Festivals and holidays require shared memories to come about, but new ways of celebrating them can awaken or build up new memories. "Good festivals are a culture's lifeline," Nan-fang Shuo says.
有共同記憶才能孕育節慶，然而節慶的提倡也能喚起、或累積出新的共同記憶，「好的節慶，是一種文化的生長點」，南方朔表示。