Direction Of The Han Dynasty The Festival And Its History

Han Dynasty was a great culture-blending period in which the cultural thought of Pre-Qin times had been assimilated and created, while the traditional festival is not exceptional. Especially from the mid-period of Xi-Han Dynasty to the end of Dong-Han Dynasty, the festival obtained unprecedented development both in the quality and the quantity which primarily came into an orderly system. During this course, every kind of festivals ebbed and flew in the prosperous future which had comprehensive representative meaning in the forming route, basic feature and trend. Both the changes of common people thought and the main development of politics, economy and science of that time were both reflected in Han Dynasty's festivals. So we can find that it is the importance of the research for us to know the basic visage of Han Dynasty.Mainly speaking, there are three parts shown below:The preface is chiefly about the aim of the paper theme, the present status of the research concerned, the advantage in the creativity and the disadvantage to be complemented.The main body of this paper will be divided into three sections to discuss Han-Dynasty festival on the forming routine, basic character and historic trend.1. Firstly, we will describe the historic ground of Han Dynasty festival in a whole way, then classify the festivals then into four kinds: the expanding one, the neonatal one, the transforming one and the contracting one, Meanwhile, we will choose the representative one from the four kinds of festivals above, describing the course of its development and revealing the forming route, which make the fact known that the festival had primarily come into being a certain form then..2. Secondly, we will summarize three general characters of Han Dynasty festival, i.e. the coexistence the mystery of and the history, the coexistence of god-amusing and person-amusing, the interaction of the official and the folk, adding to further analysis and discussion to describe the main outline of Han Dynasty festival.3. Lastly, we will briefly conclude the historic trend of Han Dynasty festival, i.e.