When innocence meets tradition: the creative transformation of Dragon Boat Festival custom in preschool education classroom

The fifth day of May is the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional festival in China. The Dragon Boat Festival carries a number of beautiful legends and a rich set of folk forms, making it a grand festival with the most educational value. In order to carry forward national traditional culture, let children learn about Chinese traditional festivals and customs from childhood, and feel the atmosphere of traditional festivals, on the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, the green apple kindergarten in Gaoping District, Nanchong City carried out a variety of "Dragon Boat Festival" activities.

Dragon Boat Festival customs mainly include picking dragon boats, offering sacrifices to dragons, picking herbs, hanging wormwood and Acorus, worshiping gods and ancestors, washing herbal medicine, drinking noon water, soaking dragon boats, eating zongzi, putting paper kites, watching dragon boats, tying five-color silk threads, fumigating Atractylodes, wearing sachets, etc. The custom of eating zongzi at the Dragon Boat Festival has been popular throughout China since ancient times. It has become one of the most influential and widespread folk eating customs of the Chinese nation.

The little babies of the orange class wrap their fingertips around the zongzi leaves, fold, roll, bundle and tie them, and carefully make soft waxy and lovely hand-made zongzi. Each leaf is childlike, and the small zongzi wrap the peace expectation.

Unlike color painting decoration, pomegranate class babies experience the whole process of salted duck eggs, cleaning duck eggs, mixing salting materials, carefully sealing, personally making their own salted duck eggs for the Dragon Boat Festival, and learn about the folk customs of eating duck eggs for the Dragon Boat Festival and eliminating summer heat and health.

A rice dumpling and an egg are all childlike innocence; Hand work and inherit the context. In hands-on practice, traditional culture gradually enters the children's small world. (fengzitong)