“拉扎节”番师公起源考辨

Study on the Fanshigong Origin of Lhazha Festival

甘肃省中部定西、甘南、临夏三州(市)多民族交界地带100多个行政村落的20多万群众中,盛行着一个堪比春节的盛大的独特的节日——拉扎节,2006年即被评为甘肃省第一批非物质文化遗产。本文从与拉扎节民间传说及地方民众对拉扎节起源于“西番”的认识入手,运用历时性梳理和共时性对比分析,借助田野调查、语言学分析、文献考证等研究方法,考证番师公与吐蕃人及其后裔藏人的历史渊源,借以考证拉扎节起源。

Among more than 200,000 people in more than 100 administrative villages in Dingxi,Gannan and Linxia in central Gansu Province,Lhazha Festival,a grand and unique festival comparable to the Spring Festival,prevails.It has been rated as the first batch of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Gansu Province in 2006.Starting from the folklore of Lhazha Festival and the local people’s understanding of the origin of Lhazha Festival of Xifan,this paper uses diachronic carding and synchronic comparative analysis,with the help of field investigation,linguistic analysis,literature research and other research methods,to study the historical origins of Fanshigong,Tubo and Tibetan descendants,so as to verify the origin of Lhazha Festival.