future Direction Of Chinese Folk Beliefs From The Reconstruction Of A Village Temple

Posted on:2014-08-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y GuanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330401475115Subject:Folklore
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Folk beliefs deeply rooted in China’s grass-roots community, and even experienced a devastating blowto the traditional folk beliefs yet to cut off China’s grassroots, and relax with the national policy ofgradually recovery. The folk belief one of the signs of the recovery is around the temple complex was built.Since the eighties of the last century, around the temple have reconstruction, folk religion flourished inChinese grassroots again. The temple reconstruction work carried out smoothly behind embodies thevarious forces involved in the reconstruction of the different concepts, these ideas turn, suggests that thetrue state of the folk beliefs in the context of modern society, these concepts with modern The feature canalso be regarded as a folk belief is one of the modern evaluation criteria.The first part of this article introduced the South of Sekimura Overview and Guan Di Temple of thestatus quo. Said Gongming S. Sekimura public facilities, the clan forces and the village committee’sinfluence, and introduced South Gate Guandimiao’s history and current situation. South Sekimura a Huivillage inhabited village close to half of the population are Hui minorities support policies, the impact ofthe Qi County territory two halal food business recruitment, the living conditions of South Sekimura HuiHan generally better that at the same time due to the impact of the Hui "Baotuan children" nationalcharacteristics, as well as the village committee generated reasons, mainly composed of the villagecommittee leadership team to Hui villagers had little impact. The the South Gate Guandimiao as the SouthGate of the village temple, the Han villagers in South Gate, this far-reaching influence, the complex wasbuilt in Guandimiao South Gate villagers full advantage of the power of grass roots completed.The second chapter is the focus of this article chapters, this chapter the reconstruction processintroduced Guandimiao reflect grassroots concept. Guandimiao rebuild not just folk revival of faith, more amix of many other factors. To fight a guerrilla war, and later with the civil elite forces to successfullyrebuild the temple, this source of power in addition to beliefs, still exists today and to a large extentdetermine the grassroots is from the beginning of the temple was built with the Bureau of Religious AffairsThe concept of civic action. Has entered the modern society, the concept of grassroots and not change muchfrom another perspective, the analysis of these concepts, opened a folk revivalist behind. The third chapter describes the Guan Gong Temple to play the role of rehabilitation in South Sekimura.South Sekimura, the lack of public life, Guandimiao undoubtedly provides a public life, a place for peopleto people in areas of common concern limited to dissemination, to share the story of God and man, thisplace is not called the "public domain". To Guandimiao folk beliefs, totally did not see the power of theSouth of Sekimura the public life.
Keywords/Search Tags:folk religion, civil society, the concept of grassroots
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