Spring Festival and what other folk customs survey methods

What other folk customs survey methods of the Spring Festival

What other folk customs survey methods of the Spring Festival, folk at different times there are very many customs, in different customs are with regional characteristics, then you know what other folk customs survey methods of the Spring Festival, follow me together to see it. strong> Place of investigation : Fengxiang Town, XXX

Mode of investigation : Field investigation Visiting the elderly Checking the information

Purpose of the investigation : In response to the school's specific requirements for the winter vacation practice activities, change the way of learning, expanding the learning resources, broadening the learning space, stimulating the learning experience. Broaden the learning space, stimulate the learning experience, we launched a survey on the hometown of the Spring Festival culture folklore folk style, through this research, we have a deeper understanding of the rural Spring Festival culture in xxx. And the formation of text to show out, as a way to stimulate people to pay attention to the New Year's Eve, but also for the cultural loss of the alarm bell.

Contents xxx rural New Year customs and taboos

Preface

Spring Festival, the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar, also known as the Lunar New Year, commonly known as "New Year's Eve". It is one of the grandest and most lively traditional festivals in China. The Spring Festival has a long history, and for thousands of years it has had a very important place in the heart of every Chinese descendant. China's vast area of different places have different folklore, the north and south of the New Year's culture is there is a huge difference. For example, in 2009 I had a New Year in Sanya, Hainan Province, on the first day of the New Year do not eat dumplings to eat rice cakes, meaning "a year more than a year better". In Chongqing, where my brother is from, we eat soup dumplings for the first meal of the New Year, which symbolizes a sweet life. Aunt in Xinjiang, the first meal of the New Year to eat rice, mutton, raisins, made of fragrant Pulao, but also eat flour, mutton, such as made of buns and made of lamb with the bones of mutton hand-held mutton. I grew up living in XXX, and I remember eating dumplings every New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Dumplings are eaten on New Year's Eve for good luck in the coming year, and on the first day of the New Year for good luck throughout the year. Dumplings are shaped like Yuanbao, so they have the meaning of "entering the treasure". Some dumplings are filled with sugar, which is meant to be eaten for a sweet new year; some are filled with peanuts (known as "long-life fruit"), which is meant to be eaten for longevity; and some are filled with money, which is meant to be eaten by anyone who is lucky enough to have a good fortune. China's culture is vast and spiritual, because of the different customs and culture of each region to outline a colorful picture of folklore. The following is our investigation of the xxx region social practice survey report overview.

In the xxx region during the first month of the diet has a rich meaning, the first eight days of Lunar New Year, we called "Lahai", in the morning of this day, we have to eat Lahai congee, and educate the future generations not to forget the hard work and thrift. Xiao Nian, that is, the twenty-third day of the Lunar New Year, known as the "resignation of the stove" on this day to eat dumplings, cleaning, and pay homage to Master Zao, to bless the new year with plenty of food and clothing. Lunar New Year's Eve is called New Year's Eve, which is the 30th day of the Lunar New Year. On this day, dumplings are eaten, cleaning is done, and Zao Wang is worshipped to bless the new year with plenty of food and clothing. New Year's Eve that is, the New Year's Eve, this day is to eat, drink, play and enjoy the day, posting Spring Festival couplets and Fortune, xxx rural has a custom, if someone died in the family this year can not be pasted Spring Festival couplets, the death of three years before you can post the red Spring Festival couplets. On the evening of New Year's Eve, the whole family reunites for New Year's Eve dinner, and there must be fish in the dishes to symbolize the abundance of money in the New Year. The New Year's Eve is observed by eating dumplings at twelve o'clock and setting off the longest firecrackers to receive the God of Fortune. The Chinese New Year's Eve has become a feast for every household in the country. Families gather together to talk, laugh, and observe the New Year. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, a new year begins with the sound of firecrackers, vegetarian dumplings for breakfast, and visits to pay homage to the New Year's Eve, which is the happiest day of the year for children to receive New Year's money. On the first day of the New Year there is a taboo is not to move the broom, otherwise it will sweep away the luck, broke the fortune, and the "broom star" to attract bad luck. The third day of the first month is known as the crops will, if you eat dumplings on this day, in the new year will be rich in grain, grain warehouse. The fifth day of the first month is known as Yuanbao Day, and if you eat dumplings on this day, you will have a prosperous new year with a lot of money. The seventh day of the first lunar month is known as the "seventh day of the man", and eating noodles on this day is a sign that children and adults will be healthy and free from illness. The first month of the fifteenth, which is our country's main traditional festival, also known as Yuanshi, Yuanyi, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the custom of watching the lanterns and eating Lantern Festival, so we are called Lantern Festival.

