A study of important folk actives about Li-Tou-Dian.

• Main Authors: Hsiang-Wen Ho, 何香玟
• Other Authors: 林茂賢
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/69819196681095378313

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 台灣文學研究所 === 97 === This thesis intends to discuss significance of three important local events in Li-Tou-Dian: “The Second Goddess of Holy Mother Returns to Hsitun to Visits Relatives”, “Tzu-Hsing Drama in Wanho Temple”, and “Wearing of Wooden Sandals to Footstep on Pangolin in Litoudian.” The research methodologies used mainly are “qualitative analysis”, in which literature review and field studies were utilized to cross-examination; and further analyzed inductively. This research took these three local events mentioned above, and went through series of processes such as historical literature recording, photographs taken in the activities, videotaping, activity documentation, and so on, in attempt of keeping a reflection to the relevant on-going events. Also, depth interviews were taken and conducted by interviewing commissioner of the temple committee, neighboring residence, and general publics that participated in the activity in order to understand and echo with the local cultural rituals. Chapter 1 of this thesis includes introduction to motivation, research purpose, research scope, and methodologies based on the discussion of events on “The Second Goddess of Holy Mother Returns to Hsitun to Visits Relatives”, “Tzu-Hsing Drama in Wanho Temple”, and “Wearing of Wooden Sandals to Footstep on Pangolin in Li-Tou-Dian.” Also, research method such as literature review and field studies were used in cross-examination of the data in order to further analyze and conclude inductively. Chapter 2 mainly explains how Li-Tou-Dian was developed as the earliest farmland in Taichung area. This section describes how ancestors had deductively developed so many representative cultural rituals and custom in the early migration and how the custom had diversely developed with variation in different areas as a result of having its uniqueness in local culture. Chapter 3 elaborates how the religious belief was brought in to Taiwan from homeland along with migration for seeking a suitable residence, and how Goddess of Holy Mother became the mainstream belief assists the development of industry and demands for worshippingsculpture production. The sculpture of the Second Goddess of Holy Mother in Wanho Temple was made in Chiaching Calendar 8. There was a legend of a noble lady Liao in Hsitun Tayu area possessed by the Goddess when the opening disclosure ceremony was taken place, and that legendary Goddess sculpture had made the local people with Goddess closer than ever. Chapter 4 describes the one and the only one local drama of “Tzu-Hsing Drama” kept by Wanho Temple in Taiwan; the Drama has been 184 years, of which the original 12 families had expanded to 28 families and rotate in turn to perform the drama to show thanks to the worshipping Goddess. Since the performance of the Drama is rotated in turn, there are different needs to be fulfilled to each hosting family’s “Three Offering Ritual” prior to the opening of the Drama with the musical played by Nantun local Peikuang Musical Band called “Chinglehsuan”. The Tzu-Hsing Drama was played to entertain deity in the early time, has now shifted to one of the local events for entertainment. Chapter 5 describes one of the most valuable local culture in Li-Tou-Dian, that is the “Wearing of Wooden Sandals to Footstep on Pangolin in Li-Tou-Dian” in commemoration to the Duanwu (Dragonboat) Festival. According to the Fengshui, Li-Tou-Dian is the rarely seen Pangolin Cave, where is important for corps and farming; but since Pangolin has the tendency of winter hibernation, people need to make loud noise to wake him up in order to make the corps to grow up, and to further bring local harvesting and development. Chapter is the conclusion. Early residents and ancestors passed the rituals to us as it is accumulation of local customs and featuring life, which is also the inheritance of ancestors’ intelligence and the deductive development by the locals. The rituals and local events and customers are “the living history”, and those cultural activities are often seasonal, localized, and continuously developed, we generally call it “intangible cultural asset”. It is expected that this research thesis will record and preserve the important culture and activities in Li-Tou-Dian.