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The Qing'an Temple: Meizhou and the Heimian Mazu Cult
1media/QingAn.jpg2019-11-18T17:21:29-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f356This page discusses the 1914 trip to Meizhou, home of the Mazu cult in Fujian, China, to retrieve a new image of the deity Mazu, and the establishment of the temple as a center of the Heimian Mazu cult.image_header2019-12-08T23:17:56-05:0025.12962, 121.740771914-1915Evan N. Dawley, Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyXu Zisang; Quanzhou; HualianEvan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44The Construction of Taiwanese Sacred GeographyThis page introduces the sacred spaces that existed in Jilong before Japanese colonization, with a focus on the main three temples (Qing'an, Dianji, and Chenghuang Temples).Another way in which Xu Zisang and other Jilong residents fortified the sacred geography of the Qing'an Temple followed closely on its renovation. In 1914, Xu led a group of nine across the Taiwan Strait, to the original home of the Mazu cult on Meizhou Island, a little north of Quanzhou (marked near the left edge of the map at the top of this page). At the temple there, they lit incense and renewed the Qing'an's image of the deity, which they carried home to Jilong in a portable shrine. This trip marked a historic turning point for the temple. It was the first time in the temple's history that such a trip had been made, and thus it was essentially a proclamation of the Qing'an's autonomy from a Taiwan-based parent temple and its establishment of a direct linkage, through incense-division, to Mazu's ur-temple. Moreover, the new likeness was known as the black-faced Mazu (heimian Mazu), and the Qing'an Temple quickly became a focus for this particular manifestation of the deity across Taiwan. Shortly before embarking on a mission to attack and control indigenous people near Hualian in 1915, some Jilong residents prayed in front of this black-faced Mazu. When they emerged victorious, this version of Mazu gained popularity across Taiwan and the Qing'an became her parent temple on the island, developing its own branches and incense-division network. Each year, on the appointed day for the temple's Mazu Festival, representatives of the branch temples would join Jilong residents in the celebration.
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1media/QingAn.jpg2019-11-18T17:21:29-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Qing'an Temple: Consolidation and RenovationEvan Dawley5This page describes the consolidation of management and property of the Qing'an Temple, and its renovation in 1912-13.plain2020-02-29T22:16:50-05:0025.12962, 121.740771900-1914Evan Dawley, Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyXu Zisang; Yan Yunnian; Taiwan Government-GeneralEvan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44
1media/Figure4.1.jpg2020-02-29T21:59:50-05:00Evan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44The Qing'an TempleEvan Dawley1This page opens the pathway for the Qing'an Templeplain51522020-02-29T21:59:50-05:00Evan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44
12019-12-08T23:43:46-05:00Evan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44The Sacred Geographies ThruwayEvan Dawley3This pathway provides a fast track through the spatial and historical arguments of the module.plain2019-12-09T13:35:01-05:00Evan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44
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1media/QingAn.jpgmedia/Dianjigong.jpg2019-11-18T17:21:25-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Dianji Temple: History3This page discusses the establishment of the Dianji Temple and its associations with Zhangzhou in particular.image_header2019-12-08T23:18:16-05:0025.12811, 121.74311pre-1895Evan Dawley, Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyQuanzhou; Zhangzhou; Kaizhang shengwang; Qing'an TempleEvan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44
1media/QingAn.jpg2019-11-18T17:21:24-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Deity-Welcoming Festivals3This page explains the practices and meanings of the deity-welcoming festivals and their key event, the raojing parade.image_header2020-01-07T20:32:21-05:0025.1276, 121.739181895-1945Evan N. Dawley, Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyMazu; Kaizhang Shengwang; Chenghuang YeEvan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44
12019-11-18T17:21:25-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fJilong's Pre-colonial Sacred Geography12This page introduces the sacred spaces that existed in Jilong before Japanese colonization, with a focus on the main three temples (Qing'an, Dianji, and Chenghuang Temples).plain2020-02-29T21:14:12-05:0025.1276, 121.739181895Evan N. Dawley, Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s-1950s (Harvard Asia Center Press, 2019).Evan N. DawleyTaiwan Government-General; Taiwan nichinichi shinpōEvan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44
