Traditional Festivals Research Articles

Girls of Riyadh Revisited: Investigating the Quality of the English Collaborative Translation of Rajaa Alsanea’s Arabian Novel

The paper aims to assess the quality of the English collaborative translation of Rajaa Alsanea’s Arabian novel Girls of Riyadh, focusing on linguistic and cultural features of the Target Text, a few of which are sometimes nonexistent in the Source Text. The mixed literal/functional approach to collaborative translation seems to be inconsistent, the paper observes, and it is possibly due to both the apparent tension between the self-translator and her co-translator Marilyn Booth and the prominence of the target culture sometimes recurrent in the Source Text. The paper addresses two questions: To what extent has collaborative translation affected the quality of rendering linguistic, social, and cultural references of the Source Text, such as idiomatic expressions, lexical terms, songs, names of celebrities, religious, and literary references, and traditional festivities? How effective have the literal and functional approach been in this collaborative translation? The findings of this study show that the translation procedures employed, such as omission, addition, and alteration, are sometimes unacceptable. Significantly, the study raises awareness about how the potential tension between the self-translator and the co-translator in the inclusion and exclusion of certain parts of texts can affect the quality of the end product. This paper recommends a fresh ‘critical translation’ of the ST that fills specific points which has been overlooked in the current ‘simple translation’: i.e., by paying attention to the message and intention of the author and suggesting to the use of different procedures by the two translators. The paper recommends that instead of implementing erratically two opposite approaches, the functional and literal approaches, as has been done, collaborative translators should follow one of them only. The current study suggests potential solutions to improve the quality of the English translation of this novel.

Neighborhood Spatio-Temporal Impacts of SDG 8.9: The Case of Urban and Rural Exhibition-Driven Tourism by Multiple Methods

Rural arts events (triennials/festivals) are mainly aimed at local and regional revitalization. This exhibition-driven tourism (unlike traditional festivals, conferences, and exhibitions) has existed for more than 20 years in Japan. The curators of exhibition-driven tourism hope that these events can promote the economy and stop population decline as a result of the aging population. Therefore, this paper attempts to evaluate the effects of urban and rural arts event tourism in local and neighborhood areas in Niigata, Japan from the perspective of SDG 8.9. The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial and Water and Land Niigata Art Festival were chosen as case studies. Panel data (1997–2019) concerning tourists, income, and population in Niigata were evaluated using multiple empirical methods with descriptive correlation statistics (simple linear regression (SLR) and one-way ANOVA) and spatial analysis (Moran’s I). Through multiple-method analysis, the positive impacts of urban and rural arts event tourism in local and neighborhood areas in relation to Sustainable Development Goal 8.9 were evaluated. The findings presented herein have meaningful implications for tourism academia and the industry in general.

From Sacred to Profane: Teochew Opera in the Malaysian Chinese Community

Teochew opera is a traditional cultural performance that has been practised since the early 19th century when the Chinese Teochew immigrated to Malaysia. It is often presented as a theatrical performance dedicated to the gods during folk festivals or as entertainment. Teochew opera is associated with the beliefs and entertainment desires of Chinese immigrants and usually accompanies the traditional festivals and cultural events of the Chinese community in Malaysia. When Malaysia advanced towards modernisation in politics, economy, culture and education, Malaysian Chinese culture also underwent a modern transformation. Teochew opera, one of the Chinese cultures, is reflected in the change of its function from the sacred to the profane. This thesis analyses the performance of Teochew opera in the sacred and profane context of the Chinese community in Malaysia to illustrate the trends and challenges facing it under the influence of modernisation.

National traditional festival tourism and visitors’ national identity: a dual collaborative framework of cultural inheritance and inherited innovation

PropósitoEl objetivo de este estudio es explorar y clarificar el papel del turismo de fiestas tradicionales nacionales en la formación de la identidad nacional (IN), y confirmar su modelo de construcción.Diseño/metodología/enfoqueSobre la base de la teoría de la identidad social y la teoría de la complejidad, se desarrolla un complejo marco de fomento de la IN de los visitantes. El artículo, con 479 muestras, utilizó el análisis cualitativo comparativo de conjuntos difusos (fsQCA) para analizar la IN desde la perspectiva holística de la “herencia cultural” (autenticidad del festival, recreación histórica, experiencia cultural) y la “innovación heredada” (innovación en el diseño del evento, innovación cultural, innovación estética e innovación creativa).HallazgosLos resultados indican que existen tres modos de formación de la IN: el propiciado por la herencia cultural, el guiado por la innovación heredada y la doble coordinación de la herencia cultural y la innovación heredada. La autenticidad del festival, la recreación histórica, la experiencia cultural, la innovación estética y la innovación creativa son los principales motivadores, mientras que el diseño del evento y la innovación cultural desempeñan un papel secundario.Implicaciones practicesLas conclusiones proporcionan orientaciones para reforzar el sentimiento nacional de los visitantes, lo que tiene un gran valor para el desarrollo turístico de las fiestas tradicionales.Originalidad/valorEl estudio ofrece una nueva perspectiva sobre el cultivo de la IN en el contexto turístico, y ofrece orientación teórica para el desarrollo coordinado de la herencia cultural y la innovación heredada en los destinos turísticos de fiestas tradicionales nacionales.

