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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 368 3rd International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2019) Homology Analysis of Folk Culture of Fujian and Taiwan Based on Totem* Ping Guan Department of Film, Television and Art Fuzhou University of International Studies and Trade Fuzhou, China 350000 Abstract—The folk culture of Fujian and Taiwan has been circle on both sides of the Taiwan Straits. inseparable since ancient times. From the point of view of the historical origin and current situation of the totem of Fujian Totem is an imported product, which means the national and Taiwan, the culture of Fujian and Taiwan has the common emblem or symbol of a nation's culture. Basically, totem is totem worship and the same origin. Among many factors of one of the earliest cultural phenomena in human history. In national identity, cultural factors are even more influential the primitive society, people took one or more natural than consanguinity. The folk culture on both sides of the graphics as the patron deity of the clan and the symbol of the Taiwan Straits has many similarities, and it is also deeply nation, and formed totem worship. These totems were the influenced by the Chinese civilization, including the Guyue worship of the common ancestor of the people at that time, civilization. Therefore, it can be seen that the big family of the or the pictorial expression of prayer for gods in people's Chinese nation is a community of shared future where blood is hearts [1]. Totem is derived from myths and legends, and thicker than water. also supported by the discovery of archaeological relics. For example, Pangu, the creator of the world, took the dragon Keywords—Fujian and Taiwan totems; folk culture; both head and the snake as his totem. Yellow Emperor, Yan sides of the Taiwan Straits; homologous Emperor and their descendants took fire, bird, tiger and turtle as totems. Baiyue took the snake as the totem, while dragon I. INTRODUCTION is the totem of Chinese nation. The area of Minyue and Taiwan has been a cultural As a cultural symbol, totem can directly reflect the region with the same root and common source since ancient spiritual belief of a group or a nation. It can also reflect the times. In ancient times, many southern regions, including "group consensus" from a unique perspective, including the Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, were called Baiyue. They all perspective of human's original consciousness and collective belong to the Guyue culture, and many of them take the expectation. Combined with literature and historic sites, snake as their totem. In ancient times, Min was a branch of totem can deeply explain some myths and allusions, classical Yue people, so it was called Minyue, taking the snake as its records and folk customs of the local nation. These materials totem. Shuo Wen Jie Zi interprets "Min" as "Southeast help people understand a nation's history, national style and nationality, snake species", which means the descendants of common psychology. In other words, through totem culture, snake totem. The folk custom of worshiping snakes still people can understand a nation's national characteristics, exists in Fujian, for example, the meeting of welcoming collective behavior mode and thinking mode through totems. snakes and the meeting of celebrating lanterns in Zhang Hu, All these are of great significance and reference value for the Nanping, northern Fujian. Taiwan and Fujian, especially in study of a nation's overall thinking and cultural connotation, southern Fujian, are separated by a narrow strip of water and especially the study of totem worship, which has good facing each other across the sea. They are geographically academic and cultural values for the cognition of the nation's close, blood close, cultural affinity, and have a very close social life and cultural psychology [2]. cross-straits common cultural ties. Similarly, the Taiwanese aborigines, such as the Gaoshan people, take snake as their II. THE TOTEM CULTURE OF FUJIAN AND TAIWAN IS OF totem. There are many folk legends that Chinese moccasin is the incarnation of their ancestors and taboos against hunting THE SAME ORIGIN snakes. Therefore, totem names and signs, totem taboos and Totem culture is the national culture shared by people on rituals, totem fertility beliefs, totem incarnation beliefs both sides of the Taiwan Straits, and the common culture is gradually appeared, forming a distinctive totem cultural the symbolic factor of the same type of nation and the important characteristics of the nation. Many scholars believe that among the factors of national identity, cultural *Fund: This paper is a Research Project of Education and Teaching Reform of Universities in Fujian, "Research on Innovation and Reform of factors play an even more prominent role than blood Animation Specialty from the Perspective of Cultural Industry Cluster in relationship, and the content of culture also embodies the Fujian Province". (Project NO.: FBJG20190283) common spiritual worship connotation of the nation. The CLC number: G424 Document code: A Chinese civilization includes the commonality and overall Copyright © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). 