说到“民俗研究”似乎就意味着去发现民众日常生活的真实状态,但当我们着力去寻找真实时,我们又会发现一个很棘手问题,那就是不同记载中对于民众生活的描述与评价天差地别。比如当我翻看民国时期留下的关于北京庙会的材料时,就常常产生一种疑惑:怎么同一件事却写得相差这么大?这篇游记里说的庙会是一个样,那篇报道里讲的是另一个样,官方档案是这个样,而老百姓的口碑记忆里我们看到的又是别种样。 When it comes to “folk custom research”, it seems that it means discovering the true state of daily life of the people. However, when we focus our efforts on finding truth, we find a very difficult one. That is to say, the description of public life in different records Evaluation of bad days. For example, when I looked at the material left behind by the Republic of China on the temple fair in Beijing, I often had a kind of doubt: why the same thing was written in such a big difference? The temple fair in this travelogue is like that. Talking about another example, the official file is like this, and people’s word of mouth memories we see is another kind.