PERSISTING WITH OR REINVENTING MUSIC FESTIVALS?

Music festivals offer new opportunities for leisure and tourist experiences. The aim of this study is to analyse whether the motivation to persist with music festivals will remain or whether the concept of the music festival should be reinvented. Through a mixed-method approach, this study depicts motivations, perceptions, and behavioural intentions of attending traditional or online festivals with a structural equation model. Content analysis helps to further examine the attitudes of festival goers in the new contexts. They feel safe in traditional festivals if screening units and limited access is implemented, but if social pleasure is to be kept, music festivals should turn to online formats that allow interaction among participants. As such it can be concluded that in this new context, traditional music festivals are still a possibility if safety is ensured; nevertheless, online festivals seem to be the most obvious solution at least while the pandemic situation endures.

Traditional festival in tourism development in Tuyen Quang city, Vietnam

Tuyen Quang is a land rich in cultural identity, which is clearly shown through traditional festivals with cultural spaces rich in humanity, deeply attached to people's life as well as attracting tourists to come here. Visit and experience. Traditional festivals in Tuyen Quang are an important part of culture, social morality and have educational value for young people. Through the festival, tourists learn more about moral values, good lifestyle, historical traditions of the nation and of the locality. This is a rich humanistic tourism resource for tourism development, which needs to be studied to come up with specific solutions, in order to maximize the tourism strengths of Tuyen Quang province. In the framework of the article, the author mentions the reality of exploiting traditional festivals of Tuyen Quang city in terms of cultural values, socio-economic values.

Traditional festivals and modern society: An examination of change and inheritance

Traditional festivals and modern society: An examination of change and inheritance

ТИПОЛОГИЯ ИТАЛЬЯНСКИХ ПРАЗДНИКОВ И ИХ РОЛЬ В СОХРАНЕНИИ ИДЕНТИЧНОСТИ НАРОДА

The purpose of this article is to characterize two models of Italian holidays. The obvious division of holidays into secular and religious does not quite allow us to see in the festive and festival tradition of Italy the conditions for the formation of a national character. The second model is a three – part festive structure: religious, sports-urban (palio, gare) and folk-gastronomic (sagra) holidays. This also does not fully reveal the relationship of events, because all three groups are based on a religious component. A holiday for Italy is a day of communion with God, which is present in the etymology of the concept. The Catholic tradition has adopted folk elements, as evidenced by the processione (solemn procession) and the folk holidays themselves retain a sacred component in the form of veneration of the Patron Saint of the area on the day of sporting and gastronomic events. Research objectives: to actualize the word festival in a broader historical and cultural context; to form the holiday model itself with the core and constituent components; to compare the designated types of holidays. The main methods were the observation of the functioning of the holiday and festival units in the works of Italian researchers, the description and comparison of three types of holidays, as well as the theoretical method of formalization in the construction of a holiday model. The subject of the study is a three – part composition of Italian holidays with a special sacred element in each inherent in this category. I would like to emphasize that the holidays reflect one of the key categories of the Italians’ worldview – the balance of elements, in this case sacro e profano (sacred and simple). The formation of a holiday model as a phenomenon allows you to see the element of happiness that is hidden in the word festival, although in Italian this term is used mostly in relation to artificially created events. The variety of regional holidays and the preservation of festive traditions in their conduct demonstrates how carefully Italians follow the ceremonial and ceremonial canons. In a broader sense, the work on the description of festivities reveals national features, contributes to the understanding and preservation of such a phenomenon as national genius, and also forms a structure for the development and preservation of the cultural constant holiday. Understanding the holiday as a phenomenon that preserves traditional values is becoming important in a changing world that seeks to unify all cultures with the dominance of artificial meanings.

Festivals of Ayurveda: Scope and challenges.

