Hometown Folk Culture Investigation Report

To understand the local holiday traditions and customs, to promote the traditional culture of the motherland

Survey time:

December 20xx

Survey Place:

Linquan and neighboring counties and cities

Objects of investigation:

Folks, teachers, and experts and scholars

Methods of investigation:

Visiting, reviewing materials, and the Internet

Spring Festival, or Lunar New Year, is one of the grandest, most lively and important ancient traditional festivals in China. In Linquan area, the Spring Festival in the traditional sense refers to the Lunar New Year festival from the Lunar New Year's Eve or the Lunar New Year's 23rd or 24th sacrificial stove, until the 15th day of the first month, of which the New Year's Eve is the most lively and grand.

First, the traditional process and customs

The eighth day of the Lunar New Year

There is a saying in the countryside: "Eat the rice on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the year to do." The so-called "Lapa rice" is a kind of congee, which is why "Lapa rice" is also called "Lapa congee". The production is very simple, that is, the five grains and cereals are cooked together, heralding the approach of the Spring Festival, meaning; the next year, the five grains of abundance. After Laha, the flavor of the year is gradually thick.

Stove worship

The so-called "sacrificial stove", that is, to worship the God of the stove, Zao Wang Wang. As the saying goes, "The king sacrifices three, the minister sacrifices four, the king sacrifices five, and the turtle sacrifices six." (These last two sentences have the meaning of joking and cursing.) Therefore, Linquan area sacrifices zaos on the twenty-fourth day of the Lunar New Year, and the tribute for sacrificing zaos is based on the dinner of that day, supplemented by the indispensable sugar and jujubes. In rural areas, the stove used for cooking is called "ground pot", and the stove platform is called "pot platform", and the host must first put a portion of the dinner on the pot platform, and then put on the pre-prepared sugar and honey dates. It is said that Zao Wang is sent by the Jade Emperor to

each house specializing in surveillance, the day of the waxing moon twenty-three he has to go to heaven to report on the performance of this house. If you give him sugar and honey dates to eat, you can sweeten his mouth and make him say only good things in front of the Jade Emperor, so that he will be rich and safe in the coming year. The food given to Zao Wang Wang is not allowed to be touched by anyone in the family, and can only be eaten after dinner, and if a child steals it, he will be reprimanded by the adults.

Some people offer a statue of Zaowang on the stove, and there is usually a couplet on both sides of the statue: "Good things are said in heaven, and peace is guaranteed in the lower world", and the banner reads "the head of the family". On this day, every household burns a stack of incense in front of the door and the air is filled with a strong aroma. From then on, the sound of firecrackers continues. From time to time, there is also a fireworks, cut through the night sky, bursting into the air colorful light, attracted the children issued a burst of cheers.

I. Purpose of the activity:

1. Affective, attitudinal and value objectives: through the activities, to stimulate students' interest in exploring the hometown folk culture, and enhance the sense of pride in their hometowns; to let the students know that the protection of their hometown's folk culture is the duty and responsibility of every citizen.

2, the ability to target: through the activities, students can team hometown folk culture for a simple investigation, and write a simple investigation report. Through a series of time activities such as observation, access, visits, investigation, experience, etc., to exercise the ability of students to collect and organize information, analyze the information, and refine the point of view.

3. Knowledge Objective: Through the activities, let the students understand the hometown folk culture, folk crafts and other aspects of knowledge.

Second, the way of activities:

1. to the library to check the book;

2. to copy the information;

3. to make a book of the results of the activities.

3. Activities:

Split up, some people go online to look for information, some people go to the library to look for information.

Fourth, the preparation of the activities:

We first determine who should look up famous people and who should look up national customs today. Then we will look up information separately.

V. Course of action:

When we were ready, we set out on our own, I looked up celebrities and famous people, Tang Sining looked up the ancient city of Hunan, and Ye Shuang looked up the national customs ......

