Describe the folklore of various places: China is an ancient nation with a long history, since ancient times there have been unique festivals and customs, such as: the Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, Chung Yeung Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, etc., the Yi's Torch Festival; Dai's Dai Splash Festival, the Xuedun Festival of Tibet, and so on. In these festivals, the Han Chinese have many folk customs with national characteristics, such as inserting mugwort leaves, dragon boat racing, posting spring couplets and pouring blessings, dancing dragon lanterns, enjoying the moon, etc., and there are many folk customs showing different regional characteristics, such as the Uyghur people in Xinjiang have the most national characteristics of the top bowl dance, plate dance, hand drum dance, and so on, as well as the custom of grabbing rice in weddings and funerals; Guangzhou's herbal tea, the custom of welcoming the Spring Flower Market, and so on. In these folk customs and folk style, all show the traditional culture of the Chinese nation and the charm of folklore. 1. "Hundreds of miles of different winds, thousands of miles of different customs." Chinese folklore folk style can be described as a variety of forms, colorful, extremely broad, rich, writing can be selected one aspect of the refinement of writing. The topic of the prompt, you can write about holiday customs, you can also write in the holiday customs or food culture, choose their own think most familiar with a topic for writing. No matter what kind of topic, we must dig deep into the artistic charm and strong vitality of this folk custom. 2. We can choose a very small detail from the many folk customs to write, in a spring couplets posted, a lantern production, a dragon boat race, from these small events to reflect the deep connotation of Chinese folk culture and the brilliant artistic charm. 3. Whether it is the simple and honest holiday customs, or the simple and honest holiday customs, or the simple and honest holiday customs, or the simple and honest holiday customs. Whether it is the simple festival customs, or distinctive folk customs; whether it is the *** traditional festivals, or the unique customs of various ethnic groups; whether it is the distinctive dress culture, or colorful food styles; whether it is the exploration of the roots of customs, or the study of the form of customs, and ultimately to express the "folklore and folk style of the artistic charm of the service. "Diversification of genres and enrichment of forms. Can be written as a narrative, through their own unique point of view to reproduce the real scene of a traditional festival, showing the colorful life of the people: window cuttings, stilt walkers, juggling, lion dance, dragon lanterns, temple fair and other traditional cultural practices. Can be written in prose, you can use a string of pearls method, from a variety of customs to pick up the relevant content will be strung together to enrich the content of the article, rendering the festivities of the joyful, festive atmosphere; you can also look for relevant information, to write the origin and heritage of certain folk customs, revealing the relationship between these customs and people's lives. You can also write a short story on these customs, fairy tales, folk tales, novels and other forms of expression of the pursuit of good things and love. In a word, the writing methods can be varied and the forms can be colorful, so as to express the powerful charm of Chinese folk culture.
Fan essay
The Spring Festival
In my memory, the Spring Festival is the most lively festival. Whenever I think of the Spring Festival, I recall the scene of my father and I setting off firecrackers in last year's Spring Festival. I remember before the adults are busy buying things to do New Year's goods, mom is buying vegetables and spring scrolls and dumplings. We kids were not as busy as the adults. On New Year's Day, my mom let me and my dad put up the spring scrolls, and my dad suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to buy firecrackers. We decided to go downstairs together to buy firecrackers, to sell firecrackers stalls, firecrackers can be a lot of tricks ah! There are skycrackers, rotating cannon, stabbing flower cannon, falling cannon, salute cannon, black spider cannon, and the big explosive thunder ......
Anyways, there are all kinds of firecrackers can't be said enough. My father bought me a safer drop gun and stab flower cannon, and bought crackling firecrackers and skycrackers also known as two kicks, as well as colorful firecrackers. Walking on the road, I couldn't help but throw a few falling artillery on the ground, falling artillery on the ground, "pop" sounded, I feel fun. By noon, I could hear the ear-splitting sound of firecrackers. Dad also took out the firecrackers we bought. Light the fire only to hear the firecrackers open up the sky and the ground, the whole floor is echoing the sound of firecrackers. I hid in the distance and covered my ears until the end of the firecrackers, I dared to come close to take a look. Then, my father took out a two-kick, hold it in your hands, light the fire only to hear "whoosh" sound, two-kick like a small rocket into the sky, and then explode. I was happy to clap my hands, is the real rocket is the principle of launching into the sky? At night, the whole city was lit up, and the sky glittered with colorful fireworks. I lit a firecracker, and the firecracker sent out dazzling sparks.
