China is a major country of festivals. In the long history, vast territory and diversified ecology, various Chinese ethnic groups created, inherited and developed the diversified culture of festivals. These festivals are stages epitomizing Chinese culture and its important components. Various
Chinese Culture: Festivals is a superficial observation of current Chinese festivals. We select 21 festivals from the numerous festivals, and then proceed from the spirit of festivals to write about seven topics including Tenacious Memories, Holy Sacrifice, Mundane Revelry, Rhythm of Production, etc. While looking back at history, we focus more on the presentation of the current situation in the hope of giving a brief account of current Chinese festivals to readers.
Wang Xuewen, Ph.D. in folklore studies, graduated from Beijing Normal University and is now an associate research fellow at the Center for Ethnic Folk Literature Art Development, Ministry of Culture, PRC and a deputy director of the editorial department of Chinese Festival Annals, a major project entrusted by the National Social Science Fund of China. His main research directions are theory and practice of festival culture and cultural heritage protection. He published Restriction and Sharing, a monograph, and several essays in Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore Taiwan, Folklore Studies, Shandong Social Sciences and other periodicals.