"Festivals are a kind of social memory," says Yeh Chi-cheng, a professor of sociology at National Taiwan University. Cohesion and identification depend on the shared memory of a common past, on people feeling they belong together like a family.
「節慶是一種社會記憶」，台灣大學社會學系教授葉啟政指出，人要有記憶，也就是有相同的過去，才能產生認同，覺得彼此是一家人。