The Research Of Folk Custom Of The Han Insect Festivals

There are many different kinds of traditional festivals, they are colorful and of various content. Since time immemorial, rational utilization of beneficial insects, prevention and cure of injurious insects, play and appreciate of insects have a profound impact of people’s life and production. There are as much as one hundred festivals related to insects in all of the traditional festivals. The festivals and the culture of insects are very important part of our traditional culture, revealing excellent intelligence of our people about life and production.The origin of insect festival is similar with that of our traditional festivals, closely related to several parts:agriculture activity, primitive worship, taboo and superstition, sacrifice, religion and polytheism. There are various kind of insect festivals, they can be divided into different types. According to the relation of festivals and insets, they can be divided into specialized festival, facultative festival; According to time, they can be divided into spring insect festival, summer insect festival, autumn insect festival, winter insect festival and non-scheduled. If divided by the characteristic, they can be divided into: sacrifice type, memorial type, celebrate type, recreational type and economical type. The insect festivals have unique feature in their evolution process:integration of succession and variation, from simple to complicated, gradually release from taboo, combination of etiquette and custom.The insect festivals of Han ethnic have rich intension. China traditional festivals have precipitated the cultural essence of Chinese nation. Every traditional festival has their unique historical background, special beauty, mass foundation. The Han insect festivals have different intention compared to other traditional festivals:harmony between man and nature, national psychology of pray, ethnic concept of reverence for life and pursuing wonderful dream.The Han insect festivals are rich cultural resource to exploit and utilize. We have to consider more about the balance between benefit and ecosystem that is becoming intense gradually because of the fast growing economy. The Han insect festivals have value both for economy and culture. We should insist the principle of objective, systematical, developing, distinguish, participation and protection. In order to exploit the Han insect festivals rationally, we should keep government leading, multi-side participation, scientifically in our mind, excavate cultural connotation, enhance touring value, establish reasonable tourism planning, apply unique exploit idea, more merchandise that match.