术语“火把节”的详细信息

英译术语:

Torch Festival

汉语语境:

火把节古称“星回节“，流行于滇、贵、川等地的彝、白、汉等民族之中，一般在六月下旬和十二月下旬举行，节日的意义在于以此标志新年。有学者认为，火把节与星回节来源不同。但联系彝族历法中“一年两截“制遗迹和彝族传统的恒星观测法，可以论证这两个节日习俗有共同的原初本质和古老渊源，从文化积累角度看，“星回“是“火把“的底层。火把节起源研究启示我们，中国民族学研究应注意“高文化“问题，重视文献、文物资料对于民族文明研究的意义。

英语语境:

Torch festival is Xinghui festival in ancient time, which is popular in Yi, Bai, Han and other ethnic groups in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other places and generally held in late June and late December, and its significance marks the beginning of the new year． The paper demonstrates its original nature and ancient origins with the help of the relic of Two Divisions of a Year in Yi calendar and Yi s traditional stellar observational method． Furthermore, the paper discusses the problem of Higher Culture in Chinese ethnology and elaborates the importance of documents and archives to the studies of ethnic civilizations on the basis of the origin of Torch festival．