| dc.description.abstract | Study on Flying Phoenix House in Miaoli Hakka Area Before the End of WWII
Abstract
This study has taken Miaoli as an example to discuss the spread and development of faith in Flying Phoenix House in Miaoli Hakka area during the Japanese colonial period. The effect of Hsinchu Flying Phoenix House on Miaoli Hakka area and the diversified development of Miaoli Flying Phoenix House will be discussed. The effect of Flying Phoenix House campaign on Miaoli Kuan Ti faith during the Japanese colonial period will be analyzed. Besides, the role of literati and gentlemen in the Flying Phoenix House and the change of faith in Flying Phoenix House under the change of society will be studied.
Miaoli Flying Phoenix House is mainly distributed in the Hakka area. In the Flying Phoenix House giving up smoking campaign under the Japanese colonial period, it was the faith in Flying Phoenix House pervading in Hsinchu area. Through the scholars’’ network, ethnicity, and geopolitics, it was spread rapidly in Miaoli Hakka area. Under the reciprocation of three major Flying Phoenix House systems, the Flying Phoenix Houses in Miaoli had gradually developed the own Flying Phoenix House system. It did not only reveal the regional distributing network, it also revealed diversified development under the change of soceity. With the second emigration of Hakka ethnicity during the Japanese colonial period, the faith of Flying Phoenix House had been spread outside.
The faith of Flying Phoenix House has attracted the idea of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Through the idea of accumulation of merits to become god, the faith of Flying Phoenix House has created an imagined bureaucratic system of the supernatural country. Under the leadership of the scholars, the rule of Flying Phoenix House, Fu-Luan ceremony and the concept of respecting the culture were full of scholarly tint. Scholar and chairman were two different aspects of the scholarly level. The faith of Flying Phoenix House was spread through the human network of scholars. Scholars and gentlemen found the consolation of soul and their targets in the Flying Phoenix House. The development of faith of Flying Phoenix House showed the flexibility of folk religion and the soft reactionary of local elites under the influence of religion policy during the Japanese colonial period.
Starting from the Colonized Tutelary God in Qing Dynasty to En Chu Kong in Japanese colonial period, new elements had been added to the Kuan Ti faith in Miaoli constantly. The Kuan Ti Temples from isolated distribution during the colonized period to network distribution in Hakka area during the Japanese colonial period, it reflects the diversification of Kuan Ti godhood and the vigor and elasticity of folk faith.
There are four achievements in this study. First, through the regional study of Miaoli Flying Phoenix House, this article has discussed the spreading network and approaches of faith in Flying Phoenix House during the Japanese colonial period. In addition to building the system of Miaoli Flying Phoenix House, the development of Hsinchu Flying Phoenix House has been further understood. Second, this article has built the scholar network in Miaoli Hakka area and verified the characteristics of scholars of Flying Phoenix House forming the association. Third, through the case study, this article has analyzed the relationship between the faith in Flying Phoenix House, and families and local society. Fourth, through the discussion of developing process of Kuan Ti faith, this article has showed the influence of development of faith in Flying Phoenix House during the Japanese colonial period on the Miaoli Hakka area. | en_US |