Brief introduction of Lingnan culture:
Lingnan culture is an organic part of the long and splendid China culture. The data unearthed from the site of Lingnan ancestors prove that Lingnan culture is primitive culture. Lingnan culture is based on the unique geographical environment and historical conditions, with agricultural culture and marine culture as its source. In the course of its development, it constantly absorbs and integrates Central Plains culture and overseas culture, and gradually forms its own unique characteristics. Lingnan culture is pragmatic, open, compatible and innovative.
Lingnan academic thought absorbs and innovates Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism and Buddhism introduced from the Central Plains, and breeds different schools, such as Jiangmen School. It was only in modern times that Lingnan became popular and became an important bridge for cultural exchanges between China and the West. A variety of cultural thoughts interweave into colorful scrolls, giving birth to Kang Youwei, Sun Yat-sen and other advanced figures in modern China.
The Relationship between Lingnan Culture and Guangzhou
As one of the centers of Lingnan culture, Guangzhou has a long history. From 4000 to 5000 years ago in the Neolithic Age, there was Baiyue culture before the city was built, and there was the integration of Chinese and Vietnamese cultures and the integration of Chinese and Western cultures after the city was built. Constantly formed its own unique style and distinctive regional cultural characteristics. From archaeological relics to documentary records, from historic site culture, architectural culture, folk culture, garden culture, commercial culture, religious culture to various cultures and arts, there is an open humanistic consciousness, especially innovative consciousness, commercial consciousness, pragmatic consciousness and civilian consciousness, which embodies Guangzhou people's ideas of openness, compatibility and reform. Traditional culture and arts, from Cantonese, Cantonese opera, Guangdong music, Guangdong Quyi, Lingnan calligraphy, Lingnan painting school, Lingnan poetry, Lingnan architecture, Lingnan bonsai and Lingnan crafts to Lingnan folk customs and Lingnan food culture, all reflect the rich connotation and unique and colorful local characteristics of Lingnan culture. Although it started in the history of Lingnan civilization, Shaoguan in northern Guangdong and Chaoshan in eastern Guangdong benefited from the southward migration of Jiangxi School and the westward advancement of Fujian's academics, and were once the cultural centers of Guangdong in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Gaozhou area in western Guangdong was once the political center of Sui and Tang Dynasties, but from the Ming Dynasty, Guangzhou, as the capital of Guangdong, like other provinces, began to establish its position as a political, economic and cultural center that other governments could not shake.