Walk into the museum and experience the traditional culture of Dragon Boat Festival.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 17th Topic: Go into the museum and experience the traditional culture of Dragon Boat Festival.
Xinhua news agency reporter
"Do you know why you want to eat zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival? In memory of the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan … "On the morning of 16th, in front of the exhibition in the gallery of Nanjing Museum of Art, Lu Hongdan from Jiangning District of Nanjing explained the folk customs of the Dragon Boat Festival to her 9-year-old daughter.
This is a scene where many families perceive the Dragon Boat Festival culture in the museum. In recent years, various localities have thoroughly implemented the Opinions on Implementing the Inheritance and Development Project of Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture, and around the theme of "Our Festival", they have carried out various and colorful activities by using museums and other positions to introduce traditional festival folk knowledge and spread excellent traditional festival culture.
Pay attention to the inheritance of festival culture
In the children’s experience area of "Ritual and Music School" on the third floor of the Hubei Provincial Museum Complex, 15 groups of families are participating in the first social education activity "Happy Belling" of the Dragon Boat Festival. Xiao Yi, a 10-year-old, is tapping a set of small copies of chimes.
"For chimes, I am already familiar with them! This is a set of 1.2-meter-high, two-story reproduction of chimes, totaling 14 pieces. " Xiaoyi said that Hubei Provincial Museum is her favorite place for holidays, and she often lingers here with her parents, hoping to become a volunteer commentator in the exhibition hall of Zeng Houyi’s tomb after graduating from primary school.
Museums around the country held a series of special exhibitions, experiences and social education activities during the Dragon Boat Festival, giving full play to the edification and cultural education functions of traditional Chinese festivals, actively cultivating and practicing socialist core values, enhancing the cultural consciousness and self-confidence of the public, especially young people, and achieving good social benefits.
The head of the National Cultural Heritage Administration Museum Department said that the museum is an important hall for protecting and inheriting human civilization and a bridge connecting the past, the present and the future. Nanjing Museum, as the representative, is the first provincial museum in China to set up an intangible cultural heritage museum, hold theme exhibitions related to traditional festivals, hold experience and inheritance activities with traditional festivals as the theme, and inject new connotations into traditional festivals in the form of static and dynamic combination, making them an important carrier for inheriting culture and condensing value consensus.
A major feature of this year’s Dragon Boat Festival held by museums around the country is to highlight the service for family audiences. Anyang Museum, Hubei Museum, Erdos Bronze Museum, Jiangning Weaving Museum, Yizheng Museum, Lishui Museum, Linyi Museum, Fuzhou Museum, Haiyan County Museum, Chongqing Baolin Museum, Wushan County Museum, etc. have launched parent-child experience activities specifically aimed at family audiences, enhancing parent-child relationship, and recognizing, respecting, inheriting and promoting traditions in celebrating traditional festivals.
"The Dragon Boat Festival is our traditional festival. Bringing children to visit is to let children accept the influence of traditional culture from an early age, learn Qu Yuan’s patriotism and cultivate their feelings of home and country." Lu Hongdan told reporters that she and her daughter also participated in the Dragon Boat Festival activities such as parent-child dumplings and weaving duck egg net bags. "I feel that this Dragon Boat Festival is particularly meaningful."
Highlight the interaction between libraries and schools
Acorus calamus, wormwood, mulberries, cherries, zongzi, and five poison cakes. On the Eight Immortals table, there is a portrait of Zhong Kui … … Walking into Zhandaimen, Dongyue Temple, where Beijing Folk Museum is located, the strong flavor of Dragon Boat Festival is coming.
This year’s Dragon Boat Festival held by museums around the country also highlighted the linkage between libraries and schools. Sixty-eight primary school students from Baijiazhuang Primary School in Chaoyang District, Beijing participated in festivals and customs such as making zongzi, painting the king tiger and tying the dragon’s tail, and completed the knowledge quiz on the Dragon Boat Festival customs.
The Guangdong Provincial Museum organized students from Tianhe Middle School to participate in the activities of building blocks for the dragon boat, the "Poetry" Competition of the Dragon Boat Festival and the "Dragon Boat Festival Custom" research report class; Suzhou Museum cooperated with Suzhou Caixiang Experimental Primary School to organize more than 200 students to participate in activities such as learning to sing "Rolling Fairy Song" and folk knowledge contest. Xiamen Museum went to Xiamen People’s Primary School and Aoguan Primary School in Haicang District of Xiamen to give a lecture on "Dragon Boat Festival Customs and Culture".
Guo Ziang, a pupil who lives in Hohhot, and his classmates came to the Inner Mongolia Museum to participate in the theme activity of "Nostalgia for the Dragon Boat Festival". "We make zongzi, make dragon boat lanterns and braid colored ropes. When we are done, we can get them to the flea market for exchange." Guo Ziang was in high spirits.
"The spread of traditional festival culture is not only the study of books, but also the study of participation." Wulan Tuoya, director of the Social Education Department of Inner Mongolia Museum, said, "The learning results are obtained by children themselves, not only learning cultural knowledge and skills, but also realizing the inheritance of Chinese traditional cultural genes."
Meet the development rhythm of the times
Between the red walls, green trees and gray tiles, gorgeous Hanfu shuttles through the ancient buildings of Dongyue Temple in Beijing with a history of nearly 700 years, and the audience seems to be crossing between history and reality.
Cao Yansheng, director of the Beijing Folk Museum, said that in order to let the audience truly understand the beauty of traditional culture, they specially invited the performance team of professional colleges to perform Hanfu catwalk.
In the contemporary era of "hyperlink", museums all over the world pay attention to keeping pace with the times and keeping pace with society. Taking official website as a platform, they have used official WeChat, webcasting and other new media channels to let the public interact with museums without time and space constraints.
At present, the number of users of the official WeChat of Nanjing Museum has exceeded 300,000, and only 400 audience can be reserved for museum lectures, attracting 200,000 audience through live webcast.
This year’s Dragon Boat Festival, the activities held by museums around the country highlighted the immersive experience. Nanjing Jiangnan Silk Culture Museum, Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum, Yangzhou Hanguangling Tomb Museum, Fujian Minyue Wangcheng Museum, Maiji District Museum and other units have all organized related cultural experiences and performances in Hanfu and Dragon Boat Festival.
Nanjing Museum has carried out activities such as making traditional sachets and weaving colorful silk bracelets, and invited "non-legacy" inheritors and craftsmen to teach on the spot.
In the intangible cultural heritage museum of the hospital, Jing Qiuhong, the inheritor of Xuzhou sachet, a national intangible cultural heritage, is making Dragon Boat Festival sachets. "There are more than 10 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines such as licorice, borneol and clove in the sachet, which can repel mosquitoes and flies." Jing Qiuhong said that there is a custom of wearing sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival, and making and displaying sachet skills by oneself is in the hope of inheriting traditional culture.