“父母神结对,天下开展宏图”:越南永珠市天后与北帝信仰的双重结构

The United Parental Deities Unveiling Vast Horizons:A Dual Structure of Tianhou and Beidi Belief in Vinh Long City,Vietnam

华南人在几个世纪的不断迁徙中将天后信仰带到越南,并在当代越南社会的多元文化场景中逐渐成为华人社会的代表神。永珠市在华人民间被视为越南的“小潮州市”,在越南南部朔庄省的县级市永珠市,天后和北帝,在社区意识中扎根并广泛传播。本文运用民族志田野数据、结构理论和宗教仪式研究中的移情理论,探讨天后和北帝在当地居民心目中的独特纽带。天后在诸神“家族”的框架内将自己的职能从海神转向母神,与北帝形成了模糊但有效的双重神明结构。

Over several centuries of continuous migration,the people of southern China brought the Tianhou belief to Vietnam,where it gradually became a representative deity within the contemporary multicultural landscape of the Chinese community.Vinh Long City,often regarded as a"Mini-Chaozhou City"in the hearts of the Chinese,is a provincial-level city located in the Soc Trang Province of southern Vietnam.Within this city,the dual worship of Tianhou and Beidi silently embodying the role of parental deities within their collective consciousness and spreading widely within the community.This paper utilizes ethnographic field data,structural theory,and the theory of transference in religious ritual studies to explore the unique connection that Tianhou and Beidi hold in the minds of local residents.Initial observations suggest that Tianhou has transitioned her role from a sea goddess to a mother goddess within the framework of the divine"family"of deities,creating a somewhat blurry yet effective dual deity structure alongside Beidi.