| dc.description.abstract | The relationship of Koxinga (Zheng Cheng-gong) and Kinmen can be traced back to the second year in Longwu period, Ming Dynasty (1646) when Koxinga met his comrade at Kinmen. From that time, Kinmen used to be the military base of Koxinga’s regime. However, although Koxinga was strongly related with Kinmen, in Kinmen, not like Taiwan, Southern Fujin, etc., there wasn’t any belief and worship of Koxinga being developed. Until 1968, the government built the first shrine to worship Koxinga and hoped the residents in Kinmen to worship Koxinga. By this time, Kinmen and Koxinga were linked again.
This study will use the construction of Kinmen Koxinga Ancestral Shrine to analyze the purposes and process that the government built the shrine after WWII. Besides the policy, Kinmen local society, culture, folklore and historical memory projected onto the shrine is also analyzed. This study also interprets the legend of Koxinga’s lumbering for shipbuilding in order to clarify the factor why Koxinga has had a bad image of the local residents. This study also focuses on the historical memory under the impact of national policy and textbooks and how this memory affects Koxinga’s image in Kinmen society and local residents’ mind and how Kinmen government regained the relation between Koxinga and Kinmen, which is used for local construction. Through the above-mentioned points, it can be found that Koxinga’s legend was not the reason why the local resented him; rather, it was the widely mentioned disappointment to Koxinga and his army that made the local resented him. Yet, this kind of historical memory has been developed to this day. Even though the trace still can be seen from the unfrequented of Kinmen Koxinga Ancestral shrine, the government has used the worship of Koxinga as part of Kinmen cultural construction.
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