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The construct of temple is the belief which brings along with the immigration, which related to immigrat society''s environment, and the crowd''s characteristic. Because the temple is a center which the early society belief and the organization congeals, it bearing many functions and the popular belief. Therefore contains in among constructs the temple fable, has temple itself the evolution, as well as place development history relations, but also explained the folk belief, important special characteristic and so on. The present paper mainly discusses the fable of temple in Tainan city and the belief point of view to construct the temple fable.
This article first discuss on the investigation of temple fable, with the folk belief on various times society divides by three sections. I’ll learned the development of temple fable in Tainan city, and its relevance with the society. We can understand the populace by knowing the presents of fable type.
Furthermore, according to the content and the subjects, divide the temple fables into three parts. The first part is the temple fable take the water as the medium, in the content is the affiliation by the water appearance, brings the possible reason , for example of a god or buddha, Wang Ch''uan, lumber and so on. The second part is the temple fable take the fire as the medium, in the folk belief the image of the fire has the energy, may regard as the God symbol. The third part is the temple fable take the spirit as the medium, the spirit here is effective, the gods manifest a spirit and the invincible might be obvious in the fable.
Finally analyzes the fable of temple construction in Tainan city by the region characteristic, the hallowed symbol, collective consciousness, and the latent function, then discusses the change behind the belief idea, the social function, cultural value. We may learn the fable not only can respond social structure, meanwhile enables the history to reappear. Contents of the fable are expression of religious, may also regard as the social response, displays the needs of different times, and the history that people built up.
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