| Folk beliefs and their cultural landscape are a "linear" repository of information about local socio-cultural development.We examine the local social development from the historical perspective,folk belief and its cultural landscape are an insurmountable part.Hexi Corridor is an economic and cultural transition zone in northwest China where agriculture and animal husbandry intersect and Chinese and Barbarians blend.Different cultural factors in the region breed different beliefs and cultural landscapes.After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty,the Han people in the mainland moved in a large scale in the way of military immigration.The military demand under the wei Suo system in the Hexi Corridor made the belief of the heroes extremely prosperous and the political and ethical value of the folk belief extremely prominent.After entering the Qing Dynasty,the implementation of prefectural and county administrative system changed the status of han immigrants from military households to civilian households,and the "cultural and educational values" of folk beliefs gradually occupied a dominant position.In the Hexi Corridor of Ming and Qing Dynasties,the Folk beliefs of the Han ethnic group are rich and diversified,and the establishment of a wide range of temples.The folk belief of the Han ethnic group mainly includes root vein folk belief,construction folk belief and suncreative folk belief.Temple is the most intuitive cultural landscape in folk belief landscape.Temple is the external representation of the distribution,diffusion or settlement of Han immigrants in hexi Corridor.The spatial combination of temple and han immigrants’ settlement is one of the important characteristics of han immigrants in Hexi Corridor in Ming and Qing Dynasties.Hexi Corridor is a field of coexistence of multiple cultures.In this field,the folk beliefs and cultural landscape of The Han people have both the "adherence" of The Han culture and the "change" under the infiltration of multiple cultures."Adherence" is mainly reflected in the memory of root and vein folk beliefs and the inheritance of han architectural characteristics."Change" is mainly reflected in the fact that the pluralism of hexi Corridor occupies the space of belief in hexi Corridor,but also changes part of the form and content of folk belief to varying degrees.In the development and change of han folk belief and cultural landscape in hexi Corridor during Ming and Qing dynasties,there are also different expressions of the concept of "country".In hexi corridor,the Han ethnic folk beliefs and cultural landscape of guiding,utilizing and specification,by building on the monkey temple,seal the gods,engaging in activities,such as sacrifice and erection of the folk beliefs and symbolic link dynasty regime,effectively strengthen the state control of local society,implement the national and local subordinate relationship is built on the framework of folk belief system.Local societies actively adapted their gods for national recognition.The self-adjustment of local society to folk beliefs and cultural landscape reveals the ethnic consciousness and national identity of the Han people in hexi Corridor under the concept of "state presence".The change of han folk belief and cultural landscape in hexi Corridor reflects the openness and compatibility of belief psychology of Han people.The diversified objects of folk belief of the Han ethnic group and the juxtaposition pattern of multiple temples and temples show the unique geographical belief space of local society in Hexi Corridor under the infiltration of state power,which is also the result of the state’s right to regulate local culture and the local society’s active borrowing and integration of national orthodox culture and ideology. |
