中华之美丛书围绕中华优秀传统文化这一主题,择取其中15个专题分别加以介绍。这15个专题,包括以思想、智慧、艺术为主的无形遗产,以工艺、器物为主的有形遗产,以衣食住行乐为主的民俗生活,它们精心构架,有机结合,勾勒出中国文化的一个总体面貌,并反映出中华文化独一无二的理念、智慧、气度、神韵。中华之美丛书围绕中华优秀传统文化这一主题,择取其中15个专题分别加以介绍。这15个专题,包括以思想、智慧、艺术为主的无形遗产,以工艺、器物为主的有形遗产,以衣食住行乐为主的民俗生活,它们精心构架,有机结合,勾勒出中国文化的一个总体面貌,并反映出中华文化独一无二的理念、智慧、气度、神韵。
中国是一个节日大国。在悠久的历史、广阔的疆域和多样的生态下,中国各民族创造、传承和发展了丰富多彩的节日文化。这些节日,是中国文化集中呈现的舞台和重要的组成部分。神话、传说、信仰、仪式、戏曲、音乐、舞蹈、饮食、工艺等构成中国文化的各种因子都离不开节日。它们承载了中华民族的历史记忆、文化创造、社会机制和生活情趣。从节日里,人们满足着感观之欲,强化着群体的认同,实现着族群的繁衍,寻找着精神的安顿和心灵的慰藉。 China is a major country of festivals. In the long history, vast territory and diversified ecology, various Chinese ethnic groups created, inherited and developed the diversified culture of festivals. These festivals are stages epitomizing Chinese culture and its important components. Various elements of Chinese culture such as myths, legends, religions, rites, traditional Chinese opera, music, dancing, foods and drinks, arts and crafts are inseparable from festivals. They carry the Chinese nations historical memories, cultural creations, social mechanisms and joys of life. In festivals, people satisfy their sensual needs, strengthen group recognition, realize multiplication of ethnic groups, and look for mental peace and spiritual solace.
關於作者:
王学文,北京师范大学民俗学博士,现为文化部民族民间文艺发展中心副研究员、国家社科基金重大委托项目《中国节日志》编辑部副主任。主要研究方向为节日文化、文化遗产保护理论与实践。出版有专著《规束与共享》,在《民俗曲艺》(台湾)、《民俗研究》、《山东社会科学》等刊物发表论文多篇。 Wang Xuewen, Ph.D. in folklore studies, graduated from Beijing Normal University and is now an associate research fellow at the Center for Ethnic & Folk Literature & Art Development, Ministry of Culture, PRC and a deputy director of the editorial department of Chinese Festival Annals, a major project entrusted by the National Social Science Fund of China. His main research directions are theory and practice of festival culture and cultural heritage protection. He published Restriction and Sharing, a monograph, and several essays in Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore Taiwan, Folklore Studies, Shandong Social Sciences and other periodicals.
目錄:
ForewordFestive ChinaOrigins of FestivalsColorful Chinese FestivalsFestivals and Chinese CultureTenacious MemoriesSpring Festival: Chinese RecognitionDragon Boat Festival: Commemorating the Sage of the PastNational Day: Dream of Making China StrongHoly SacrificeTomb-sweeping Day: Heeding the DeadFestival of the Dead Spirits: Celebration of People and GhostsEid al-Adha: Dedication of SacrificesMundane RevelryShehuo Performances: Great JoyWater Splashing Festival: Bathing Buddha and EntertainmentTorch Festival: Burning PassionRhythm of ProductionDouble Second Festival: Spring Dragon Raises the HeadNadam Fair: Happy Gathering on the PrairieSea Opening and Closing Festivals: Harmony between Man and SeasSocial MaintenanceMid-autumn Festival: Reunion under the Full MoonDrum Worship Festival: In the Name of the DrumNadun Festival: Festive SequencePraise of LifeChildrens Day: Festive SpiritsSisters Festival: Time for Silver OrnamentsDouble Ninth Festival: Respect for the OldSinging for LoveDouble Seventh Festival: the Cowherd and the Weaver GirlDouble Third Festival: Burgeoning LoveMao Festival: Thriving LifeEpilogue: rediscovering festivals
內容試閱:
Happy like during a festival!Whenever people cheer for joyful things, they sigh like this. This is the most direct feeling that festivals give to man.The festival is a universal cultural phenomenon of human society. It is generally thought that festivals are group-based periodic special days with relatively stable contents and forms. Whether it is agricultural society, industrial society or information society, colorful festivals always run through. There are all kinds of festivals including traditional festivals with a long history and modern festivals established with the founding and development of the nation and state; political festivals, religious festivals and mundane festivals; festivals for certain professions and festivals particular to certain sex groups and age groups; festivals on the theme of sacrifice, festivals on the theme of love, festivals on the theme of gathering, festivals on the theme of entertainment and competition, etc.The origination of festivals had the characteristic of pure fabrication but was not meaningless and causeless. We can always find the origins of festivals and the reasons why they can be inherited in the physical geography, history, culture, political system and economic mode of festival celebrators. Festivals revive, explain and inherit mans past, shape, interpret and maintain mans present, and at the same time herald, inspire and create mans future. Try to imagine how insipid mans life would be in the even, indistinctive and continuous absolute stream of time without the creative and unique cultural time intervals of festivals. In mans life, they contribute to mans colorful cultural world like a string of beads connected by time and a skeleton supporting daily life. Without festivals, man would lack much spirit and interest. As scholar Liu Dong says, Life lacking celebration of festivals is not civilized life, and a civilization having lost celebration of festivals is certainly a lost civilization.