Road and Temple:The Cultural Logic of Spatial Disorder and Order Reconstruction—Based on a Case Study of Villages along National Highway 319 in Jishou
The road is not static and fixed;it contains a complex network of action.The risk of spatial disorder is hidden in the modernity constructed by road infrastructure,and temples and related cere-monial activities have become a local strategy to eliminate this risk.The rapid flow of the national highway and other factors lead to the frequent traffic accidents,which gives an"evil"flavor to thepac-es with frequent accidents.As a tool to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages,culture is skillfully used to modify the spatial order of villages,and is fully reflected in the relationship between"road"and"temple".The construction of Menggong Temple(Menggong being a god related to road)on the evil places reflects that people are trying to put the uncontrollable contents of modern society into their own familiar cultural context for understanding,presenting a process of interweaving traditional and modern culture.In essence,evil is the feeling experience of coincidence,fear and disorder,and it has ominous,filthy and dangerous cultural meaning;people's control of the behavior of evil places is a manifestation of order reconstruction,and the"road-temple"system contains the cultural logic of the transformation between good and evil,and constructs a set of cultural landscape on the road.
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