Research On The Belief Of Tianhou In Southwest China During The Ming And Qing Dynasties

Thean Hou,also known as mazu,was originally a famous Marine protection god in the coastal areas of putian,fujian,in the song dynasty.As the instance,range is more and more wide,who in the business trip,different ground HuanYou,interpersonal constantly brought their faith to the place to which,built around the country and even overseas days temple is a sign of its belief propagation,away from the sea southwest inland area in the Ming and qing dynasties there are days of faith,is a microcosm of the spread of their faith,too,are indicators of immigrants in the local social life.Spread to the southwest,temple building has many different names,this paper generally referred to as the "temple",to the Ming and qing dynasties in the southwest,temple as the center,to explore in the Ming and qing dynasties days belief in the southwest of space and time distribution,explore its development course,distribution and main activity in the flock,and their belief activities and beliefs characteristic analysis and research,try to restore history instance,southwest of the social life history of immigration.The specific research content is:The first chapter mainly introduces the background and characteristics of the topic selection,defines relevant concepts,and reviews the research history.The second chapter introduces the belief of queen of heaven in the song and yuan dynasties before it was introduced to southwest China,discusses the evolution and connotation of its image of gods,and sorts out the propagation process of belief before the Ming dynasty.Days later after the belief in the Ming dynasty,this article mainly is the queen of southwest construction as the center,to analyze its days after the time and space distribution of faith,because the content is more,so is divided into two parts: in the third chapter describes the southwest and the construction of basic situation,through to the southwest hundreds of data in this local Chronicles of statistics,sort out,temple architecture related construction situation,and according to the historical period in the southwest of the geographical map,map the geographical distribution of Thean Hou.In the fourth chapter,the introduction and the rise and fall of the belief of Thean Hou in southwest China are reviewed from the time sequence.The time span is from Ming dynasty to the late qing dynasty.On the other hand,the geographical distributionpattern of belief in diva in southwest China was observed and analyzed from a horizontal perspective,and the reasons for the distribution of belief,the main group of believers and their activities were analyzed.The fifth chapter,from the official and folk sacrifice study days faith belief activities and its characteristics,and analysis of immigrant groups in faith activity is how to make the selection of divine symbols and faith in the context of immigration is how to make immigrants seeking identity in guest township.Conclusion part,chapter 6 summarizes the full text,from a perspective of the macro historical period of days,including a summary on the history of religion in southwest to its space-time distribution,activities and characteristics of faith do a summary,several conclusions.Appendix part is the belief to southwest today since the days of the republic of China,and will be Thean Hou palace,the two existing in southwest part of this paper to do fieldwork,the body of the research content is to do a supplement.Days of faith,since the Ming dynasty was introduced into building the rise and fall of Thean Hou palace,as,regional development and change of social development,the transformation of political dynasties,is an important part of culture and social life in southwest,the belief activities is also the embodiment of traditional Chinese folk beliefs.At the same time,in the immigrant society,fujian YueJi gathered a large number of immigrants with fellow building numerous hall building,to worship the gods in your own self,and in fact is also in the context of five party clans of immigration,to their gods and common faith activities with native,separate from other foreign immigrants,seek identity,is the township of identity construction process in the guest.The temporal and spatial distribution of the belief of Thean Hou in southwest China is not only the social history of social development in southwest China,but also the life history of the business trade and migration of the fujian and guangdong immigrants in southwest China.