Mile Belief Of Qing Zhou Aera In The Period Of North Dynasties

"Mile in every family, Guanyin in everyone's heart".That shows the close relationship between Mile and followers. In the later of 20th century,there were a large number of Buddism statue excavated in Qingzhou and its nearby aera,Shandong Province,which mainly refers to Miles.According to these information and referring to historical documents,the paper discusses the relationship between the political,ecnomic and cultural surroundings in Qingzhou aera and Mile belief during the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.It also reveals the feature and importance of Mile belief in Qingzhou aera.The following is the detail arrangement of the paper.At first,the paper illustrates that Qingzhou aera was both an prosperous region and a place of strategic importance in national war and the conflict between warlords.This provided the chance for the development of Buddism in the aera.Secondly,with the analysis of Mile statue,we can know that the small statue was made exquisitely and mainly made of stone because the aera owned aboundant limestone.Owing to the aera far away from the political centre,the local people became the maker of the statue.Although the local people were familiar with Mile classic and they cared for the nation,they mixed the Mile belief with other belief,which showed the state of utilization and secularization of the public belief. Thirdly, the paper analyses the style and character of Mile statue in Qingzhou aera. During the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the location of Qingzhou aera is north to the Southern Dynasties,south to the Hebei aera,east to the sea. This location made the style of the statue more complex. The craftsmen made the style uniquely by absorbing the essence of different aera and its local character. "The falling dragon", whose four legs rising,made by them showed'the dragon's birth accompanied by Mile and its spirit of saving the public,with its head up and its tail down.This catered for the local people's belief that dragon means luck so that the statue manufacture became very popular.At last,the paper tries to find the reason of Mile belief in Qingzhou aera. The propaganda of the Buddhist,the adovacation by the ruler and the disaster that frequently occurred all made the Mile belief become popular in Qingzhou aera.Although many famous monks adovacated the Mile belief during the period of Sui and Tang Dynasty,it became unpopular gradually with the depression by the ruler and the rising of Metuo belief,which was still not extinct. Mile's idea that adovacating "human Buddism" and practising with mercy is helpful to current people to promote their own moral qualities. Learning and spreading the content and spirit of Mile belief is necessarily meaningful both in theory and reality to reveal its social reality.