话本小说中的杭州节庆习俗

Abstract

The description of the ancient Hangzhou festival customary is an appreciable content in the Hua-Ben novels. This will not only help the readers to understand the real features of Hangzhou in the Hua-Ben novels, but also reflect the realistic life style of the time. Through the description in a series of stories, the Hua-Ben novels revealed the special ways of the ancient Hangzhou people to celebrate the Chinese traditional festivals in a literature angel. Which includes the followings: the lively pictures of the people of the whole city to go out to watch lamps in the night of Lantern Festival; the vision of the people to go around the West Lake to visit graves and to go spring outing in Tomb-sweeping Day; the scene of the officials and common people to go to Qiantang to watch the tide in Mid-Autumn Festival. In the description of the folk customs of these festivals, the Hua-Ben novels portrayed rich and colorful backgrounds, shaped a great amount of visual figures, and promoted the ups and downs development of the plots for a series of the related works. And this also showed the perfect literature portrayal of the ancient Hangzhou traditional festival folk customs.