| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 客家文化學院客家社會與文化碩士在職專班 === 99 === This study uses the religious life of 7-Star Village as the start point and targets on
three different societies of beliefs: Bo-Gong, Cun-Miao and Kua-Cun-Ji. They are the
organizations to offer sacrifices to god. Discussions will be on each of their nature,
culture and interaction and intergration through the society structure and the practice
of religion and social lifes.
Observations found that the relation between farmers and land are closely attached
as to the relation between villagers and Bo-Gong through the daily-life-ceremonies of
the religious Bo-Gong society, which has smallest scale. Through the original traces
of structure of offering sacrifices to god, the today’s range of Cun-Miao’s way of
offering sacrifices to god of is found almost the same as the original. Therefore the
range of offering sacrfices to god does not limit to space distribution but the process
of the history of the cullture.
Even though the sense of belonging and the limit of territory are confirmed,
however, this is not enough to structure an organic group. Therefore the local head
brings up activities of offering sacrifices to the main god Saint Qian-Qiu. This
opportunity of regular scrifices offering ritual is used to communicate each other to
create collective wishes. The desire of this group will let the members to induce
themselves into the society which they belong to.
Kua-Cun-Ji, organization of offering sacrifice to god, is often merged with
intergrated resources. This is a weak relation for the 7-Star Village residents because
large societies are formed by merging many of the small societies, the chances of
interactions are small. However, this is not the case for the manager and the heads ofthe organizations, they gain more business opportunities through this intergration, a
business intergration. The time used in the efficacious and spiritual events by
word-of-mouth of the locals is holy, eternal, repeatable. The god stories are reflected
in the symbolic ceremonial rituals inspiring the passion and power. This is the
strength that the societies will live continually.
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