Understanding the localization phenomenon from the Taiwan Hakka Festivals: A study with Tian-Chuan Day and Winter Harvest.

碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 藝術創意產業學系 === 103 === The culture research is the fundamental of the cultural and creative industries. Some of folk celebrations progresses extremely related to the social environment development. As the different regions, the festivals developed to various localization colors. Ther...

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Main Authors: Pin-An Chen, 陳品安
Other Authors: Aleck C. H. Lin
Format: Others
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/tnn8rs
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Summary:碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 藝術創意產業學系 === 103 === The culture research is the fundamental of the cultural and creative industries. Some of folk celebrations progresses extremely related to the social environment development. As the different regions, the festivals developed to various localization colors. There are many Taiwan Hakka Festivals developed to a new trend on localization caused by the social environment transformation, after it combined with the local cultures. This study mainly selects two areas in Taiwan - Jhudong of Hishchu county and Fenglin Township of Hualien county, as the research areas. Meanwhile, it selects two Hakka festivals – Tian-Chuan Day and Winter Harvest Festival, as the research activities. This study adopts semi-structure in–depth expert interview. The researchers actually involved in some activities to do observations as the major research methods to record these celebrations. We hope to explore their similarities and differences, advantages and disadvantages, and the impact of localization from those festivals of these two areas based on their artistic value expression, historical background and humane activities etc. This study explored the results and localization on the same festivals under the same policy in the eastern Taiwan Hakka villages and western. There are two research priorities. One is for exploration on the success of the folk song competitions in Tian-Chuan Day. It is able to hold for a half-century continuously, even if some of challenges arose from much homogenization of these celebrations owing to it has been extensively copied or simulated in various Hakka villages. On the other hand, the Winter Harvest Festival was declined gradually caused of the social transformation. The second is for understanding the Hakka culture transformation on the festival localization due to many diverse Hakka groups in one area. We tried to analysis the elements and reasons of the festival localization and the effects on the same festival in two areas. It explored the phenomenon on localization through these two festivals development of these two areas for both of the rise and decline. As the summary of this research, it indicates the directions to promotion the Hakka villages packing with the Hakka cultures. It will be more significant to keep the both of the well festivals and new celebrations. To build and to preserve the Hakka Festival documents, it will be helpful to pass and to extend the cultures to the following generations. It will be more completion on the festival localization to take the festival management. This study expects to make some impetus contributions for the Taiwan Hakka festivals.