台湾客家文学中的客家婚礼仪式

This paper explores Hakka wedding and ceremony in the four literary works in Taiwan, including The Farm on Li Mountain, Chilly Night, Interview Prior to Marriage and My Daughter's Wedding, and interprets their meanings. Applying Jean Baudrillard's concept of simulation in the western theory of Performance Studies and Hands-Georg Gadamer's idea of text and interpretation, the issues of literature reflects human thought in real life, interpretation of text and the representation of performance will be discussed. In Li Chiao's first part Chilly Night in the length novel The Trilogy of Chilly Night, marriage is a kind of labor contract; wedding is a sort of signing-contract ceremony. Chung Li-Ho's The Farm on Li Mountain, by way of novel, protests the old embedded custom which prohibited the lovers who have the same family name from getting married. Hwang Chuan's short novel Interview Prior to Marriage examines women's struggle between love at one's own free will vs. interview prior to marriage, and the young generation looks for freedom to have his/her own choice in marriage. Adapting from Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew, My Daughter's Wedding, the first Hakka musical in Taiwan, uses retheatricalization on stage to do simulation to mimic the real life, and represents the traditional Hakka wedding custom and modern western-style wedding.