What are the famous traditional festivals and customs activities in Guangzhou? Let's take a look at the sharing of Xiaobian!

1. Spring Festival

Time: the first day of the first lunar month

Introduction: Spring Festival is the Lunar New Year's Day, which is the most important traditional festival in China and Guangzhou. The Spring Festival in Guangzhou has not only the basic contents of the Spring Festival in China, but also its own local characteristics. Before New Year's Eve, the word "Fu" or New Year pictures are hung on the gate or in the hall, and some people also hang the word "Fu" upside down, which means "Fu". On New Year's Eve, some families go to hotels and restaurants to have a reunion dinner, and then "go shopping". From the first day to the fifteenth day, when relatives, friends or acquaintances pay New Year greetings to each other, married or elderly people should give "Li" (that is, red envelopes) to unmarried people or children to show their good luck. Eating "Tangyuan" on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month means that the whole family will be safe and happy in the new year. Guangzhou's Spring Festival customs are different from other regions: the Spring Festival market is held late at night from December 28 to New Year's Eve, and millions of people participate in flower market activities; Every family must buy flowers, including placing oranges, daffodils and inserting flowers; Celebrating People's Day, which falls on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, is a day when many people in Guangzhou hold a rich family banquet to celebrate.

2. Lantern Festival

Time: 15th day of the first lunar month

Introduction: It's the same in Guangzhou. Every Lantern Festival, the neighbors will rush to the streets to watch the lanterns at night, and there is the Yuexiu Lantern Festival, which is "the country is beautiful and the phoenix dances in Lingnan". The lanterns are beautiful, with sparkling lights and shadows, and the whole family walks and watches with the flow of people. In addition, there are a series of activities of Guangfu Temple Fair, which is full of "Guangzhou flavor" on Beijing Road. Of course, for Guangzhou people, besides "having fun", "having food" is the happiest rhythm in the festival. Speaking of traditional food for the Lantern Festival, it is Yuanxiao, of course. In addition to the traditional Lantern Festival, jiaozi, as a folk food with a long history, is also very popular among Guangzhou people. Perhaps because the shape of jiaozi looks like an ingot, people eat jiaozi on the Lantern Festival to symbolize good luck, to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. For Guangzhou people, sometimes "meaning" is more important than "taste" itself.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Time: around April 5, Gregorian calendar

Introduction: Traditional Guangzhou people have always attached importance to tomb sweeping, and they have the custom of "clearing graves" on the day of Zhengqing. "Walking clear" is different from hiking, which is an outing, and "walking clear" is a group of people agreeing to go to the grave together on that day. According to the old custom, when sweeping graves, people should bring food, wine, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer food to their relatives' graves, then incinerate the paper money, cultivate new soil for the graves, fold a few green branches and insert them on the graves, then kowtow and worship, and finally eat the food and wine.

4. Dragon Boat Festival

Time: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month

Introduction: Guangzhou people attach great importance to the Dragon Boat Festival, and the old custom is to send the festival from the second day to the fourth day of the fifth lunar month. Young "new hugs" (daughters-in-law) use a "full box" of six or four, filled with zongzi, pork, raw chicken, eggs, fruit, wine, etc. to go back to their parents' homes to congratulate their elders. Girls and children hang sachets woven with colorful silk thread, which are generally given by their new wives. On the one hand, they reflect the goodness of their new wives, on the other hand, they reflect their skills, commonly known as "new embrace skills". Dragon boat race, known as "dragon boat" in Guangzhou, used to be done by suburban farmers. Before the 193s, the dragon boat that sank to the bottom after the Dragon Boat Festival last year was lifted out at the Buddha Bathing Festival on the eighth day of April. As the saying goes, "On the eighth day of April, the dragon boat slipped with the sea". After the 193s, it was gradually changed to the first day of May to get out of the dragon boat. The fifth day is the climax of the dragon boat race, and the winner can get a whole roast pig and a silver dollar. Dragon boats in the suburbs of the eighth day are mostly concentrated in Huangzhuqi in the suburbs for performance competitions, because there was a dragon mother temple in Huangzhuqi at that time, and the eighth day was the dragon mother's birthday.

5. Mid-Autumn Festival

Time: August 15th of the lunar calendar

Introduction: People in Guangzhou eat taro in the Mid-Autumn Festival, because taro is the most fertile and fertile creature in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the mother taro is always born in the same place with a nest of small taro, which symbolizes the reunion of mother and son. In Cantonese, "taro" is homophonic with "head protection", and the family worships the moonlight after eating. The Mid-Autumn Festival snail is just the time when the snail is empty. There are no snails in the abdomen, and the meat is plump. Many families have fried snails in Guangzhou Mid-Autumn Festival. The old man said: On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the family got together, took the snail at one stroke, and then sipped it at their mouth. It was really "sipping snail meat on the moon."

6. Double Ninth Festival

Time: the ninth day of the ninth lunar month

Introduction: In Guangzhou, people naturally like to climb mountains, but it is slightly different from the custom of enjoying chrysanthemums and inserting dogwoods. Neighborhoods climb mountains to find nine calamus. Spring festival is different from autumn festival, and the objects of sacrifice are different. For example, in Guangfu area, people usually bring roast pigs, three-sacrifice wine gifts, chopsticks, cups and plates, sickles and other utensils. When they arrived at the ancestral grave, some people took stones to build stoves and cooked traditional dishes, while others cleaned weeds beside the grave and burned paper money. Some people set off firecrackers before leaving their ancestral graves, praying for the family's peace and success. In the folk tradition, besides climbing mountains, flying kites is also a feature of Lingnan area. The local neighborhood will tie a cane bow to the kite, and when the kite flies in the air, it can make a very loud sound. Since then, the paper kite in Yangjiang has developed this feature to the extreme, so it is the most famous.