(a) Activity process and mode of activity

1. Carrying out Research study activities

① guide students to investigate and understand the hometown unique festivals, traditional customs, traditional culture and art and origin. ② guide students to read traditional poetry, prose, novels, and a preliminary understanding of the hometown of ancient farming culture, military culture, industrial and commercial culture and scientific and technological culture, food culture, dress culture, festival culture and other traditional cultural forms.

2. To carry out research activities

① Study of famous buildings in their hometowns and their characteristics and origins.

② Examine the famous historical figures and relics in your hometown.

③ Study the origin of some place names in your hometown.

④ Examine the characteristics of food culture and dress culture in your hometown.

⑤ Visit folk artists and learn about traditional crafts.

3. Organize students to carry out practical activities to promote the traditional culture of their hometowns.

Some of the following forms of activities can be referred to:

① students write "hometown folk tales", "hometown customs", "hometown snacks", "hometown celebrity stories" and other pamphlets, provided to the relevant cultural departments & tourist attractions.

② with the cooperation of the relevant departments, the production of billboards hanging in the hometown conspicuous place, publicize their hometown.

③ Planning a hometown cultural and artistic performances or traditional amusement activities for the community.

④ carry out a seminar entitled "the inheritance and innovation of traditional culture in their hometown", guiding students to explore the modern transformation of traditional Chinese culture from the perspective of the inheritance and innovation of traditional national culture.

4. On "how to use the traditional culture of their hometown for their hometown" write a program.

(2) summarize the way

can be in the individual self-summarization, the group summary on the basis of, and then in the class for the exchange of activities.

Summary:

China is a multi-ethnic country, 56 nationalities **** with the creation of the motherland's long history and sparkling culture, to understand a place, first of all, we need to understand its folk culture. Culture varies from place to place, from person to person, then, we each have their own eyes of their hometown folklore and flavor and how? In this paper, we introduce the folk culture of our hometown Qingzhen City through two aspects of "flavorful snacks" and "ethnic customs", hoping that through the detailed description, so that more people understand their hometown, so that their hometown folk culture is widely spread.

Keywords:

Hometown, folk culture, snacks, ethnic customs

Hometown:

My hometown is located in the beautiful karst landscape of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau of Qingzhen, which is located in the central part of Guizhou Province, 22 kilometers away from the provincial capital of Guiyang. It covers an area of 1492 square kilometers. There are four towns and six townships under the jurisdiction of the city, and now there are more than twenty ethnic minorities such as Yi, Bai, Zhuang, Miao and Hui.

Qingzhen city has a mild and humid climate, rich in energy, mineral, biological and tourism resources, and is known as "the place where the pearl meets the pearl". The famous `National 4A level scenic area Hongfeng Lake, provincial scenic area Baihua Lake and Dongfeng Lake, is embedded in this piece of treasure of the three bright pearl.

Hometown folk culture

My hometown of Qingzhen has a long history, is a culturally rich, deep-rooted ancient city. According to historical records: Qingzhen County, the ancient place name, the place name, the realm of the night, the Tang and Song dynasties belong to the barbaric state of Qingzhou. Below, I talk about the folk culture of my hometown Qingzhen City from the "snacks" and "ethnic customs" two aspects.

First, Qingzhen flavor snacks

(1) Auntie Liu Huangba

Auntie Liu Huangba is Qingzhen's famous trademark, but also the history of hundreds of years of famous snacks, Huangba, also known as yellow cake po, the main ingredient is sticky rice, glutinous rice, soybeans, sugar and other raw materials. Starting from 20xx, Aunt Liu's Food Factory has made innovative improvements to traditional products, adding five nuts, glutinous corn, fresh meat, etc., while maintaining the original sticky flavor of yellow poi, so there are now glutinous rice, millet, corn, five nuts, buckwheat, eight treasures, fresh meat, bacon, black glutinous rice, bamboo leaf poi and other varieties to come.

