Social Practice Report on the Theme of "Entering the Year of Traditional Culture" 800 Words

1.Title: Investigation Report on the Theme of "Chinese New Year Culture" 2.AbstractFrom the beginning of the Lunar New Year, the Spring Festival, the most traditional festival in China, is approaching day by day. From the eighth day of the Lunar New Year to the twenty-third day of the Lunar New Year, until the fifteenth day of the first month, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month as the climax, this is a complete Spring Festival.3. Keywords: 1 What is the Spring Festival 2 "Lunar New Year" - the eighth day of the Lunar New Year 3 " Xiao Nian" - the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year4 New Year's Eve - the 30th day of the Lunar New Year5 Spring Festival - the first day of the Lunar New Year6 Lantern Festival - the -15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar7 Paying homage to the New Year4.Preface: The Spring Festival, a grand annual festival integrating prayers, celebrations and entertainment, is the grandest festival of the Chinese nation. To this day, the main customs of the Spring Festival have been inherited and developed, except for the activities of worshiping the gods and ancestors, which have been somewhat diluted compared to the past. The Spring Festival is an important carrier of the excellent traditions of the Chinese culture, which contains the wisdom and crystallization of the Chinese culture, unites the pursuit of life and emotional attachment of the Chinese people, and passes down the concepts of family ethics and social ethics of the Chinese people. After thousands of years of accumulation, the colorful Spring Festival folklore has formed a deep and unique Spring Festival culture. In recent years, with the improvement of the material standard of living, people's demand for spiritual and cultural life is growing rapidly, and the thirst for affection, friendship, harmony and fulfillment is even stronger, and traditional festivals such as the Spring Festival are receiving more and more attention and concern from all walks of life. To vigorously promote the Spring Festival condensed by the excellent traditional culture, highlighting the old and welcome the new, the blessing of reunion and peace, prosperity and development of the theme, and strive to create family harmony, stability and unity, joy and peace of the celebratory atmosphere, and promote the Chinese culture is everlasting and growing. 5.body Spring Festival, that is, the Lunar New Year, commonly referred to as the Chinese New Year, generally refers to the New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar. However, in folklore, the Spring Festival in the traditional sense refers to the La Sacrifice on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year or the Zao Sacrifice on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the Lunar New Year, until the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, of which New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar are the culmination. The Spring Festival has a long history, originating from the sacrifices to the gods and ancestors at the end of the year during the Yin and Shang dynasties. During the Spring Festival, the Han Chinese and many of China's ethnic minorities hold a variety of activities to celebrate the event. These activities all focus on worshipping the gods and Buddhas, honoring ancestors, getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, welcoming good fortune, and praying for a good year. The activities are colorful and have strong ethnic characteristics. On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, that is, what we usually call "Lahai", this day, we have to eat Lahai rice, the so-called Lahai rice, is to put several kinds of grains together into porridge. As people's living standards are improving, the variety of Laha congee is also growing. On why to drink Laha congee, folklore has also circulated many legends. Some say that someone who sits and eats the mountain after the bitter repentance, change the past as a lesson; there are also said that Zhu Yuanzhang when the emperor, in order not to forget the previous difficult experience and education of future generations. But no matter what kind of legend, all expressed the virtue of not forgetting the ancestors of hard work and thrift, but also look forward to the gods to bring a good year's good wishes. Lunar New Year" on the 23rd day of the month of Lunar New Year, folk called "quit stove". Once a year into the month of Lunar New Year, every household will "invite" to "Zao Wang Laozi", some call it "Zao code". On top is a picture of the "Zao Wang", and underneath is a table of the twenty-four solar terms. The day of Zao is the day when Master Zao goes up to the sky to meet the Jade Emperor. "As he goes to heaven to say good things, he goes down to the world to keep peace, so when he leaves, he is given candies and told to say more good things in heaven, so as to bless the family with plenty of food and clothing in the coming year. "Master Zao Wang's family name is Zhang, and he has a big bowl of noodle soup in a year", on this day, people will set off firecrackers and eat noodle soup, and in some places, they will eat dumplings. Before eating, people have to offer sacrifices and set up an offering table, on top of which small dishes are filled with sugar, fruit and other