Develop Local Curriculum Resource To Promote The Traditional Culture In Chaoshan Area

Chaoshan, the name oriented from Chaozhou city and Shantou city,including Jieyang city, covers a large area of plains,near two-third of the land occupation. There are rich natural resources such as:agriculture,fishery, forest, husbandry and other products like handicrafts and ceramics, and so on,because of its comfortable weather for living and farming.Up to now, many outstanding people have been well-known as their profound contribution to the state,from homeland and abroad, especially some famous overseas Chinese.So Chaoshan has a deep accumulation of traditional culture.Shantou city, the representative city of Chaoshan area was represented with the title of Special Economic Zone as other cities,but in the recent 15 years,its economic development has lagged behind the other 20 cities in Guangdong province,compared no matter by its GDP or NDP, listed number 19, while the whole country achieved greatly in all the fields.lt's probably relative to the Chaoshan people's backward consciousness of some of the traditional cultures,such as superstion,focusing on the benefits ahead in trade and dishonesty."Shantou's development symbols the eastern area of Guangdong Province!" advocated by the Eastern Guangdong Economic Conference last year.This symbols the emergent requirement on Shantou's economic development.Because of Shantou's rapid achievement will have great effect on the other three cities and thus enhance the development of the whole Chaoshan area.By the requirement of national curriculum reform:it adjusts the now-being curriculum structure and advocate the basic schooling to develop its typical local curriculum and school-based curriculum with the purpose of meeting the need of the development of local society and showing the typical schooling education and aims,and as a supplement of national curriculum. So in the view of the new curriculum,under the guidance of the principles of curriculum development and requirements according to the theory of "Curriculum and Teaching",the author has demonstrated a series of states of study on Chaoshan local culture,such as:the historical transformation,the description and the characteristics and the typical contents of Chaoshan culture,especially focusing on the merits of traditional culture,like:elaborate cultivation in the farming and handcrafts,the spirit of endurance;the key meaning of drinking "Gongfutea";and even the harmonious neighbourhood and relatives;the special forms of folk music:Chaoshan opera,Chaoshan dancing and other entertainments;and the struggling spirit in the trade and living of the old generations.Meanwhile the essay also criticizes and abandoned the backward thoughts and out of date beliefs among the humanistic cultures and customs such as superstitious activities and the multiple marriage shackles to women and the rude forms of Chaoshan dialects. So from the view of carrying out the curriculum reform,the study on how to sufficiently search and develop the Chaoshan culture resource as the local curriculum and school-base curriculum is of great significance to the modern schooling.In this way,can the curriculum provide the students with living experience and community knowledge linked to their own life,which surely help students understand social knowledge to enrich their living experience,so as to set up full confidence in learning and development. Not only due to the requirement of curriculum,but also thanks to the transition to the later generation as the culture heritage,it's necessary to completely study the Chaoshan traditional culture and develop them as the school-base curriculum.With the execution carried out at schools, the students will benefit themselves by learning the culture curriculum and accelerated the improvement of their complicated qualities by further understanding the connotation of the traditional culture as well as to love the homeland and contribute them to the construction of Chaoshan area, and foster the prosperity of the hometown, and finally pass the merits of the traditional culture from generation to generation.