移民与宗教之间:山东移民形成的陕西基督教村庄

Between Immigrants and Religions:The Christian Villages in Shaanxi Formed by Shandong Immigrants

移民是宗教传播的路径之一。因自然灾害后的谋计生存,山东青州一带基督教徒随着家乡父老移民来到陕西三原县一带,在那里形成了以基督教徒为主的“福音村”,之后还随着山东移民将基督教传播到陕西北部。正是通过这些山东移民,基督教首次进入了关中地区,在这里形成了先有基督徒后有传教士的中国基督教特殊历史。以三原福音村为中心,基督教创办了三原最早的新式学校和西医院,并存留至今,成为百余年历史的见证。直至今天的福音村,仍然还可以呈现出与关中其它村庄不同的移民性和宗教性,成为中国基督教历史上目前唯一所知的一例。

Immigration is one of the way of religion spreading.Because of the survival after a huge natural disaster,the Christians with their hometown fathers immigrated from Qingzhou area of Shandong Province to Sanyuan County of Shaanxi Province and formed a christian-dominated“Gospel Village”,and later these Shangdong Christian immigrants spread Christianity to northern part of Shaanxi Provice.It was these immigrants from Shandong Province that Christianity first entered the Guanzhong region of Shaanxi Provice,and formed a special history of Chinese Christianity with Christians before missionaries.With the Gospel Village as the center,Christianity founded the earliest modern school and the western hospital in Sanyuan county,and has survived to today as the more than 100 years history witness.Until today,the Gospel Village,which is the only known example in the history of Chinese Christianity,still exhibits a different immigration and religious character from other villages in Guanzhong area.