326 Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 368 national civilization of all nations. Similarly, the Chinese the national feeling of sharing the pulse and destiny, culture is the crystallization of all ethnic groups' common belief and same root. Even if they can't make it to accumulation, consensus and innovation. It has always been the mainland, they usually hold a ceremony, facing the east the source of the Chinese civilization and embodies the and offering sacrifices, to express Taiwan compatriots' deep cohesion of the whole nation. attachment to their native land through folk beliefs. At that time, Shangbaijiao was held in Xuejia Tzu Chi Temple in From the perspective of archaeology and ethnology Taiwan (whose Ancestral temple is Tzu Chi Temple in genetics, the kinship between the people of Taiwan and of White Reef in Longhai, Fujian) on March 11 every year. Minyue has existed for tens of thousands of years: the Representatives from the relevant temples nearby sent migration of the people of Fujian and Taiwan. representatives to form the incense delegation. They gathered The activities recorded in historical materials are at the river bank of the General Creek and set up a table to relatively late, and the folk exchanges between Fujian and offer incense. Facing the mainland, they worshiped their Taiwan can be traced back to the Eastern Han Dynasty. ancestors at a distance to express Taiwan compatriots' During the Tang Dynasty, many people in Fujian began to sincere love for the motherland [5]. After 1949, the activity migrate across the sea to the islands along the Taiwan Strait, of Shangbaijiao in Xuejia Tzu Chi Temple in Taiwan Pescadores, and even to Taiwan itself. It is said that the resumed and gradually became a local custom with a larger travel notes of Journey to Taiwan in Tang Dynasty described scale. The number of people who participated in the many beautiful scenery of the islands along the Taiwan Strait. sacrificial activities exceeded 100,000, which indirectly During the Song and Yuan dynasties, it became a fashion for expressed the wish of Taiwan compatriots for the Fujian people to move to Pescadores. According to reunification of the motherland. The situation is like: "Qi documents, tens of thousands of mu of land was opened up Zhuang Hu Tian, Wan Zhong Tong Can Xue Jia Di, Xue to grow wheat and other crops in Taiwan Island and Nong Yu Shui, Qian Qiu Bu Wang Bai Jiao Jiu. (The mainland China in the Southern Song Dynasty. In the Yuan inscriptions show the deep attachment of Taiwan compatriots Dynasty, there was already a flourishing scene of commerce to their native land and the loyalty and unswerving and trade. At that time, the Pescadores had become an patriotism)" important harbor for mainland China to trade with Southeast The worship of totem in Fujian and Taiwan, especially Asia and other overseas regions, and they were under the the totem of dragon, snake, lion and turtle, is deeply rooted jurisdiction of Fujian. In the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Yuan in people's hearts, including religious worship, cultural made a detailed description in Yi Dao Zhi Lue. During the customs, festivals, food and housing, etc. showing the Yuan dynasty, the government even set up a special inseparable cultural homology complex [6]. Architecture and administrative agency, Pescadores Agency, to regulate the the art of architecture stand out. exchange of local people and the maritime trade of goods. [3]. With the integration of ancient nations and the development of history, totem culture has been updated In the Ming and Qing dynasties and modern times, with iteratively, gradually evolving from single animals such as the migration of Minyue to the east and mainland people to snakes, birds and turtles to combined animal images, and Taiwan, people in the southeast coastal areas migrated to dragon totem is the final product. The dragon, the symbol of Taiwan one after another, opening up new homes in Taiwan Chinese civilization, derives its form mainly from snakes, and forming new ethnic groups. At the same time, with the lizards and crocodiles. The Chinese dragon and the totem of deepening emotions of people on both sides of the Taiwan the dragon and snake represent the image of the Chinese Straits since the reform and opening up, people in Taiwan nation and the belief of the nation, Zhu Shen Tong Si [7]. As have sought their roots and recognized their ancestors, time went by, the dragon became a sacred thing worshipped returned to the mainland to visit relatives, and actively by the Chinese nation and a continuation of the culture of participated in the construction of ancestral halls, repairing snake worship.

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