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Title

The ritual space of Hongsheng Dawang and his five sons in "Nangang Fifteen Xiang"

English Abstract

Nangang Fifteen Xiang, located in the Huangpu District of Guangzhou, consist of a cluster of several villages. The people of have collectively worshipped Hongsheng Dawang in a special form. They not only worship Hongsheng Dawang together on his birthday, namely 13th of the Second month annually, but also worship five sons of Hongsheng Dawang. Each three xiangs worship one of sons. Making use of the framework of "ritual space", this study aims to explore how this special cult of Hongsheng Dawang works and why it forms by analyzing it in three levels. Firstly, centered on Hongsheng Dawang, a sense of cohesion and a large community came into being among the residents of Nangang Fifteen Xiang. Furthermore, centered as the son of Hongsheng Dawang, each three xiangs form a small community and local identity. In addition, narrowing down to each natural village, the cult of the son has enhanced the geographic relationship by promoting the relationship among different surnames, comparing with the lineage activities and other temple cults. The cult of Hongsheng Dawang in Nangang Fifteen Xiang formed a multi-layered ritual space by creating father-son relationship. While such a ritual space has gone through for a long time companied with the formation of territories and the immigrants in Nangang Fifteen Xiang. Along with a wave of associating local temple with orthodox temple and the difficulty to cut in the rituals around, moreover, Nangang Fifteen Xiang made use of a common irrigation, which promoted villages to make alliance. And A multi-layered ritual space finally came into being.

Issue date

2014.

Author

Huang, Mei Ling

Faculty
Faculty of Arts and Humanities (former name: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities)
Department
Department of History (affiliated to the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, the Faculty of Social Sciences before; affiliated to the Faculty of Arts and Humanities currently)
Degree

M.A.

Subject

Temples, Chinese -- China -- Kuang Tung Province -- History

Sea gods -- South China Sea

Memorial rites and ceremonies -- China -- Kuang Tung Province

Supervisor

朱天舒

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Location
1/F Zone C
Library URL
991006829749706306