The Korean Qiuxi Cultural Changes And Functional Studies

The festival is the product and symbol of a national history and civilization, and the festive custom is a kind of comprehensive cultural phenomenon. It reflects the objective changes in natural conditions and extremely strong sequential. In addition to this, in its essence, it has a strong humanistic color. As the representative of the Korean festival culture,the mid-Autumn Festival is the national cultural essence. The mid-Autumn Festival is the original Korean traditional festival, which is one of "four famous festivals" that include Spring Festival, Han Shi Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and it. It is rooted in the long history of agricultural civilization, and it means celebrating harvest and thanking ancestors. From of old, it is deemed the most extensive ethnic festivals and the most important festival in Korea. The mid-Autumn Festival, which serves as a Korean national statutory holiday, is an important moment to yearn our ancestor and reunite. In addition to this, it integrates the function of beliefs, social, entertainment and so on. Therefore, the research on the mid-Autumn Festival is a significant perspective to realize the Korean nationality and Society. This paper take the mid-Autumn Festival as a case, adopt literature method, field survey method, integral method and comparative method, from two dimensions of time and space as well as official and folk, traditional and modern two pairs of relations, set it in a wide vision of the social history, in the relation of own and others, in the dynamic process of growth and decline. Through the multi-dimensional perspective, made a special research on the mid-Autumn Festival and present a panoramic, stereoscopic ethnographic reports.The introduction part mainly introduces the reasons of topic's selection, research value, research methods and data sources.In the first chapter, it diachronically explores the trace of the mid-Autumn's origin, development and connotation in depth to clarify the historical context. At the same time, it shows the outline of Chuseok and its social function through the introduction of the festival things.In the second chapter, the mid-Autumn is placed in the East Asia to make transverse synchronic comparison with China, Japan, Vietnam and other countries of the mid-Autumn Festival Culture. Through the contrast and analysis of traditional attire origin and folk and other aspects of The East Asia, we can find the Korean mid-Autumn has distinct national and regional cultural connation, which can highlight Korean mid-Autumn's specificity and culture connotation with other East Asian countriesIn the third chapter, we can understand the mid-Autumn cultural from the perspective of the official and folk force's shaping on it. Because the evolution of the rise and fall of Korean mid-Autumn festival main subject to official and folk two great power, in the social background of political revolution, we will explore the transitional process and result of the mid-Autumn which was under Korean government's powerful intervention.In the fourth chapter,we will realize the mid-Autumn Festival from the traditional and modern vision. We will analyze the direction of development and the potential problem and South Korea under the new situation how to protection and development of the mid-Autumn Festival culture.The final part is the conclusion. With the modern social changing and cultural communication internationalizing, traditional culture such as the mid-Autumn Festival has the vital significance on coming down of national culture heritage, maintaining cultural identity, harmonizing social framework, promoting international cultural understanding.