宋代城市节日风俗的文献考察

Literature Review of Urban Festival Customs in the Song Dynasty

宋代是我国岁时节日发展史上的重要时期,其时的节日体系已经发展得相对完备。通过对《东京梦华录》《梦粱录》《武林旧事》等宋代文献的深入分析,发现宋代的城市节日文化和节日风俗呈现出传统节日与新兴节日并存、节日活动空间更加多元、民众参与性增强、娱乐狂欢色彩浓厚、较强的奢侈化倾向等特征,这些节日特征的出现是宋代政治、经济、文化等多种因素共同作用的结果。

The Song dynasty was an important period in the history of development of festivals in China,and the festival system was relatively complete at that time.Through the in-depth analysis of folklore literature from the Song dynasty,this paper finds out that the urban festival culture and customs in the Song dynasty exhibit the characteristics as follows:the coexistence of traditional festivals and emerging festivals,more diversified festival activity space,increased public participation,strong entertainment carnival,and strong tendency to indulge luxury,etc.The appearance of these festival characteristics are the results of the political,economic,cultural and other factors in the Song dynasty.