立春民俗的集体记忆与生活实践—基于清以来“春牛图年画”的图像研究.

The Lichun folk custom of greeting spring has been inherited in China for nearly two thousand years. Starting as an official sacrificial ritual, it has evolved during the Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties into a national festival aimed at encouraging agricultural production, disaster prevention, and praying for a bountiful harvest, bringing joy and unity among the people, which further strengthened the emphasis on agriculture-based local education and national identity. As a category of woodblock New Year pictures, Chunniu New Year Pictures can be found in different origins. Chunniu New Year Pictures is a kind of New Year pictures used to predict the weather, crop harvest and other information in agricultural era. It is also called calendar picture because it is mostly printed next year’s solar term dates. Diverse images are not only the collective memory of the inheritance of Lichun folk custom, but also the inheritance and life practice of folkloric time-space concept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]