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Belief of Bau-jong Yi-ming-yeh originated at year of 1786 AD, a.k.a. Qianlong 51st year of Qing Dynasty. In this year, the uprising in Taiwan, the so called Lin Shuan-wen incident also occurred. This belief derived from a small Lin-liau Hakka village managed to continue up till today. And Bau-jong Yi-ming temple at Hsin-Pu Fon-liau already became the center of belief for the Hakka, and the Yi-ming-yeh also became one of the most indigenous deities nowadays here in Taiwan. During the ruling period in Qing Dynasty, there had been none of the Taiwan Yi-ming temple related surveys or researches; and it would not have any of the most basic survey reports in Yi-ming temples until the Japanese occupation. Currently, the research for Taiwan Yi-ming-yeh belief has become the academic’s famous doctrine. Nonetheless, the research foundation tends to be mostly leaning towards vertical probing in the historical sense, and it still lacks a comprehensively cross-sectional survey for further information. This thesis expects that, by using all Taiwan’s Bau-jong Yi-min temples as the onsite survey samples, in addition to symbolic elements like temple architecture, furnishing and decorating for the deities, ceremonial rituals, fortune-telling rhymes , antithetical couplets, horizontal inscribed boards and door gods, then, the research conducts detailed and actual recordings to streamline the symbolic system for Yi-ming-yeh beliefs. The establishment of Bau-jong Yi-ming temple at Hsin-Pu Fon-liau has been well over 220 years. In between, the belief for Yi-min-yeh had been full of processes in confrontation, variation and fusing together. Currently, it has already formed into the most unique civil religious belief system here in Taiwan. And only through a comprehensive survey of Yi-ming temples, could there be any chance of acknowledging the secrets of religious totem for Yi-ming-yeh belief. With the expectation of complete surveys for Bau-jong Yi-ming-yeh belief, this thesis can then be expected to serve as references for any future research.
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