A Study Of The Belief In Guan Emperor In Shaanxi During The Ming And Qing Dynasties

Folk belief is not only a kind of special form of social consciousness, is also a kind of social phenomenon and cultural phenomenon. It can truly reflect a period of time or an era form of mental activity and consciousness. In the long historical period in China, there are all kinds of gods faith, such as natural worship, totem worship and ancestor worship. In the numerous gods worship, each time, each region will because of various factors have obvious commonality, at the same time there are also differences. As the folk beliefs of the believers close emperor belief is so so, it has experienced the historical evolution of The Times. From GuanYu since appeared in The Three Kingdoms, the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing from man to god, each period with the ruling policy of different causes in emperor belief in captivity differences also exist in more or less. At the same time, also showed obvious regional differences, such as north and south, what differences, even for guan yu worship or between different ethnic religion has a different way. Guan emperor belief, as it were, with obvious regional characteristics and age characteristics.Attention to the folk belief study now, mostly in southeast coastal or southwest ethnic minority region. As for close emperor belief study is quite a lot of fujian and Taiwan, to close the emperor in the northern area of faith is relatively weak.The first part, analyzed the emperor belief in the emergence and development of shaanxi. This paper takes the shaanxi region, for example, the emphasis on development of guan emperor belief the heyday of the Ming and qing dynasties. In to dissertate the Ming and Qing dynasties emperor belief condition, before the paper first briefly combed the emperor the general situation of belief. Then the targeted close emperor of the Ming and Qing dynasties shanxi region belief condition has made the analysis. In shaanxi province are mainly composed of a large number of local Chronicles, Guandi temple within the territory of the construction of the time, analyzes the distribution and the number of temples. In the analysis of the distribution in Guandi temple in shaanxi, on the basis of obtained close emperor belief there are subtle differences in shaanxi, such as the distribution of Guandi temple in northern shaanxi, sit, quantity is more, the border areas in southern shaanxi and relatively less in the guanzhong plain area. This from the side reflects the emperor belief close protector in the army. Guandi temple in scrap the villages and towns, also with strong political factors, guan emperor belief is under the promotion of political power, to prosper.The second part, discusses the Ming and Qing dynasties emperor belief in the cause of the prevalence of shaanxi. In the Ming and Qing dynasties shanxi guan emperor belief in general analysis, and then this thesis focused on this situation appear again. Mainly from the official political factors, the influence of Confucianism, Buddhism, daoism, and the spread of literature and folk beliefs power four aspects. Draws close emperor belief can prevail, inseparable from the powerful political forces push to encourage. With the absorption of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism three influence has important relation. At the same time, the literary works in the shape of GuanYu’s image, make it tend to be the perfect moral personality. So, just have the folk people of guan yu personality respect and acceptance, moral quality is closed until emperor belief can form in the Ming and Qing dynasties prosperous indispensable important factors.The third part, summarized the Ming and Qing dynasties shanxi guan emperor the local characteristics of faith. Through the analysis of geographical cultural background in Shanxi Province, points out that the emperor belief in shaanxi strong political atmosphere and deep within the territory of a wide range of soil of folk beliefs. And close the emperor was, as a multifunctional divine spirit embodied, especially as the army protector of assist military activities and embodied in the commercial moral god businessman. At the same time, analyzes the temple fair in close emperor centered activities. The temple fair activities with local characteristics, such as entertainment culture activities and economic exchanges and its special education function.Finally, the full text main conclusions made a review.