Festivals Educational Function

Festival Culture is of great significance to education, for it is endowed with educationalfunction, which means festivals help people comprehend, recall as well as recognize culturalvalues worthy for people and society, thus there will be no substitution in education for festivalsin terms of its promoting social cohesion and socialization of individuals. Feasible measuresought to be taken in practice to fulfill the educational function of festivals.Based on pre-existing literature acquired by network media, books and periodicals, thispaper employs the methods of literature, comparison and so on.The part of introduction discusses reasons for the selection of subject, research status homeand aboard, research ideal and method, the main text is divided into three parts.After the exploration into the origin and content of festivals, the first part strives to clarifythe meaning of festival as well as other relevant concepts, and probes into the educationalfunction of festivals and festival culture from the angle of education. The maintenance ofsociety lies in the "value consensus" achieved among social members which plays an importantrole in the realization of social recognition, the enhancement of national cohesion, and themaintaining of social stability. Educational function of the festivals is possible when the "valueconsensus" is transmitted to members of society.The second part makes an deep analysis into the alienation of festivals from a practicalpoint of view, such as the nihility, consumerization and technicalization in current festivalphenomena, points out the consequence of such condition of the festival educational function,and traces back to the origin of the loss of function, the necessity and feasibility of this researchthus explicit.The third part, conclusions and recommendations, proposes the conditions and orientationfor the return of educational function of festivals based on the discussions above, and in orderto resolve the current holiday dilemma confronting education, recommends correspondingmeasures to achieve the educational function of the festival t in three dimensions of socialeducation, family education and school education.