As the Spring Festival approaches, a variety of cultural and volunteer service activities have been held in many places to welcome the Spring Festival.
In Xiushan Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing, the local village fun games were held, setting up competitions such as shuttlecock kicking, carrying burdens and shooting.
Villager Peng Xihao: It enriches our cultural life and exercises our bodies, which is very lively.
In addition, the local Tujia long table banquet was also set up, and the villagers tasted the special food, toasted to the reunion, welcomed the New Year, and felt the strong warmth between the neighbors.
In Wanglinpo Village, Qiujiadian Town, Tai'an, Shandong Province, the local people have carried out volunteer service activities such as writing Spring Festival couplets, sending blessing characters, voluntary haircuts, and free health clinics around the living needs of the people, and the atmosphere of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger.
Volunteer Zhang Qinling: It's almost the Chinese New Year, and I use my skills to give the villagers a haircut, so that the villagers can be happy, clean and happy to celebrate the Spring Festival.
Paper-cutting, horse racing, and iron flowers are a variety of activities to highlight the rich flavor of the New Year.
The footsteps of the Spring Festival are getting closer and closer, and people also cut paper, race horses, and play iron flowers, and go to various places together to feel the different flavors of the New Year.
In Wei County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, with the image of the zodiac in the Year of the Dragon, the paper-cut works of Wei County with elements such as auspicious dragons, bats, and ingots have become bestsellers this year. These days, the paper-cutting workers are busy carving, dyeing, and framing.
The paper-cuts, which carry a beautiful meaning, are pasted on the window lattices of every household and passed on to relatives and friends, looking forward to the New Year.
The Spring Festival is approaching, and in Shirenzi Ranch in Urumqi City, Xinjiang, a "Spring Festival Horse Race" was staged on the snowfield. More than 100 local herders competed with their strongest horses. In the 20-kilometer horse racing challenge, they can catch up with each other, compete in endurance, and fully interpret the speed and passion on horseback. The prizes of the Jockey Club are also full of "village" flavor, the first prize is a camel, the second prize is a pony and a calf, and the third prize is a calf.
Contestant Ulahat Hahan: I won the first place, I got a camel, I am very happy, I will take care of it in the future, and fatten it up.
In Nandan County, Hechi, Guangxi, a splendid "Iron Flower" intangible cultural heritage performance lit up the night sky. Spoonfuls of hot molten iron turned into iron flowers blooming brightly under the blow of the craftsman. Citizens took out their mobile phones to take photos and check in to record this beautiful moment.
Citizen Shen Ziyi: This iron flower performance shocked me very much, I hope that in the new year, everyone can go smoothly, and the country can be prosperous and strong.
It's a great sight to behold! Out-of-season peonies are popular in the market.
Out-of-season peonies are ornamental flowers cultivated through artificially controlled environmental conditions, so that peonies that bloom in spring can bloom in the cold winter. The Spring Festival is approaching, and in Heze, Shandong, the out-of-season peonies in various flower markets are loved by consumers.
Su Qiqi, a reporter from the main station: I am now in the flowering peony planting base in Huangyan Town, Heze, Shandong, in the greenhouse behind me, the staff is busy harvesting, packaging, and shipping.
Grower Zhao Tianlong: Now it has sold more than 90 percent, and it is sold cleanly every year until the Spring Festival.
Approaching the Spring Festival, out-of-season peonies are becoming more and more favored by consumers. In the largest flower market in Heze, there is an endless stream of consumers who come to buy.
Consumer Wu Yuzhen: Peony has the meaning of blooming and wealth, and I basically come here every year. Today, I picked six pots, sent two pots to friends, and put four more pots at home.
Merchant Su Ting: After the fifteenth day of the lunar month, the daily sales volume is 500 to 800 pots, and tens of thousands of pots can be sold during the Chinese New Year.
Pots of out-of-season peonies bloom in the cold winter, bringing people the meaning of blooming wealth and the visible flavor of the year.
Enrich the winter vacation and carry out public welfare classes and research activities in many places.
During the winter vacation, Ningxia, Zhejiang and other places carried out winter vacation public welfare classes and research activities in the form of intangible cultural heritage experience, so that children can gain knowledge and broaden their horizons.
In a swimming pool in Jinfeng District, Yinchuan City, Ningxia, more than 50 children were led by professional coaches to learn how to save themselves when drowning and how to deal with cramps in the water, improving children's safety awareness and self-rescue ability.
Student Chang Yunzhen: I have participated in it three times, and I can learn how to prevent drowning, and I have also learned some basic swimming movements. I felt happy when I was learning to swim, I felt like I had learned a skill, and I was happy.
Parent Zhao Tian: The community organized a four-week public welfare class. Last week, the community brought the children into the police barracks, and then took the children to participate in physical activities such as tennis and balance bikes, and the children were very happy.
This is another community public welfare class, where children make lanterns, write Spring Festival couplets, etc., under the guidance of teachers and volunteers, and learn about the traditional folk customs of the Spring Festival. During the winter vacation, various communities in Yinchuan City combined various social resources to carry out more than 20 activities such as tutoring and physical training.
Yu Meicong, Secretary of the Party Committee of Jindi Garden Community, Jinfeng District, Yinchuan City: I hope this way helps our working families solve the problem of difficulty in bringing babies during the holidays.
At an intangible cultural heritage museum in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, children experience a boat drum performance under the guidance of a local intangible cultural heritage inheritor. This is a folk dance that reflects the production and living customs of fishermen in eastern Zhejiang, and it is also a provincial intangible cultural heritage project that has been inherited for hundreds of years. In another part of the experience area, the painting skills of the peasants also made the children eager to try.
Student Zheng Zhihan: I think the peasant painting is very interesting, although it is very simple to draw, but it is still very particular about color painting.
Student Wang Chenhuan: I experienced the drum of the boat at the scene today, and I felt very different, which made me feel the hard work of the fishermen. It was difficult to control the smoothness and beat the drums, but at the same time, I felt the joy of the fishermen for the harvest.
In addition, the various physical exhibitions and scene restoration in the intangible cultural heritage museum also allow the children participating in the research to understand the history, inheritance and development of relevant intangible cultural heritage items. In recent years, the local intangible cultural heritage culture has been used as the starting point to carry out various forms of inheritance activities among the student group to enhance the children's understanding of traditional culture.