One of the main ingredients to put human societies glued together is celebrating the festivals. Festivals are the markers of scientific achievements and historic milestones. Moreover, celebrating festival ensures the continuation of tradition. The number of festivals celebrating Ayurveda are, however, very few. Festivals bring pomp and glory in lives and are a way of expressing gratitude to the legends for bringing out the deepest meanings of the cosmos. To revive the lost tradition of Ayurvedic festivals, the study was undertaken. Ayurvedic scriptures and Puranas were carefully reviewed to find festivals associated with Ayurveda. The paper reviews the specific dates and the method of celebration of few festivals associated with Ayurveda such as Dhanvantari Jayanti, Brahma Puja, Shakrotsava, Kaumudi Mahotsava, Madana Trayodashi, Charaka Jayanti, Kubera Mahotsava, Varuna Mahotsava, and Yamadamshtra. Dhanvantari Jayanti as National Ayurveda Day has already gained popularity. Festivals foster national cohesiveness, promote communal harmony, preserve family values, revitalize the economy, and foster cultural and, in this scenario, even medical tourism. However, globalizing these festivals is challenging due to difference in calendars. Celebrating festivals have deep Yogic meaning. It helps to maintain national identity. The yearly seasonal cycles affect the physical and mental health of humans. Hence, there is a need to revive the traditional Ayurvedic festivals.

Role of Plants in Different Religious Ceremonies Common to Uttarakhand Region

Many traditional religious ceremonies and festivals in India are associated with specific plants. Association of plants like Azadiracta indica with Gudipadva, Ficus benghalensis with vatpurnima, Bauhinia racemosa with dashara and Ocimum sanctum with tulsi vivaha is well known. The present study deals with some of the important plants such as Ficus religiosa (peepal), Ficus benghalensis (vat), Ocimum sanctum etc. which are related to pujas or other religious ceremonies in which they are offered by the women of Uttarakhand region.

Research of the Spring Festival Report Overseas in Chinese Mainstream Media: Taking the CGTN as an Example

In the context of intercultural communication, as a traditional Chinese festival. The Spring Festival (also called Chinese New Year)has caused widespread dissemination overseas. The article takes Chinese mainstream media CGTN’s Chinese New Year related reports released on Youtube platform as research samples, and takes the period of Chinese New Year of the Rabbit in 2023 as the time period for the study. Starting from the video content released by CGTN, the article explores the Chinese image and Chinese symbols shaped by it. And with the support of Frame Theory, the study analyzes the reporting framework from two levels of textual content and value orientation, and further to explore the communication dilemma of Chinese image in the intercultural communication context.

Traditional creativity in the practice of Chol Chnam Thmay festival of Khmer people in Loc Ninh district, Binh Phuoc province, Vietnam today

Chol Chnam Thmay is one of the typical traditional festivals of Khmer people living in Loc Ninh in the Southeastern region of Vietnam as well as in the Mekong Delta in the Southwestern region of Vietnam and in some other Southeast Asian countries. Similar to Khmer people in other regions, festivals of Khmer people in Loc Ninh are also formed and integrated from three cultural lines: folk beliefs, Brahminism, and Buddhism. However, due to the peculiarities of natural conditions, and historical and social circumstances, Khmer people’s festivals in Loc Ninh have specific cultural features, which have contributed to the formation and development of the Khmer ethnic identity in Loc Ninh as well as the cultural identity of the Southeastern region of Vietnam. Based on Hobsbawm's theoretical approach to “Traditional Creativity”, combining Ethnographic/Anthropological field methods, the research results show that Chol Chnam Thmay festival of the Khmer people in Loc Ninh has had a lot of changes. The the changes of the festival is the consequence of the “Traditional Creativity” process in the restoration and practice of the Khmer community's festival. In addition to the impact of the natural environment, and historical and social circumstances, these changes are also affected by cultural exchange factors, globalization, integration, and especially, impacts from the policies on socio-economic and cultural development of the Vietnamese Communist Party and State implemented in localities in the Southeastern region of Vietnam at present.

The Intercultural Communication Analysis of Chinese Documentary Films from the Perspective of Empathy

The New Year is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, not only carrying the collective consciousness and spiritual world of the Chinese nation, but also an important symbol for the external dissemination of Chinese culture, with a wide influence worldwide. Using Python to obtain and analyze barrage comments of the documentary Chinese New Year in Bilibili with a focus on Chinese themes. Through text analysis of the barrage comments, it is essential to investigate its dissemination effectiveness, uncover successful cross-cultural communication experiences within the realm of empathy, and provide insights for effectively telling the Chinese story through documentaries, fostering empathy between Chinese culture and the world.