7. Boluo Birthday Temple Fair

Time: February 11th to 13th of the lunar calendar, and 13th is the official birthday

Location: Nanhai Temple in Miaotou Village, Huangpu District, Guangzhou

Introduction: Boluo Birthday Temple Fair is one of the largest traditional folk temple fairs in Guangzhou, with a history of 1, years, and there is a saying that "the first visit to Boluo is the second wife". Buying Polo Chicken is a reserved program of the Polo Birthday Temple Fair. Polo Chicken is a kind of paper folk handicraft. It is said that it is a kind of "magic chicken". Among 1, paper chickens, one will crow like a real chicken in the morning, and those who are lucky can make a fortune by buying it. During the temple fair, you can see local folk performances in Guangzhou and some wonderful exotic performances.

8. Winter jasmine market

Time: 28 to New Year's Eve

Location: Guangzhou

Introduction: Winter jasmine market is a local traditional folk cultural event in Guangdong Province. Guangzhou is known as "Flower City", and its annual Spring Blossom Market (also known as Flower Street) has attracted worldwide attention. On the eve of the Spring Festival, all the streets and alleys are filled with flowers and potted oranges, and all the parks hold exhibitions of spring jasmine, especially three days before New Year's Eve. Colorful buildings are set up on the theme streets of various districts, and flower stands are erected. Flower farmers from four townships flock in, arrayed, selling flowers and oranges, and miles of long streets. Flowers are everywhere, and there is a sea of people until the early morning of the first day. This is the unique New Year in Guangdong.

9. Import and Export Commodities Fair

Time: April 15th to May 5th and October 15th to November 4th every year

Location: No.382, Yuejiang Middle Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou

Introduction: China Import and Export Commodities Fair is the Guangzhou Fair, referred to as Canton Fair. Founded in the spring of 1957, it is held in Guangzhou every spring and autumn, jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce and the Guangdong Provincial People's Government, and undertaken by China Foreign Trade Center. It is a comprehensive international trade event in China with the longest history, the highest level, the largest scale, the most complete variety of goods, the largest number of buyers attending the meeting, the widest distribution in countries and regions, and the best transaction effect. It is known as "the first exhibition in China". Since the 11st session in April, 27, the Canton Fair has changed its name from China Export Commodities Fair to China Import and Export Commodities Fair, and changed from a single export platform to a two-way trading platform for import and export.

1. Litchi Festival

Time: July every year

Location: Zengcheng District and Conghua District, Guangzhou

Introduction: In July every year, when cicadas are singing and litchi is ripe, Zengcheng, Conghua and other cities in Guangzhou hold the annual Litchi Festival respectively. During the Litchi Festival, in addition to tasting and enjoying litchi, a unique high-quality fruit in Lingnan, there are also activities such as song and dance performances, sports performances, art photography, book exhibitions, commodity exhibitions and trade negotiations. Since 199, the Litchi Festival has been held every year in Zengcheng, and the hometown of Litchi is well-known. The tourists from home and abroad come to Zengcheng in the name of Muxi Garden. Merchants are still here to discuss business, pave the way and build bridges, and promote the development of local economy.

11. Lotus Festival

Time: August every year

Location: Panyu District, Guangzhou

Introduction: Every August, the Yangcheng Lotus Festival is held, and tourists come to Panyu to watch lotus flowers, taste lotus plant foods and enjoy other comprehensive recreational activities. Panyu water town, criss-crossing river network, ponds and rivers produce more lotus roots and lotus seeds, and the fragrant lotus pond has always been praised by people. Lotus seeds are called lotus seeds, which are a kind of high-quality food. Its stem is lotus root, which has high nutritional value and edible value and can be used as vegetables, lotus root powder, candied food and so on. The lotus root produced by Panyu's newly reclaimed land is well known. The land is an oasis newly reclaimed, with fertile land, soft mud and deep soil layer. After planting lotus roots, the yield is very high, and then high-quality lotus roots such as "Maoertou" and "Shouxing Peach" have been bred. The quality is good, the starch content is high, the raw food is refreshing and sweet, and the cooked food is fragrant, which is equally delicious whether it is stewed, fried or boiled. Panyu held the Lotus Festival on the basis of abundant local lotus, and promoted the development of tourism and economic undertakings by holding this type of folk festival activities.

12. Happy Festival of Tourism Art

Time: October every year

Location: Guangzhou

Introduction: Happy Festival aims to carry forward the national spirit and revitalize folk art. Its main content is to organize folk art groups from all cities and counties in the province to perform, and also invite folk art groups from outside the province and abroad to exchange their performances. A large number of outstanding programs with strong national and folk art features stand out, greatly enriching the Guangdong art stage. For example, singing and dancing in Chaoxian, Shalong Dance in Xinhui, Fish Dance in Zhanjiang, Centipede Dance in Shantou and Fire Dragon in Fengshun all have strong ideological and artistic appeal, attracting thousands of people. During the Happy Festival, there are also activities such as trade, tourism, arts and crafts commodity exhibitions, which can be described as a stage for literature and art, and a singing opera for economy and trade.

13. International Food Festival

Time: December to January of the following year

Location: Guangzhou

Introduction: The first Guangzhou (International) Food Festival was held in December 1987 to promote "Food in Guangzhou" and further promote the development of tourism. Festival activities include opening ceremony, float parade, dragon and lion dance, setting off firecrackers and cultural performances; Hotels, restaurants, restaurants, snack bars and food stalls in the city carry out dish-style dim sum display, food tasting, cooking technology competition, and evaluation of dishes. "Eating in Guangzhou" photo contest and special food seminar have made Chinese national culture and food culture shine brilliantly.