Guangzhou is also called "Five Yangcheng" and "Guangzhou City". There is a beautiful story about the alias of Guangzhou. It is said that in the Zhou Dynasty, Guangzhou suffered from famine year after year, and the people were in dire straits. One day, five colorful auspicious clouds floated over the South China Sea, with five immortals riding fairy sheep, with five colored ears of rice in their mouths. The immortal gave the ears of rice to the people and wished that there would never be famine here. After the immortal left, five fairy sheep stayed because of their attachment to the world, and blessed the local weather. In order to thank the five immortals, the people built a "Five Immortals View" in the place where they stayed. There were statues of five immortals in the view, accompanied by stone statues of five sheep. This legend was used by the mascots of the 21 Guangzhou Asian Games.
cultural relics
There are many cultural relics in Guangzhou. There are 219 national, provincial and municipal cultural relics protection units, including 19 national key cultural relics protection units, 41 provincial cultural relics protection units and 159 municipal cultural relics protection units. The site of shipbuilding in Qin and Han Dynasties and the site of Nanyue State Palace have been discovered successively along Zhongshan No.4 Road, among which Nanyue State Palace Site has been rated as "Top Ten New Archaeological Discoveries in China" twice. At present, three historical sites of Nanyue State, including the site of Nanyue State Palace, the tomb of Nanyue King and the site of Nanyue State Sluice, are jointly applying for the United Nations World Cultural Heritage
Tourist attractions
Guangzhou has beautiful scenery, rich tourist resources and more than 1 tourist attractions. Among them, Yangcheng New Eight Scenes Baiyun Mountain, Pearl River Night Tour, Yuexiu Mountain, East Station Square, Chenjiaci, Huanghuagang 72 Martyrs Tomb, Guangdong Olympic Sports Center, Lotus Mountain, sun yat-sen memorial hall, Deng Shichang Memorial Hall, Huangpu Military Academy, Nanyue King Museum, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, Guangzhou International Convention and Exhibition Center, Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangzhou Flower Expo Park, south china botanical garden, Conghua Hot Springs, Chimelong Xiangjiang Wildlife World, Chimelong Happy World, Chimelong Water Park, Chimelong Crocodile Park, Baomo Garden, Guangdong Art Museum, Lu Xun Museum, Guangdong Provincial Museum, Guangzhou Pumped Storage Power Station Tourist Area, Liuxihe National Forest Park, Shangxiajiu Road Commercial Pedestrian Street and Beijing Road Commercial Pedestrian Street are the most famous attractions. Among them, a series of theme parks in Chimelong are the leading happy holy places in South China. Especially in Chimelong Happy World, there are many world-class mobile facilities: the world roller coaster king, the ten-ring roller coaster with Guinness World Records, the unique U-shaped skateboard roller coaster in Asia, and the world's largest pendulum. There are countless mobile facilities in the park. In addition, Changlong Water Park has passed through many superiors, and now it has surpassed Disney Water Park in the United States to become the largest water park in the world.
Tourism
Guangzhou is known as the "Flower City" because of its evergreen seasons and beautiful scenery. Guangzhou is a famous historical and cultural city. According to legend, in ancient times, five immortals came here wearing five-color clothes and riding five-color fairy sheep with ears of rice in their mouths, and gave them to the people, wishing there would never be famine here. Since then, Guangzhou has been known as "Yangcheng" and "Guangzhou City", and "Wuyang" has also become a symbol of Guangzhou. According to historical records, as early as 214 BC, the city wall was built here, which has a history of 221 years, leaving many cultural monuments, vividly reflecting the multi-functional, multi-level and all-round service pattern of Guangzhou's tourism industry in various historical stages
integrating tourism, catering, accommodation, shopping and entertainment. Numerous cultural relics, scenic spots and cultural landscapes make tourists linger. Guangdong cuisine with color, fragrance, taste and shape, as well as various Chinese and foreign flavor diets, have brought Guangzhou the reputation of "eating in Guangzhou". Porridge, flour, noodles and rice are famous. There are a number of five-star hotels and many hotels of different grades. "One-day tour in Guangzhou" has become a characteristic brand of Guangzhou tourism.
Lingnan culture
Guangzhou is a famous cultural city with a long history of more than 2,222 years, and it is one of the first batch of famous historical and cultural cities in China promulgated by the State Council. In the long history, many places of interest, such as Nanyue King's Tomb, Guangxiao Temple, zhenhai tower, Liurong Temple, Nanhai Temple, Wuxian Temple, Huaisheng Temple, Chenjia Temple, Sacred Heart Hall, Sanyuan Palace, etc., all bear witness to the famous historical and cultural city of Guangzhou. Guangzhou, which combines the essence of Chinese and foreign cultures, has formed a unique Lingnan culture. Lingnan school of painting, Lingnan architecture, Lingnan gardens, Lingnan bonsai, Guangdong music, Cantonese opera, Cantonese cuisine, urban landscape and living customs all reflect the style of Lingnan culture.
