Research On Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance From The Perspective Of Informal Education

The issue of passing on intangible cultural heritage is facing a plenty of problems, and the inheritance of it admits of no delay. Education, including formal and informal education, is regarded as the most important ways to achieve inheritance of intangible cultural heritage. Formal education has taken actions successively, such as bringing intangible cultural heritage into the campus, the classroom, as well as the national education system, luckily, all of which have been somewhat successful so far. However, not much attention is given to informal education in terms of the same issue, which greatly influences the effect this achievement.Fully taking advantage of informal education and revealing its general principles are remarkably valued to the transmission of cultural legacy.Intangible cultural heritage is characterized by its sociability, dynamic, mass, and inseparability, all of which decides that the inheritance of it is unlikely to be achieved through formal education and has to depend on informal education as well. By comprehensively investigating the work of national intangible cultural heritage ——Xiushan festive lantern’s inheritance, we found that the inheritance is mainly realized through informal education and its form of inheritance is different from that of formal education.We used and referred three factor theory of education, which are educators, learners, and educational influences. It has been found by investigating its formation background, development process, demonstration pattern, the power, objects as well as approaches of inheritance. The results showed that the educator is not a professional education of teachers, but the local prestigious old or respected; the educators can be a individual person, also can be a group.Moreover, learners are not just students, including not only class members but also all the attendants, and even the audience. Educational influence mainly includes three aspects: educational content, education method, education time. Educational content is mainly delivering living knowledge and skills, cultures and moral behavior regulations, and teaching younger how to sing and dance to lantern music. These contents are different from formal education. Lantern class members are mainly used practice method, examples demonstration method, as well as situational language teaching, instead of teaching method as the main method. However, the learning time mainly focuses on The Spring Festival holiday and other big festivals, and it happens generally at the leader’s home and the villages where the lanterns are received,which are out of formal education.Further study conclusively showed that five requirements need to be met if inheritance of intangible cultural heritage is expected to be accomplished. In the first place, not separating from the eco-system of non-material cultural legacy inheritance is the very basis of it. Besides, meeting the needs of humans and society is the premise of achieving it. What’s more, active participation of culture carriers and receivers is the source of it. In addition, cultural consciousness is the impetus of completing the goal and application of the cultures acquisition is the major approach to fulfill culture self-consciousness. Last but not the least, a good social environment is the driving force of it. Therefore, in the Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance faces multiple difficulties of today, we should not only continue to take full advantage of formal education, but also should pay more attention to the source power and vitality that informal education inherit Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance, and meet the corresponding conditions of the intangible cultural heritage, more effective protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage.