Abstract:

Holiday is a folk culture, more sacrifice and faith in the ancients, but deviation to reality, and including faith in the modern people. The paper introduced some rice related holiday, including rice dumplings（a traditional Chinese rice-pudding） and the Dragon Boat Festival, Qingming dumplings and Qingming Festival, Tangyuan and the Lantern Festival, rice transplanting festival, rice harvesting festival, and other festival in China, including paddy cultivation of ethnic minorities, rice lotus shrine, Xufu shrine and others in Japan, and Crowley international rice holiday in Louisiana, USA.

Key words: rice, holiday, faith, sacrifice

摘要：

节日是一种民俗文化，是艺术，古人多些祭祀与信仰，现代人则偏向实际与科学，但亦含有信仰的成分。本文介绍了与水稻、大米有关的一些节日及相关信仰和祭祀活动，包括我国的粽子和端午节、青团子和清明节、汤圆和元宵节，插秧节、收获节，以及少数民族的其他祭祀节日等，也对世界上其他一些国家，如日本的稻荷神社、徐福神社等的祭祀和信仰，美国路易斯安那Crowley的国际水稻节等进行了介绍。

关键词: 水稻, 节日, 信仰, 祭祀