中国少数民族节日(英文版)(特价)

《中国少数民族节日(英文版)》内容简介：The People' s Republic of China is a great multi-ethnic tapestry composed of 56ethnic groups each with their own culture, traditions and festivals. The sheer variety andcolor of this old Chinese festival culture is truly mind-boggling. Every month of the yearsees the celebration of one or more ethnic festivals. The celebrations and festivals peculiarto each ethnic group influences the celebrations and festivals of other groups but yet amidall this tumult; amid all the homogenizing forces of modern existence, each managessomehow to preserve their own unique voice and flavor.
Traditional ethnic festivals everywhere are an expression of a community' s social,economic and cultural life and all gradually evolve with the changing circumstances ofhistory: changes which manifest themselves in terms of the lifestyle, historical traditions,and religious and psychological beliefs of individual ethnic groups.
Traditionally the celebration of festivals among the various cultures that make upthe human species is closely related to nature: to the changing seasons, the exigencies ofagriculture and harvesting and the changing climatic conditions that each season brings.The traditional Chinese calendar, the lunisolar calendar, takes the period of time the moontakes to go from full to full as one month. The first day of the lunar month is known asShuori, and the fifteenth day is called Wangri, One year, as in the western calendar, iscomposed of twelve months but there are 30 days in a large month and 29 days in a smallmonth. Thus the lunisolar year has I 1 days fewer than the solar tropical year.
Some ethnic groups follow the Han calendar, but some have their own calendars.Many pastoral festivals are held at times dictated by an ethnic group' s own view of timeand season. The Kazaks, who use their own ancient Kazak calendar, hold their SpringFestival, called the "Nawoluz Festival" on the vernal equinox of the Chinese lunar calendar.Daytime and nighttime are equal on the Vernal Equinox, so Kazaks take it as New Year' sDay: "New Year sets in" is the literal translation of "Nawoluz". The calendar of theKhalkhas is based on a division of time into tweve year cycles, each symbolized by a differentanimal. The eleventh day of the first month of the lunar year, which is the second day afterthe first time the Aries Star appears to the south, is celebrated as the Khalldm Spring Festival.