When it comes to the origin of yellow poop, there is a little story that is hard to prove. During the Three Kingdoms period, Guizhou was called Yelang. It is said that Zhuge Liang was leading an army to fight Meng Yu, and was fighting against the Cave Lord of Guizhou in Yelang country. One day, the Shu army was burying their pots and pans, when suddenly scouts came to report that a barbarian army was approaching. Upon hearing this, Zhuge Liang ordered to go to war, and within a few strokes, he repulsed the Qian Guo Cave Master's men and horses. I don't know what this Zhuge master's intention is, ordered the army to take advantage of the situation to chase the barbarian army for more than a hundred miles. But the army's fireheads were anxious, waiting for the troops did not return, but the boiled beans and rice can not be wasted ah, had not brought much food and grass, how to do? The first time I saw this situation, I ordered

The fire-head sergeant to mix the unused bean juice and rice together, and put it into a large wooden cauldron with a fire to steam it to keep it from getting rancid. When the soldiers returned to the camp, was mixed with the bean juice of the rice has been enough to steam for nearly two days, tired and hungry soldiers hastily share food, who expected that the rice has become another appearance, not only the color of yellow and moist, and taste sweet and soft, eat up more nourishing. Three or two will eat a light, the local people also imitated this method of production, for generations to continue down, Guizhou will be so much more a flavorful snack - yellow poi.

(2) Mutton powder

Here mainly refers to the local Hui people's way of eating, passed on to the clear soup of mutton powder-based, do not put a little chili pepper, the taste of fresh, but used to accompany the meal of fried artichoke pepper, that is oddly spicy, the average outsider, eat a small red pepper, can not stand it, and the locals, to eat a dish. Every morning lining up to eat mutton noodles Qingzhen people mainly students.

(3) Triangle Garden Snack Street

Qingzhen downtown population is not much, into the night, the city center of the Triangle Garden Plaza, but lively, snack stalls have been set up in the middle of the road, there are all kinds of roast chicken, barbecue pork, potatoes, soup garden, ice ice ice, have to eat until 4 o'clock in the morning, the crowd only dispersed.

Second, ethnic customs

(1) Miao April 8 (jumping flower field): every year on the eighth day of the first month or the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, Qingzhen, Miao compatriots of all branches will be gathered in the grassy slopes in their thousands, everyone blew the reed-sheng, stepped on the dance steps, singing and dancing. In addition to the Miao youth jumping flowers on the slope, there are also ground theater performances, young boys and girls sing songs, etc., is a festival of great national rejoicing.

(2) Buyei June 6: The sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar is the traditional festival of the Buyei compatriots, this day the Buyei compatriots will be dressed in festive costumes, we have gathered together to sing, dance and other forms of display of their own style. At the same time, the Buyi girls will sing the beautiful "Toast Song" and invite you to taste their hand-made rice wine.

(3) Yi Torch Festival: The traditional festival of the Yi people in Qingzhen is the Torch Festival on June 24th of the lunar calendar. On the night of the day, men, women and children holding green bar firewood, pine branches, dry bamboo and other torches, marching villages, fields, dams as a place for festivals, stacking pagoda-shaped torches, choose a pine pillar in the middle, lit, all the people singing and dancing, all night long. During the festival, killing pigs and slaughtering goats to sacrifice the gods.

(4) Gelao eat new festival: "eat new festival" is one of the most elaborate Gelao festival, every year in the seventh month of the lunar calendar of the Dragon Day or August Snake Day, when the new grain is about to be harvested, pick the ears of the grain, go home to fry and dry, remove the shells into the rice, will be the new rice boiled into a meal, one is to pay homage to the ancestors, and the other is to worship the god of the grain. Every festival also invite the local opera troupe to sing local opera to send off the ancestors and the gods of the grain.

