商品簡介
Song presents students, academics, and researchers with an examination of the origin, history, meanings, and features of the traditional Chinese festival of the dragon's head-raising. The main body of the text is organized in three sections, covering the agricultural origins of the festival and geographical variations in how it is observed, the prayer, food, home coming, and temple fair customs of the festival, and profiles of several festival variations of note throughout contemporary China. This is the first book of the Chinese Festival Culture Series, which also includes the following books: The Festival of March the Third, The Lantern Festival, The Maguai Festival of the Zhuang People, The Peony Festival, The Saizhuang Festival of Yi Ethnic Group, The Sister Rice Festival, The Spring Festival, The Tibetan Calendar New Year, and The Tomb-Sweeping Day. Distributed in the U.S. by ISBS. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