In my hometown there is also a saying that the first month of the taboo hair cut, it is said that cutting hair square maternal uncle, meaning that the first month of the hair cut on their uncle is not much good, I remember when I was a child, my mother did not allow me to cut my hair, and now I'm grown up, social progress has not been such a practice la. I also heard that in the XXX region in the first month of matchmaking is not allowed, matchmaking has the meaning of asking for bad luck. At the same time, you are not allowed to buy shoes in the new month, because buying shoes is the same as "buying evil", which means bringing evil back to your home, which is an unlucky omen. A New Year's month everywhere hidden in the New Year's "organs" a little inattention will be tricked. The first to the fourth is taboo to mess with the needle and thread, the first five days can only be used, known as sewing broken, meaning that the past year in the trivial and shortcomings are sewed up.

In the hometown of the New Year during the weather is also particularly concerned about, if the weather from the first day to the first six are sunny, then it is predicted that in the new year the six animals are prosperous, and vice versa. Some of these customs seem to have become people's hope for the New Year, and every day they look forward to the sun shining brightly, full of confidence and hope for a better life. These simple folklore has become people's hope in a subtle way. When people follow it without realizing it, they also have the desire for a better life in the future, which generates motivation to create a life and create happiness.

Conclusion

This investigation report let me have a better understanding of the hometown of the folk culture, we systematically collected information on the rural folklore of the xxx region, and would like to inspire more people to pay attention to Chinese New Year's Eve, to pay attention to the ordinary culture around us, and to safeguard the vernacular culture to avoid the massive loss of culture.

What other folk customs of the Spring Festival survey method 2

First, the origin of the Spring Festival:

The Spring Festival is the first year of the lunar calendar, another name is called "New Year". It is one of the grandest, liveliest and most important ancient traditional programs in China, and a festival unique to the Chinese people. In folklore, the Spring Festival is traditionally celebrated from the eighth day of the Lunar New Year until the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar year, culminating in New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month of the lunar year. In the development of thousands of years of history, a number of customs and habits have been formed, many of which have been passed down to the present day.

There is also a legend about the New Year. In ancient times, there was a monster called "Nian", New Year's Eve day from the bottom of the sea climbed ashore to hurt people. A wise old man, sticking red paper on the door, burning bamboo that can make a cracking sound, the "year" scared away, people no longer need to hide around. Therefore, every year, New Year's Eve, home red couplets, firecrackers, household candles bright, to keep the year, early in the morning but also to go to friends and relatives, to say goodbye, has become the most important traditional Chinese folk festival.

Second, the Spring Festival customs:

In the long long history, the Spring Festival from the sprout to the stereotypes, the continuous development, the formation of unique characteristics of the Chinese nation, colorful customs. The main ones are:

1, Lapa congee: on the day of Lapa, no matter rich and poor, every family has to drink Lapa congee, which is the prelude to the New Year. After this day, people start to buy new year's goods, cleaning and arranging the apartment to welcome the arrival of the new year with a new look.

2, Zaoshen Festival: On the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, people offer red candles, sugar melons, and pray to Zaoshen "to say good things in heaven, and good luck in the world."

3, dust sweeping: on the 24th day of the Lunar New Year, the whole family together with the end of the year cleaning, clean to meet the arrival of the New Year.

4, stick couplets: on the eve of the Spring Festival, every household should put on red couplets to express people's good wishes for the new year and pray for a new life.

5, stick the New Year's paintings: New Year's paintings and couplets, the same origin in the "God of the door." A variety of colorful New Year's paintings, to meet the good wishes of people celebrating the New Year's prayer. Development to the present, the monthly calendar and the combination of paintings, the formation of today's wall calendar.

6, upside down the word of fortune: people use the word of fortune to show good luck, good fortune, happiness and the pursuit of yearning. Inverted FuZi, meaning "blessed".

7, the New Year's Eve vigil on New Year's Eve: New Year's Eve and the Spring Festival, the first and last together, is a night even the double year, the fifth shift divided into two years of the important time. It is an important time to express the old year to this in addition, the next year do not change the new year. Commonly known as "boiled year", after the New Year's Eve dinner, the whole family began to watch the year, *** with the old and welcome the new.

8, New Year's Eve dinner: the night of New Year's Eve, the family ate a reunion dinner. It symbolizes the reunion of the whole family.

9, the New Year's Eve money: New Year's Eve when the year-end vigil, the elders to give the younger generation of the New Year's Eve money, send the elders of the younger generation of the ardent hope and deep love and care, and hope that the New Year's Eve money can drive away the evil spirits from disaster, blessing the child peace and security.

10, firecrackers: the arrival of the new year, the first thing every family is to set off firecrackers, to split the sound of firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, to bring people entertainment and good luck.

11, New Year's Eve: New Year's Eve is an important activity during the Spring Festival, with the New Year's Eve dinner, the most representative of the flavor of the Spring Festival customs. Paying homage to the New Year draws the distance between the heart and the heart, and enhances the feelings of people and people.

