A Study on the Relation between Worship Behavior and Spaces in Ancestral Shrines: By Examples of Ancestral Shrines in Taichung

• Main Authors: Ching-Sheng Huang, 黃慶聲
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89445066281043674210

碩士 === 國立雲林科技大學 === 文化資產維護系碩士班 === 93 === To worship our ancestors has become a part of life in Hans’ family. Ancestral shrines are specific buildings which remain from the development process of human history that are also the trail of culture and the witness of history. The researcher’s objects are seven ancestral shrines of Taichung, and processes are from reference discussion, field study, analysis, the formation of clans’ development, and organization and architecture of ancestral shrines to comparison the different worship behavior, and the demand and expression of different worship behavior and architecture space form of different ancestral shrines and the stop motion of space conception. The research can be divided into five chapters. Chapter one is based on research motivation, purpose, method, basic investigation, and reference review of ancestral shrines. Chapter two is about the situation of developing uncultivated land of Hans’ in Taichung, development of clans and the form of organization of ancestral shrines, worship system and management. Chapter three is about worship behavior of ancestral shrines in Taichung, including origin, connotation. Chapter four analyzes the relation of worship behavior and space architecture. The researcher bring up “the stop motion of space conception” to discuss the evolvement and space conception of traditional house and with the theory of Manuel Castells〈The Power of Identity〉to consider the social domination system of the relation of worship behavior and space architecture. Chapter five, the last part, combines all research topics and gives some relation topics and directions for future research. This research has some conclusion as follows: 1. Ordering the development of clans and the form of organization of ancestral shrines in Taichung. 2. Comparing the difference of organization of ancestral shrines and worship behavior in Taichung. 3. Ordering the evolution of worship behavior and architecture space of ancestral shrines in Taichung. 4. Discussion the relation and space conception of worship behavior and space architecture of ancestral shrines.