Mysterious Festival Customs: Research on Traditional Festival Etiquette and Taboos: Research on Traditional Festival Etiquette and Taboos

Author: Zhang Jun
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Chinese culture is renowned not only for its longevity and richness but also for its profound mystique, which has attracted global attention. The term "mystique" encompasses wonder and secrecy. Any culture with mystical elements can be termed mystical culture. It includes the Three Emperors and Five Sovereigns, empresses, concubines, eunuchs, relatives, sorcerers and shamans, recluses and immortals, devout men and women, secret societies, all walks of life, the Three Classics and Five Canons, secret texts and forbidden books, heretical doctrines, the Yin-Yang Five Elements, (human-nature interaction), (mysterious door