Foshan holds a New Year's Eve flower market three days before the Spring Festival, a lion dance performance during the Spring Festival, and a Tongji Festival on the 16th day of the first lunar month every year.
New Year's Eve Flower Market: "Flower Street" is a long-standing folk custom of the people in the Pearl River Delta.
The flower market is held three days before the Spring Festival. New Year's Eve is the climax of the flower market. It is crowded with people and visitors buy flowers, which symbolize good luck and great ambitions.
Lion King's Battle: Lion King's Battle is one of the "one city, one special" Spring Festival cultural activities in Guangdong Province. In Foshan, there is no Spring Festival without the lions.
During the Spring Festival, lion dance performances can be seen all over Foshan, and some towns and streets will organize large-scale "Lion King Contests".
Lion dancing can now be seen in many places, but lion dancing can become a special event during the Spring Festival in Foshan. The cultural atmosphere and technology of lion dancing are unique in the country.
Xingtongji: Every year on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Foshan people have a custom of "Xingtongji".
But it is said that there used to be a river called Tongji River in the south of Foshan City near present-day Nanpu Park, and there was a bridge on the river called "Tongji Bridge".
Foshan people believe that "there are no disadvantages in practicing Tongji" (Foshan dialect means that there is no sorrow in practicing Tongji).
Every year on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the government organizes people to come here to walk across the bridge, burn incense, throw lettuce and spin windmills.
Extended information Foshan's local characteristic craftsmanship: Foshan woodblock New Year pictures have a long history.
According to the description of "Guangdong Cultural Relics": "The front door is engraved with the god tea and the tower is as high as the eaves", which proves that the custom of sticking to the door god was already popular in Guangzhou and Foshan during the Han Dynasty.
The production of Foshan woodblock New Year pictures flourished from the Qianlong and Jiaqing periods of the Qing Dynasty to before the Anti-Japanese War. They are a kind of folk arts and crafts belonging to local folk customs.
Foshan is the "Pottery Capital of Southern China" and "Famous Ceramic Capital of China". The pottery making technology has a long history, with a history of more than 700 years. Since ancient times, it has been known as "Shiwan Tile, the best in the world".
The Nanfeng Ancient Stove, built during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, is the oldest existing wood-fired dragon kiln in the world. The firewood has been passed down for more than 500 years, and it is known as the "living fossil of ceramics."
Foshan is the “Hometown of Lingnan Patent Medicine”.
The history of ancient orthodox medicine is more than 400 years old, and a number of time-honored famous medicines have emerged, such as "Huang Xianghua" Ruyi Oil, "Feng Liao Xing" medicinal wine, and "Yuan Jilin" Ganhe Tea.
?Foshan’s foundry industry began more than 2,000 years ago.
During the Song Dynasty, Foshan's tripods, pots, bells, and pagodas were famous throughout the country.
By the Ming Dynasty, Foshan's casting technology had reached a very high level and it became the smelting center of South China.