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This study begins with the local history and religion life of Ping-Jen City to explore the social and cultural meaning of Tung-Shi, Chian-An Temple . The social and cultural dimensions of the worshiping community in Tung-Shi, Chian- An temple are fully interpreted through the origin, the organizations, the annual sacrificial offering activities and the grand holy pigs and goats to Kai-Zhang Holy God . By participative observation, this work tries to describe the detailed process of the transformance of the symbol, the pig in the ritual act from the pigs’ breeding, castration, contest, to people paying respects, offering sacrifices and sharing the meat with each other on the anniversary ceremony of Kai-Zhang Holy God. Headed by the symbol, the pig sacrifice, the worshipper harmonize his conflict between nature and culture and to literally sacrifice his heart and gain reconciliation. The holy pigs, as a symbols help to link the breeders, families, temples, relatives and neighbors to conduct the symbolic construction of community. And the offering preparation of the annual ceremony on allows the breeders imbue daily lives with sacred meaning and then develops the importance of experiencing time. By mitigating the confrontation between individuals and the collectivity, the people construct a communal time circulation.
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