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- Title
九州清晏:清世宗全國龍神祠廟系統的創立.
- Authors
陶金; 喻曉
- Abstract
Since the first year of his reign (1723), Emperor Shizong of Qing Dynasty (清世宗), in his thirteen years of reign, had established an enormous state network of some thirty Dragon King shrines, centered with the Shiying Gong 時應宮 (the Temple of Timely Responses) in Beijing. He not only prayed at the temple for rain or sunshine for those stricken areas suffering from flood or drought, but also had provincial governors receive Dragon King statues imperially commissioned to their territories, and erect shrines to house them, being the local branches of the Shiying Gong. This essay categorizes these shrines into five levels: the central state, the provinces, the occasion of rainmaking ceremony, the Yellow River, and other rivers and seas. It analyzes the synchronization between these shrines and the state policy and the monumentality of these shrines by examining the historical background, architectural forms, the genesis of the cults, and ritual activities. Furthermore, the essay aims at revealing the selfcoincidence in divine power of Emperor Shizong as the lord of the "central state," and his political ideal of achieving "Jiuzhou Qingyan" 九州清晏 (the pure yellow river and the peaceful seas of the nine territories) by serving the gods and ruling the people.
- Subjects
BEIJING (China); RAIN-making; STATUES; TEMPLES; SHRINES; DRAGONS; EMPERORS; DROUGHTS; CULTS
- Publication
Daoism: Religion, History & Society, 2020, Issue 12/13, p175
- ISSN
2075-2776
- Publication type
Article