Famine And The Historical Evolution Of Temple Belief At Northern Anhui In The Ming And Qing Dynasties

The flood,the drought and the locust plague happened frequently at northern Anhui in the Ming and Qing dynasties,which had a profound effect on the local social culture at that time.In this paper,the temple belief evolution of northern Anhui in the Ming and Qing dynasties is the research object,specifically analyze the different types of temple belief,by investigating the change of the temple belief of northern Anhui in the Ming and Qing dynasties to explore the relationship of famine and the characters of social spirit culture. The full text of six chapters, about70000words. Chapters content are summarized as follows:The first chapter is introduction, first of all, introduce the reason of my topic choice and the research object, at second to summarize the relevant academic research results before, finally make a brief introduction of research thought and basic material.Chapter2, firstly,introduce the flood,the drought and the locust plague of northern Anhui in the Ming and Qing dynasties,then briefly introduce the temple belief of northern Anhui in the Ming and Qing dynasties to make a background for the following specific discussion.Chapter3explore the rain and drought god belief at northern Anhui in the Ming and Qing dynasties,mainly the Dragon god and the Town god.Firstly, introduce the time and space distribution of dragon temple and town temple at northern Anhui in the Ming and Qing dynasties, to make a explain of the relationship between water and drought disaster and the rain&drought god temple’s construction. Secondly,explore the central and local’s ceremony which prays for rain to the Dragon and the Town god,use examples to prove the status and function of the Dragon god and the Town god,through this showed that rain and drought influence the belief of northern Anhui’s officer and the people.Chapter4make the locust gods faith in the Ming and Qing dynasties of northern Anhui as the investigation object. Mainly discuss the Bala god’s and Liu meng general god’s origin,clerical and gods status changes, to reveal the influence of locust plague and the central rulers’ decision-making and folk strength on the rise and fall of the two kinds of faith.Chapter5discuss the water conservancy god Jinlongsidawang belief at northern Anhui in Ming and Qing dynasties.Firstly,introduce the identity,the function and the status changes of Jinlongsidawang,then explain the distribution and features of Jinlongsidawang temples at northern Anhui, finally, in combination with the practical situation of Wuhe area region, discuss the effects of flood for religious choices and social relations.Chapter6,epilogue part, summarize the relationship between the famine and the temple belief of northern Anhui in the Ming and Qing dynasties.This paper argues that the flood,the drought,the locust plague multiple natural environment of northern Anhui in the Ming and Qing dynasties make the rain&dry god faith,the locust god faith and the water conservancy god faith as choice. The time and space distribution fo this three type temples reflect the actual disaster situation,and the construction and discard of those temples reveal the governor’s attitude and the folk strength’s will.At the same time,the temple belief’s historical evolution process become an important part of the northern Anhui society and history in the Ming and Qing dynasties.