The Bai-qie Rites of The Historic emplesin The Beimen Area of Tainan City

• Main Authors: Ching-hui Chen, 陳璟慧
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40528244002611926765

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 台灣文化研究所碩士班 === 99 === This article first introduces the Beimen area of Tainan City, including Jiali District, Xuejia District, Xigang District, Qigu District, Jiangjun District, and Beimen District. Then, for understanding the history and belief survey of each temple, we introduce the six historic temples in the six administrative area. They are Wenheng Temple in Wowang Jiangjun, Jintang Temple and Zhenxing Temple in Jiali, Ciji Temple in Xuejia, Qingan Temple in Xigang, Daitianfu Temple in Nankunshen Beimen. There are only village temples but no historic ones in Qigu , so we don’t introduce any temples in Qigu. In the third chapter of the article, we explain in more detail the Bai-qie rites in the six temples mentioned above. Because there are few literature materials in each of the temple, we interview many temple service personnel who are familiar with temple affairs, especially the process and its concealment significance of the Bai-qie rite and then compare and reorganize what they tell us. The fourth chapter explains and analyzes the culture of Bai-qie in the six administrative areas, including the rite, the sacrificial offering goods, the concealment significance, the grown-up ceremony and “thanks the god ceremony”. We finally get the following conclusions in this study: 1. There is particularity among the different Bai-qie rites. 2. There are some propitious meaning and expectancy of the followers in the sacrificial offering goods of the Bai-qie rite. 3. There is almost no difference between “thanks god ceremony” and “grown-up ceremony”. 4. The Bai-qie rite will be changed when the social changes. 5. Each of the temples has its tradition in the Bai-qie rite, and we should respect them.