Chinese like hilarity. On festivals, it is more happy and everywhere
is full of exciting air. Though in the freedom Chinese washed and
globed by the western culture, every traditional entertainments
of the festivals have not stopped and vanished. Many folk custom
and entertainments have added to the the happy of the festivals
and the competition of celebrating the New Year and handed down
from generation to generation. in which the most common one is the
playing with dragon or lion. The children grown up in China, though
can't walk, must have seen it on the shoulders of the father or
on the TV.
Besides the mentioned above, the common entertainments in the folk
are many such as running the boat on the road, wearing the shoes
with very high heels, the old carrying the young on his back, and
the dance of the clam goblin etc.. The old carrying the young on
his back is a beautiful miss hung the half wooden body of the old
whose poise was carrying the miss. It is said to play two persons
by one. It is played by Mo drama. The dance of the clam goblin which
use the bamboo to make a clam, and the girl as the clam goblin who
use the hands to operate the clam to match with the fishnet of the
fisher, is very interesting. As for the folk entertainments which
have one or two thousand of years in the history, they have still
been playing by the children in nowadays.
In China, as the highlight and promotion, many culture centers
in the folk, book bureau and folk custom and arts stores sell the
books and CD to introduce the Chinese folk custom and entertainment
in details which can be used for the references.
As for the schools, there are many primary students who guided
by the teachers and make the properties of the folk custom and entertainments
which combined the lively, vivid side of the Chinese traditional
culture with the modern life. It is kept for ever, at the same time,
it make the Chinese free life richer.
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