The Study of Yue-Lau Belief in Tainan City

• Main Authors: Chien-fen Chiou, 邱千芬
• Other Authors: Wen-feng Tai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98376603804626182042

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 台灣文化研究所碩士班 === 98 === The Chinese traditional idea, is called to bring male and female both sides together and to reconcile marriage is “Yue-Lau” or “the matchmaker”. Originally god is the marriage affinity for the tradition, gradually the people attaches many forms and the content, each historical stage develops the unique and different name. People create many governs love and the marital gods, by the matchmaker tradition belief rationale, discusses these fable God of Love to worship the spiritual meaning, so as to understand the people’s evolution of the marital love view. There are twenty-three temples of matching Yue-Laue belief in Tainan. It narrated its distribution and present situation, explained that takes the faith token and the characteristic of the marriage affinity. The temple side how to increase the wealth income using the marketing strategy, attracts the numerous followers, and union civic group to hold unmarried activity, the people become deepened in Yue-Lau belief veneration. The follower by the divine behavior, carries on the communication between human and the god, throw “Chiao” the result belongs supernaturally with the third spatial person god communication, but temple’s oracle is the concrete manifestation of the god. “The red line” in Yue-lau belief is one important faith token and the mascot figure in unmarried male and female both sides. “Yuan-Fen” lies in the male and female love or the marital marriage aspect, lies in “getting good relationships in the function”, is displays incisively in the folk auspicious speech. Yue-Lau belief in Taiwan, becomes the popular belief which day after day the unmarried men and women worship. As the saying goes: “A marriage that bridges many miles.” from the people to the marriage affinity the anticipation, often first draws support from the gods the strength, satisfies in oneself spirit in the marriage in reposing as well as the physiological demand, explained that the matchmaker belief in the nowadays society structural plane, has its unshakeable status.