节日仪式承载的生存重托——以历史时期江苏元宵节为对象的考察

Festival Rituals Express People's Great Trust of Surrival——A Study on the Lantern Festival in Jiangsu Province in the History Period

丰富、多元的仪式活动,是元宵节曾经的重要面相,这在今天的遗产传承中已不具有显性特征。人们将对农事、子嗣、福祉和信仰等立世之本方面的厚望寄予在仪式中,仪式从而成为人们生存驱"否"、通"泰"的转换器。这也是在当时认知视界下,人们对掌控其生存之"紧箍咒"的想象和思索。大多仪式不具有宗教性,亦祈亦娱的仪式更接近节日的"本初",传递出人们对待节日的"本心"。

Once upon a time, rich and diverse ritual activities are important faces of theLantern Festival. This is not the dominant trait today. People placed high hopes in the rituals, suchas farming, heirs, well-beings and belief. Rituals became converters that can end the unfortunatesituations, then brought the fortunes. It was also under the cognitive vision at that time, peoplethought of and imagined the barriers which controlled their survivals. Most of the rituals werenot be religious. The rituals that full of pray and entertainment were closer to the beginning of thefestivals, and conveyed the original thoughts that people how to treat festivals.