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  title¡G PengHu Cultural Asset Series 103: Ceremony and Application Document in Folklore of PengHu
  creator¡G Huang, YouSing &Gan, ChunJi
  category¡G Series
  page¡G 547
  version¡G First version
  language¡G Chinese
  place of publication¡G PengHu County
  publisher¡G Cultural Bureau of PengHu County Government
  date of publication¡G 2003.02
  ISBN¡G 957¡V01¡V3400¡V3
  keyword¡G Award to military, enhance wealth and luck
  abstract¡G

PengHu is the first stop for Han People¡¦s reclamation in Taiwan Area.  Residents in PengHu preserve completed traditional customs and life styles of Han People due to off-shore location and inconvenient traffic before Year 34th of ROC, where appears the perfect base for folklore research.  With the folklore, PengHu People are encouraged to fight with evils and bad environments, promoting to brave struggling from fears of devils.  They all believe gods¡¦ blessings to expel any dangers and to give them encourages on tough fishing and working far away from home country.  Incomes from hard working are saved for home town construction and for support continuous development.  To understand religious ideas of PengHu People, ceremony will be the important way.  The Book is a survey report for civil ceremonies and application documents, and includes two parts, such as temple and household praying ceremonies.  The temple ceremonies include building temple, temple settlement, and yearly festivals (receiving god, god birthday, praying for safety, ¡¥Tai Suei¡¦ settlement, regular awards to military on the Day first and the Day 15th, Lantern Festival, ¡¥JhenFu¡¦, ¡¥enhance luck¡¦, ¡¥releasing souls in mid July¡¦, ¡¥thanks god for safety¡¦, ¡¥gratitude to Tai Suei¡¦, take ¡¥Ying¡¦ ¡¥Tou¡¦, Wellfare, and God¡¦s birthday ).  King, MaZu, and ChengHuang are most popular beliefs in PengHu.  Special ceremonies are ¡¥LuanTang¡¦ activity, erecting flag pole, BaoTa settlement, praying for rain, gratitude to rains, enhance wealth and luck, and as a god son.  Household ceremonies cover praying for safety and disaster expelled, house settlement, gratitude to flower sisters, ChuanJiao, ¡¥Syu An¡¦ and ¡¥Sie An¡¦, ¡¥paying respects to ancestors¡¦, ¡¥funeral¡¦, and ¡¥offerings to ghosts in hell¡¦.  Application documents include (1) used by ceremony masters and witches : making wishes, for funeral, description, reporting, informing, for request, expression, notes, hand scripts, for invitation, for farewell, and others (for leaving, for long life, contact, and advices), and (2) used by shaman : expression, reporting, ¡¥CingCih¡¦, ¡¥FuLing¡¦, ¡¥Guan¡¦, ¡¥Da¡¦, ¡¥Bang¡¦ (for goods), and ¡¥Jhai Jhang¡¦.   The Book explores all islands in PengHu, including even distant WangAn and Hua Yu, crosses time spans from Ching Dynasty, Japanese governance, to post war era.  Most ceremonies are hosted by ceremony masters and witches, except for ¡¥JianJiao¡¦, ¡¥HeWun¡¦, ¡¥temple settlement¡¦, and ¡¥KoTe¡¦ ceremonies hosted by shaman.  Some Buddha ceremonies in temples through Buddha process, are not included in the Book.

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