Ming-Qing Beijing Women's Pilgrim

Pilgrim is an old folk custom has been to the Ming and Qing dynasties have become a very common in society, is also true in the Beijing area. more eye-catching is the pilgrimage massive participation of women in the ranks, and even say that women constitute the worship team of the major groups. As we all know, the ancient Chinese women's social status is very underground, their living space is extremely limited, especially in the propriety of the Ming and Qing dynasties prevailed. Seemingly contradictory existence of social phenomena there are the inevitable, because Ming is China's feudal society, an important transitional period, the late Ming era, was when people said it was "heaven and earth into the crack," "decadent wave sweeping" and "extremely chaotic world", subject to various kinds of new social thinking, coupled with the Beijing area "no health mother," Bixia Yuanjun goddess of folk religion such as unusually active, the Beijing women's lives and religious beliefs has created a great impact. Belief is belief in spirits of ordinary people is an integral part of everyday life, Then, visit the Ming and Qing Beijing women's social life, combined with a great reputation in the Ming and Qing Dynasties Bixia Yuanjun goddess of women religious concepts, and women to worship the Goddess Bixia Yuanjun the specific circumstances from a new perspective pry into the lives of women in most real circumstances and inner feelings, as well as a social function. In this paper, the following five aspects for analysis:Partâ… , Introduction. The topics of this paper describes origins and significance of the status of domestic and foreign-related research and research ideas and methods.Second part of the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Beijing Women's pilgrim's social background, that is, an overview of religious development during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Ming and Qing Beijing overview of the characteristics of religion, and then analysis of Beijing women's active participation in pilgrim's the main reason. These are lies background discussion, laying the groundwork for the following studies. The third part of the goddess of faith Bixia Yuanjun the origin, evolution, and the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing to explore the development process and then pay homage to the Beijing women's place, time, participatory approach, the purpose of pilgrimage in detail several aspects of The inspection, which is to examine one of the ways women's lives normal, but also the focus of this paper.The fourth part of the Beijing women's monastery of this social behavior generated by the religious, cultural and socio-economic features such as deeper analysis, which is to deepen some of this research topic.Part V Conclusion. Discussion of the full text of a final conclusion.