Folk Culture Investigation Report 5

Title: Experience Folk Culture, Feel the Festive Atmosphere

Name of Department: Chinese Department Major: Chinese Language and Literature Grade: Sophomore Class: Chinese Language "1" Name: xxx

Practical Unit: Zhoukou Huayang Countryside

Practical Time: February 3rd, 20xx to February 25th, 20xx*** 22 days

Practical Unit: Zhoukou Huaiyang Countryside

Practical time: 20xx February 3rd to 20xx February 25th ***** 22 days

Practice Purpose: In response to the specific requirements of our institute for this winter vacation social practice activities, to change the way of learning, expand learning resources, broaden the space for development; to stimulate the students' interest in learning, enhance the experience of life; to form a sense of service, and strengthen the social responsibility. Experience folk culture in the countryside, feel the festive atmosphere of social practice activities, combined with the opportunity of the coming New Year Festival, relying on their own professional knowledge, personal life of the family background, I successfully completed the winter vacation social practice assignments.

Practical content: Before carrying out the activities, according to my understanding of the rural areas were assigned as follows. I was first interested in the food aspect, so I learned about the food culture and customs of our area with the help of my friends. I also investigated our traditional festivals with my friend and then took notes on the festivals.

In the investigation of the New Year's Eve when we Zhoukou's cultural practices, we take the rural and then the urban approach to the investigation, during which we found that the New Year's Eve customs in our rural areas are in fact almost the same as those of the urban New Year's Eve customs. The New Year's Day is a lively and festive event, and there are a lot of New Year's traditions.

There is a ballad that tells the New Year's custom: 23, the small New Year; 24, sweeping the house; 25, freezing tofu; 26, to buy meat; 27, slaughtering the rooster; 28, the noodles hair; 29, steamed buns; 30 night to stay up all night; the first

First, the second full of streets

Small New Year's Festival of the Stove

The Lunar New Year on the 23rd of Lunar New Year, a small New Year's Festival of the Stove. We have to worship the stove on New Year's Day in the hope that "Master Zao" will bless the whole family with peace. The food used for Zaosai is a small foodstuff such as Kanto sugar, which is made of gelatinous maltose and is sweet with a slightly sour flavor. Dust Sweeping

The twenty-fourth day of the Lunar New Year is the time for dust sweeping, which is meant to sweep all the bad luck and bad luck out of the house. Before the room will be cleaned inside and outside, for the year's largest cleaning, also known as the old and welcome the new, thoroughly cleaned and painted to meet the New Year.

Preparation for the Spring Festival

Steamed buns: In the old days, in order to come to the guests during the Spring Festival cooking pots are not enough to prepare, so we have to steam a few pots of steamed buns in advance to standby, but also for the Spring Festival ancestor with twenty-eight to the surface of the hair, twenty-nine steamed buns that is to say, there are also known as the twenty-nine to the oil to go, which means that the oil to do the zha food.

Buying New Year's goods: the purchase of Spring Festival supplies, such as no matter how many extra chopsticks at home, in order to prosper so every Spring Festival to buy a few; to buy new clothes for the children, in order to celebrate; during the Spring Festival to go out to the elders of the New Year's gift and so on.

Posting Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets are also called door pairs, spring stickers, couplets, pairs, peach symbols and so on. "Frame pair" on the left and right door frames; "horizontal phi" on the horizontal wood of the door winks; "spring strips" according to different content, pasted in the appropriate place; "Doo catty", also known as "door leaf", for the square diamond-shaped, more pasted in the furniture, shadow wall. The time of sticking Spring Festival couplets is not fixed, usually in the morning of 29 or 30.

Window Decorations, Hanging New Year's Paintings

Window decorations not only set a festive mood, but also decorative, appreciative and practical in one. Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art in China, and has been loved by people for thousands of years, because it is mostly pasted on the windows, so it is also called "window flowers".

There are still some places in the countryside like to have the "Fu" word fine as a variety of patterns, patterns of longevity, carps jump Dragon Gate, the five valleys, the dragon and phoenix, and so on. In the past, there was a folk saying that "on the 24th day of the Lunar New Year, every family writes a big character", and the character written is "Fu". In the past, the character "福" was mostly handwritten. Now they are sold in the market and stores.

