英文摘要
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Mid-Autumn Festival is originally a festival of "moon", however, in recent years barbecue has become a major activity as well as a new trend on Mid-Autumn's night in Taiwan. The prevalence of barbecue in Mid-Autumn Festival can be dated back to a commercial of barbecue sauce shot in the late 1980s, and is claimed as a "commercial conspiracy." Scholars of folklore possess disagreement with this new custom. This author researches on the connection of "Mid-Autumn Festival" and "barbecue" happened around 1970s. During the economy-boosting period, it was popular to go outside for holiday barbecue, and this soon evolved into custom of barbecue on the day of Moon festival, which was a naturally formed recreation on Mid-Autumn's night. Therefore, there is no direct relation between this new custom and commercial, "the version of commercial" reflects that people retrace and construct the accomplished fact of custom transformed. A paradoxical information and discussion are gradually accepted in a large mass of people's blurred collective memory. Thus, the proposition of "commercial conspiracy" has been set after the interworking of mass media and people's communication. It is difficult for a government to encounter a bottom-up custom change. Although proposition is not true, the new custom of "barbecue in Mid-Autumn Festival" highlights the closely-linked phenomenon of folk festivals and social public life. This custom emerges among common people. The government intentionally played the role to intervene, and promotes a movement "Don't let Chang'e laugh that we are dirty". It explains that it is perhaps a normal state of changing customs in History along with time and place in order to meet people's demand.
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