1. Flower Market
Flower Market is a local traditional folk cultural activity in Guangdong Province. Guangdong Xinyu, which first appeared in Qu Dajun, in the Ming Dynasty, most of the people in thirty-three townships of Guangzhou and Henan were flower farmers who grew flowers for a living. They came from Henan to Hebei to sell flowers and landed on the dock near Wuxianmen. Later people called this place "Flower Head", which was the earliest flower market.
2. lion dance
lion dance is a kind of traditional lion dance, which is still popular in Guangdong and some parts of Guangxi provinces. There are many different factions and types of lion dance in China, and it has different meanings in different places in China. Among them, lion dance is a famous lion dance faction in Guangdong and Guangxi provinces, Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Republic of China. The lion dance should have high requirements and conditions. Up to now, there are not many people who can dance and wake the lion.
3. Muyu Song
Muyu Song is short for Muyu, also called the fishing song, which is one of the traditional rap arts in Guangdong Province and belongs to the tanci system. Popular in the Pearl River Delta, Xijiang River and South Road in Guangdong Province. It originated in the late Ming Dynasty and flourished after the Qing Dynasty. In the early days, Muyu songs were all sung along with the compilation, but later, the lyrics were recorded, copied around, or engraved and sung. Muyu songs were popular in the late Ming Dynasty and flourished after the Qing Dynasty.
4. Birthday of Polo
The temple fair of Nanhai Temple is an ancient traditional folk custom and folk religious cultural activity. It is held from February 11th to 13th of the lunar calendar every year, among which 13th is the official birthday, also known as the Birthday of the South China Sea. It is a unique traditional folk festival in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province and even the Pearl River Delta region, the largest folk temple fair, and the only one offering sacrifices to Poseidon in China.
5. Burning the pagoda
Burning the pagoda, also known as burning the pagoda in some places, is a folk activity in rural areas in southern China such as Guangdong, Fujian and Jiangxi during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
It is said that the burning tower originated from the Han people's rebellion against the cruel rulers at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and they raised their torches during the Mid-Autumn Uprising. It is also said that the custom of burning towers originated from the fact that Liu Bowen hid a note in a moon cake at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and carried out an armed uprising with the torch as the number on August 15th. So far, the story of "three families have one yuan, and all of them were killed in one night" has come from this.
Extended information
Lingnan culture has a long history. Historically, Lingnan culture has made indelible contributions to the formation and development of the Han nationality, the maintenance of national unity and national unity, and it occupies an important position and plays an important role in the development history of Chinese national culture.
Modern Lingnan culture is an advanced culture in modern China, which has exerted great influence on modern China. Lingnan culture, with its unique characteristics of pluralism, pragmatism, openness, compatibility and innovation, adopts the essence of the Central Plains and the new style of the four seas, which is unique in the forest of Chinese culture and plays a positive role in promoting the economic and social development of Lingnan area and even the whole country.
Lingnan culture absorbed the ideas of Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism and Buddhism introduced from the Central Plains and made innovations, resulting in the birth of Confucian masters such as Chen Xianzhang and Zhan Ruoshui, which initiated the study of mind in the Ming Dynasty. Poets Zhang Jiuling and Qu Dajun are famous all over the country; Hui Neng created the China Buddhism-Zen Southern School, which influenced the whole country and even the world.
The 13th Guangzhou Tour in Qing Dynasty became the only window for trade and cultural exchanges between China and the world, spreading oriental civilization to all parts of the world. In modern times, Lingnan became the cradle of China's democratic revolution, and gave birth to a generation of advanced figures in modern China represented by Zheng Guanying, Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao and Sun Yat-sen. Lingnan literature, Lingnan painting school, Cantonese opera and other arts have strong local characteristics. Movies were first introduced from Lingnan, and Lingnan education led the educational revolution in modern times.
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