The Poetic Nature of Children's Travels What are the realistic social significance of the Tang Dynasty?

Spring is a good season, and it coincides with the Qingming May Day holiday. Many parents are also eager to plan a parent-child trip for their lovely babies. The word "study tour" must have attracted many mothers who have broken their hearts for their children's education.

Study tour not only allows children to travel to different places or foreign countries and feel different scenery, but also allows local customs, natural environment and cultural connotations to blend with children naturally, increasing their knowledge and broadening their horizons. Why not?

It's not that simple.

There are many problems in the study tour market. Is it not as beautiful as it looks?

At present, the "study tour" launched by travel agencies is more common in the market. Due to the lack of effective supervision, many products have different degrees of standardization, mixed quality and high cost; However, there are many phenomena of "traveling without learning" or "learning without traveling" in the "study tour" organized by schools. Many so-called "theme study tours" are mostly formalism, and a cursory tour is a waste in itself. In addition, the goal of travel design is too utilitarian, and the educational methods are similar and boring, so children can't understand the true meaning of study tour, and they can't personally feel the profound meaning contained in it.

Many parents will say, well, let's design our own travel route, which is both free and economical, and can be adjusted according to the needs of children. In fact, this is a test of parents' planning ability, cultural accomplishment, especially time and energy. Just "determining the theme, planning the route, booking hotel restaurants, and memorizing cultural and historical knowledge ..." has made people vomit blood, not to mention dealing with emergencies alone during the trip, and it is very tiring to think about it.

Why does the seemingly beautiful "study tour" face so many anxious and uneasy problems? The fundamental reason may be that we have cognitive bias on the original intention and significance of study tour.

So, what is the significance of study tour? How should parents take their children to study tour?

"Learn from each other's strengths" has existed since ancient times. What "initial heart" has modern learning forgotten?

In fact, the history of study tour can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period two thousand years ago. At that time, Confucius, Mencius and others traveled around the world in the form of study tours, increasing their knowledge, examining political atmosphere and people's feelings, and spreading their academic and political opinions through study tours. Their study tour is a journey of ideological upgrading and cultural integration. "Biography of Historical Records of Chun" records: "Studying abroad means that he can learn widely because of studying abroad." It is conceivable that the original intention of the ancients to study abroad was to study, not to be knowledgeable. This is also one of the original intentions of many modern parents who choose to study abroad.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, study tour paid more attention to contact with nature and entrusted the beauty and joy of mountains and rivers. In the Ming Dynasty, Xu Xiake spent 30 years traveling around famous mountains in Dachuan, covering 2/kloc-0 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. He wrote a 600,000-word geographical masterpiece "Xu Xiake's Travels", which brought the state of study tour to the extreme.

In modern times, Lu Xun, Sun Wen and others studied abroad to save the country and strengthen the country, and the study tour added feelings of home and country.

In modern society, study tours are mostly conducted in the form of "summer camp" and "winter camp", aiming at providing children with opportunities to increase their knowledge and study, helping them to bridge the gap between books and knowledge, realize the integration of knowledge and practice, and improve their learning ability, self-care, expression ability and social ability.

From ancient times to the present, although the original intention and significance of study tour in each era are somewhat different, they are all based on "learning", supplemented by broadening horizons, increasing knowledge and cultural exchanges, hoping to become better people and do better things.

However, many modern tourism products are questioned because of this original intention. Therefore, when a parent-child reality show "Poems of the Travel Notes of the Children of Datang" caused widespread repercussions in the mom circle, the slightly embarrassing topic of "study tour" was once again put on the discussion agenda.

How should parents choose and plan their own study tours, so that parent-child study tours can truly return to the essence and become a happy and meaningful thing? A careful study of the program design of "Children's Travels Poetic Tang Dynasty" may get some inspiration.

Exploring the root of traditional culture with the clue of Tang poetry

This reality show, entitled "Poetic Tong You Tang Dynasty", chose "along the place where the Tang poetry took place" to plan the parent-child route. Everywhere you go, you can find a shadow in Tang poetry, and some poets feel or express their feelings for it at that time and place. This is a bit special in a large number of overseas and international "study tours".

