1. Guangzhou is known as the Flower City, with a history of more than 1 years. Nowadays, the annual Winter jasmine market has attracted the attention of the world and has become a major folk custom in Guangzhou. On the eve of the Spring Festival every year, the streets and alleys of Guangzhou are filled with flowers and bonsai, and all major parks are holding the Spring Festival Exhibition. Especially three days before the New Year's Eve, colorful buildings and flower stands are set up on the main streets of each district, and flower farmers from four townships flock to spread out the flower market, sell flowers and enjoy them. The crowds are surging, and the ten-mile long street is full of flowers and crowds of people. It has been noisy until the early morning of the first day, and it has only dispersed. This is Guangzhou. Guangzhou Spring Festival custom is an essential benefit in interpersonal communication. Of course, the so-called profit is a red envelope, and when relatives and friends meet, adults should give it to children. Among the citizens of Guangzhou, the citizen class is very particular about giving them double envelopes, but the number of banknotes inside is not limited, but it is rude to be a guest in Guangzhou during the Spring Festival, so it is better to bring more red envelopes to avoid trouble. Even at the entrance of the shopping mall, kumquat trees will be hung with profits for anyone to pick for good luck.
2. Guangzhou Spring Festival Customs: Visiting the flower market
Around the Spring Festival, many customs and habits have been formed for thousands of years. Some customs, such as receiving gods and worshiping heaven, are superstitious. With the improvement of people's scientific and cultural level, it has been gradually eliminated, and some customs have been given new contents, such as setting off firecrackers, posting Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures, playing dragon lanterns, dancing lions, etc., which are still widely popular so far.
Visit the Flower Market
Guangzhou, which is spring-like all the year round, holds an annual Lunar New Year Fair every time the Spring Festival comes.
The Lunar New Year's Eve Flower Market, formerly known as the New Year's Eve Flower Market, began in the Ming Dynasty. Qu Dajun's Guangdong Xinyu mentioned that there was a flower market in Guangzhou in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, most of the people in No.33 Township, Henan, Guangzhou were flower farmers who grew flowers for a living. They came from Henan to Hebei to sell flowers, and they landed on the dock near Wuxianmen. Later, they called this place "Flower Head", which was the earliest flower market in Guangzhou. Today's Lunar New Year's Eve flower market evolved from the previous flower market.
In order to welcome the Lunar New Year's Eve Flower Market, people started to prepare one month before the Spring Festival, and strings of flowers hanging on trees can be seen everywhere in the suburbs. A few days before the Lunar New Year's Eve Flower Market arrived, Guangzhou Flower Market has been set up one after another, and many people have been coming one after another, buying back a pair of bright flowers and putting them in bottles to decorate their homes with vitality and spring.
On the day of the flower market, a sea of people merged into a huge and warm heat flow. On New Year's Eve, the flower market reached its climax. In the flower market, there are peonies that "boast the color of chinese odyssey and monopolize the first spring in the world", famous chrysanthemums of various colors that "would rather hold fragrant branches and grow old than dance with the autumn wind with yellow leaves", and "desert beauties" with light makeup, such as Dali, rose, peony and Milan, which are famous in the south, and the succulent plants cactus and cactus, and the "Lingbo Fairy" narcissus that settled in Guangzhou are also in the flower market. The "Hanging Bell Flower", a distinguished guest in the mountainous area who is the "flower bed leader", has hundreds or even hundreds of buds in one branch. As long as it is properly adjusted, it will be hung on the branches one by one and in pairs on the first day of the new year, adding a warm and vigorous vitality to the family environment of the festival. In the flower market, there are all kinds of fruits, plates and layers of oranges, oranges and oranges hanging on the branches ... There are also all kinds of goldfish that are "flowers in the water" and colorful lights swaying in the wind, which attract thousands of viewers. When you look at the sea of flowers and look at the colorful treasures that are fragrant, trembling and spreading with blooming leaves, you can't help but admire that people have chosen and arranged such a scene as the climax of the Spring Festival, which is really ingenious! That Qian Qian's thousands of smiling flowers seem to be whispering with a crisp voice: "Spring is coming!" "Spring is coming!" The Spring Festival customs in Guangzhou are different from those in other areas: 1. The Spring Festival market is held late at night from December 28th to New Year's Eve, and millions of people take part in the flower market. 2/ Set flowers. Every family must buy it, including placing oranges, daffodils and inserting flowers. 3/ Celebration Day. People's Day is the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, and many people in Guangzhou hold a rich family banquet on this day to celebrate.