The Study Of Guangze King Faith

Guangze King is one of the important gods which has a considerable influencein Fujian, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Taking the development of Guangze King faithas a case, and basing on the material of literature and field work , this papertrys to prove the name, nationality territoriality, dates of birth and death, thegrant of Guangze King, and makes an attempt to describe the process of image changeof the god from "loyalty" to the combination of "Filial Piety" and "loyalty" .From the universality of the times, geographical uniqueness, this paper analyzesthe reasons of the mage change and gets the general law of the change. Using alot of materials of field work, this paper analyzes the origination, the developmentand the present situation of "13 Prince" which is full of special characteristics,then summarizes the new features of relations of Guangze Temple, through Worshipceremony. At last, the paper talks about the functions change of Guangze King fromthe facters of migration of the ancient and the modern time, trys to interprettwo Records about Guangze King that appeared at the same time in order to compareand analyze the diffierences and reasons between them.