Write an investigative report on a social event about the customs of Chinese New Year (Spring Festival ------ to Lantern Festival). (Do not go to the Internet to pull! The best to write their own) Tha

Write an investigative report on a social event about the customs of Chinese New Year (Spring Festival ------ to Lantern Festival). (Do not go to the Internet to pull! The best to write their own) Thank you ah! Activity background

Festivals are a cultural phenomenon, the Spring Festival is even more so. The Spring Festival is the grandest festival in the traditional cultural context of the Chinese nation. It originated in the Yinshang period at the beginning and end of the year, and was associated with religion, rituals, celebrations and gatherings. The traditional Spring Festival is characterized by various legends about the "New Year" beast, the creation of the Mannian calendar, keeping the New Year's Eve, posting Spring Festival couplets, and enjoying ice lanterns; customs such as dust-sweeping, Spring Festival couplets, door paintings, posting the Chinese character for "Fortune" upside down, keeping the New Year's Eve, firecrackers, paying homage to the New Year, watching the big opera, and the Lantern Festival; and Lahai congee, rice cake, dumplings, and Yuanxiao, which is the most solemn festival, rice cake, dumplings, snacks, spring cakes and other food customs; and the first day of the year do not sweep the floor, do not go through the back door, do not scold the children, and congratulate each other on the New Year, such as the custom of ......

The culture of the Spring Festival after thousands of years, the quality of the quality is unchanged, and the quality of this quality is derived from the birth of our "cultural roots! The charm of the Spring Festival culture makes the Spring Festival the most cohesive festival. Whenever the Spring Festival is approaching, uprooted travelers have rushed home to reunite with their loved ones, once a year hundreds of millions of people "Spring Festival" climax, explaining the status of the Spring Festival in the hearts of the Chinese people. With the Spring Festival related to the New Year's custom, has long been a rite of passage gradually changed into a kind of branding in every Chinese body, a kind of integration into every Chinese bloodstream habits, a kind of cultural factors into the bone marrow of every Chinese people.

Second, the purpose of the activities:

To understand the customs of the Spring Festival

To understand the customs of the Lantern Festival

Third, the process of the activities

1, to the supermarkets, jewelry house, holiday gift house, etc. to visit, investigate, visit, and search for the Internet for relevant information, to cultivate the students to collect and organize the information and based on the information to analyze the problem, problem-solving ability.

2, the use of information technology to collect information about the Spring Festival of nationalities around the world. Cultivate students' ability to process, summarize and apply the collected information.

Customs of the Spring Festival

Sweeping

"On the 24th day of the Lunar New Year, dusting and sweeping the house" Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household has to clean up the environment, wash all kinds of utensils, dismantle and wash the bedding and curtains, sprinkle and sweep the courtyard of the Sixth Lukes, dust the cobwebs, and dredge the open and dark drains. Everywhere overflowing with joyful health, clean and welcome the new year's happy atmosphere.

Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets, also known as door-to-door, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, peach symbols, etc., it is neat, couplets, concise, sophisticated text depicting the background of the times, expressing the best wishes, is China's unique form of literature. Every Spring Festival, whether urban or rural, every family should select a big red Spring Festival couplets pasted on the door, for the festival to increase the festive atmosphere.

Pasted window and upside down "Fu" character

In the folk people also like to put all kinds of paper cuttings on the window - window flowers. Window flowers not only bring out the festive atmosphere, but also set decorative, appreciative and practical in one.

New Year's paintings

The Spring Festival hanging stickers in urban and rural areas is also very common, thick black colorful paintings to thousands of families added a lot of prosperity and joy of the festive atmosphere. New Year's paintings are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting the people's simple customs and beliefs, and holding their hopes for the future.

Watch the New Year's Eve

Watch the New Year's Eve is one of the most important New Year's Eve activities, and the custom of watching the New Year's Eve has a long history. The earliest records are found in the Western Jin Dynasty Zhou Chu's "Land and Customs": New Year's Eve night, each with the gift, known as "feed the year"; wine and food invited, known as the "other year"; young and old get together to drink, wishing to complete, known as the "share the year! "

The first time you see a new year is when you have a new year, and when you have a new year, you have a new year, and when you have a new year, you have a new year, and when you have a new year.

Crackers

Chinese folk "open door firecrackers". That is, at the dawn of the new year, the first thing to do when families open the door is to set off firecrackers, to beeping firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new. Firecrackers are a Chinese specialty, also known as "firecrackers", "cannonballs", "firecrackers".

Welcome to the New Year

On the first day of the New Year, people get up early, put on their best clothes, dress up, go out to visit friends and relatives, pay respect to each other, and wish for good luck in the coming year.

Customs of the Lantern Festival

Guess the riddles

Traditional society of the Lantern Festival is the city and countryside importance of the folk festival, in the city of Lantern Festival noise is particularly warm, it reflects the unique spirit of carnival of the Chinese people. The traditional Lantern Festival has been dissolved by daily life, people gradually lost **** the same spiritual interest, the complexity of the festival has been simplified to "eat Lantern" food customs. Every Lantern Festival, all places are playing lantern riddles, hoping that this year will be joyful, safe and sound.

Pedaling on stilts

Pedaling on stilts is a popular folkloric performance. Stilts are one of the hundred plays of ancient China, which appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period.

Lion Dance

Traditional Folkloric Programs--Lion Dance The Lion Dance is an excellent folk art in China, which is performed during the Lantern Festival or at gatherings and celebrations. This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period and became popular during the North and South Dynasties, and has a history of more than a thousand years.

