晋北民间社火文化思考

Reflection on the Folk Shehuo Culture in Northern Shanxi

晋北民间社火是一种具有悠久历史和鲜明地方特色的传统民俗文化。用马克思主义文化遗产思想对这一古老的民俗活动予以观照,对其传承变迁中从民间仪式转变为狂欢活动,发展为政府行为,进而成为民众历史记忆的剖析和思考,有助于非物质文化遗产的发展与保护。

Shehuo, which comes from Northern Shanxi, is a traditional folk culture with a long history and distinct local characteristics. It is helpful for the inheritance and development of intangible cultural heritage to observe this ancient folk activity with the thought of Marxist cultural heritage, analyze and reflect on this ancient folk activity shifting from folk ceremony to carnival activity and developing into government action in the course of its inheritance and change.