offerings. At dinner time, the Zao Wang (灶王老爷) on top of the Zao code is cut down and burned, and the remaining piece of the Zao Dui (灶码头) (a list of the twenty-four solar terms) is pasted on top of the pot. Resignation of the stove on this day, but also cleaning, to buy a new broom with a rope tied to a long stick, the corners of the house are clean, in order to get rid of the old and new, so that the Zaowang master will be this clean situation reported to Heaven, in order to pray for the lowering of the amplitude. On the 30th day of the New Year, every family will also put up Spring Festival couplets, some people will hang two big red lanterns in front of the front door, and some people will hang the lanterns on the trees in the yard, and light up the long-lasting lamps all night long on the night of New Year's Eve. The big red lanterns do add a lot of festive atmosphere to this happy festival. Some people on New Year's Eve not only put up Spring Festival couplets and lucky charms, but also put up turnip money (also called door money), that is, on the lintel of each door and window, turnip money is put up, and there are those who put up all the best wishes, those who put up the fortune, those who put up the good fortune, and those who put up the best wishes, all of which hold the people's good wishes. On the afternoon of the 30th, women make dumplings and buy food, and men also take offerings and food to their ancestors' graves to invite them home for the New Year. New Year's Eve to eat dumplings are filled with meat, with the cracking of firecrackers, a fat dumplings also served on the dinner table. Some people will wash the steel bungees and usually put ten of them, symbolizing ten perfections; ten soaked jujubes, symbolizing sweetness; and ten small portions of rice cakes, symbolizing step by step, wrapped into the dumplings. New Year's Eve to eat the money to foretell the coming year full of money, wealth and prosperity; eat the dates of the family happiness, sweet and beautiful; eat the cake of career success, the new year must be official luck, step by step. Of course, these are just people's good ideals and pursuits. Then it is the New Year's Eve vigil, stay up all night to meet the arrival of the new year, also known as New Year's Eve vigil, commonly known as "boiled years". The all-night vigil symbolizes the expulsion of all evil plagues and diseases, in anticipation of an auspicious new year. New Year's Eve to carry out a series of rituals and pray for blessings, the yard set up tables for incense, burn incense, the stacked golden treasure with a colander, until almost twelve o'clock, to get the yard burned, which has long been hung up a long firecrackers have also been lit, crackling in all directions, firecrackers, lights, all-night laughter. A large family, the old and the young, one is not missing, everyone's face is full of smiles, sitting together, pulling the family, watching TV, eating melon seeds, full of harmony, full of joy. Every family ate reunion dumplings, and everyone greeted each other to pay tribute to the New Year. Elderly people have already prepared the brand-new New Year's money into the pockets of grandchildren with a smile on their faces, children are happy to snuggle in the arms of the elderly, the adults took out to the elderly to buy a festive Tang suit, to the elderly to wear it on the body, what a good picture of heavenly bliss. With the changes in society, people's attitudes have changed, some places are no longer so early for New Year's Eve, some get up four or five o'clock early for New Year's Eve, some six or seven o'clock, everything is based on local customs. On the first day of the New Year, the day just dawned, groups of people will be dressed in brand-new clothes began to walk East string West family, greet each other. First of all, their own family, an old ancestor, go around, one by one to ask a good. Usually busy no effort to string door, but also take this opportunity to visit an old neighbor, look at old friends, wherever you go, where there is laughter, where there are blessings. Now the information is developed, no matter how far apart, a phone call, a message, the year to worship, the blessing to wish, and also enjoy it! The fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival, eating Lantern Festival and celebrating reunion. The festivities during the Chinese New Year will also reach a climax on this day. Lantern Festival, also known as the "Festival of Lights", the night of the Lantern Festival, the streets and alleys are decorated with lanterns, people light up thousands of lanterns, with friends and relatives go out to stroll in the flower market, fireworks, riddles, singing and dancing to celebrate the Lantern Festival. In this way, people spent one after another and beautiful, happy, reunion of the Spring Festival. An important activity in the Spring Festival is to new friends and neighbors to congratulate the New Year, the old term for New Year's greetings. China's New Year's Eve custom has been practiced for a long time. In ancient times, there are the New Year's greeting and congratulations: the New Year's greeting is to the elders kowtow; congratulations is to congratulate each other on the same generation. Nowadays, some organizations, groups of rest, enterprises, schools, we get together to congratulate each other, called "reunion worship". New Year's greeting is a traditional Chinese