12, the temple, the view of the fire: the temple, people have to incense pilgrimage, wishing, wishing, seeking blessings. There are also a variety of snacks and traditional programs: lion dance, dragon dance, twisting rice-planting songs, stilt walkers, running boats and so on.

13, wrapped dumplings: the first to the fifth day of the first day, every morning to eat dumplings, dumplings in the shape of a Yuanbao, which means that the package of good luck, symbolizing a rich life, great luck.

14, Lantern Festival: Lantern Festival to eat "dumplings", is to take the "reunion as the moon" of the auspicious meaning.

Third, the different periods of the New Year

The following by me to be a small reporter, respectively, to interview grandparents, mom and dad when they were young how to spend the Spring Festival.

1. Grandparents' childhood memories.

Small reporter: "May I ask what grandpa ate for New Year's Eve when he was a child?"

Grandpa: "When I was a child, I could only eat black-flour steamed buns on New Year's Day, and the best case scenario was to have a piece of white-flour steamed bun on the morning of the first day of the year."

Little reporter: "Ah? So bad! Why don't you eat some bread or something."

Grandpa: "I was poor! You were so rich, and the landlord had to come and collect taxes!"

Little reporter: "That New Year's firecrackers?"

Grandpa shrugged: "also firecrackers, but only a small hanging, no such colorful fireworks now."

"Then you have New Year's money in the New Year?" The little reporter asked curiously.

"Of course not, there is no money to eat white bread, what new year's money ah!" Grandma interjected, "In those days, we chased adults to kowtow at New Year's, just for girls to spend, boys to cannon."

Little reporter: "No New Year's Eve money to worship?"

Grandpa said: "Of course, we have to pay tribute to the New Year, the morning of the first day of the year, get up early, first to the elders kowtow one by one, to eat it!"

"My mom! I don't want to go back to the old society!" The young reporter exclaimed.

2, mom and dad's childhood New Year

small reporter: "May I ask what you ate when you were young?"

Dad: "When I was a child, because my father worked outside, so the New Year can not only eat a big meat bun, but also eat fragrant meat!"

"Wow, that's so good, much better than grandparents!"

"Of course, the old society is fading away little by little!" Dad replied in a serious manner.

Looking at my father's smug look, I then asked: "So what do you play in the New Year?"

"New Year's is our paradise, wearing new clothes to go outside to pick a lot of firecrackers back, every day there are small firecrackers." Dad said.

"Why don't you buy bunches of new firecrackers and come back, wouldn't that be more fun?" I asked.

Dad's mood began to fade, "How could adults spend that kind of money back then! They thought it was a luxury to spend money on cannons for us."

"So how much New Year's money can you have?" I asked.

"About 20 dollars at a time!" Dad said in a daze. "That's pretty good," mom interjected, "When I was a kid, grandma let me kowtow and only gave me $2 at a time!"

"So what's so great about your year?" I muttered.

"It's fun!" Mom said, "When we were young, when the New Year was almost over, we would go to the street to buy beautiful New Year's paintings to give to our classmates; the adults were resting down, playing lions, dancing big dragons, rowing dry boats, stepping on stilts together ...... Adults played in full swing and red-hot, we followed behind, eating, laughing and making noise all the way, don't mention How happy, it's a pity you can't see this scene now." Mom said so much in a row, I really worry that she will not be able to catch her breath, gluttony I ah ......

Look at me a little lost expression, mom added: "or you happy, I was a small child, in order to be able to eat the meat, mom cooked meat at night, I was like a small greedy dog, surrounded by my mother, just waiting for the fragrant meat out of the pot. for the fragrant meat to come out of the pot so that I could have a big bone to chew on." I laughed again.

Think of us now in the New Year, you can firecrackers as you wish; eat a variety of delicious food; pressure money is also more than mom and dad when I was a child, sitting at home with a cell phone can pay tribute to the New Year; life I do not know how many times stronger than before! However, in the process of entertainment has also lost much of the flavor and fun of the New Year.

Through the investigation, I found: traditional cultural practices are fading a little bit, the new way to celebrate the New Year is changing our lives. In fact, some of the traditional cultural practices of the Spring Festival should not be lost by us, with them, our Spring Festival will be more colorful.

What other folk customs of the Spring Festival Investigation Method 3

I. Purpose of the investigation `

To understand what customs there are in the Chinese Spring Festival, the origin of these customs, and to feel the joyful mood and joyful atmosphere when people celebrate the Spring Festival.

Second, the investigation time

Third, the way of investigation

1. Using the way of conversation, ask the elders.

2. Taking care of the house with mom and dad and feeling the welcome of the New Year in person.

Fourth, the content of the investigation

1, dust

Lunar New Year's Eve 24 this day, my mother called me up early, asked me to clean with her, the room inside and outside, the courtyard of the nook and cranny of the thorough cleaning once. I was puzzled and asked my mom why she cleaned so early.

