灾害公祭作为一种公共社会活动和仪式象征体系的一部分,可以折射出国家意识形态与社会文化传统的关系。“东方之星”游轮翻沉事件发生后,政府采用民间俗信“头七”的时间举行公祭,而公祭之仪式、内涵、主体却与传统俗信差异极大。在此背后,隐含着世俗性事件处理与信仰性阴阳沟通仪式之间的矛盾,也体现出世俗权力借公祭将死亡意义价值化、意义化的一贯逻辑,更进一步表明国家权力所型构的公共“纪念”仪式与民间俗信所支撑的个体祭祀之间的生死观存在差异。而透过对当代社会“祭祀”与“纪念”之间复杂关系的分析,可以透视唯物主义生死观和传统信仰正呈现一种既交汇又对峙的微妙关系。 Disaster public sacrifice as a part of public social activities and ritual symbol system can reflect the relationship between national ideology and social and cultural traditions. “Oriental Star ” cruise ship after the occurrence of the sinking, the government adopted the folk custom letter “first seven ” of the time to hold a public sacrifice, while the ceremony, connotation, subject and the traditional public letter is very different. Behind this, there is the contradiction between the handling of mundane events and the ritual of communication of yin and yang of faith, as well as the consistent logic of secular power to value and meaning of death by means of public sacrifices, further demonstrating that the state power There is a difference in the viewpoints of life and death between the public “memorial ” ritual and the individual ritual supported by folk vulgar. Through the analysis of the complex relationship between “sacrificial worship” and “memorial” in contemporary society, we can see that the materialistic view of life and death and the traditional belief are showing a delicate relationship that meets and confront each other.