The Influence of Modern Science and Technology on the Taste of the Year

The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, and the Spring Festival culture is also an important representative of Chinese excellent traditions. In recent years, with the development of national economy and the arrival of the era of science and technology, people's life style and values have changed obviously. People have lost their freshness and interest in the traditional Chinese New Year culture and customs, and many scientific and technological elements have continuously penetrated into people's lives, and the taste of China's new year is fading. Modern science and technology pose many new challenges to China's annual culture, and a series of social hot issues caused by the change of annual flavor caused by science and technology also need to be solved urgently. The purpose of this research is to solve the problems caused by the change of annual flavor under the influence of modern science and technology, and to provide feasible suggestions for better inheriting Chinese excellent traditional culture in the era of rapid development of science and technology.

Chrononyms and Some Features of the Calendar Cycle of Makarevsky District, Kostroma Region

The article examines the local holiday tradition recorded in an area of the Upper Volga basin, namely in the Makaryevsky district of the Kostroma region. It particularly focuses on the linguistic representation of this tradition: chrononyms (holiday names), related proverbs, and chrononymic derivatives. The research is based on field materials collected by members of the Toponymic Expedition of the Ural Federal University during several field trips (in 2004 and 2021–2023). The local calendar system is subject to selective rather than complete description that focuses on the factors that shape the originality of the local tradition. Among these are the unique chrononyms exclusively specific to Makaryevsky district, including those naming the annual holidays of Makaryevsky settlements (such as Yarilova Plesh, Ostannoye Voskresenje, Revun (day)). Another feature of the local calendar are the names of holidays referring to locally significant shrines or saints (revered in the vicinities of Unzha and Vetluga rivers or in Kostroma land in general). These are, for example, Makariev (Macarius) Day, Varnaviev (Barnabas) Day. High concentration of settlements celebrating these as patronal holidays in the region displays the significant role of the Rev. Macarius and Barnabas for these places. The paper also touches upon the local character of some all-Russian holidays, particularly the well-known Ilyin’s (Elijah’s) Day and the Day of St. Spyridon-the-Turner as the most notable for the festive tradition of the Makaryevsky district. For chrononyms with an obscure original meaning, the article provides motivational comments.

Праздничная культура курсантов Ленинградской военно-инженерной школы: 1920–1930-е годы

The formation of the festive traditions of the Soviet military school began shortly after the October Revolution, when during the Civil War the «red cadets» took an active part in state anniversaries and celebrations. Occurred in the early 1920s. Popularization of special military education, an increase in the number of students and the emergence of new holidays, contributed to the development of cultural and entertainment activities of cadets and the development by the Revolutionary Military Council, the Political Directorate of the Red Army, the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR, an appropriate legislative framework in the army. In the article, based on documents from the central Russian archives, most of which are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, as well as materials from the party periodical press, the festive life of cadets of the Leningrad Military Engineering School is analyzed in a historical and cultural context.

The heritagisation of rituals: commodification and transmission. A case study of Nianli Festival in Zhanjiang, China

This article inquires into the effects of heritagisation on popular religious practices in Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China. With the establishment of the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) inventory system in China, numerous popular religious practices, such as procession of local deities, ancestor worship, temple festivals, exorcisms, divination, and spirit mediumship, are free of the stigma of “feudal superstition” and are now recognised as ICH. Based on the fieldwork conducted in the prefecture city of Zhanjiang (Guangdong Province, China) on the local festival tradition of Nianli, I examine how local communities respond to the Party-state’s efforts to safeguard ICH through two processes: the commodification and the transmission of ritual practice. How does the heritage-making process affect the commodification of ritual practice? And what impact has the participation of a plurality of new actors in ICH transmission had on the methods of transmission of local ritual knowledge?

Terrorism and Tourism Demand in Terror Affected Island

Sri Lanka is an island and is becoming an attractive tourist destination in South Asia. It has famous beaches, mountainous regions, many colonise features, UNESCO world heritage sites, wild life, traditional festivals, and unparalleled climate generate extra topographies to attract more and more international tourists. However, Sri Lanka is badly affected by terrorism. Henceforth, this study examines the impact terrorism on inbound tourism along with other important factors, for instance, FDI and World GDP. Long run estimates are obtained through DOLS after confirmation of cointegration. World GDP and FDI have positive effect on tourism. Terrorism has negative impact on inbound tourism in Sri Lanka. The tourism in Sri Lanka remained stagnant between 1978 and 2009 because of terrorism. Since 2009, there is sharped increase in tourism arrivals as a result of remarkable decrease in terrorism activities. Results of VECM confirmed causality from terrorism to tourism. This finding revealed that terrorism is badly affecting tourism in Sri Lanka. Similarly, terrorism is affecting FDI inflows to Sri Lanka. Moreover, these results confirmed that tourism and FDI are engaged in complementary effect with each other. If Sri Lanka enabled itself well to maintain peace in country its effect will be multiple. Elimination of terrorism will improve tourism development which in turn will bring economic development as travel and tourism industry contributes 11.1 % to GDP, and 10 % to country employment. Similarly, better security situation will also help in attracting more FDI. Besides this, FDI and private investment has to be encouraged to build new hotel rooms to accommodate influx of tourists.