Why choose this route design? The creative team of the program comprehensively considered the educational background of the mother and daughter protagonists in the program, children's preferences, solar terms and other factors.

The first stop of the program was chosen in the ancient capital Xi 'an Datang Furong Garden. The setting of the children's carnival here can make six-year-old Xiaoxiao get the pleasure of traveling from the game and integrate into the travel more quickly. In the program, the "customs clearance design" of the Palace Examination, after passing the provincial examination, is to let children know the details and processes of the entrance examination of Guxingyuan through experience. Every place in the program has a corresponding Tang poetry and its cultural background. Guyuanlou is the birthplace of Li Shangyin's "Leyou Tombs". The poem "to see the sun, for all his glory, buried by the coming night" is seamlessly integrated with the scenery, so that children can feel the grandeur of the sunset, realize the fleeting power of time and learn to cherish time.

In the boutique Meizhuang bonsai garden in Sansheng Township, the poem "Early Plum" by Zhang Qian, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, together with the proud plum blossom, its shape and the characters of three old and cold friends, are all displayed in poetry and scenery. In the Suzhou Embroidery Museum, the experience link of "knitting on the machine and embroidering with needles" was designed for Xiaoxiao, so that she could feel the artistic conception of "weaving as autumn geese outside the clouds and dyeing as spring water in southern Jiangsu" in Bai Juyi's Twilight, and appreciate the charm of Suzhou embroidery culture.

This combination of knowledge and practice, which integrates traditional culture, character education and travel, should conform to the original intention of study tour. And the whole process is novel and interesting, with exquisite details, which not only increases children's knowledge, but also vividly presents the contents of the book in the form of real objects, and truly feels the charm of human landscape and Tang poetry; At the same time, you can also learn Tang poetry and China traditional culture during the play, which makes the study meaningful.

This journey of "searching for the roots of Tang poetry" also fits seamlessly with the "traditional culture education" advocated by China in recent years.

In a new policy recently announced by the Ministry of Education, it is explicitly required to "improve students' core language literacy and effectively strengthen Chinese traditional culture education". The content of China's traditional culture runs through compulsory, elective and elective parts, and it is also interpreted by more and more people as "He who wins China wins the world".

What does this mean? The traditional culture of China is the official palace, which is certified by the official seal.

Parents who want to plan their own "parent-child study tour" or are mired in theme selection may wish to refer to the program setting of "Poetic Tang Dynasty of Children's Travels" and design their own route and theme according to their own situation.

Study tour is also a process of growing up with children.

In fact, study tour is not to let children fight alone, just as education has never been a unilateral matter for children. This is also one of the reasons why study tour advocates parent-child tour. Study tour is also a process of discovering, feeling and growing with children.

Let's take children's travels as an example. It abandons the popular star reality show and chooses amateur mother and daughter as the protagonists of parent-child tour, so that thousands of mothers and children in Qian Qian can see themselves and look back. In the program, hot mom Misilu's brief helplessness when smiling at her daughter is a true portrayal of many parents. Miseru has been changing, from wanting to be a "mother with a score of 100" to discovering that she is not a "mother with a score of 100", to rethinking, adjusting and changing the mode of getting along with her daughter. In the travel with children, children grow up through experience and have strong perceptual ability, while mothers grow up through discovering problems and reflecting on themselves, and the parent-child relationship is closer.

In fact, the essence of study tour has not changed since ancient times. It follows the core of "learning" and is child-oriented, so that children can play, watch, think and learn while traveling, and gain ideological enlightenment, spiritual sublimation and broaden their horizons in learning. This is the meaning of modern study tour. Parents also grow up in the process of parent-child travel and enrich themselves with their children. After all, no matter how far you go, where you go and what you learn, the essence of "study tour" is to strengthen yourself in a wider world and make yourself a better "person".