The Research Of Government-run Sacrifical Offering In The Period Of Japan's Second Occupation In Qingdao

The Qingdao area has the rich religious cultural tradition since the ancient times, for example Sea god /goddess Worship, Confucius Worship, Guan gong Worship, which have the profound influence on natives' daily life and the spiritual mold. In order to control this area stably and let the local people submitted willingly to the Japanese ruler, the dictator implemented a series of policy in Japan's second occupation in Qingdao. They also implemented a series of cultural policy, trying their best to control the Chinese people's spirit. Besides politics and economic measures. The government-run sacrificial offering which discussed in this paper is important component of cultural policy which is carried out by puppet regime, including the memorial ceremonies for soothing souls of deceased persons which transplant the Japanese culture, Confucius Sacrifice and Wu Chengwang Sacrifice which transformate the Chinese tradition.These three sacrificial offering activities are not unique in Qingdao, which are consistent in the culture policy with the other enemy-occupied areas of North China and similar to other enemy-occupied areas in Japanese and Puppet authority. The reasons are that The North China puppet regime compel every government executive forcefully by the instruction form. The puppet government attempts to constitute powerful policy to intervene in the folk belief, in order to display the moralised function to armies, which can enforce the"Legitimate consciousness"constituted by the puppet government penetrate to folk consciousness, build the old society under Sino-Japanese goodwill and the Datong society: loyal to superior, condonable to friends and martial ones have their own moral. By analyzing the background of sacrificial offering activities and content, the policy of sacrificial offering is a prodigious cheated. In order to cheat the people completely, Qingdao Special Government avail of all measures which can be used ,such as using the press, broadcast, putting the movie on screen correlated with Confucius and Jiang Taigong, Organizing the school to carry on the speech, the speaking and studying group and the visiting delegation to visit the Confucius native place in Qufu.Facing with the propaganda by the puppet government, there are many different reactions in the different stage of society. It demonstrate mainly by means of old newspapers, fieldwork and electing the conductor, being inviter and the common citizen. Those dummy who disguise themselves as godliness in order to make the common people convinced. And the people who are invited in the control of the puppet government are cannot help but sing the song of praise. Some of the honest citizens do not recognize the truth, imprisoned in the Chinese tradition thought. In addition, sacrificial offering activities have the most effect in the three sacrificial offering policies. Investigates its reason, from the one thing, the effect of Chinese tradition, from the other thing, it is different in Propaganda dynamics and way.In the whole, the Japanese invaders and the puppet organization plan carefully and make use of the religion sacrificial offering activity which make a certain effect but has not served the anticipated purpose completely. As a result of war long-term, lacking the commodity, the intense national consciousness of Chinese people as well as Chinese Communist Party Underground organization's propaganda, Japanese public security war receives the enormous hindrance. Followed by Japanese defeat, in the end, Japan was finally failing in aggressing Chinese cultural.