Ching Ming Festival, The Integration Of Japanese Folk Aesthetic Vision

As the only festival named by solar term in present Chinese festival system, complicate origins and diversified festival function of Qing Ming Festival has significant importance. Therefore, there's practical significance to study integration of a series of traditional folk festival represented by Qing Ming Festival from aesthetic aspect. Forming, developing and transforming of Qing Ming Festival is a result of joint actions from various aspects including enforcement intervention of national policy, regulating of folk custom and gradual influencing of public aesthetic mental set. These elements have trend pattern include on transmission from confused chaos to coordination. This thesis carries out deep research on systematic integration of Qing Ming Festival folk culture on basis of detailed analysis of various factors and custom aesthetics, therefore to carry out further study of traditional festival's feature and function by understanding regular action of aesthetics to festival integration. On one hand, this thesis conducts academic level transfer on basis of previous research result in order to make topic selection can be used to study traditional folk festival from perspective of aesthetic and system theory. On another hand, the thesis reviews and re-focuses some previous research materials in order to understand some ignored issues from new viewpoint. From the perspective of topic selection, the thesis finds higher level common point for folk study and aesthetics living pattern and environment among people, therefore to open up new dimension for development of folk aesthetics subject; in practical level, the research result seeks channel for traditional festival in diversified period background to adapt in modern social development, then contribute to non-material relic preservation for traditional folk festival.Research object of the thesis is traditional Chinese folk festivals in spring represented by Qing Ming Festival. The thesis mainly discuss integration of traditional folk festival in aesthetics viewpoint from perspective of custom and aesthetics. The first paragraph mainly defines origin and development trend of Qing Ming Festival by reviewing evolution history of Shang-si Festival, Cold Food Festival, Qing Ming Festival and Rural Festival, etc. The periods of Han-Wei-Jin and Tang-Song are break points, the thesis carries out pointed research on tomb-sweeping day process in respect of Prior-Qin originating period, Han-Wei-Jin developing period and Tang-Song integration period. Tomb-sweeping festival developed from spring activity into a kind of sacrificing ceremony to ancestors.From the Perspective of the aesthetic and cultural, the second to fifth chapter analyse the integration of traditional folk festival on Qing Ming, on the internal operation mode and guidelines. From the horizontal logic perspective of how Shang-si Festival, Cold Food Festival, Rural Festival, etc integrated into Qing Ming Festival, the root cause is not only the focal point of this part and the full-text, but also where the innovation lies.The second chapter highly summarized the complex relations between politics and traditional folk festival by using the word "Rites", thus it put forward that the root cause of why the relationship between politics and folklore is so close is that Both of these two are aspects of traditional Chinese Ritual culture and both of these two all engender, change and develop in the rites category. Rites is not only the common roots of politics and folklore, but also the basic evaluation criteria in the development and the existence of both. It is for this reason, in the process of historical development, politics and folklore in the various periods have close contact and mutual influence. The two different directions of movement had a political transformation of the folklore, or interoperate. In the specific integration of the phenomenon of festival folk custom, before Qing Ming Festival "integrate" all the festival that near its time, Shang-si Festival, Cold Food Festival, Rural Festival and the other folk festivals have long exist in history. And some of them even exerted considerable influence. However, these folk festivals have been influenced and transformed by politics in the interaction with politics. They have gradually been guided to the time of Qing Ming Festival. The integration of tomb-sweeping festival to these folk festivals is an irreversible trend. As the political played a major role in the process of integration of Qing Ming Festival, the integration of Qing Ming Festival has a strong political tendency from the beginning. In this chapter's case study, the rise and fall of Cold Food Festival in the will of the people and the State game aesthetic psychology research, through the depth study of how the psychology and aesthetics of the people balanced the dialectical unity of opposites game in motion on the impact of folk festivals. In the rise, development and the final decline of Cold Food Festival, the impact of psychological factors aesthetic people is everywhere, but the majority will