Research-based learning theme: investigation and research on traditional festival culture

At present, our pupils know little about the traditional festivals in China. In order to enable us to understand the cultural knowledge of national traditional festivals, enhance students' knowledge and understanding of traditional festivals, and then identify with and love traditional festivals, so that they can develop and inherit them better, this semester our class carried out a comprehensive practical activity of "Investigation and Research on Traditional Festival Customs in China". There are many traditional festivals in China. We selected four of them, namely Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, as sub-topics and conducted a group survey.

Second, the research content

Understand the origin of traditional festivals; Collect poems about traditional festivals; Understand the customs and eating habits of traditional festivals; Understand what other activities people do during traditional festivals. Organize the learned and collected materials in an orderly way and bind them into a book.

Third, the division of tasks

According to the selected subtitle, our class is divided into four groups, and the tasks of each group are as follows:

1, Fireworks Team: Captain Li Zijian and Wu Yuchun are mainly responsible for investigating and studying the traditional customs of the Spring Festival;

2. The light of victory: Captain Tu is mainly responsible for the investigation and study of traditional customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day;

3. Sunshine Team: Team leaders Wu Ziyue and Xiao Xiaozhu are responsible for investigating and studying the traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival;

4. Moonlight: Captain Zhang Hexiao is mainly responsible for investigating and studying the traditional customs of Mid-Autumn Festival.

Fourth, the research process

First of all, we made a detailed investigation and research plan for this activity, and determined the sub-topics and personnel of each group. In order to enliven the atmosphere of this activity and enhance the cohesion of each group, each group has given itself a positive group name and a loud slogan. Next, each group makes a group research plan according to its own sub-topic and conducts investigation and research respectively. Each group collects information about the customs and habits of traditional festivals through various channels such as reading newspapers, asking elders and searching information on the Internet, and arranges them into books and writes research reports.

Research achievements of verbs (abbreviation of verb)

After more than half a semester of investigation and study, each group collected a lot of information about traditional festivals and customs. The following are the research results and some data collected by each group.

1, fireworks team

Spring Festival is the largest and most lively ancient traditional festival in China, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". According to the China lunar calendar, the first day of the first month is the beginning of a year. Traditional celebrations last from New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month. Every New Year's Eve, every family gets together to have a New Year's Eve dinner, which is called "reunion dinner". In the meantime, I talked and laughed, and I was happy. Then we celebrate our old age together, catch up with the old and talk about the new, and congratulate and encourage each other. When the new year comes, firecrackers and fireworks push the festive atmosphere to a climax. In northern China, there is a custom of eating jiaozi at this time, which means "having sex when you are young". There is a habit of eating rice cakes in the south, which symbolizes a better life. Putting up Spring Festival couplets, beating gongs and drums, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new are very lively. In addition, there are other customs in various places, such as visiting each other's homes to celebrate the New Year, dancing lions, playing dragon lanterns, performing social fires, visiting flower markets, and enjoying lantern festivals. The activities are rich in forms and rich in ethnic customs.

Sweep the dust "On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, dust sweeps the house". According to Lv Chunqiu, China had the custom of sweeping the dust during the Spring Festival in ancient Yao and Shun times. The folk saying goes like this: Because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not getting new", and its original intention is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck. This custom has placed people's desire to break the old and create new ones and their prayers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. On the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, every household should clean the house, clean all kinds of utensils, tear down and wash bedding curtains, dust off cobwebs and dredge culverts in open channels. Everywhere is filled with the joyful atmosphere of cleaning and welcoming the Spring Festival cleanly.

Post Spring Festival couplets. Spring Festival couplets are also called door couplets, spring stickers, couplets, couplets and peach symbols. They depict the background of the times and express good wishes with neat, dual, concise and delicate words, which are unique literary forms in China. Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should choose a pair of bright red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door to add festive atmosphere to the festival. This custom began in the Song Dynasty and was popular in the Ming Dynasty. By the Qing Dynasty, the ideological and artistic quality of Spring Festival couplets had been greatly improved. Liang Zhangju's monograph Poetry of Spring Festival couplets discusses the origin of couplets and the characteristics of various works. There are many kinds of Spring Festival couplets, which can be divided into door heart, frame pair, cross string, spring strip and bucket square according to the place of use. The "door core" is attached to the center of the upper end of the door panel; The "door frame pair" is attached to the left and right door frames; "Cross-dressing" is posted on the crossbar of the door; "Spring Article" is attached to the corresponding parties according to different contents; "Dou Jin", also known as "door leaf", is a square diamond, often attached to furniture and screen walls.

Turn the word "fu" upside down While putting up Spring Festival couplets, some people have to put large and small "Fu" characters on doors, walls and lintels. Sticking the word "Fu" during the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom in China. The word "Fu" symbolizes good luck and wishes for a happy life and a bright future. In order to fully reflect this yearning and wish, some people simply put the word "Fu" upside down, indicating that "Fu has arrived" and "Fu has arrived". Others elaborate the word "Fu" into various patterns, such as longevity, longevity peach, carp yue longmen, abundant grains, dragons and phoenixes, and so on.