名間鄉受天宮玄天上帝香期形成探究：兼談民間信仰文化資產化的發展省思

The Formation of the Pilgrimage Season in Mingjian Township 名間鄉 for Shoutian Temple's 受天宮 Highest Emperor of the Dark Heaven (Xuantianshangdi 玄天上帝): A Discussion and Reflection on the Development of the Capitalization of Popular Beliefs and Culture

溫宗翰(Tsung-han Wen)

《臺灣宗教研究》 14卷1期 (2015/06) Pp. 93-119

摘要

南投縣名間鄉受天宮玄天上帝香期，源自每年玄天上帝聖誕日前後，全臺灣各地大量進香團體、神壇、個人前往受天宮進香，年復一年，在每年農曆年過後至農曆四月期間，形成固定的進香期；由於數量龐大、參與人數眾多，成為南投縣民俗文化的重要特色與指標，因此，2012年南投縣文化局正式公告登錄為「南投縣民俗文化資產」。受天宮進香盛況，甚早被學界注意，其並非臺灣最早玄天上帝信仰中心，卻能具有影響全臺玄天上帝信仰之實力；因此，本文將就受天宮進香期之形成進行探源，了解其信仰擴張與影響力如何形成，同時，就其登錄為南投縣無形文化資產之意義進行分析探討，並為其勾勒文資化以後的發展想像，以發掘此項民俗之特殊性。本論文也將藉此議題，探討當前文化資產政策與民間信仰間的關係，又該如何思考這股被稱為「必要之惡」的文化政策力量。

關鍵字

名間鄉受天宮 ； 玄天上帝 ； 進香 ； 無形文化資產 ； 文化資產化

並列摘要

The pilgrimage season of Shoutian Temple's Xuantianshangdiin Nantou county'sMingjian Townshiporiginated from the annual pilgrimages of large numbers of pilgrimage groups, sacred altars, and individuals to the temple around the emperor's birthday. Year after year, from the end of the lunar New Year tothe fourth month of the lunar calendar, the event became a regular pilgrimage period. Due to the immense number of participants, it is now an important distinguishing quality and symbol of Nantou County's folk culture. Therefore, in 2012, the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Nantou Countyformally registered the event as ＂Folk Cultural Capital of Nantou County.＂ The grand occasion of the pilgrimage to Shoutian temple was very early on givenscholarly attention, especially since it was not the earliest center of Xuantianshangdibeliefs, yet still possessed the power of influencing belief of the deity in all of Taiwan. Therefore, the present study delves into the formational period of theShoutian Temple pilgrimage to understand how theexpansion of belief and its influence formed. At the same time, the article analyzes and discusses the meaning of its registration as Nantou County's intangible cultural capital. In addition, it outlinesvisions of its development after its cultural capitalization in order to uncover this folk custom's particularity. The paper, through this topic, also explores the relationship between present cultural capital policies and popular beliefs and how we should consider the power of cultural policy, a so-called ＂necessary evil.＂

並列關鍵字

Mingjian Township's Shoutian Temple (Mingjianxiang Shoutian gong 名間鄉受天宮) ； Highest Emperor of the Dark Heaven (Xuantianshangdi 玄天上帝) ； pilgrimage ； intangible cultural capital ； cultural capitalization

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