THE EXTENSION OF “THE COMMUNITY OF SHARED HOLIDAY CULTURE AND LANGUAGE” COURSE DEVELOPMENT—EXPLORING THE DIFFERENCES IN CHINESE AND THAI HOLIDAY CUSTOMS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FLOWER HAIRPIN IN CHINA’S GREAT CLASSIC NOVEL “OUTLAWS OF THE MARSH”

Abstract

Some festival customs in “The Water Margin” have a significant impact on international Chinese language teaching. By sorting out the Hangzhou dialect and Zanhua festival customs in classic works such as “The Water Margin”, we mainly focus on the construction of a “cultural language community” between the Hangzhou dialect and local culture. We believe that the current teaching of festival culture in Chinese as a foreign language is vague and superficial, which weakens language learning, as many times, the barrier to language understanding is actually a cultural barrier. When conducting international Chinese language teaching, incorporating holiday culture classroom teaching into the reading of classical masterpieces can make language classroom teaching more effective. In addition, through an analysis of the influencing factors such as gender, role, cultural background, function, cultural conflict, classroom environment, cultural understanding, and festival rituals in the construction of a festival “culture language community” in the classroom for reading the famous work of “The Water Margin”, this paper proposes thoughts and suggestions on the relationship between festival customs teaching and international Chinese language teaching, as well as the implementation strategies.