《红楼梦》之清明节礼俗研究

Research on the Customs of Tomb-Sweeping Festival in“A Dream of Red Mansions”

文章对《红楼梦》中与清明节相关之祭柩烧纸与放风筝两例节俗进行呈现与考释。铁槛寺祀先承袭了昔时清明时节,宗室贵族于宗庙祭奠先祖灵位之俗。曹雪芹生前曾收回自己所放风筝并转赠他人,剪风筝寓意放晦气与拿回别人放过的风筝乃忌讳之说,或为曹公为烘托情节之艺术加工。

This paper presents and interprets two festival customs related to Tomb-sweeping Day in“A Dream of Red Mansions”,namely sacrificing to the dead and kite flying.Sacrificing to the dead in Iron Threshold Temple inherited the custom that imperial family nobles worshiped in the ancestral temple in Tomb-Sweeping Festival.Cao Xueqin had taken back his own kite and gave it to others.Cutting a kite means unlucky and taking back the kite that others let go is a taboo,perhaps derive from Cao’s art processing.