"Lion Dance" began in the Wei and Jin dynasties, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, also known as the "Lion Dance", "Peaceful Music", generally completed by three people, two dressed as a lion, a person acting as the head of the lion, a person acting as the body and the back of the lion. One person as a lion body and back feet, the other when the lion guide, the dance method and there are cultural and military points, cultural dance to show that the lion's tame, there are shaking hair, rolling and other actions, martial arts lion lion lion lion ferocious, there are prancing, stomping, rolling colorful ball and other actions.

Rowing the dry boat

Rowing the dry boat, folklore says, is in honor of Dayu, who was successful in curing the water. Rowing a dry boat, also known as running a dry boat, is to imitate the boat on land, most of the performance of running a dry boat is a girl. Dry boat is not a real boat, more than two thin boards, sawed into a boat shape, bamboo and wood tied into, and then masked with colorful cloth, set of ties in the girl's waist, as sitting in the boat, as in the hands of the same paddle, to do the rowing position, one side running, one side singing some local ditties, singing and dancing, which is the rowing of dry boat. Sometimes there is another man dressed up as a boat passenger, partnering performance, most of them dressed up as clowns, with a variety of comical actions to amuse the audience joy. Rowing the dry boat is popular in many parts of China.

Eating Lantern Festival

"Lantern Festival" as a food has a long history in China. During the Song Dynasty, a novelty food for the Lantern Festival was popular among the people. This food, the earliest called "floating Yuanzi" later called "Lantern", the businessman also beautifully called "Yuanbao". In ancient times, "Lantern" is more expensive, there is a poem that says: "Your guests hook curtains to see the Royal Street, the market treasures a moment to. The flower racks in front of the curtains have no way to travel, no money shall not return."

The 15th day of the first month to eat Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival that is "dumplings" to sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnuts, nuts, jujube puree, etc. for the filling, wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round, meat can be vegetarian, with a variety of flavors. It can be boiled in soup, deep-fried or steamed, and has the meaning of reunion. Shaanxi dumplings are not wrapped, but in the glutinous rice flour "rolled" into, or cooking Division or deep-fried, hot fire, reunion. [2]

Sacrifices to the door and the household

There were "seven sacrifices" in ancient times, and these are two of them. They were performed by sticking a branch of a poplar tree above a gateway, inserting a pair of chopsticks into a bowl of bean porridge, or placing wine and meat directly in front of the door.

Rats

This activity is mainly said to people who raise silkworms. Because the rats often ate the silkworms in large pieces at night, people heard that on the 15th day of the first month, they fed the rats with rice porridge, so that they could stop eating the silkworms. So, these people in the first month of the fifteenth simmering on a big pot of sticky porridge, some also covered with a layer of meat on the top, the porridge with a bowl, put the porridge into the rat-infested roofs, corners, and put the side of the mouth while chanting, cursing the rats to eat silkworms again on the baby shall not die.

The Jing Chu chronicle said, the first month of the fifteenth time, there is a fairy down to a family surnamed Chen, said to them: if you can worship me, this year, let your silkworm harvest. Then the custom was formed.

Send children lamps

Short for "send lamps", also known as "send lanterns", etc., that is, before the Lantern Festival, the mother's family to send lanterns to the newly married daughter's home, or general friends and relatives to the newly married sterile home, in order to add a good omen, because the "lamp" and the "lamp" are the same as the "lamp" and the "lamp" is the same as the "lamp" and the "lamp" is the same as the "lamp". "Lights" and "Ding" harmonized. This custom in many places, Xi'an, Shaanxi area is the first eight to fifteen during the first month to send lamps, the first year to send a pair of large lanterns, a pair of glass lamps with colorful paintings, hope that the daughter of the marriage of the lucky star, early birth of a child; such as the daughter of the pregnancy, in addition to the large lanterns, but also to send one or two pairs of small lanterns, wishing the daughter a safe pregnancy.

Welcome the purple nun

Purple nun also called Chi Nun, the north more known as toilet nun, pit three nun. Ancient folk custom on the fifteenth day of the first month to welcome the toilet god Zigu and sacrifice, divination sericulture, and account for many things. Legend has it that Zigu was originally a concubine, jealous of the older women, the first month of the fifteenth was killed in the toilet, become the toilet God. Every time to welcome the purple nun this Lantern Festival "walk a hundred diseases" to seek well-being day night, people with straw, cloth and other tie into a life-size portrait of the purple nun, and at night in the toilet between the pigsty to meet and worship. This custom is popular in the north and south, as early as the period of the North and South Dynasties in the records.

Walking the hundred diseases

"Walking the hundred diseases", also known as the tour of the hundred diseases, scattered hundred diseases, baked hundred diseases, walk the bridge, etc., is a kind of elimination of disasters and pray for health activities. The night of the Lantern Festival women meet to go out, traveling in pairs, see the bridge must be crossed, that can get rid of diseases and prolong life.

Walking the hundred diseases is a custom in the north since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, some in the 15th, but more in the 16th. On this day, women dressed in festive costumes, groups of people out of the house, walking bridge across the danger, climbed the city, touching the nail for a child, until midnight, to return.

Fifth, the results of the activities

Through this activity so that more students to understand the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival culture, to appreciate the charm of Chinese culture, so that we love our festival more, through this activity, so that the students learn to learn on their own, the formation of good communication and cooperation of the interactive ability to enhance the feelings of the students