자오둥 반도(膠東半島) 중추절 풍습 검토

Abstract

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the traditional festivities in China, only secondary to the Spring Festival. It best embodies the humane sentiments and the poetical elements. The Mid-Autumn Day has a very long history, so plenty of moon-themed folk activities have been accumulated, which can also display the profound regional characteristics. Jiaodong peninsula used to be a relatively enclosed cultural region, which has fostered a lot of peculiar folk culture. The exploration of the Mid-Autumn custom in Jiaodong may serve to discover the special cultural elements so as to gain much insight into the local convention of this region. This thesis mainly concentrates on making mooncake, sending presents and chanting the moon to fully explore the Mid-Autumn custom in Jiaodong region. In Jiaodong, this festival is not only colorful but also characteristic, in which family reunion, affection and harmonious enjoyment are the permanent themes. In this sense, it reflects the huge cultural accumulation and peculiar local custom and habits. At present，drinking wine and enjoying the full moon together with family reunion are still the mainstream, though such custom as commemorate and worship the moon, chanting the moon and enjoying the rabbit made of earth by kids already vanished; the symbol of mooncake as the major food for Mid-Autumn Day and family reunion has gradually waned. Nevertheless, its symbolic role as conveying affection and kindness between people has increasingly waxed.