北京外城哪吒廟探溯

Old Peking has been dubbed the Nezha City in folklore for several centuries. It started with the lore of Liu Bingzhong of the Yuan dynasty designing the city plan of the imperial capital Dadu in the likeness of Nezha, the miraculous child deity of the Tantric Buddhist tradition and it was refurbished in modern times in the form of Liu Bowen building the ＂Eight-armed Nezha City＂ of the Ming imperial capital Peking. This bizarre folktale still holds many walks of life spellbound In the Qianlong reign of the Qing dynasty, the ＂Taodai hang＂ (Sash and Girdle Manufacturing Guild) of Peking built a temple named after Nezha at a site opposite the Heilong tan (Black Dragon Pool) near the southwestern blank of Xian'nong tan (Ancestral Agricultural Altar) to the west of Yongding Gate in the outer section of Peking city. It was designed to pay homage to Nezha as the spiritual progenitor and protector of the Guild and the Temple lasted unto the early 1950s when it was demolished to give space for the construction of the Taoranting Public Park. Drawing on the epigraphical inscriptions of the Nezha Temple transcribed by the late Dr Niida Noboru and his team during their research on the guilds of Peking in the 1940s (they were not edited and published until 1980), this paper attempts to reconstruct the history of the Temple and assess its socio-religious functions and ethnographical significance in the light of the development of the Guild and the evolution of the Nezha city folktale in modern Peking.

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