中国节日

章节摘录

插图：Winter Solstice, colloquially named "Dong Jie," is a veryimportant festival in ancient times. Winter Solstice comes fifteendays later than the Great Snow. With the daytime reaching itsshortest time in the northern hemisphere on that day and thenight becoming the longest, it is the coldest day in a year. It alsosuggests the arriving of spring and is the turning point betweenwinter and spring. Thus among the twenty-four seasonaldivisions, Winter Solstice is the most important one.The ancient people thought that when Winter Solstice came,though it was still cold, the spring was already around the corner.People who were still out should come back home to show thatthey had reached their destination at the end of a year. People inFujian and Taiwan provinces regard Winter Solstice as the dayof reunion of families; for it is a day when they offer sacrifices totheir ancestors, and anyone that doesn't return home will be seenas a person who has forgotten his ancestors.The night of Winter Solstice is the longest in a year, so a lotof families will take advantage of this night to make "WinterSolstice dumplings" of glutinous rice. To distinguish it from "cisui"（bid farewell to the outgoing year） on the lunar New Year'sEve, the day before Winter Solstice is named "tian sui" or "ya sui,"suggesting that though a year （the Chinese "sui" means "year"）hasn't ended, everybody has been a year older.

内容概要

韦黎明 ，Wei Liming was born in Beijing in 1950. Sheworked in the Institute of Biophysics of ChineseAcademy of Sciences and Beijing Reviewmagazine in succession. Her works （includingthose in collaboration with other people） mainlyinclude: China's Ancient Civilization and theWorld, Painting in China, Silk in China, NewArchaeological Discoveries in Recent Five Yearsin China, and Wushu in China, etc.

书籍目录

IntroductionTraditional FestivalsStatutory FestivalsFestivals of the MinoritiesAppendix:Chronological Table of the Chinese Dynasties

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《中国节日(英文版)》内容简介：The culture of festivals rooted deeply in the people, and it thus shows itsenormous vitality. In spite of the change of times, it has gradually becomepart of the heritages of the colorful Chinese civilization. These festivals willprovide an entry to the charming Chinese folk cultures.

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