A Study of the Feng-Shui Folklore in Taiwan society

• Main Authors: Chang Yun-Chun, 張昀浚
• Other Authors: Cheng Chih-Ming
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32600810500186867204

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 民俗藝術研究所 === 92 === The study exclusively includes the collection of Feng-Shui folklore in Taiwan society, and catalogs the folk stories basing on the plots, deeply investigating the contents, which reflect the Feng-Shui culture inside Taiwanese people, trying to explain what kind of effect of these stories may have to the life style and traditional customs, and expecting through this kind of model analysis, we can convey the value of life and culture conceptions of Taiwanese . The usage of research documents is mainly based on the documents of the culture bureau of the countries in Taiwan and the stories studied by the researchers as well as the data of the period of Japanese colony to be as the reference sources. To begin with, the stories which we study include the concepts of Feng-Shui and its manipulation methods, emphasizing the impact of Feng-Shui, On the other hand, about the house, the geological environment of the village, the temples’ location of village, the private architectures’ effects on people’s ups and downs, last but not least, on the aspect of tomb, which have a profound influence on offspring’s fate that local people believe is true are all carefully analyzed and explored . My study method is to collect the folklore anthology published by the counties and the documents of Japanese colony period and the related local journals, from which we try to figure out the connections between the related folks and to sort out the stories base on their original location, and explore the contents of the classified stories to make a deep discussion. Through the conception and theorem of folklore, anthropology, psychology and religions, we try to analyze and understand the desires and thoughts, displayed by the folk customs, which deep inside the common people,. The catalog and arrangement of the folklore in the chapter Two, that is cataloged by the concept of the “motif”of the folk-tale, by this assumption we develop the “motif” model of the Feng-Shui folklore. From these plots, we try to discuss the social background and the value of culture behind the stories. In the Chapter Three, by the methodology and theorem of the traditional Chinese cosmology, religion and cultural anthropology, we would like to inspect if this kind of story through different levels of the inductance between man and nature, ancestor worship or the destiny aspect, which try to convey the concept of the pursuit of the “ harmony and balance” and the “sacred space”. Last, from the above discussion, the Taiwan Feng-Shui folklore is not only full of diversity and abundance, but also is the total life memory collection of the village residents. Our ancestors use the concept of the Feng-Shui to express the surroundings, and even through this concept to transmit the sense of morality, the cosmic view to form the social regulations, thereby influencing the common people’s daily life behaviors and their living surroundings.