My mom told me, "'On the 24th day of the Lunar New Year, dusting and sweeping the house', according to Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals, there is a custom of dusting in the Spring Festival in Yao and Shun era. According to folklore: because the "dust" and "Chen" harmonized, dust sweeping in the New Year has the meaning of "in addition to the new", the intention is to sweep out all the poor luck, bad luck. Dust is the end of the year cleaning, every household to clean the courtyard, dredging nullahs and ditches, dusting indoor dust cobwebs, cleaning pots and pans, various utensils, washing bedding curtains and so on. Years ago, when the spring, the family even more busy have to rush to the spring before thoroughly organize the indoor and outdoor sanitation, the spring can not be cleaned up, to prevent the new year's wealth, the new year's festivities swept out."

Listen to my mother so, I suddenly realized that the original custom of the people in addition to the old to welcome the new good wishes.

2, paste the spring couplets

Lunar New Year's Eve 29 this day, after breakfast, I and my mother busy posting the spring couplets and FuZi.

"Mom, why is the word 'Fu' pasted upside down?"

"Silly child, it's because 'Fu' has arrived."

"Mom, tell me the origin of putting up Spring Festival couplets!"

It turns out that the Spring Festival couplets are also called door pairs, spring stickers, couplets, pairs, peach symbols, etc. It uses neat, couplets, concise and exquisite words to depict the background of the times and express good wishes, which is a unique form of literature in China. Every Spring Festival, no matter in the city or the countryside, every family has to choose a big red Spring Festival couplet to paste on the door, to increase the festive atmosphere for the festival. Wang Anshi's poem "TEEEL of a thousand doors, always changing the new peach for the old one" refers to this event. Every year in the Spring Festival, every household puts a big red bean spring couplet on the door, which adds to the festive atmosphere.

In folklore, people also like to put a variety of paper cutouts on the windows - window flowers. Window flowers not only set a festive atmosphere, but also decorative, appreciative and practical in one. At the same time of sticking Spring Festival couplets, some people want to stick big and small "Fu" characters on the door, wall and lintel of the house. Posting the word "Fu" on the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom in China. The word "Fu" refers to good fortune and luck, and is a symbol of people's desire for a happy life and their wish for a better future.

3, vigil

On the night of the New Year's Eve, our family gathered together to watch the New Year's Eve, **** with the expectation of the arrival of the new year.

Dad said: "China's folk in the New Year's Eve there is a vigil. Customs, our country at least in the North and South Dynasties already have the custom of eating New Year's Eve dinner. In this night even double years, five nights divided into two years. The night of the family reunion, a happy gathering. The family sat around together, refreshments fruits and vegetables on a table, keep the New Year's Eve from eating New Year's Eve dinner began, this New Year's Eve dinner to eat slowly, from the palm of the lamp into the table, some family members have been to eat late into the night. New Year's Eve, a family, eating and laughing."

At this exciting time, we watched the Spring Festival gala while eating and talking and laughing.

4. Firecrackers

Early the next morning, my brother went to light the firecrackers, "pop" "pop" ... ... the sound is really loud, I hurried to cover my ears.

Chinese folk have "open door firecrackers" said. That is, at the dawn of the new year, the first thing that families open the door is to set off firecrackers to beeping firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new.

Legend has it that this move is to expel the "mandrill". The mandrill is said to be a vicious one-horned ghost in the mountains in ancient times, but it is most afraid of sound, people burn bamboo blasting sound to scare it away. With gunpowder, people use gunpowder into the bamboo tube, made of firecrackers, later used paper tube, also known as firecrackers or cannonballs. In modern times, people no longer believe in the "mandrill", but still used to set off firecrackers in the Spring Festival to celebrate the holiday and lift their spirits. Therefore, from the night of the New Year's Eve to the early morning of the first day of the New Year, the sound of firecrackers is always continuous.

5, the New Year

On the first day of the New Year, people dressed in new clothes, go out to visit friends and relatives, each other, wishing the Year of the Rabbit great luck. The way to pay tribute to a variety of ways, some of them are the same patriarch led a number of people door to door to pay tribute to the New Year; some of them are colleagues invited to congratulate each other, known as the "group worship."

New Year's Eve, the younger generation should first give the elders to pay homage to the bow, wishing elders a long life and well-being, the elders can be prepared beforehand the New Year's Eve money to the elders, it is said that the New Year's Eve money can be pressed to stop the evil spirits, because the "age of" and "Sneaky" harmonized, the elders to get the money to the New Year's Eve! It is said that the new year's money can keep evil spirits at bay, because the word "year" is a homonym of "spirit".

V. Conclusion

Our Spring Festival customs are rich and colorful, of course, more than a few, but there is only one is unchanged, which carries the people's desire for a happy life and the pursuit of.