The Double Ninth Festival: from Popular Celebration to Literati's Imagination
| Autor: | Wan-Ting Su, 蘇婉婷 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 100 The Double Ninth Festival was a traditional Chinese holiday allegedly observed by both the common populace and the literati. Yet during the Ming-Qing period, mass participation could only be found in some urban localities. It is evident that the literati had become the main observers honoring this tradition, and they developed several ways to celebrate it. By examining various accounts from local gazetteers, literati poetry, and miscellaneous notes, this thesis addresses the question how the literati reinvented this festival tradition through certain activities such as “ascending the heights” (denggao 登高) and holding banquets. Special attention is paid to how the literati appropriated traditional customs and reformulated their significance in tune with their needs in the present and their imaginations of the past. Moreover, by using the Double Ninth Festival as a case study, this thesis argues that the literati’s festival participation was shaped by their collective memory, literary imagination, and cultural identity One of the major activities of literati to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival was the so-called the chongyang hui (重陽會), a social gathering dedicated to friendship and the renewal of social connections. Notably, a new practice became quite popular among literati during the Ming-Qing period: zhan chongyang (展重陽, to extend the celebration of the Double Ninth Festival). This new practice enabled the literati to have more opportunities to arrange their social gatherings on a more flexible schedule. This flexible festival reunion normally prompted the participants to compose poems and ponder upon the significance of their friendships, the socio-political issues of their time, and the festival tradition itself. |
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