Chinese New Year has a long culture, have you thought about how to popularize the history of Chinese New Year to your children?

Chinese New Year Thinking Maps

For children, Chinese New Year is the day when they get the New Year's money. As the Spring Festival passes from year to year, children may only formally understand the meaning of the Spring Festival as follows: "The Spring Festival is all about having dinner with your parents, getting the New Year's money, and visiting your relatives...". There's nothing wrong with the process, but as the generations go on like this, our traditional festivals may only be remembered because of the vacation.

The Spring Festival is the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, but the Spring Festival period usually refers to the 23rd day of the lunar month before the year to the Lantern Festival after the year. And in China, each place in the Spring Festival customs will be different, Anhui people in the first meal of the Spring Festival requires everyone to bite a mouthful of raw radish, meaning "bite spring", in order to "remove the bacteria to prevent disease, New Year's good luck"; Jiangxi people eat dumplings and fish, meaning "cross". The Jiangxi people eat dumplings and fish to symbolize the "handing over of children" and the "yearly surplus". The same as the Spring Festival, some people eat dumplings, some people eat fish, historical traditions left behind these customs you know how much?

In foreign Chinatown, the Spring Festival is also known as Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year will generally be burning firecrackers, wearing new clothes, posting spring couplets, said the old to welcome the new, express the good wishes for the coming year. After New Year's Eve crosses over to the New Year, usually on the second and third days of the year, they start to visit their relatives and say and blessings. It is a good time for small children to get new year's money and a regular time for relatives to exchange and improve their relationship.

For traditional festivals, such as the Spring Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, etc., parents can use mind maps to popularize the children, so that the children from the inside out to understand the meaning of the festival, so as to pass on. The branches of the mind map can be more detailed than those in the text, and children like to ask questions such as why is New Year's Eve called New Year's Eve? Why are Spring Festival and New Year's Day different? These questions can be extended in the mind map for children to popularize. For the adults for the very shallow problem, the children are not aware of, and who is not from not knowing to know it

Dear parents, the Spring Festival period in addition to the children after the popularization of the Spring Festival's traditional folk knowledge, but also with the children to do a little year-end summary, to summarize the past year's events, such as how much taller, what good friends, what are the most happy things, read what Book ...... Take your child to use the mind map way to record together la bar.