Please God of Fortune

Every family in order to the next year, the Spring Festival will be invited to the God of Fortune, some of them are sent to the door, said to please spend money to buy, but absolutely can not be said to buy.

Sacrifice to the gods and ancestors

At the Spring Festival, we there sacrificed to the gods and ancestors generally with pastries, honey offerings, fruits and so on, these are not only the food of the ethnic minorities in our region, such as Manchu and Mongolia. We also have the custom of eating fish on New Year's Eve there. The fish must be carp, initially in the name of offering to the gods, but later associated with "auspicious celebrations" and "a year of surplus". Fish is both a delicacy and an offering. Ancestor worship is also very important. Those who have passed down a family tree should offer their ancestors rich offerings and incense, and all the male members of the family should pay homage to them, and some people also burn paper and send money to their ancestors on New Year's Eve, and ancestor worship usually ends on the third day of the Lunar New Year. The New Year's Eve celebration begins with the New Year's Eve dinner, which is eaten slowly, from the time the lanterns are lit to the time the dinner is served, and in some cases, the dinner is served late into the night. The dishes must be fish (Nian Nian Yu), there are chickens (great luck), and others as they like. In this night of "one night and two years, five nights and two years", families are reunited and get together.

Staple food is dumplings, dumplings, said a lot, preferably pork and celery, to choose two dumplings, one put a coin, one put sugar, to see who can eat, who ate the blessing of the coming year, a year of prosperity, happiness and sweetness. In fact, this blessing is very good, whoever eats it is the family's service. Dumplings cooked from the pot to flood the first under a few thrown outside, it is said to honor the passing ghosts.

The family sat together, refreshments and fruits on a table. New Year's Eve offerings, a large plate of apples is indispensable, which is called "peace and security". New Year's Eve will also prepare a lot of candy, dried fruit, melon seeds and "mixed". The so-called "mixed", is now the mixed dried fruit. These small foodstuffs are the delicacies for people sitting around the fireplace and observing the New Year's Eve. Firecrackers

New Year's Eve dinner is ready to eat before the fireworks, which is the children's favorite program. In fact, the fireworks Spring Festival is generally put twice on New Year's Eve and Lantern Festival, firecrackers are more, New Year's Eve dinner and New Year's Eve dinner before the first day of the morning, midday and evening before dinner should be put, and on the day of the fifth, and so on.

The first two days without sweeping

At the beginning of the year

The first two days, filial piety people do not sweep, do not pick the water, do not make a fire, the meal are pre-cooked, known as the "pressure of the year". The first three days before the start of the water. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year in our area, we have to get up very early. After getting up, you have to set off firecrackers, burn incense, eat, and pay homage to the New Year.

Worship

On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, children should pay tribute to their elders, to their parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts, and usually there are old people in the family to kowtow to the old man. Then the adults prepare red envelopes, and the adults also have to pay New Year's greetings to their parents, wishing the elderly long life and good health. Then from the morning of the first day of the year to bring gifts to friends and relatives to pay homage to the New Year, it will take many days. Generally married men with the whole family on New Year's Eve, the first day of the New Year's Eve in their parents' home, the second and third day of the New Year's Eve to pay respects to the father-in-law's home. There is also "the first day do not go out, the second worship family, the third and fourth worship father-in-law," said.

The relatives

From the beginning of the second year, we have to go to the relatives and friends. On the second day we have nephews to go to the uncle to pay tribute to the New Year, where we speak uncle is more authoritative, so we must go to the uncle to pay tribute to the New Year. On the third day of the first lunar month the daughters go back to their mother's house. Everyone will bring a lot of things to pay New Year's visit to her mother's home. On the fourth day of the month, you have to go to your aunt's house or your aunt. "Broken five" eat dumplings and noodles

