Explore the customs

Author: Tao Siyan (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: Folk customs are both the most engaging realm of social life and a cultural phenomenon with a profound and mysterious origin. As social life continues to develop and cultural functions change accordingly, folk customs also evolve, making their traditional symbolic meanings more intricate and elusive. This book is divided into five sections: Time and Seasons, Life Cycle, Funerals, Construction, and Folk Beliefs. It selects 60 interesting phenomena from ancient and modern Chinese customs, tracing their origins and exploring their hidden meanings, thereby fully showcasing the cultural characteristics of Chinese folk customs—where elegance and simplicity, the extraordinary and the ordinary, the explicit and the implicit intertwine. It serves as an illustrative guide for readers to understand Chinese folk customs and cultural traditions. This book features a combination of structured fragmentation and cohesion, content that blends the real and the abstract, writing that alternates between argument and narrative, a presentation that integrates text and images, and an audience that caters to both the refined and the popular. The book has a novel concept, rigorous research, rich content, and fluent writing, making it a highly readable new work in the field of folk studies, suitable for readers of all kinds.