Study On Temporal And Spatial Distribution Of The Belief Of Wenchang In Yangtze River Basin

According to records series Chinese Local Chronicles, the Yangtze River Valley of Wenchang belief propagation appears most early in the Tang dynasty. Tang and Song Yuan period, wenchang faith has got preliminary development in Yangtze river basin, some districts already have a sporadic Wenchang entity, dispersed, no specific rules. The Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination system become the custom, Wenchang faith in the Yangtze River Valley into the period of rapid development, to the late Ming and Wenchang belief has spread to more than50the Yangtze River Basin District, located in the Yangtze River Basin in the major provinces.The qing enter into the shan hai guan, government support, Jiaqing and Xianfeng years successively the Wenchang beliefs forms to institutionalization, Select scholars for public office get further improvement, and rapid development of education, all strong cultural atmosphere, a lot about, such as free private school, shexue,college set up in Wenchang palace or directly by the Wenchang palace reconstruction, because Wenchang beliefs popular belief, the entire Yangtze River Basin Wenchang belief has always been in a state of diffusion in Qing Dynasty,1883-1911period, the Yangtze River Valley of Wenchang beliefs region generally determined.Specifically, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in Sichuan,Chongqing Fu, Kuizhou Fu, Xuzhou Fu Chungju, middle Hunan and Hubei area of Yichang Fu, Wuchang Fu, Huangzhou Fu, Changsha Fu, Yuezhou Fu, The lower reaches of Anhui province Luzhou, and Hezhou, Taiping Fu and Jiangsu province Yangzhou Fu, Songjiang Fu the wenchang beliefs diffusion time earlier, in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the Hunan lizhou fu, Jiangxi, Rao state and Jiangsu Prefecture of Zhenjiang, Changzhou Fu Wenchang belief diffusion time later, while most areas of Yangtze River Valley of Yunnan province Wenchang belief diffusion blank area.Changes in the number of Wenchang belief entities in Yangtze River Valley in Qing Dynasty also appeared the different, the number of distribution gap most in the upper reaches of Yangtze River in Yunnan province, Including the Lijiang Prefecture, Zhaotong Prefecture, Yongbei Prefecture, But the war is more serious in Yunnan Prefecture of Dali, affected by natural disasters in Anhui Prefecture of Anqing, Luzhou, and Jiangsu province Jiangning, Changzhou Prefecture for the Wenchang belief of Yangtze River Valley of quantity fluctuation a decline in District, Yunnan province’s Dongchuan Fu, Wuding, Sichuan Province, Shi zhu Prefecture, Anhui province’s Hezhou belongs to the Wenchang distribution of low level stable region, And Tianquanzhou has lots of Wenchang entities, Sichuan Province’s Yazhoufu belonging to the high level of stability in Wenchang quantity fluctuation.The the Sichuan Kuizhou Fu,Hubei Prefecture of Yichang Fu, Hunan Lizhou Fu which near the Three Gorges area for Wenchang the number of entities fluctuation growth area, and in the South Bank of the Yangtze River Hunan Changsha Fu, Jiangxi Nanchang Prefecture, Nankang Fu, Raozhou Fu for the Wenchang Yangtze River Valley entities rapid growth number fluctuation, The number of Wenchang entity in other government which belong to Yangtze River Basin, are showing varying degrees of growth, in the Yangtze River Valley of Wenchang the number of entities fluctuation overall is on the rise.