去年岁末,应浙江丽水学院新成立的民族学院之邀,我有幸第一次走进浙南地区的景宁畲族自治县。更令人难忘的是,今年的元旦我竟是在畲乡渡过的。类似的经历平生不会有很多,而且这次到畲乡,让我回想起了年轻时对福建畲族的田野调查。我觉得,这些短暂的旅行对于人生都很宝贵。因为每一次这样的走访,都会让人产生一些平时不可能有的感触。畲族对我并非全然陌生。上个世纪80年代初在厦门大学就读研究生期间,我曾随 Late last year, at the invitation of the newly established National Institute of Lishui University in Zhejiang, I was fortunate enough to walk into Jingning She Autonomous County for the first time in southern Zhejiang. Even more memorable is that this year’s New Year’s Day I actually spent in She Township. A similar experience will not be a lot of life, but this time She Township, reminds me of a young field investigation of the She nationality in Fujian. I think these short trips are precious to life. Because every such visit, will give rise to some people usually can not feel. She is not entirely strange to me. During the graduate study in Xiamen University in the early 1980s, I had followed