Modern Construction of Traditional Ethnic Festival: Taking “March 3rd” of the She People in Jingning as an Example

Based on the new classical “Structure-Function Theory” this article, by putting a traditional ethnic festival under the background of a modern society investigate how a traditional ethnic festival, as a kind of “structural heritage”, can come to an adjustment with the modern society in the process of integration and development of tourism, and how it becomes an important embodiment of development of tourism and, at the same time, optimize its tourist economic structure. The research shows that, the modern structure of the traditional ethnic festival proves that, though an ethnic festival might be a most stable content in the ethnic culture, it can also be adjusted and changed in order to adapt itself to the new trend of society and economy, and thus it can produce a structure and function in line with that modern society. As for the modern construction of the traditional ethnic festival itself, it is, on the one hand, built on a gain of some modern characteristics during the developing process of the time and society on the basis of the internal changes (including a transforming of function and expanding of structure);on the other hand, the successful realization of a modern construction of the traditional ethnic festival cannot be fostered without the support and promotion of external forces including “umbrella” power with the government as the main body and “honeycomb power” with enterprise and people as a major body too.

Aromanian Cultural and Linguistic Shift to Greek

Aromanian-armân, (Weigand, 1895) is an oral Eastern-Romance language spoken by the Aromanians (armâni, or armãneashti), an ethnic group historically known for transhumance, dispersed over a wide area of the Balkans in what is present-day Peninsular Greece, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Southern Romania, Serbia, and Albania. These people have been noted as Aromanians or Vlachs sometime since the eighth century AD. (Caranica, 1990). Their ethnicity (Eriksen, 2010) is controversial with Greeks believing them Latinised Greeks, Romanians considering them Romanian, others as Balkan natives from Wallachia (Ruzica, 2006). In Greek, the current word for Aromanian is in fact ‘Vlach’ believed to originate from the Latin terms Volcae, Volci (Volks, Wolks) referring to a Celtic tribe from Gaul that had learnt Latin and become Latinized. The Volks-Wolks were the closest neighbors to Germanic tribes in the area, which resulted in Germans referring to all Latin speakers as ‘Volks,’ the same way they did with their language. For clarification, in this study: Aromanian, Vlach (-) Aromanian and Vlach will all be used to refer to this ethnic group and language. The word Volci was adopted by Germanic speakers and took different forms over time: Walachen, Welchland, Wallis, Wallais, Wallons, Wales, Welschme etc. These terms are still visible in different European languages today and refer to ‘Latin speaker.’ The Slavic speakers borrowed the word from the Germans as: Olahy, Olahi, Valachi, Voloh, Vloh whereas the Byzantines borrowed it as ‘Vlachs’ (Tapanikos, 2020). Their isolated modus vivendi, between pastoral valleys and high mountains, confined them to hardship and socio-cultural periphery, and allowed relative immunity from major European conflicts and periods of unrest spanning short of a millennium. From 1975 when the modern Greek Republic is finally consolidated, the ideology of ‘one people, one language’ is an intrinsic part of Greek nationality and nationalism (Moschonas, 2004). Lacking written, standardized forms, Aromanian has been transmitted orally from generation to generation in the Epirus, Macedonia and Thessally regions of Greece. With profound socio-economic changes and rewards, Aromanians left their pastoral lifestyle in large numbers (Beis, 2000) attracted by prospects of a better future in Greek urban centers and Western European countries, USA, or Australia. In modern times, with Greek being the only language of instruction and communication in the wider society (Chomsky, 1971), the generational language-transfer cycle has been broken, and Aromanian is now endangered (Dinas et al., 2011). On the other hand, Aromanian folklore and traditional festivals are very much alive through associations like the Pan-Hellenic Federation of Cultural Associations of Vlachs, while many self-identified Aromanians do not speak a word of their ancestral language, by choice (Kahl, 2004). How did this (apparent) contradiction come to be? What drove Aromanians away from their language and led to the assimilation into Greek society, language, and culture so completely that it will lead to the death of Aromanian in Greece?