首先,中国节日志做出一批成果是值得祝贺的事。通过发给我的两个文本,我看到了中国现在丰富多彩的节日存在,但是不能把它当成纯粹的学术性样本来要求。看到“写文化时代”这个题目我有点吃惊,这多多少少和美国的那本论文集有关,这个要求比较高这本书序言中把民族志写作分成三个阶段,其中写文化时代是第三个阶段。我看到的两个文本,一个是浙江的春节,另一个是甘南、青海的插箭节。从这两个文本来看,前一个的呈现方式属于《写文化》中概括的第一个阶段,后一个大致可以判断为第二个阶段的民族志,但如果按照“写文 First of all, it is something worth congratulating for the Chinese festival diary to make a number of achievements. Through the two texts sent to me, I have seen the rich and colorful festivals in China now, but I can not demand it as a purely academic sample. I was a little surprised to see the topic of ”Writing a Cultural Age.“ This was somewhat more or less related to the American Proceedings. The preface of this book divides ethnography into three stages, in which the writing of the Cultural Age Is the third stage. I see two texts, one is the Spring Festival in Zhejiang, the other is Gannan, Qinghai Intergraph Festival. Judging from these two texts, the former manner of presentation belongs to the first stage outlined in ”Writing a Culture," and the latter one can roughly be judged as a ethnography of the second stage. However,