| dc.description.abstract | The current study mainly focuses on the 21-branches of Fangliao Yi-min Temple and its differences of the Yi-min Ye Belief from Qing dynasty, Japanese ruled period, and the Postwar Era. The development of each Yi-min Temple branch has been localized from time to time and slightly changed from place to place. How followers kept the “original” concept of Yi-min Ye Belief and what they did to change in order to adapt to the local society have been studied. We hope to provide more historical facts of Taiwan Hakka Yi-min Ye Belief and its diversification. Hence, by presenting the background information and knowledge of the cultural diversification, we will have better understanding of the era differences.
Whether North Hakka is the superior group; how Yi-min Ye believers dealt the relationship with their own religion and other beliefs of the area, and the ability to manage effect and expansion of a Yi-min Temple branch to new location. Therefore, the presence and/or absence of the psychic medium become a main character connecting the relationship among the North Hakka, Yi-min Ye Belief, and the new immigrants. They also solidify the Yi-min Ye Belief.
Based on the Fangliao Yi-min Temple’s standard, the branches of Yi-min Temple have partially changed into four aspects: the deity emblem, the statue of Yi-min Ye, the ceremony, and the grave mimicked from Fangliao Yi-min Temple. Its 21 branches “created” the variation of Yi-min Ye Belief. Under such condition, it represents the localizational phenomenon and the divinization of the Yi-min Ye Belief.
At the end of 1980, because The Hakka Culture Social Movement was aroused, the spirit of Yi-min was labeled as the Hakka spirit. In 1999, Yi-min Temple Association was form. Its formation infused new variables into the Fangliao Yi-min Temple branches. Fellowship activities not only provided a stage for the branch’s communication, but also tied up the connection between original Temple (Fangliao Yi-min Temple) and its branches. This type of fellowship activity is known as great tradition and little tradition of Yi-min Ye Belief. In short, Yi-min Ye Belief is still changed by the society and times.
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