folk custom, is a way for people to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and express their good wishes to each other. In ancient times, the original meaning of the term "New Year's greeting" was to congratulate the elders on the new year, including bowing to them, congratulating them on a happy new year, and greeting them on a good life. In the case of friends and relatives of the same generation, it is also necessary to bow to congratulate them. New Year's greetings generally start at home. On the morning of the first day of the new year, when the younger generation gets up, they should first pay homage to the elders, wishing them a long and healthy life and all the best. After the elders are worshipped, the "New Year's money" prepared in advance will be distributed to the younger generation. In the home to the elders after the New Year's greetings, people go out to meet with a smile to congratulate the New Year, each other "Congratulations on wealth", "four seasons," "Happy New Year," and other auspicious words, around the neighbors or friends and relatives also visit each other to pay tribute to New Year's Eve or invite each other to drink and entertainment. In ancient times, if or neighborhood friends and relatives too much, it is difficult to visit all over the door, so that the servants with business cards to pay New Year's call, known as the "fly post", the door of each house to paste a red paper bag, written on the "receive the blessing" two words, that is, to bear to put the fly post with. In order to try to get good luck to curry favor. To date, the Chinese New Year's gift of New Year's tablets, New Year's cards, this is the ancient legacy of sending each other flying post. The upper class scholar has the custom of throwing congratulations to each other with the name post. At that time, the scholar-officials traveled widely, if around the door to pay tribute to the New Year, both time-consuming, but also exhausting energy, so some of the relationship is not close to the friends do not go in person, but to send a servant to take a kind of paper with plum blossom paper cut into two inches wide, three inches long, written on the top of the congratulatory name, address and congratulatory words of the card to go to on behalf of the New Year's greeting. People in the Ming Dynasty to visit instead of New Year's greeting. Ming Dynasty distinguished painter, poet Wen Zhengming in the "New Year" poem described: "do not seek to meet but through the visit, the name of the paper towards the full sheltered hut; I also cast a number of paper with the people, the world hate Jane not suspected of false". Here the "famous prick" and "famous visit" is the origin of the current New Year's card. New Year's cards are used for contacting and greeting each other, which is both convenient and practical, and even today they are still prevalent. With the development of the times, the custom of paying New Year's greetings has been adding new contents and forms. Now people in addition to the inheritance of the past New Year's greetings, and the rise of ritual telegrams to pay tribute to the New Year and telephone New Year's greetings and so on. Giving out "red envelopes" is a Chinese New Year's custom. The Chinese love the color red because it symbolizes vitality, happiness and good luck. Red envelopes are given to the younger generation as a sign of good wishes and good luck. The money in the red envelopes is just to make the children happy and its main significance is in the red paper as it symbolizes good luck. Therefore, it is impolite to open the red envelopes in front of the elders who distribute them. During the Spring Festival, the elders will distribute the New Year's money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that the New Year's money can suppress the evil spirits, because "岁" and "祟" are homophonous, and the younger generation will be able to spend a year in peace if they get the New Year's money. There are two kinds of New Year's money, one is to colorful rope threaded braided into the shape of a dragon, placed at the foot of the bed, and the other is the most common, that is, wrapped in red paper by the parents of the money given to the children. New Year's money can be rewarded in the evening after the New Year's greetings in public, can also be in the New Year's Eve when the child is asleep, by the parents of the child's pillow under the pleasantly sneaky. Folk believe that the New Year's money is given to the child, when the evil spirits, demons or "year" to harm the child, the child can use the money to bribe them to turn evil into good luck. Qing people Wu Man Yun "New Year's money" poem in the cloud: "a hundred and ten money through the colorful line long, divided again pillow from the collection, discuss the firecrackers to talk about xiaojiao price, add to the children a night busy". Thus, it seems that the pressure of the new year's money tied to a child's heart, and the child's pressure of the new year's money is mainly used to buy firecrackers, toys and candies and other festive things needed. Now the elders for the younger generation to send the custom of the New Year's Eve money is still prevalent, the amount of the New Year's Eve candied fruit from dozens to hundreds of different, the money is mostly used by the children to buy books and school supplies, the new fashion for the New Year's Eve money to give a new content.