A Twilight zone？Analyses of community making dilemma in Hakka area---A case study of Jinjin shequ in Hsinchu County.

• Main Authors: Wen-Chiang Chang, 張文姜
• Other Authors: Hsin-Yi Lu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17321036182335006273

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 客家文化學院客家社會與文化碩士在職專班 === 98 === The focus of this essay is trying to examine a civilizational process of Taiwan’s Shequ Yinzhou（community making）policy that had been promoted for decades in local area .Take Jinjin Shequ for instance ,whether there is a political effect or democratic change there？Do the residents of Jinjin Shequ step their feet on all sort of public issues or affairs of this community from the bottom up? Consequently, the analysis of what a certain community making mode of this community must be done, which includes conflictions、arguments and dilemmas that exists in Jinjin Shequ . Also as the shifts and substitutions of the local leadership continues , does it make any differences on the cooperation thing or the confrontal situation? The whole community can be integrated by the force of the Yiminzi（A traditional worship,to pay religious homage to the God of Yiminyeh）,that way Jinjin Shequ would become one, a united one. To contrast invisible religious power with corporeal problems of this community, through the worship ceremony of Yiminzi that held annually by the residents, the process of Lingdiau（membership fees of the Yiminzi）and Fongfan（items or meals offered at the altar to the God of Yiminyeh）had simultaneously made mass congregation, conserved and spread the Yinmin belief to the local folks , also helped to set up the social network for each and every members of the Yiminzi. Actually, the force of the traditional religion is more powerful than modern community system. People in Jinjin Shequ count on the Yinminyeh in daily life, they’d pay lots of attention and money to join the Yinminzi rather than the activities of the community that just for free. Yinminyeh is a spiritual support to the most residents of Jinjin Shequ which with reference to the happiness and health of the whole family ,these are precious to people ,so that they can do and live without the community making stuff , Religious gatherings had encouraged people’s participation and consequently diminished their own will to go for the any other type of the community activity. In this Yiminzi case of Jinjin Shequ, religious faith definitely has its great power to purify the whole society, whether to justify any wrongdoing or clarify people in a state of confusion. Religious organization of Yiminzi or any other righteous one, educates their followers with humanity and altruistic behaviors , taking care of others and the public affairs automatically .The Yimin Temple in Jinjin Shequ is a place that cultivates its people with values ,ethics and morals in this civilized society ,it’s also in the leading position of Jinjin Shequ ,would have made community making here more sound and mature in the long run.