臺灣王爺信仰文化的陸域性格初探 －新竹、苗栗長興宮地.PDFVIP

1 地理研究 第46期 民國96年5月 Journal of Geographical Research No.46, May 2007 臺灣王爺信仰文化的陸域性格初探 －新竹、苗栗長興宮地域的考察 The developing exploration of the land personality of Taiwan Wang-ye belief culture ：the fieldwork at the Chang-xing Temple Area on Xin-zhu Miao-li *a 林聖欽 Sheng-Chin Lin Abstract The purpose of research is trying to explore the land personality of Taiwan Wang-ye belief culture. Generally speaking, because it is prevalence for the exile of the Wang-ye ship, the Wang-ye belief and marine culture are related closely in Taiwan. But investigate through the fieldwork, and analyze the relationship between Wang-ye belief and residents life style through human ecology, we find that there isn’t much the marine personality in Wang-ye belief, but land personality mainly at the Chang-xing Temple Area on Xin-zhu Miao-li. Based on the front fact and other oral history for the diffusion of Wang-ye belief, the text proposes a hypothesis to explain the cultural changes of Taiwan Wang-ye belief culture: after the Hans cultivated gradually from the south to the north, from the seashore to the inland in Taiwan, and the Wang-ye belief was diffused into the agriculture area, it caused Taiwan Wang-ye belief culture to change from the marine personality to the land personality little by little. Keywords ：Wang-ye, Xin-zhu Miao-li, marine personality, land personality, life style 摘 要 本研究的目的，在於對臺灣王爺信仰文化的陸域性格進行認識。一般咸認，因放流王船的盛 行，臺灣的王爺信仰與海洋文化乃緊密關聯，然而透過新竹、苗栗長興宮地域的考察，並以人文 生態學的角度分析王爺信仰與居民生活方式的關連時，卻發現當地的王爺信仰文化，並不帶有濃