The Inheritance And Evolution Of Festival Folk Customs In The Capital Cities Of The Song Dynasty And The Song Dynasty

Seasonal festival custom is an important component of Chinese traditional culture.It includes stability and transformable factors.That's just variability.The stability of custom reflects the social landscape of an era.The variability of custom refracts the transition of history.“Reminiscences of the Eastern Capital” and “Meng Liang Lu” are the precious texts respectively reflecting the custom and social life in Bianliang and Linan the capital of Northern Song and Southern Song and they are the important historicaldocuments to study the social life andhistorical changes in the Two Song Dynasties.There is no doubt that it's meaningful to study the inheritance and change in the capital of Two Song Dynasties centering in these two books.By contrasting the seasonal festivals ofSong Dynasty in the two books,we can find that there are some stabilities such as luxury and affection between the custom of Two Songand there are also some differences in the kind of festival,scale and custom activity and so on.According to study,the reason of change of seasonalfestival custom in the capital of Two Song is that the difference between natural conditions and geographical conditions;politics and social background;Buddhism and Taoism;the writer's view and the purpose of writing and the difference ofthe level of commodity economy development and so on.The seasonal festival custom in Two Song Dynasty makes a great difference to the self-identify andinheritance of Chinese ancient seasonal custom and modern festival custom.Meanwhile,it can deepen the whole cognition to the history and society of Two Songto discuss the back reason according to the manifestation of change among the seasonal custom.