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A folk belief that is “unknown and unknown” has originated in eastern Guangdong and has lasted for thousands of years and has remained unchanged. It has more than 6 million believers in Taiwan alone. Its ancestral home has just been awarded the “Basic Base for Cross-Strait Exchanges”, which is called “King of the Three Mountains”.
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On November 4, the “Strait·Three Mountains·Four Seas” Sanshan King Academic Seminar, hosted by Yangcheng Evening News Group, co-organized by Sun Yat-sen University Humanities and Social Sciences Department, and the Guangdong Cross-Strait Exchange Promotion Association, was held on the South Campus of Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou Campus. Zhang Ke, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Guangdong Provincial Ethnic and Religious Affairs Commission, and Xiao Bing, Deputy Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, attended the seminar.
Explore the spiritual core of folk beliefs and promote the Chinese and overseas Chinese ditchCinema 1950 witch cloth draw
Since October 1992, Jiexi, Jieyang City, “The First SanshanzuBabaylan 1990 clothes After the drawMuseum Academic Seminar”, after 31 years, more than 10 “Three Mountain Kings” cultural scholars from Guangdong, Fujian, Taiwan, and Malaysia, China gathered again to discuss the development and current situation of the folk belief culture of the “Three Mountain Kings” and its history and path of dissemination at home and abroad.
Four experts issued a keynote report, through the tracing of historical materials and the current situation, they explored the spiritual core of the folk belief of the “Three Mountains Kings” and demonstrated the important role played by the “Three Mountains Kings” culture in uniting the hearts of the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and promoting communication and exchanges between Chinese and overseas Chinese at home and abroad.
Chen Chunsheng: The concept of “protecting the country and assassinating the people” is a common connection and vision between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and overseas believers
Professor of the Department of History of Sun Yat-sen University and a researcher at the Center for Historical Anthropology of Sun Yat-sen University. He also serves as the history category of the Ministry of Education.om/”>Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawChen Chunsheng, chairman of the Professional Teaching Steering Committee, gave a keynote report entitled “National Consciousness and the Spread of the Faith of King Sanshan since the Song Dynasty”. Chen Chunsheng has been associated with King Sanshan culture for decades and has traveled across Guangdong and Taiwan. He has thought deeply about the origin, development and cultural value of King Sanshan’s folk beliefs. His academic thoughts and research methods have had a profound influence on the academic community.
Chen Chunsheng quoted the explanation of Professor Wolfgang Franke of Hamburg University, Germany, who has taught for a long time in China and Malaysia, pointing out that The so-called “Sanshan King” may be a relic of the ancient Yue mountain god’s beliefs and are related to ethnic minority customs. Such belief customs are not unique to Chaozhou area.
“The central dynasty’s recognition of folk beliefs such as Sanshan King is a very effective and commonly adopted method that the central dynasty in ancient China ruled the southern region. Babaylan 1990 cloth draw” Chen Chunsheng focused on the interaction between “national consciousness” and civil society in his speech. He believed that the practice of Song Huizong awarding the “Mingsheng” temple to the “Sanshenshan” temple in Chaozhou was a very typical expression of national consciousness in the developed southern civil society. However, many Sanshan king palaces and temples in mainland China and Taiwan have plaques of “protecting the country and safeguarding the people” hanging high, revealing the hope that the gods will maintain a balance between “country” and “people”. Cinema 1950 witch clothes draw makes bothCinema 1950 witch cloth draw can benefit from mentality. Folk belief is one of the links between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. Many Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawThe folk belief tradition in mainland China has developed in Taiwan, which has also given the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait more connection and communication fate.
Chen Chunsheng said that although the customs and habits in various parts of China are very different, China has long been a unified country. To determine whether a place understands and accepts the ideology of the central government lies in the extent to which the local scholars and gentry class can consciously interpret local cultural traditions and customs in accordance with the “rituals and laws” of the court.
He emphasized that in traditional Chinese society, “national consciousness” is everywhere and has no placeNot here. In the historical and cultural study of Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw, only by having a systematic grasp and deep understanding of national ideology and dynasty rules and regulations can we have a more similar experience in the changes in local and folk customs and beliefs. drawpractical insights.
Qiu Yangui: The Sanshan King Palace Temple has become an important historical evidence for the study of Taiwan’s immigration history
The Sanshan King Palace Temple has become an important historical evidence for the study of Taiwan’s immigration history, and also a symbol of the ancestral homes of Chaoshan, Taiwan and the Hakka town. Qiu Yangui, a professor in the Department of Monumental Art Repair and Repair at the Taiwan University of the Arts, wrote a report titled “The Faith of the King of Sanshan, Taiwan”. He mentioned that Taiwanese believers have more communication with mainland people through the opportunity to go to the Sanshan Ancestral Temple in mainland China.
