Later, lettuce was associated with Guanyin belief, which "developed in a pragmatic and business-oriented social atmosphere in the Pearl River Delta, with obvious utilitarian color" (Professor Ye Chunsheng of Sun Yat-sen University). The purpose of holding a lettuce party has become to ask for money and children. Lettuce Festival is scheduled for the 26th day of the first lunar month, near Kannonji. In addition to watching opera and listening to music, activities such as worshipping Guanyin, touching snails, begging for children and eating lettuce bags are essential activities. Almost all the materials of lettuce bag contain meanings, such as lettuce making money, fans symbolizing longevity, pickled cabbage indicating future generations, mussel meat indicating nobility and development, and leek indicating long time. I hope people will prosper and develop for a long time after eating lettuce bags. In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, lettuce was in full swing. As the saying goes, "the lettuce party in the first month is the birthday of the dragon mother in May." It can be seen that lettuce will become a grand festival for Han people in Guangzhou and Nanhai. 1986, the traditional lettuce festival was completely reformed in Guanyao Town and Yanbu Town of Nanhai County, and the duration was changed to Lantern Festival. In content, superstition and bad habits are abandoned, lion dance competition is the main competitive event, and lettuce festival is used to reminisce about homesickness, communicate with all parties, conduct trade negotiations and exchange materials. According to statistics, the number of participants in the first lettuce party after the reform was 65438+ 10,000! It can be seen that the lettuce festival, a folk custom deeply rooted in the fertile soil of Lingnan, still has great attraction.