How did the Songjiang Array in Taiwan Province Province evolve?

Most of Taiwan Province Province are immigrants, and the residents are mainly Minnan people, so its folk culture naturally has the important characteristics of Minnan culture. Songjiang Array in Taiwan Province Province is a folk activity brought by Minnan residents when they moved to Taiwan Province Province, mostly concentrated in Tainan and Kaohsiung.

As an important part of folk activities, "Songjiang Array" is an important part of temple fair performance in Fujian and Taiwan folk beliefs, with its own ritual process and symbols. "Songjiang Array" belongs to the first martial arts array, which contains a large number of boxing methods, instruments and array performances.

According to legend, "Song Jiangzhen" was created by Cai, a boxer of the fifth ancestor of Shaolin in Qing Dynasty. Minnan people think that dead ancestors like to be as lively as people in real life, so there are always "noisy" battle leaders including "Song Jiang Array" when offering sacrifices.

"Songjiang Array", a combination of religious ceremony, hero worship, martial arts training and formation demonstration, was popular in Taiwan Province Province in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which reflected the fact that immigrants in Taiwan Province Province had to choose to establish a contractual clan society in the face of various complicated hardships that needed to be solved together.

Heroes of the Water Margin come from the middle and lower classes of society and are forced to go up the mountain to be bandits. In the process of fighting together, they forged a deep brotherhood, formed a relationship similar to contract clan, and aroused the feelings of immigrants in Taiwan Province Province.

From the identity composition of immigrants in Taiwan Province Province in Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were farmers, fishermen, soldiers, pirates and fugitives. The story of Liangshan they heard in their hometown not only made them admire the hero of "doing justice for heaven", but also worshipped the "brotherhood" of Song Jiang and others. This cultural psychology and the living environment that nurtured Taiwan Province Province at that time promoted the popularity of "Songjiang Array" cultural performance in Taiwan Province Province.