历史上很多人类群体一直对“起始时刻”给予特别的重视。在多数群体的文化常识中,人们在特定的时间如新年、新春、晨曦等时刻,通过举行一定的仪式或遵奉一些禁忌等手段,企图预知或操控自己的“将来”。本文通过解读这种文化实践和认知背后的思维逻辑,试图说明仪式不仅仅通过阈限来强化社会规范,而且也是人们将抽象的宇宙或自然时间具体化为可感知、可操控的文化事项的手段,人们也通过这种文化设置与表达使自己的人生不断有新的起点。 Many human groups in history have always paid special attention to “Start Time ”. In the cultural common sense of the majority, people try to predict or manipulate their “future ” by holding certain ceremonies or by observing some taboos at specific times such as the New Year, the New Year, the dawn and so on. By interpreting the cultural logic behind this cultural practice and cognition, this article attempts to show that rituals not only reinforce social norms through thresholds, but also embody abstract cosmic or natural times as perceived and manipulable cultural issues Means, people through this kind of cultural settings and expression of their own life continue to have a new starting point.