tea drinking culture
"I can't forget drinking tea in Guangdong." People in Guangzhou love drinking tea, especially morning tea. When we meet in the morning, the greetings in other places are mostly "Have you eaten", while those in Guangzhou are often "Have you had enough tea?" Have you had tea? ）。 Drinking tea in Guangzhou actually means going to the teahouse, not only drinking tea, but also eating snacks, one cup and two pieces, which are leisurely and carefree; Drink not only morning tea, but also afternoon tea and evening tea; Not only fill your stomach, but also spread news, talk about friendship and negotiate business. It can be seen that drinking tea has gone beyond the category of "tea" in a certain sense and has become a way of social communication. Drinking tea constitutes a distinctive feature of Lingnan culture that is different from other cultures. The time-honored teahouses in Guangzhou include: Taotaoju, Luyuju, Afraid of Xiangju, Nanyuan, Beiyuan, Panxi, Datong, Huiru, Sanru, Duoru, Qiaoxin, Dexin, Zhengxin, Fulaiju, Xihuaju and Meizhenju. No.1 stands for seafood.
As the saying goes, you must eat fresh food when you test the mountains and eat the sea. Besides, eating fresh and pollution-free seafood still has many benefits to the body. Guangdong lives in place of Kao Shui, and it is especially delicious and fresh. It is one of the best in the country in terms of history and processing methods in eating seafood. From eating some sea fish, shrimps and crabs at the beginning, to eating shark's fin oysters and even sea urchin worms later, it was a toss; After the excavation of raw materials, I began to make up my mind on the processing, from the simplest steaming and boiling to the strong spicy stew, which was not enough. I simply dipped the sashimi in mustard and enjoyed myself. All the excitement has passed, and when people in Guangzhou meet and sit down for dinner, they will say, Oh, it's too "hot" (getting angry) these days, let's have a steamed bass! Nowadays, seafood, various local dishes and exotic dishes are interspersed in the streets and lanes of Guangzhou in an orderly way. Whether you want to have a hearty seafood snack or have a hearty meal at a food stall, you can always find a place that will satisfy you. Who calls this a seafood dream city?
No.2 stands for chicken
Chicken is to Cantonese people what oil and salt are to meals. As the saying goes, "No chicken is a feast", it is precisely the reason why Cantonese people have a good chicken.
Why do Cantonese like chickens? This, of course, has something to do with the fact that Cantonese people can eat chicken, and the variety of chicken tricks is enough to amaze people. By place, there are Qingping Chicken, Zhanjiang Chicken, Hainan Chicken, etc., and by food method, there are even white-cut chicken, Shajiang Chicken, Rose Chicken, Soy Chicken, Steamed Chicken and so on. In recent years, in order to enrich the local chicken culture, some exotic foods such as curry chicken, beggar chicken and three cups of chicken have quietly prevailed.
among the many ways to eat chicken, cutting chicken (commonly known as white cut chicken) is the most special and famous in China. No one can resist the temptation of a fat chicken when it is taken out of a pot of delicious broth boiled with fresh bones for more than half an hour. The middle view of its color has already made people salivate. Close your eyes and smell it, and the original fragrance of chicken fills the whole kitchen with that hot air, which makes people reluctant to give up. In addition, when a plate of chicken is carefully chopped and placed on the dining table, its ingredients are like the finishing touch. According to the different eating methods, it can be accompanied with raw onions, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, coriander (coriander) and so on.
No.3 stands for Old Fire Soup
The so-called Old Fire Soup in Guangzhou refers to the soup with long cooking time, sufficient heat and delicious taste. Traditionally, it is made by using a clay pot, boiling the water, adding the soup stock, turning down the heat and slowly cooking for 2-4 hours. Old fire soup is an indispensable wake-up program in the dinner banquet, and it is also the most common food culture in Cantonese life.
Boiling old fire soup is a very simple cooking skill, but when it comes to ingredients, old fire soup is a profound knowledge. In Lingnan area, the atmosphere is humid and hot, so it is inevitable that long-term living with heat poison and moisture will invade the body, and the old fire soup is actually a tonic prescription derived from traditional Chinese medicine. However, the real medicine soup is too bitter. Even if it is only drunk once a week, it will solve the problem. I am afraid that Guangzhou people will become a family of medicine pots handed down from generation to generation. They should not only take the effect of medicine, but also take the sweetness of the mouth. Therefore, Guangzhou people who love to eat have realized the old fire soup in the suffering of Chinese medicine, and standard word, who evaluates the good soup, is also "sweet" and "moist". It can be seen that soup and medicine have the same meaning in Guangzhou people's eyes.
In addition, in order to be delicious, Guangzhou people also replace some dried medicinal herbs with fresh materials, such as pig lung, which is a common soup for clearing lung heat in Guangzhou, and Lady Enforcers, dried vegetables, lean meat, pig bones, etc., and auxiliary materials are common medicinal villages such as Beiqi, Codonopsis pilosula, Adenophora adenophora, Huaishan, Lycium barbarum, red dates, ginseng, American ginseng and ginger slices. As for restaurants, they are more particular about turtles, soft-shelled turtles, squab, black-bone chicken, snakes, shark's fin, abalone, scallops or other delicacies. Even if you drink it three or two times a week, it's not too much. Just remember one thing: it's a principle, but you can't overdo it! The real soup in a week's dinner-boiling soup should also be the protagonist.