碩士 / 國立臺灣海洋大學 / 海洋文化研究所 / 99 / The thesis aims at exploring the relevant situations of folk by means of the complexity between religious beliefs and folk taboos. It will examine the evaluation of regional cultural transformation. Waimushan fishing village, next to Keelung West Wharf, faces the East Sea and Keelung Islet. It locates between both Da-Wu-Lun and Xie-Hong fishing harbors. Waimushan village belongs to Zhongshan district, one of seven districts of Keelung city. This district includes four bays, Xie-Hong Bay, Waimushan Bay, Jing-Shui Bay and You-Shi Bay, and Waimushan Bay is the biggest, its harbor was built up as expansion. Therefore, the residents live on farm-fishing collecting fishing, such as terraced-farming, upland-vegetable, coastal fishing, sea-weed collecting and shell collecting.
In recent years, their stable lifestyle of living is near-waters fishing. Meanwhile, the fishermen suffer from predicaments in life since 1971 when the government has commandeered the Xie-Hong fishing harbor to build up the Xie-He Thermo-power Plant in 1973. The waters near Waimushan were henceforth contaminated by the dirt of .the An-Zhong Industrial Route. In 1993 Taiwan Electricity Company Fund spend NT$2.4 million to have rebuilt the center of religion, the temple Xie-An (Xie-An Gong), where became not only a regional folk museum but also a functional and folklore community assemblage spot to promote residents’ effective communication. Furthermore, the local belief in gods is highly specific and some fishermen’s taboos have integrated in customs.
This thesis of research on Waimushan fishing village highlights its characteristics which will develop in four aspects. Firstly, the cultural relationship through methodology, going with a deal of field survey, which records the fishermen’s customs, beliefs and taboos demonstrated by the essentials of folklore, anthropology, the science of religion. Secondly, we analyze the connection how beliefs and taboos have gradually built in customs. On this viewpoint, our thesis, based on the field data, integrates the residents’ beliefs and taboos come from ancestors’ diverse regions before their settlement in Taiwan. Thirdly, we display the features of regional worship in gods via regular rituals and festival events. Fourthly and finally, this study records and preserves the customs in Waimushan fishing village, and its evaluation on residents’ big events, birth, death and marriage.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/099NTOU5274002 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Chi Kao, 高旗 |
| Contributors | Chia-Fang An, Tzu-Liang Tseng, 安嘉芳, 曾子良 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 247 |
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