As one of the most distinctive and dynamic regional cultures in the traditional Chinese culture, Lingnan culture is broad and profound.

To put it simply, it has three main sources and constitutes three components: First, the inherent local culture.

The Pearl River Basin, like the Yellow River Basin and the Yangtze River Basin, is the birthplace of Chinese civilization.

Located in the south of the Wuling Mountains in the subtropical tropics, surrounded by mountains and the sea, in the Pearl River Basin, crisscrossed by river branches, the ancient Baiyue ancestors who lived here were inseparable from the early fishing and hunting civilization, rice farming civilization to the later commercial civilization.

Rivers and seas transport water, and they like to flow and are not conservative. This is the essence of South Vietnam's culture that is different from inland civilization or river valley civilization.

The second is the Central Plains culture that migrated south.

After the Qin and Han Dynasties, Lingnan was unified into China, Lingnan was built, and Yuling was built. The exchanges between Lingnan and the Central Plains became increasingly close. First, the troops were demoted and their officials were demoted, and there were also a large number of immigrants from several wars. The strong and advanced Chinese civilization in the Central Plains was like the "Han Chao and Suhai"

, swept across the Pearl River, and then formed the main body of Lingnan culture.

The third is imported foreign culture.

Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Maritime Silk Road was opened. As the starting point and even the only major trading port, Lingnan has always been a platform for cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. Commercial culture, scientific and technological culture, religious culture, and political culture from the East and West have all been introduced here. Since modern times,

It's even more powerful.

Foreign culture has injected new vitality into Lingnan culture.

After China was forced to open its borders in modern times, Lingnan culture, which had always been regarded as a marginalized culture, fully demonstrated its strong vitality.

Lingnan people were the first to gain popularity and competed to learn modern science and democratic ideas from the West in search of the truth to save and strengthen the country. From Hong Xiuquan to Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao and then to Sun Yat-sen, Guangdong became the birthplace of the democratic revolution. The innovative and developed Lingnan culture radiated from Guangdong to the whole country.

, played a huge role in the historical process of modernization and democratization in modern China.

In the new historical period of opening up and reform, Guangdong shoulders the mission of taking the lead in realizing socialist modernization. Lingnan culture is also facing new development opportunities, and has increasingly shown its vitality to keep pace with the times.

At this time, it is even more necessary to put forward the goal of building a cultural province and to re-understand and re-evaluate Lingnan culture.

Historically, Lingnan culture has always been regarded as a non-mainstream fringe culture, and has always been despised and rejected by the mainstream traditional culture. Even when Lingnan culture went nationwide in modern times, its mainstream status was not confirmed. This kind of

The situation has affected us to this day, as evidenced by arguments such as “Guangdong is a cultural desert.”

This is often due to prejudice or ignorance.

For the current plan, we should give a correct understanding and evaluation of Lingnan culture, fully affirm it, vigorously promote it, and take it seriously.

Fully affirmed: To say "Guangdong has no culture" is because it adheres to the standards of traditional Central Plains culture.

Lingnan people do not need to belittle themselves. They should discover excellent factors from the rich and colorful cultural phenomena and sort out the superior characteristics from the complex forms, such as being pragmatic and secular, emphasizing business over Confucianism, being inclusive and seeking innovation, etc., so as to establish their own evaluation.

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