春节庙会:造就浓厚年味的文化空间

Temple Fairs during the Spring Festival:Creating Cultural Space with Strong Festival Flavor

年味指过年的氛围和过年的内心体验。这两个部分是不可分割、相辅相成的,而且以后者为重。现代春节庙会造就年味的内在逻辑在于:春节庙会增加过年的神圣感,是人们尽可能充分地庆贺新年、获得狂欢体验的重要方式,也是人们在公共场所以大型集体活动完成社区内部及社区之间的年度社交礼仪的重要方式,更是现代社区过年体验年味的显著途径。春节庙会是造就浓厚年味的文化空间,声势浩大的春节庙会更是我国春节文化的良好传承方式和繁盛标志。

The festival flavor refers to the atmosphere and inner experience of the Spring Festival. Those two aspects of the festival flavor are inseparable and complementary to each other while the latter is more important. The inherent logic in creating festival flavor through contemporary temple fairs during the Spring Festival lies in this fact: temple fairs during the Spring Festival can increase the sacredness of the festival. The temple fairs are an important way for people not only to fully celebrate the festival with carnivalesque experiences, but also to fulfill the social communication in public space through collective activities within and between communities. Further, it is the most spectacular venue to experience the festival flavor in a modern community. Temple fairs during the Spring Festival are to create such a cultural space, and thus have developed as proper means to transmit and prosper the Spring Festival culture in China.