"Broken five" is also known as the fifth day of the first month. Eating dumplings on the fifth day of the month carries the symbolism of people expecting good luck and happiness. Early in the morning, every family set off firecrackers, especially the "two kicks" is called "collapse poor", the "bad luck", "poor gas "It is said that this is a way to get rid of the bad luck and poor luck from the house. Eat noodles, is to make up for all the bad last year, this year to leave the bad in last year. The sixth day of the first month is the birthday of the God of Wealth

The sixth day of the first month, is a very distinctive New Year's Eve custom since ancient times in our country, the meaning of which is to offer to send the poor. As early as the Song Dynasty, send poor custom has been quite common. After the Song Dynasty, the custom of sending the poor is still popular. On the morning of the sixth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, people get up early because the sixth day of the first month of the lunar calendar is a good day to grab money. Everyone got up early in order to this year's business is prosperous, more money.

The ninth day of the first month is the birthday of God

On this day, everyone is also very important. After getting up and washing their hands, they would burn incense and pray to God to bless the family with peace, happiness, health and happiness in the new year.

From the ninth day until the Lantern Festival. The first thing you need to do is to get a good meal and drink with your relatives.

At the Lantern Festival, every family makes a noodle lamp, which is shaped like a bowl, commonly known as the lamp bowl. Made of cornmeal called gold lamps, made of white flour called silver lamps, made of buckwheat noodles called iron lamps, do molding on the pot after steaming, inserted with cotton wool wrapped reeds made of wicks, face lamp bowl filled with lamp oil, face lamps even made. Then these lanterns are sent in turn to the ancestors on the board, the floor of the sky, the Soap King board, to the warehouse, cattle and horse circles, wells, mills, etc., to the gate, the main intersection. In the Lantern Festival, everyone likes to set off fireworks and eat Lanterns. Eating Lantern Festival represents the reunion.

Then the lamp is to be sent to the cemetery and placed on each grave of the deceased relatives. And now most of the red candles to replace the original surface lamps, oil lamps, red candles to indicate festive, the day just dark, the men of the family with lights, paper to their ancestors' graves, to the forefathers of the burning of paper, in front of the graves to light candles, that is, to send the lamps, and then on the way home to meet the crossroads have to point a lamp, the woman in the house to the home cooker, pigs and sheep, well, granary next to the livestock enclosure are To point on the lamp, and in the house to point on the family's phases to show a family peace, as for the significance of sending lamps to different local legends are not the same, there is one said: send lamps is to give the old ancestors to catch lice brightly at the intersection of sending lamps to the old ancestors to go home over the Festival of Lights to be able to find their way home, and of course, send lamps also have to send the meaning of ding, hope that their ancestors to bless their own families to be able to prosper, millions of offspring. But then! Now life is changing a lot of customs have been forgotten. Only some older adults can remember.

Practice summary: the Spring Festival, in addition to some **** the same customs around the country, each place also has its own regional color. Such as our Spring Festival customs in addition to the same as many regions in the north, itself retained some ancient customs. In recent years, our New Year's Eve customs and culture are slowly changing. Some subtle changes make our Spring Festival culture, slowly getting fainter and fainter. There are a lot of debates about traditional folk customs in the society. Some people think that we should change our customs and change with the times. However, opponents believe that if all previous customs are changed, the festival will not look like a festival, which is not conducive to the inheritance and development of traditional culture. Some people suggest that if all firecrackers are not set off, then is New Year's Eve still like New Year's Eve? Because of this, so some cities in the ban on fireworks and firecrackers, and then changed to a conditional open ban.

Because the values of the orientation is not the same, preferences are not the same, encounter specific things, we have to analyze. For traditional practices, we might as well adopt an accommodating attitude and allow people to retain their own views and practices. With the development of society, when the understanding of the vast majority of people tends to converge, it is only natural that we will be able to keep abreast of the times. If the so-called new policies and concepts are implemented on the basis of ideals alone without regard to the reality and the psychology of the people, they will be resisted by the masses. And the form and content of our traditional customs will change with the passage of time, we can only take advantage of the situation and go with the flow ......