The Water-oriented Religious Activities in Licheng
These authors contributed equally.
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.212How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Religious space; water-field; symbolism; religious economy
- Abstract
The water fields in the urban communities are usually cognized for transport, livelihood, and artisan productions. However, in Licheng, a city in Northern China, religious sites occupied a tremendous portion of urban lands surrounding the water-fields in the Ming-Qing period, thereby series of religious activities like the Obon festival held in the religious space of water, even nowadays. How did those religious sites maintain lands and conduct religious activities? As previous literature on urban studies cannot deliver convincing explanations for such a phenomenon, local chronologies also have not recorded the original formation of the city’s religious spaces. In integrating and analyzing historical accounts, including chronicles, epitaphs, and notes, we argue that religious groups first established their settlements around the water-fields and then expanded to neighboring lands in legal and/or illegal ways.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Keer He AU - Runzhou Xu AU - Yuxuan Ye PY - 2021 DA - 2021/12/24 TI - The Water-oriented Religious Activities in Licheng BT - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1238 EP - 1243 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.212 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.212 ID - He2021 ER -