交换断裂——妙峰山庙会的危机

Exchange Break:The Temple Fair Crisis of Mount Miaofeng

妙峰山庙会作为一项社会盛典和文化奇观,其活力与魅力源于强大的自组织性。后者的核心纽带与关键机制是以人-神交换为基础的交换体系。然而随着市场经济的发展,商品交易作为一种新的人际关系模式渗入到庙会当中。新旧体系有着迥然不同的逻辑与结构,没有良好对接,导致参与者的交换过程发生断裂,以此为基础的整合随之失效,社会结合与总体秩序逐渐瓦解。这构成了当下妙峰山庙会的一个核心危机。

The temple fair of Miaofeng Mountain is a great social event and cultural spectacle.Its vitality and attraction lie in the well-developed self-organization,the core bond and key mechanism of which are an exchange system based on the gift exchange between men and god.However,with the market economy growing,commodity transaction as a new interpersonal relationship pattern penetrates into the activity.The new system has an entirely different logic and structure from the old one.The absence of a smooth evolution makes the exchange break up,the promising integration turning invalid accordingly,and the social solidarity and the whole order gradually collapsing.That is a major crisis that the temple fair of Miaofeng Mountain faces.