The Anglican Church Of England And Xiapu In Modern Society

After the First Opium War, the British missionary went overseas and brought the belief of Anglican Church of England to the province of Fujian, Zhejiang and Shanghai. From then on, the exchange of religious between Fujian and British happen. With the deepening of the missionary enterprise, the range of Anglican mission expand from Fuzhou to the surrounding scrap. The county of Xiapu is the political and cultural center of Funing at that time, the Anglican naturally taked it as an important missionary area and invested great manpower and material resources. Church Missionary Society and Dublin University Fukien Mission which are the subordinate societies of the Anglican Church of England were responsible for the missionary in Xiapu, the latter play a more important role than the former. According to their respective geographical environment and cultural tradition, the people who lives in the territory of Xiapu can be divided into four, the Han nationality into the mountain, the She nationality, the Han nationality by the sea, Boat dweller. Four groups have different clan consciousness, people of each ethnic group make a different reaction when the spreaded in their own villages. In the process of accepting and adapting to the Anglican Church of England resulted in some changes in the religious culture, clan consciousness and the rural politics of Xiapu in modern society.