With the Spring Festival approaching, various streets and communities in Dongli District have successively held unique intangible cultural heritage activities, allowing young people to feel the charm of traditional culture at their doorsteps, while also creating a festive and peaceful festival atmosphere.
The Chunxiali community of Flawless Street carried out the interesting paper-cutting of the "Little Fluorescent" winter camp series of activities. At the event, the paper-cutting teacher explained the basic skills and creativity of paper-cutting, as well as the precautions for cutting window flowers, and demonstrated them. Subsequently, he also patiently instructed the children to operate. The children are constantly exploring and practicing, gradually familiar with the basic techniques of paper-cutting, and after a while, a vivid handmade work was born, including lanterns, spring characters, pomegranates, zodiacs, etc., seeing their carefully cut out of the works, the children have a happy smile on their faces.
The Mingduyuan Community of Huaxin Street carried out a parent-child theme activity of "inheriting traditional culture and infiltrating children's hearts with folk customs" to welcome the New Year. Volunteer teachers told the story of "New Year" and introduced Spring Festival customs such as hanging lanterns, pasting couplets, and eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, sowing the seeds of traditional culture in the hearts of children. Subsequently, under the guidance of the teacher, the children pasted the lion, longan, lucky bag and other accessories together, and carefully made the door stickers for the Year of the Dragon. Soon, the production of door stickers for the Year of the Dragon was completed. Holding their own works, the children felt a sense of pride, and they happily said, "I want to glue this Year of the Dragon work to my home, and when my relatives and friends come over, they will see my work."
Junliangcheng Street and Shundongyuan Community carried out the paper-cutting activity of "Dragon and Tiger Leaping New Atmosphere, Skillful Paper-cutting to Welcome the New Year". During the activity, the paper-cutting teacher introduced the history of paper-cutting, teaching paper-cutting methods and skills, etc. According to their own ideas and creativity, the children choose their own patterns for paper-cutting, Chinese knots, paper lanterns, zodiac dragons, Dafu characters, and one by one the works add to the festive atmosphere of the New Year.
Through a series of intangible cultural heritage experiences, it not only cultivates the hands-on ability of young people, but also promotes traditional Chinese culture and enriches their holiday life.