明清至民国时期任丘鄚州镇庙会变迁初探

州镇庙会兴起于明万历年间,清康乾时期达鼎盛,近代以后总势趋衰。前近代州庙会的酬神、娱乐、商贸功能并重;近代以后各功能皆有所弱化。该镇庙会变迁的根本原因是晚清、民国政府对州大庙、庙会政策与明、前清时期相比骤变,这是该镇异于冀中其他县区庙会变迁的显著特点。

Initial Exploration on Temple Fair Changes of the Maozhou Town in Renqiu from Ming and Qing Dynasties to Minguo Period of China

Maozhou temple fair began to rise during the Wanli period in Ming Dynasty,and reached its peak during the Kangqian period in Qing Dynasty.With the modern age coming,the fair took on decline as a general tendency.Before modern age the functions of Maozhou temple fare,such as religious ceremonies,recreations and trades,were comparably important,but after that each function were all towards decline in a way.The changes of the Maozhou temple fair,the basic reason lay in the greatly changes of government policies towards the Maozhou temple and the temple fair during the late Qing,compared with the Ming and early Qing Dynasty,which were evidently different from the changes of temple fairs in other counties of the middle area of Hebei province.