What is the significance of traditional festivals in China to kindergarten activities?

The so-called traditional festivals are the product of the development of human society and bear the brand of the times. Five thousand years of Chinese civilization has created a glorious history of China. In the long history, scholars and poets of past dynasties have written many famous works for festivals. These poems are well-known and widely praised, which makes our traditional festivals permeated with profound cultural heritage, wonderful romance and elegant elegance. It can be seen that the festivals in China have strong cohesion and extensive inclusiveness. When the festival comes, the whole country celebrates. Festivals come down in one continuous line with the long history of our nation and are valuable spiritual and cultural heritage. But with the development of high technology, the development of human civilization is also changing with each passing day. In this context, educational informatization has developed rapidly. Contemporary preschool education in China has made unprecedented progress under the influence of foreign culture. However, a vast country with a long history and rich festival culture of one billion people, why are children familiar with and keen on \ "foreign festivals \" \ "foreign customs \"? Many people's concept of festivals has faded, and people of different growing ages and backgrounds have essentially different feelings and understandings of festivals, especially for young parents in the fierce social competition, their understanding of traditional festivals is even less. We should worry about our national culture and have a sense of urgency. Therefore, how to treat teenagers' tendency to despise their own culture, how to treat their own traditional culture, how to make our children cherish their own traditional festivals and develop our culture, so that China's excellent traditional culture can be passed down and updated without facing the fate of annihilation and distortion, and so on. , has become a serious problem before us. We know that compared with the educational purpose of \ "loving wisdom \" advocated by western culture, China traditional culture has irreplaceable advantages in the cultivation of humanistic quality; Its unique ethical culture pays the most attention to the cultivation of moral consciousness and ideal personality, and its ideal education with interpersonal harmony as the highest category is of great value to the cultivation of human humanistic quality. Therefore, as a national of China with a long history and rich cultural traditions, it is even more necessary to maintain cultural consciousness soberly and firmly; Paying attention to our festivals is promoting our culture. Let's talk about the educational significance and methods of traditional festival activities in kindergartens.

First, the educational significance of traditional festivals in kindergartens

(1) Traditional festivals in kindergartens promote the development of children's healthy emotions.

Emotion is the experience of people's attitude towards objective things in social activities. Enriching healthy emotions is a necessary condition for the high development of people's spiritual life. Emotion, in particular, is sunshine and rain for the development of children's wisdom, the cultivation of virtue and the growth of the whole person. Without emotion, there is no perfect childlike innocence. However, children's emotional life is not entirely spontaneous. We should attach importance to children's emotional education. As Guo Moruo said: "The fundamental transformation of human beings should start with children's emotional education and aesthetic education. Traditional festivals in China have corresponding etiquette, which embodies the moral spirit. The traditional festivals in China have a long history, extensive and profound, and colorful holiday customs. From ancient times to the present, the ways of commemorating and celebrating traditional festivals are constantly changing with the changes of the times, but there is always something rooted in the depths and lasting forever, that is, the spirit and emotion of the nation. After deeply understanding the educational significance given by the traditional festival culture, we should grasp the core significance of the festival, grasp the key points, choose the value, identify and highlight the essence of the festival culture, and then design activities to develop children's healthy emotions in the traditional festival activities. For example, in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Spring Festival and other different festivals, children can feel the spirit of family harmony and respect for the elderly, thus producing a pleasant and comfortable emotional experience.

(2) Kindergartens carry out traditional festival activities to cultivate children's practical ability.

Mr. Chen Heqin advocated that "whatever children can do by themselves, they should be allowed to do it by themselves, and the view that children should be allowed to think independently is still of great practical significance today. In practice, it is also found that children must aim at this idea if they want to develop independently, confidently and actively. Therefore, when we carry out traditional festival activities in kindergartens, we let children do what they can. For example: Dragon Boat Festival, the teacher introduced the origin, legends and customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. Let the children know that the Dragon Boat Festival is a grand festival that our people like very much. Then, demonstrate the method of making zongzi, provide materials for children to participate in making zongzi, and finally let children taste zongzi. Through a series of activities, "Dragon Boat Festival" has become a festival that children love and look forward to. Children's initiative and enthusiasm have been brought into play, and their hands-on operation ability has also been developed.

Second, the educational methods of traditional festivals in kindergartens.

(1) Traditional festival education in kindergarten day activities.

There are various forms of one-day activities in kindergartens. Traditional festival education should permeate and organically combine in all aspects of kindergarten activities, that is, it should be combined with language activities such as nursery rhymes, stories and dialogues, artistic activities such as art and music, and life and games, such as the role game "Happy New Year". Let the children feel the peaceful, festive and joyful atmosphere of the Spring Festival again through games; Learn to say some auspicious words. In addition to combining traditional festival education with curriculum education, we can also organize some special festival activities in combination with festivals, such as Mid-Autumn Festival and Lantern Festival. Through collective celebrations, children's communication skills and performance skills will be cultivated, and the joy brought by traditional festivals will be experienced.

(b) Incorporate traditional festival education into the creation and utilization of the environment.

The Outline particularly emphasizes the important role of environmental education and environment in promoting children's development. The environment is not only material and spiritual, but also active, and various activities constitute a rich learning and growing world for young children. The environment plays a subtle role in children. The theory of social ecosystem shows that children are part of the social ecological environment and love to explore the surrounding environment actively, rather than passive learners. The surrounding social and ecological environment provides children with potential development opportunities and has a direct or indirect impact on them. At the same time, children's reaction behavior and habits will also affect their families, kindergartens and communities directly related to them. It can be seen that holiday education should grasp the educational factors of the environment, actively create and use the holiday environment, and make the environment play its due role in holiday education. Therefore, in holiday education, teachers should actively create holiday atmosphere and scenes and try to mobilize children's emotions. Encourage children to actively participate in the environmental layout with festival characteristics, and at the same time make full use of family and community holiday environment to educate children, guide children to feel festivals, and let children fully understand and deeply experience festivals in interaction with society.