The Study Of Spring Festival Culture In Ming Dynasty's Novels

Chinese traditional festivals are an important part of Chinese people's life.The alternation of festivals affects people's production and life.The Spring Festival is an important traditional festival in China.This time range is not the first day of Spring Festival that day,but from the laba festival to Lantern Festival this period of time,the beginning of the laba festival opened the prelude of the Spring Festival,Lantern Festival represents the end of the Spring Festival,the author selected from this period of time the laba festival,New Year's eve,New Year's day festival,the Lantern Festival four typical festival on behalf of the Spring Festival.This article first from to trace the origin of the Spring Festival,the Spring Festival associated with mature people celebrate grain,have no fixed date at the beginning,until the first year of emperor too early,"too early to make",issued by the twenty-four solar terms included in the calendar,ji and throttle when synchronization,the date of the festival also since that time.The author selects the contents of laba festival,New Year's eve,New Year's day and Lantern Festival from the Ming dynasty novels,and studies the festival activities of these festivals.Laba festival is to boil laba porridge and eat laba porridge.The most important activity of the New Year's eve is to exorcise,to express the desire of people to exorcise the evil,and to divide the age,to keep the age and to set off firecrackers is also an important activity on New Year's eve.On New Year's day people sacrifice to ancestors,happy New Year to each other,in the court ChaoHe at New Year's day in the morning,after the end of a certain product order stay banquet hosted by the emperor,the minister,people on New Year's day also drink spiced sake in order to achieve a healthy body,to avoid the plague.The activities of the Lantern Festival was originally is a sacrifice to god,"a" this activity until the Ming dynasty,in addition,the concept of light is an important activity,the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival,people will eat yuanxiao means family reunion.From these activities during the Spring Festival we can find that the characteristics of these activities,first of all,the Spring Festival holiday activity firstshowed people the fear of the unknown ghosts and gods and worship,as people know clearly,initial activity function gradually fade,the entertainment function to strengthen;Secondly,the festival activities reflect the feudal hierarchical system,but also reflect the behavior of the rulers and the people.Thirdly,the festival activities of the Spring Festival have been influenced by Buddhism and Taoism after a long period of development,resulting in the coexistence of religious meaning and traditional meaning.The elements of Spring Festival are of great significance to the composition of Ming novels.Many novels of the Ming Dynasty have chosen to open plots at a certain festival.The time elements contained in the festivals have explained the context in which the novels took place,thus creating a specific atmosphere for the novels;the elements of the Spring Festival are reflected in festival activities,the characters participate in festival activities,and different characters.Doing the same activity will have different mentalities and behaviors,so Spring Festival elements affect the shaping of characters;festivals are collective activities,individual people are in the collective,and as collective changes affect the behavior of individuals,thus promoting the plot of the novel.development of.As a traditional festival not only meet the requirement of a certain life,also promote and consolidate the social order,which contain the function of a certain culture,in the festival shows respect for the elderly,hope the family reunions and against evil,cherish life ethics of virtue,reflects the moral and ethical as well as the identity construction;The same festival is held in different places in different times,showing people's construction of national identity and national cohesion.The innovation of festival activities reflects the evolution of people's national consciousness.