On The Influence Of Orthodoxy In The Early Twentieth Century Upon Harbin’s People’s Lives

The growth history of Harbin is very special, it is different from other mainland cities inChina, it can be said to be a city born of railway. With the building of Mid-east railway,Harbin developed rapidly from a closed fishing village to the domestic and foreignwell-known, open boom city, from the late19thcentury to the early20thcentury. During thisperiod of Harbin appeared the coexistence of multiple religions, which are rare in the historyof religion in Chinese and even in the world, the most representative and influential wasundoubtedly Russia’s Orthodox Church. The orthodox church built a large number of differentstyles. Visitors are struck by these Russian-style architectural style. Many Russianimmigrants also regarded Harbin as their ideal city and second hometown.Although the Orthodox church is with aggression into Harbin, had committedunforgivable crime, but at the same time it also had a positive effect,we should make anobjected evaluation.Viewed from the Angle of Studying the Harbin’s People’s lives, with a lotof newspapers and magazines as historical data,by discussing the reasons that propagation anddevelopment of Eastern Orthodoxy in Harbin, introducting and analysing the propagationprocess of Eastern Orthodoxy in Harbin, to reveal the influence of the orthodoxy in Harbin.Although the main orthodox believers is Russian in Harbin,but its influence has exceeded thescope of Russian.These influences have mainly in four aspects.The first one is the Orthodox impacts on the cultural education,inclulding the educationof Harbin, western music education and publishing industry. Promote the formation of themodern education system and the development of the modern press, lay the foundation ofWestern music education in Harbin.The second one is the Orthodox impacts on the public undertakings, inclulding to carryout a variety of charitable activities and charities.It has a very important role in Harbin’sphilanthropy,promotes to spread widely about western modern charity thought in Harbin.The three one is the Orthodox impacts on the social customs,including the Harbin peopleclothing fashion,food culture and enterainment activities. Rich people’s material life and Harbin spiritual life and lay the foundation of the development of modern entertainmentactivities in Harbin.The four one is the Orthodox impacts on the city architecture culture in Harbin,inclulding Harbin city layout, people living culture, the city and the church architecturestyle. Lay the foundation of modern city of Harbin construction and promote the development of the modern construction of Harbin.The Orthodoxy will have revolutionary consequences for the Harbin’s People’s lives,today, we still see traces of it. So, for the Orthodox studies should pay more attention to by theacademic circles.