One meal, one food knowledge, one needle and one thread, the hand is busy
Labor class allows children to enter the vast world
On May 28, students from the Feixi No. 2 Middle School affiliated to Anhui Normal University were learning how to make rice dumplings at the Anhui No. 1 Research Science Popularization and Practice Education Base.
This labor class became a unique way for them to experience the charm of the traditional culture of the Dragon Boat Festival.
Not long ago, the Ministry of Education issued the "Compulsory Education Labor Curriculum Standards (2022 Edition)", which separates the class hours occupied by labor from the comprehensive practice activity curriculum.
Items such as cooking, agricultural production, and traditional craft making are included.
Before this, many schools have guided students to enter the labor practice bases inside and outside the school, and feel the nature and culture in the process of participating in labor.
A new way of inheriting culture
A unique competition was going on in full swing. The competition took place in front of a teaching building. The contestants were a group of primary and secondary school students.
Fried spring rolls, boiled meatballs, and fancy platters, the little chefs have every trick and style.
This is a competition called "'Bo Cuisine' - Living up to the Good Food and Light Competition" held in Boshan District, Zibo City, Shandong Province. A total of 12 primary and secondary schools selected teams to participate.
"The tofu box means 'out of the box to find treasure', and it is a classic Boshan traditional dish." A 14-year-old participating student introduced the dishes he made.
At the competition site, Xu Chuanguo, director of the Zibo Food Culture Symposium, combined historical stories and folk proverbs to explain the historical origin and characteristics of Boshan food culture to the children: Boshan cuisine is one of the four major schools of Shandong cuisine. dating back more than 2,600 years.
It is understood that in Boshan District, the month of May is fixed as the Youth Labor Practice Month.
In this regard, the relevant person in charge of the Boshan District Education and Sports Bureau said that this move is not only an innovative practice of traditional culture entering the campus, but also allows children to inherit and carry forward the long-standing local food culture in the process of learning labor cooking skills.
How to make children willing to practice and make traditional cultural education more lively and interesting?
Courses related to Chinese traditional food production have become a way of organic integration.
In order to welcome the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival, many schools offer Chinese labor classes related to the festival theme.
In the cooking class, students learn to make traditional food, explore the cultural connotation behind the food, and then learn about the local characteristic traditional food culture and the traditional Chinese seasonal solar term culture.
In the labor class of Chongguang Primary School in Liangjiang New District, Chongqing, the students mixed noodles, kneaded noodles, mixed ingredients... The students made spicy and fragrant Chongqing noodles by themselves.
Into the natural classroom
Recently, students of Quzhou Senior High School in Zhejiang Province have planted about 1,000 catties of rapeseed. This is the harvest of the rapeseed they planted in November last year. The extracted rapeseed oil will be sent to the school canteen to be shared by teachers and students; Zunyi, Guizhou Province Yuqing County of the city entered the rice transplanting season, and a local primary school moved the agricultural production and labor classroom into the farmland. Under the guidance of the teacher, the students experienced rice transplanting in the field and learned farming knowledge; the No. 1 Primary School of Wenchang Street, Dongkou County, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province Tea picking is a labor class assignment for students, and students are allowed to go into a nearby tea garden to pick tea leaves.
Sowing, maintaining or harvesting in accordance with the season, walking into nature, "laboring on the crops", agricultural production classes become alive.
"Children who grew up in the city have never done farm work, and they don't know how the food they eat comes from." Recently, a parent in Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, who took his child to cut wheat in a wheat field, said with emotion, such a labor experience The class is "necessary".
Standing in the wheat field, the children and their parents imitated the actions of farmers harvesting wheat, and they were exhausted and out of breath after a short time.
Standing in the harvested wheat field, the children and their parents read Bai Juyi's "Viewing the Wheat" together, and had a different feeling.
"It turns out that every grain of wheat is hard-earned, and I will cherish every grain of grain more in the future." The children who participated in the labor expressed this idea invariably.
In order to better carry out courses related to agricultural production, some schools have "moved" farms into the campus.
Recently, thousands of sunflowers bloomed in the school affiliated to the Academy of Education Sciences in Longhua District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, becoming a beautiful scenery.
The school builds a campus farm on the roof of the school, conducts agricultural production and labor club activities, and guides students to participate in agricultural production labor such as sowing, seedling, transplanting, watering, and fertilizing.
The experimental primary school of Shaanxi Normal University has specially opened up plantations, which are allocated to each grade, and more than 100 kinds of vegetables and flowers are cultivated and managed by the students themselves.
Participating in the agricultural production activities of "down to earth" and "sticking to the soil", let the students really enter the big natural classroom.
New opportunities for research tourism
In response to the new change of adding labor courses, many parents have begun to consciously involve their children in labor at home, such as cooking and cleaning.
Before the "June 1st" festival, Jia Qian, a Beijing citizen, tried to get her fourth-grade son to cook two dishes: scrambled eggs with tomatoes and sweet and sour pork ribs.
"From preparing ingredients, washing vegetables, cutting vegetables to cooking and platting, he is completely arranged by himself." Jia Qian said, hoping to take this opportunity to gradually cultivate children's labor skills and interests.
In order to take the labor course after the autumn semester, Jia Qian is looking for suitable social practice activities.
Tourism enterprises also turn their attention to labor courses and explore how to better integrate them into tourism products such as research and study tours.
At present, farming experience and food making are relatively mature products in the tourism market.
Rice transplanting and wheat harvesting are typical products that integrate rural tourism and research in recent years, and are popular with tourists; food making experience has become a popular product for some hotels to attract family tourists.
With the Dragon Boat Festival approaching, many tourism organizations have launched "Dragon Boat Festival"-themed labor research products.
For example, some short-term and short-distance research courses launched by some tourism companies in Xi'an are mainly aimed at primary and middle school students, leading them to experience the use of traditional agricultural tools, wheat harvesting, rice transplanting, steaming steamed buns, traditional hand-making, etc. in the surrounding rural areas; Guangdong China Travel Service launched "Conghua Outdoor" "Expanding 2-day tour" products, including leading children to experience wheat harvesting and hands-on making dumplings in a wheat processing factory.
The reporter asked an institution in Beijing specializing in children's outdoor research and learned that it will integrate labor, camping, cooking and other elements to launch special camp activities such as "fun farming" and "parent-child camping" as well as children's cooking related courses.
Our reporter Yin Jie