Advances in social science, education and humanities research, 2022
The water fields in the urban communities are usually cognized for transport, livelihood, and art... more 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.
Advances in social science, education and humanities research, 2022
The water fields in the urban communities are usually cognized for transport, livelihood, and art... more 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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