Study On The Theme Of Revival For Festival Folk Custom In Spring

Spring is the transmission period of the whole season,which plays an historicalrole in the resume.So the Spring festival custom has contained the relationship of“begin”,which includes the meaning of beginning,recovery,new-born and so on.So it ispossible to study the subject of resurrection in the spring festivals.The festival customschange accompany with the development of society,so the meanings of the festivalcustoms change naturally.The resurrection in the spring festival customs passed onthough generation to generation,which has a broad meanings now.The “resurrectionsubject”is not only the meaning appears in the dictionary but includes all the thingsrelating to the resurrection,which is not common in the studies in home andabroad.This thesis can provide a new path to the study of festival customs.In this thesis the research object is the spring festival customs through severaltheories like thematology, prototype theory, folklore, anthropology, mythology theoryto explore the deep cultural connotation of resurrection in the Spring Festival,in orderto have a better understanding and heritage of traditional festival culture.The thesis including four parts:Chapter one mainly introduces the reasons,significance,innovation,thedevelopment of the study in home and abroad and so on.Chapter two mainly explore a series of festival phenomenon in the beginning ofspring.Although some of the festivals happened in the twelfth lunar month,it alsobelongs to the resurrection festivals and spring festivals.This chapter reveals themeaning of the resurrection in the Spring Festival Customs resigned winter SpringFestival and New Year.So in this chapter the resurrection refers to pay homage to thepast and the future better look.In the past,the worship to the past,in fact, is a kind ofpreparation to the beginning and the upcoming meet to re-start a new life.Chapter three is the main body,which studies the meaning of recovery andnew-born in the Spring Festival.The meaning of recovery is the fundamental meaningin the resurrection subject,that is back from death.Many ceremonies in the SpringFestival are to wake the sleeping God in winter,because ancestor thought the sleepingGod results in the depression of living things in winter.So when winter past,peoplemust welcome the God and pray them to protect their life and production.While the meaning of new-born is a higher level of resurrection,the ceremony not only wake theGod,but also pray for more life,crops as well as new human beings.It is anindispensable part of the ancestors in the ancient times.And it is valuable to study therecovery and new-born ceremony because ancestors thought the ceremony to the Godhas direct influence on people’s life.Chapter four mainly focus on the resurrection in the spiritual level in the SpringFestival customs,which appears through a great number of carnivals including originalcarnivals and Secondary morphological carnivals.The study on the influences offestival depends on the study on its cultural influences,and the most greatest influencesin on human’s spirit.So we should pay great attention on people’s changes in their spiritwhen they take part in festival activities,which makes a contribution to the study offestival custom’s heritage and development.