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Ancestress Worship: Huxin Temple and the Literati Community in Late Ming Ningbo

Ancestress Worship: Huxin Temple and the Literati Community in Late Ming Ningbo This article examines a lawsuit over a local temple called Huxin Temple as a way to discuss the conflicts caused by Buddhist devotion by women within family-centered rituals in seventeenth-century Ningbo. Since two sisters from the prominent Yuan family had donated their dowries to Huxin Temple during the Southern Song period, the Yuans had patronized the temple, until another prestigious family, the Zhangs, took it over. The article argues that the Yuans needed to shift their focus from the Yuan sisters to Yuan Yong, another ancestor of the Yuans, in order to win the lawsuit. The outcome of the lawsuit also demonstrates that the pious ancestresses vanished from the public discourse and were replaced by the Song loyalist Yuan Yong. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png NAN NÜ Brill

Ancestress Worship: Huxin Temple and the Literati Community in Late Ming Ningbo

NAN NÜ , Volume 16 (1): 29 – Sep 10, 2014

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1387-6805
eISSN
1568-5268
DOI
10.1163/15685268-00161p02
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Abstract

This article examines a lawsuit over a local temple called Huxin Temple as a way to discuss the conflicts caused by Buddhist devotion by women within family-centered rituals in seventeenth-century Ningbo. Since two sisters from the prominent Yuan family had donated their dowries to Huxin Temple during the Southern Song period, the Yuans had patronized the temple, until another prestigious family, the Zhangs, took it over. The article argues that the Yuans needed to shift their focus from the Yuan sisters to Yuan Yong, another ancestor of the Yuans, in order to win the lawsuit. The outcome of the lawsuit also demonstrates that the pious ancestresses vanished from the public discourse and were replaced by the Song loyalist Yuan Yong.

Journal

NAN NÜBrill

Published: Sep 10, 2014

Keywords: Huxin Temple ; Ningbo history ; Yuan Yong ; Zhang Shiche ; female religiosity

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