I danced my hands and the firecracker followed my arms, creating a shining halo of light. Next, my father began to fire the most beautiful salute. Lighting a fire a colorful ball from the cannon tube rushed up to the sky, colorful and beautiful. At the end of the fireworks, we heard a bang and a black smoke came out from the back of the barrel. My mom and I were shocked to see my dad's hands and face blackened with smoke. My mom and I laughed our heads off when we saw my dad's face. Dad cried and laughed and said, "It's all because of the trouble caused by inferior cannons, we must pay attention to the safety of firecrackers in the future, and don't sell inferior cannons anymore!" This New Year's Eve I had a really happy, this is my happiest Spring Festival.
Blade Festival
"Blade Festival" is the Lisu people's annual traditional sports festival, held every year on the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar.
On this day every year, people put on their festive attire and come to the "Knife Pole Festival" venue in groups to watch the "Mountain of Swords, Sea of Fire" activities.
After a few musket shots, the first seven or eight "Xiangtong" (on the knife pole performers) for the crowd to perform the "fire dance". Their upper body naked, bare feet, imitating a variety of animal movements, in a pile of a pile of red charcoal, jumping back and forth, but also from time to time to catch the charcoal in the body wipe, round and muddy fireball in the hands of rolling, rubbing, but they do not care. The baptism of fire means the elimination of all kinds of disasters in the new year.
The center of the meeting place, stands two about 20 meters long thick wooden pole, wooden pole tied with 36 sharp long knife, knife mouth upward, shining silver, forming a high and fearful knife ladder. In people's awe and worry, on the knife pole essential rituals began, a few wearing red clothes, head wearing red head, barefoot warriors, step to the knife pole, kneeling in front of a picture of an ancient generals, and then raised his hands over the head of the cup, reciting words, and then will be a drink of wine. Then they jumped up, climbed up the pole with lightness and agility, held the mouth of the sword with both hands, stepped on the blade with both feet, and went up in a row.
The first to climb to the top, but also to make difficult inverted movements, firecrackers. Thousands of spectators looked up and watched, from time to time bursts of applause.
This ancient and peculiar "knife pole festival", has been officially designated as the relevant departments of the Lisu traditional sports activities.
Every year on this day, the martial arts practitioners practiced their skills and taught advanced techniques. So the generations, the formation of knife pole festival. Festival this big, child ten miles inside and outside the Lisu people, dressed in festive attire, from all sides of the knife pole field on the banks of the Yangguan River gathered. In the night falls on the earth, the knife pole field on the inside and outside of the many fires lit. Suddenly, the four big fires burning in the center of the square rose up in the air, irradiating the crowd in the spring. Then the gong rang out, and the people on the field pulled each other's hands together, surrounded the bright fires, and danced a brisk three-stringed dance. When the four piles of fire on the field burned down to the red coals, the host of the event announced the start of "jumping into the sea of fire". At that moment, five barefooted brave men immediately broke into the sea of fire on the field, bouncing constantly in the inside, rapid footsteps stamped countless sparks flying around, like a passing meteor.
Next, the fire breakers with lightning speed, each hand stick red hot coals, respectively, in the face and body scrubbing, and then let the fireball in their hands in the flying alkyne tumbling, rubbing. The crowd of onlookers sometimes cheerful, sometimes nervous, sometimes marveling, sometimes surprised ... burst into a burst of applause. After a tense and intense performance female pile of coals were stepped into pieces, the flame has been dying when, "jumping sea of fire" activities come to an end. The next day, the knife pole field erected two more than twenty meters high safflower tree pole, the tree crosses thirty-six blade up the long knife. At noon, the happy crowd once again filled the square. With the presiding officer, drums and gongs, firecrackers, last night, "jumping sea of fire" of the five fog big head wearing a blue cloth cap, dressed in a large, red robe, barefoot to the knife pole tree, each filled with a cup of gallant wine a drink. Then jumped on the knife pole, hands grasping the upper layer of the knife surface, barefoot diagonally stepped on the lower layer of sharp knife edge, the use of qigong skills usually practiced to support the palms of the feet, alternating hands and feet, step by step, upward climb. When the warriors ascended to the top of the high pole, the field clusters of the audience, each jaw-dropping, and burst out loud cheers.
The Lisu festival on February 8 of the lunar calendar is said to commemorate an ancient Han Chinese hero who gave the Lisu people great kindness. The Lisu people put this hero to sacrifice the anniversary of the death of their own people as a traditional festival, and with the mountain of swords, under the sea of fire and other symbolic rituals, to express the willingness to go through fire to repay the feelings. Knife pole festival this day, several able-bodied men first perform "fire" ceremony. They bare feet, jumped into the red-hot coals, performing a variety of stunts. The next day, they sharpened 36 long knives, knife upward respectively with rattan horizontal tied to two 20 meters high on the wooden frame, into a knife ladder. Performers empty-handed and barefoot, from the blade of the fast knife to climb to the top, and perform a variety of difficult maneuvers at the top of the pole. Today, this thrilling traditional ceremonies, has evolved into the Lisu good man performing stunts in sports activities.