of the people, regardless of dynasty or period in which the impact of folk festivals, are subjective passive. The final decision factor, is expressed by decree of the national will. Cold Food Festival has a long-standing history of China and has a tremendous impact on holiday, for the modern state and the government how to deal with traditional festivals and reject the dross, make it the best use of important reference value.The third chapter stars from the "yue" Multi-tone multi-meaning words to study Qing Ming festival folk aesthetic integration of psychological regularity effect. In combined action of both "yue", folk aesthetic psychology of activity shows a certain disposition. The nature of this disposition is that:the basic law of the aesthetic and the overwhelming majority of the people are under the action of the collective unconscious of a moral system and evaluation criteria. In this moral system and evaluation criteria, comes the necessity of the integration of folklore of Qing Ming. Further research on Qing Ming Cultural Psychology of folk aesthetic found that:on the inheritance of the festival folk activities absorption and transformation process, Qing Ming Festival is also included in the aesthetic of the psychological content of other festival into its own aesthetic system, and ultimately unified an unique fusion of aesthetic and cultural psychology form its diversity forms. According to the aesthetic experience, Qing Ming Festival on systems folklore of the human folk activities can be classified as:human folk, beauty folklore and natural folk. The three levels played an important and decisive role in the development of Qing Ming Festival. In this process of changing, some folk standards and systems die, and some have even greater development, and some folk become other festivals', some even merged together. This aesthetic psychology and some of the aesthetic and ecological point of view, on one level achieved a perfect fit.The fourth chapter analyzes "morals", that is, aesthetic morals plays regularity role in the conformity of Qing Ming folk custom. The two kinds of most original mental activities of human life—aesthetic and morals conform with each other internally, aesthetic activity is certainly requested to conform moral wish and moral wish usually must satisfy aesthete's life will in the activity of original human life. The original aim of aesthetic and morals are both "free spread of life", that is, experiencing life by the way of aesthetic and strengthening life by the way of morals. While folk custom as a life culture that created, enjoyed and passed by a nation or the populace, naturally, conformity with the basic principle of aesthetic and morals that unified truth, kindness and beauty. Therefore, the unity of truth, kindness and beauty that based on aesthetic and morals laid a thinking foundation and set a spiritual standard for the categorize and systematize of folk custom festivals. The conformity of folk custom activities and festivals in the system of Qing Ming Festival, to a large extent, conforms to such a regularity of aesthetic and morals. Shang-si Festival discussed in the case analysis of this chapter is just conforming to this regularity of aesthetic and morals. Shang-si become a festival because of the folk custom, and with the development of the times in late spring, the content of the folk custom activities continuously enrich and its meaning become more profound. Folk aesthetic activities of Shang-si Festival, whether it is the traditional activities such as worship the respectable matchmaker, exorcise the evil, have the blind date, or the later developed variety of festivals, are the largest folk body-life aesthetic that people hold human nature in the harsh natural environment and constant pursuit of body freedom. In sum, the appearance of Shang-si Festival activities is characterized by folk ritual and carnival nature, but its meaning is the ancient Chinese people need the continuation of future generations and avoid disaster, and its essence is human nature's pursuit of the beauty of spiritual freedom, Therefore, it is consistent with the requirements of aesthetic and morals from the root causes.The fifth chapter discussed the folk conformity of Qing Ming Festival in the "life" world. Folk custom needs the life world; life world also can not devoid of folk custom. Thus, as one of the most basic law of life world, life aesthetic has a close relationship with the folk custom. Life aesthetics'modernize turning causes the tendency of "aesthetic of daily life", under the guidance and role of this idea of thinking and behavior manner, we can make a new interpretation for the changing tendency of traditional folk festivals, from which explored festival conformity rule that had previously not found or can not found.Case analysis in this chapter selected minority's Qing Ming folkways of Wujiang River Basin. We observed Qing Ming Festivals in the culture of the different national regions, compared Qing Ming folkways of nation regions laterally from the view of life aesthetics, which based on the whole grasp of Qing Ming folkways in the national regions.