Babaylan 1990 cloth drawQiu Yangui introduced that the phenomenon of the Three Mountains King’s belief in Taiwan is still regarded as a method of identification of Hakka groups in the 21st century, but in his opinion, this overly simple method should be discussed again. He observed the belief of the Three Mountains King in Taiwan from the perspectives of social organization and ethnic relations, and summarized it into “guild hall type”, “guest base type” and “anti-economic typeKomiks 1960 witch cloth draw” and “Chaohui Fulao type”. Among them, the number of “guest base” and “anti-ban style” temples reached about 80, with the largest size. After Taiwan’s industrialization in the 1970s, more “immigrant” temples appeared in the city.
Chen Zhiping: “Great Love” is the core meaning of folk beliefs
Professor Chen Zhiping, President of the Institute of Chinese Studies and President of the Chinese Ming History Society, gave a speech entitled “The Cultural Meaning and Inheritance of the Faith of Mazu and the King of Sanshan”. He believes that both Mazu and Sanshan King of Sanshan Faith are Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw is an integral part of China’s excellent traditional culture. Its core meaning is “urgent for the people”, full of “great love” spirit, and has the function of social education and cultural education. Folk culture, including the beliefs of Mazu and King Sanshan, has become one of the important channels for the spread of Chinese culture overseas after the 18th century.
Wang Chenfa: Studying the King Sanshan is one of the responsibilities for reviving China
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Creative transformation and innovative development, scholars have insightful insights
How to inherit the traditional culture for thousands of years and take root in the folk “grassroots” beliefs to achieve creative transformation and innovative development? During the roundtable discussion session of the seminar, the scholars put forward their own opinions.
Xiao Wenping, director and professor of Hakka Research Institute of Meizhou Jiaying College, pointed out that as the mountain god and the natural god of Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw, the king of Sanshan reflects the tradition of the Chinese nation to respect nature. His spirit of patriotism, love for the country, protecting villages, and guarding the land has established the concept of hometown for the people. The spirit of fairness, justice and justice advocated also have important value in the contemporary times.
Xie Guiwen, a professor at Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, believes that folk beliefs are important assets for the country, society, and people, and have survival functions, integration functions, and cognitive functions.
Chen Xianbo, a professor at South China Normal University, said that the history of the Sanshan King is not only a history of folk beliefs, but also a history of regional development, social and economic history, and a history of mutual learning between Chinese history and civilization.
Wu Mengxian, associate professor at Jieyang Vocational and Technical College, said that his investigation found that the people often regard the King of Sanshan as an important social bond in interpersonal communication.
Professor Lian Xinhao of Xiamen University suggested that the King of Sanshan can also learn from the successful cases of Mazu’s belief in the world, and the two sides of the Taiwan Strait work together.
Chen Zhiping, professor, doctoral supervisor, and dean of the Institute of Chinese Studies, pointed out that the Sanshan King must achieve innovative cultural development, and local governments should take the lead in promoting it cannot be ignored.
Ou Junyong, associate professor at Hanshan Normal University Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw shared that as part of Jieyang culture, the King of Sanshan is actually “very vivid”. He had to walk to the fields to have a real feeling.
Wen Jianqin, associate professor at Hanshan Normal University, said that when he tells students about Chinese cultural history and Chaoshan history and culture, he will use the Sanshan King as a case to analyze its cultural phenomena. The students are very interested and have developed related cultural and creative products. Chen Lihua, a professor at Tsinghua University in Taiwan, mentioned that to let young people understand traditional culture, we must make good use of the “discourse” methods of young people in movies, short videos, music, comics, etc.
Lin Guoping, a professor at Fujian Normal University, summarized that folk beliefs such as the King of Sanshan are an important part of Chinese traditional culture and are precious cultural heritage left to us by our ancestors. They should be cherished more.
The Flowers of the Sanshan King Cultural Documentary “From the Three Mountains to the Four Seas” were also held at the meeting. The documentary team went to Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Cambodia, and Vietnam, as well as Sanshan King’s Palace and Temple in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Taiwan, China, to communicate with believers and related folk scholars, record the inheritance and changes of the Sanshan King’s sacrificial culture, and show the profound historical, humanistic and social values accumulated over the past thousand years of Sanshan King’s culture.
[Small Knowledge] “King of the Three Mountains” Folk Belief Culture
The “King of the Three Mountains” Folk Belief Culture originated in eastern Guangdong and is now widely spread to Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Its spirit of “protecting the country and safe people, peace and stability” has been respected by the people of all generations. Lintian Ancestral Temple located in Jieyang, Guangdong Province is the ancestral temple of the Sanshan King Palace Temple in the world.He was awarded the “Cross-Strait Exchange Base” in 2023.
