The Embodiment of Time and Space in the Koah-hiun (刈香) Procession of Saikang, Tainan

Fiorella Allio (1)

1 IrAsia - Institut de recherches Asiatiques

"The Saikang Koah-hiun (西港刈香) festival has been performed every three years since 1784 and has been celebrated without interruption, despite facing dramatic challenges and undergoing notable changes.(1) These features show quite a remarkable temporal depth in the Han Chinese religious development in Taiwan. Moreover, the festival takes place in the hinterland of Tainan, site of the first massive immigration from China and the first large-scale contact with Austronesians, and covers a vast region when viewed from the perspective of a daily life span and basic human physical mobility. Other rituals, also called Koah-hiun, are celebrated in the neighboring areas; likewise, each of them delimits its ritual borders and circumscribes a specific territory."

Mots clés: procession; Space and Time; ritual; Popular religion; Taiwan

Mots clés: espace et temps; rituel; religion populaire

Domaines: Religions; Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Fiorella Allio. The Embodiment of Time and Space in the Koah-hiun (刈香) Procession of Saikang, Tainan. Nanying History, Society and Culture III, 2014, 978-986-04-0026-7. ⟨halshs-01216686⟩