碩士 / 國立臺灣大學 / 戲劇學研究所 / 106 / The Birthday Celebration of Taipei Xia Hai City-God was once a famous event across Taiwan, but as time goes by, its fame ceased and large pilgrimage was no longer held annually. However, the celebration transformed into a cultural festival, after Dihua Street was preserved and turned into a historic district, tourist spot and art center. The new mode of festival has both modern art exhibition and traditional performances. This new mode allows different groups of people to participate, and they built a space of nostalgia atmosphere and multiple identification. These groups of people include local followers of City-God, store owners and employees of creative industry. They all have different expectation for the festival, but they create a kind of cultural memory which unites themselves. This research aims to observe the festival of 2017 through analysis of three activities: night time patrol parade, day time inspection tour, and water patrol parade, so as to discuss the influence of cultural performance upon local identification, and how the communities balance between maintaining tradition and surpassing the conservative.
This research went through different fields, such as sense of place, identification, and cultural performance. It also reviewed the history of organization of the religious celebration. Then it discussed the three activities with field observation and semi-structured interviews with participants. Last it analyzed the symbols of the three parades.
Night time patrol parade and day time inspection tour are the climax of the whole celebration, while water patrol parade is a newly invented activity. Though these three parades all have meaning of City-God’s purifying and patrolling his territory, their performances and characteristics are different. The water patrol parade recreated nostalgic spectacle and promoted other sport activities; while night time patrol parade and day time inspection tour strode across living space, emphasized territorial boundaries, and reconstructed the memory of the celebration.
The 2017 Birthday Celebration of Taipei Xia Hai City-God had diverse spectacles, and the separation of activities indicated the gap between old and new communities. However, in this hybrid space, different groups create a direction of cultural identification with memory reconstruction. Though this kind of identification has risk of lack of communication, it also has potential of openness.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/106NTU05510002 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Cheng-Ting Wei, 魏正婷 |
| Contributors | Fan-Ting Cheng, 鄭芳婷 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 138 |
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