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The Joint Deity-Welcoming Festival: Implementation
12019-11-18T17:21:30-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f353This page addresses the process through which the joint deity-welcoming festival came into existence during the early 1930s.image_header2019-12-08T21:12:01-05:0025.1276, 121.739181930sEvan N. Dawley, Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyMazu; Kaizhang Shengwang; Chenghuang Ye; Qing'an; Dianji; Chenghuang; Xu Zisang; raojingEvan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44Evidently, circumstances had changed by 1933, when the leaders of Jilong's temples and a group of other Taiwanese elites decided to implement the festival merger portion of the Customs Assimilation Association's 1921 proposal and create the Joint Deity-Welcoming Festival. One factor that influenced this decision was, unquestionably, the global Great Depression. A prolonged economic downturn combined with an influx of new residents seeking jobs to strain the resources of the city government and local residents. Jilong's Taiwanese had initially met the economic difficulties with sizable celebrations--Mazu, Kaizhang Shengwang, and Chenghuang Ye were there to protect the city, after all--but after several years their financial anxieties grew. Likely more significant was the increasingly intrusive colonial state. As early as 1930, the city government had insisted on sending a representative to planning sessions for the Chenghuang festival. This sort of pressure mounted over the next few years and was expressed in a variety of ways, such as a new survey of temples in northern Taiwan, the first in almost 15 years, and a greater focus on transforming religious customs through the practices of social work. According to a substantial article in the Taiwan nichinichi shinpō, in October, 1933, Xu Zisang and Lin Dexin--the temple managers for the Qing'an, Chenghuang, and Dianji--met with a few other prominent figures and, citing the tremendous cost of three separate festivals, which that year had totaled 400,000 yen, decided to hold one day of celebrations beginning in 1934. The temples would distribute the burden of planning and cost, with a different one playing the lead organizing role each year. Early in the fifth lunar month, the spirit images (shenxiang) of the three deities would be gathered in the Qing'an Temple, from whence they would emerge on the tenth and commence their raojing through the city. The deities' bonds to their communities and their terrain would be reinforced, albeit in a way that now distinguished less between individual gods and territories.
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1media/QingAn.jpg2019-11-18T17:21:30-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Joint Deity-Welcoming Festival: OriginsEvan Dawley3This page examines the origins of the joint festival, with ideas proposed in the 1920s.image_header2019-12-08T21:09:55-05:0025.13105, 121.740471920sEvan N. Dawley, Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyGhost Festival; ShintoEvan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44
12019-12-08T23:43:46-05:00Evan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44The Sacred Geographies ThruwayEvan Dawley3This pathway provides a fast track through the spatial and historical arguments of the module.plain2019-12-09T13:35:01-05:00Evan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44
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12019-11-18T17:21:23-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fCompeting Festivals: The Jilong Shrine Festival4This page discusses the expanded Jilong Shrine Festival that occurred to celebrate its renovationimage_header2019-12-08T23:21:37-05:0025.13161, 121.746931930sEvan N. Dawley, Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyJoint Deity-Welcoming Festival;Evan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44
