| Abstract: | 木柵忠順廟在大台北地區的角色與地位沒有受到足夠的關注，以北台灣迎請尪公到地方聚落祭祀或遶境的信仰模式迥異於台灣中南部的分靈建廟模式，木柵忠順廟的保儀大夫被迎請到各地的情況顯示其具有接近「祖廟」性質的重要性。本計畫擬就三方面切入，皆為過去相關研究中所未觸及的課題：2019年赴安溪虎邱謁祖、將迎請神明的刈單資料進行GIS空間分析、對近幾年重新恢復的「尪公巡茶園」進行分析。由保儀大夫在北台灣的迎請方式反思勞格文等學者所論述之以廟宇為中心的地方社會構建，觀察台北地區不以建廟方式如何凝聚地方的社群、維繫人神溝通。本計畫更大的脈絡是從全球史視野關照安溪人如何在近現代史中因茶葉貿易流動，將中國茶文化與安溪人信仰傳播全球，觀察背後交織的血緣、地緣、業緣、信緣、姻緣等社會網絡關係，涉及茶葉商業貿易、族群全球化移動、茶文化與安溪人信仰擴散，同時從環境史視野關注茶葉種植及銷售如何改變安溪人聚落的自然景觀與交通網絡，範圍包括安溪人所到的台灣與南洋，包括越南、緬甸、泰國、馬來西亞、新加坡、印尼，甚至遠及印度半島，以及其後隨銷售擴及日本與歐美地區。本研究聚焦於台北市木柵忠順廟保儀大夫信仰，其在北台灣安溪人群扮演重要角色，並影響擴及其他非安溪人，在大台北地區迎請的區域約佔一半面積，儼然有「祖廟」等級的地位。安溪人在台灣特別與鐵觀音、包種茶關係密切，木柵忠順廟與這些產地皆有密切關聯。筆者擬結合全球史、環境史、文化史、社會史、商業史觀察不同面向，長時段、跨區域、跨領域研究計畫有賴藉助筆者跨領域訓練背景，以傳統歷史文獻研究結合實地田野調查，長期紮根累積材料奠定研究基礎，並以數位人文方法整理分析資料，開創新研究模式，包括文字探勘、地理資訊系統（GIS）、社會網絡分析、3D數位掃瞄，將流動各地安溪人名從族譜碑刻、匾額楹聯、僑批通信、帳冊緣金簿與刈單資料、地方志之中，透過電腦輔助找到彼此連結。成果不僅貢獻研究論著，也將累積數位文獻與影像資料庫、社會網絡資料與GIS地圖平台，供未來學者使用。
Muzha Zhongshun Temple in Great Taipei area has been overlooked, especially considering its significant roles of being borrowed/welcomed by numerous villages and local communities to procession farmlands----the pattern distinct from temple subdivisions in central and southern Taiwan. This research proposal will center on three dimensions that have never been studied: the visiting of the temple’s ancestral temple in Anxi County, Fujian Province in Mainland China, the spatial analysis of the Lending Registration of the deity statues, and the recent invention of the deity Baoyi Daifu (保儀大夫) processioning tea farm in the Muzha area.The author begins this research from the broader perspective of global history. This plan shows how Anxi people can spread the Chinese tea culture and Anxi people's cults in the modern history due to the flow of tea trade, and observe the social networks related with kinship, hometown, guild, religion, and marriage. The relationship involves tea commercial trade, ethnic globalization movement, tea culture and the spread of Anxi people's cults. From the perspective of environmental history, this plan explores how tea cultivation and sales changed the natural landscape and transportation network of Anxi people's settlements, in Taiwan and Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and even the Indian Peninsula, and its subsequent expansion to Japan, Europe and the United States. Anxi special tea products, Tieguanyin and Baozhong tea, and Anxi people’s patrons Qingshui Zushi, Zhang Xun, Xu Yuan, Dongzhenren and Anxi City God are the core objects observed in the plan, from diverse perspectives of global history, environmental history, cultural history, social history, and economic history. This long-term, transregional and interdisciplinary research project relies on the author's cross-field training background, combining the traditional historical studies with the fieldwork ethnography, in order to accumulate the long-term and grass-rooted materials as solid foundation for research. Meanwhile, the digital humanities methods and tools can help analyze data and open up new research models, including text-mining, geographic information system (GIS), social network analysis, and 3D digital scanning, to discover the connections of various Anxi people’s names from the genealogy, stelae inscriptions, donation lists in temples, letters overseas Chinese, accounting records and tax information, and local gazetteers. With the help of computational tools and methods, we can find the connections among Anxi people in various, remote places. The results of the project not only contribute to research, but also can accumulate digital text and image databases and social network networks and create a GIS platform for future scholars. |
