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Research On "lunar February 2nd Festival" In China

Posted on:2011-03-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H HuangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2199330338978370Subject:Folklore
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A nation's existence and development is inseparable from holiday, festival is a national symbol of the historical and cultural development and the holiday customs as a comprehensive cultural matters is a manifestation of people's daily production and life in essence.At the age of festivals in the strict sense, included two essential elements: First, it must have a relatively fixed period of the festival; Second, the festival period there is a specific folk activities and activities of this particular practice from generation to generation year after year repeated. At the age of traditional festivals the"Lunar February 2nd Festival"become our modern academic sense is already very late, since the Tang Dynasty began to show its shape and after the Tang, Song, Yuan improvement of three generations, the Yuan Dynasty when the parties have completely become the factors at the age of festival.The traditional festival followed by the future generations the rich and the evolution of Chinese dynasties heritage has been so far.In this paper, We made a thorough combing of the formation and evolution for the"Lunar February 2nd Festival"and traced the cultural roots,as well as North and South, and February 2 division and as a non-material cultural heritage of the current construction of a harmonious society, meaning a specific analysis. The study found that the"Lunar February 2nd Festival"is the continuation of China's ancient customs agency festival, based on the aggregate a large number of festivals and cultural factors arising from. It includes a welcome resurrection of the God of life, "Adinisi" ceremony, pray for rain seeking harvest, obituary notice sent to the soul and in the spring carnival and many other rich cultural connotations. It compounded by geographical differences and differences in cultures of various ethnic groups diverged in the Inheritance and Evolution in the later, formating the south and north section of folk activities in different form and content of a festival and continues to this day. Despite the evolution of later generated Segregation, however, the connotation that it implies is eternal forever.
Keywords/Search Tags:Lunar February 2nd Festival, Folk festival, Dragon lifts festival, Land of God, Cultural connotations
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