隋唐时期南风北渐述论

On the Spread of South-China Customs into the North during the Sui-Tang Period

魏晋以来,以洛阳、建邺(今南京)为中心凝聚成南北两个风俗区。南方从“地广人稀”到“地小人众”,其风俗文化也由“粗放型”转变为“集约型”,形成了独特的文化价值选择。隋唐时期,饮茶、“试儿”、生日、拔河、踏青、族谱等诸多的民俗事象纷纷由南方传到北方,这种“文化北返”的现象说明,南方在风俗文化上已居新潮和领先地位。

Since the Wei - Jin period, two customs districts - one in the then South China and the other, in the then North China-have take shape with Jianye （present Nanking） and Luoyang as their centre respectively. The former bears its own unique cultural values as it shifted from a ＂vast under- populated land＂ to a ＂small densely populated one＂. Up to the Sui -Tang period, folk customs as tea- drinking, child＇s fate - testing, birthday celebrations, Tug- of- war, sight - seeings, pedigree - writing, etc, were all transplanted to the North, demonstrating that the South had ranked itself above the North in terms of customs culture.