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- Title
「聖地」的塑造: 近代青幫組織中的羅教記憶及其空間化.
- Authors
陳明華
- Abstract
During the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, many boatmen employed by grain tribute fleets were members of the Luo Sect who often congregated around the Beixin Pass and areas around the Gongchen Bridge at the end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Using the ritual framework of the Luo Sect, they formed mutual aid and brotherhood organizations. The Qing authorities outlawed the Luo Sect on several occasions, but the boatmen who followed it continued to use its structure and kept its memory alive. During the late Qing, social and economic changes prompted many boatmen to start going ashore to earn a living, but some continued to form groups based on the elements of the Luo Sect. One of these groups, the Anqing Daoist Friends Society, was the predecessor of the Green Gang (Qingbang). Over time, memories of the Luo Sect were processed into stories about its origin, which raised the status of Hangzhou in the Green Gang’s historical narrative, with the Ancestral Hall of the Green Gang and the patriarch’s tomb becoming symbols of the Luo Sect’s orthodoxy. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese occupying forces attempted to create a sense of order in areas under their control by granting legal status to different groups, including the Chinese Anqing Alliance, and, as part of their efforts to integrate various groups, recognized the history and traditions of the Green Gang. With the help of the government, areas around the Gongchen Bridge in Hangzhou were designated as the original “Holy Land” of the Green Gang.
- Subjects
BOATERS (Persons); GANGS
- Publication
Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre & Folklore / Mínsú Qǔyì, 2023, Issue 222, p97
- ISSN
1025-1383
- Publication type
Article