關於美濃黃蝶祭

【美濃黃祭祭】美濃黃蝶節

創辦於1995年年的黃蝶祭，是台灣第一個客家生態人文祭典。

祭蝶儀式以客家古禮進行，融合對土地「伯公」的虔誠信仰，以蝴蝶作為象徵，對黃蝶翠谷內遭受水庫計畫戕害的自然萬物致歉;亦藉由奉請黃蝶翠谷內象徵山神的「雙峰伯公」，以及象徵生物的「黃蝶伯公」至祭台結壇祭告，向天，向地，向所有參與者宣示保育黃蝶翠谷的決心。

美濃黃蝶祭從第一屆將「黃蝶翠谷生態公約牌」揭幕開始，1997年於第三屆首次提出「生態自然公園」願景，並舉行「黃蝶翠谷生態公投」，凝聚在地共識。隨即在2000年舉辦的第六屆美濃黃蝶祭，以進一步「催生黃蝶翠谷生態公園」為主軸，轉化水庫危機的色彩，以悠然的客家文化小鎮為發展願景訴求，同時納涵了在地的菸葉產業，水圳文化空間等議題，豐富了黃蝶祭的意涵與面向。

每年黃蝶祭的核心價值，乃在於重新思考人類與自然環境互動的基本課題，並踏尋人與自然永續依存的農村生態願景。第十七屆美濃黃蝶祭，以「公共的園林，的自然故鄉」為價值，藉由「揚葉希望拼圖」百納旗的行動方式，將打造美濃生態家園的夢想進一步落實。

可追溯到1995年的黃色蝴蝶節是第一個源自美濃客家人關注文化，地方生態和人文的年度節日。

The Festival consists of worships for God of the Earth (also called Tu-Di-Gong in Chinese) and of rite that follows the spirit of Hakka traditional observances. Yellow butterfly in the Festival serves as a vehicle for our apology to all beings in the Yellow Butterfly Valley , the place to be impounded by the Meining Dam, in stalemate because of huge, successful opposition from the locals, that was purposely chosen as the Festival site. The ones who lead the rite would invite both the “Twin Peak Earth God”, representing the deity of mountains, and “Yellow Butterfly Earth God”, representing all living creatures, to the worship platform; and under deities’ witnesses, we pronounce to Heaven and to Earth our commitments to conserve the Valley.

The 1^st Festival, in 1995, featured an unveiling ceremony for the “Ecology Treaty for the Yellow Butterfly Valley”. The 3^rd Festival, in 1997, brought forward the conception and visions of the “Ecological Nature Park” (the Park) that was planned to enclose the Valley. And in the spirit of showing grassroot power, the “Referendum on Ecological Nature Park” was held, in that year, to democratically take into account everyone’s opinion on the Park. To make the conception of the Park more widely known, the 6^th Festival, in 2000, was held again with an aim to advocate the Park, and therefore, instead of foregrounding threats of the Meinung Dam, addressed as the main focus the development of the tobacco industry, the cultural and spatial meanings of irrigational channels, and other development aspects of Meinung. The Festival was in this way broadened both in its meaning and the issues addressed.   

一般來說，節日的核心價值在於反思人類與周圍自然環境之間的可持續關係; 並基於這種關係實現美濃的農業生態。2012年，第17 ^屆節日強調公益林和自然故鄉的價值觀，並提出“蝴蝶拼圖希望之謎”，象徵性地顯示人們參與公共事務，我們希望這將有助於使美濃成為一個生態型家園。