Guangdong Customs The Guangdong Happy Festival has been held in Oriental Paradise since 1987 by the culture and tourism departments of Guangdong Province and Guangzhou City.
The Happy Festival aims to promote the national spirit and revitalize folk art.
Its main content is to organize folk art groups from cities and counties across the province to perform. At the same time, it also invites folk art groups from outside the province and abroad to come and exchange performances.
A large number of outstanding programs with strong national and folk art characteristics have come to the fore, greatly enriching the Guangdong art scene.
In 1990, the National Tourism Administration, the Ministry of Culture, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and other units reorganized the Guangdong Happy Festival into the "China Tourism Art Happy Festival", making it a new part of China's tourism development and a national tourism event.
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Held every year before and after the Autumn Fair, during the food festival, various restaurants and restaurants in Guangzhou bring out their own brand-name products to participate in the selection. Each food festival selects more than 100 famous dishes, snacks or innovative dishes.
Since 1998, the food festival has been held at the Tianhe Sports Center, where tourists can go and taste the exquisite food of each restaurant.
Drinking tea is a life custom of Guangzhou people.
There is a popular proverb among the people that "a pot of tea in the morning will save you from seeing a doctor".
What Guangzhou people call drinking tea actually refers to drinking tea in a tea house (customarily called a tea house).
Chrysanthemums can grow all year round in Guangzhou, with the flowers blooming at their peak from late autumn to around the Spring Festival. Holding chrysanthemum exhibitions is also a traditional custom in Guangzhou.
The Guangzhou Chrysanthemum Exhibition is famous for its grand scale, wide variety, and beautiful shapes. It mainly displays Dali chrysanthemums (a kind of southern chrysanthemum, with various colors such as yellow, white, purple, etc.). A single Dali chrysanthemum can sometimes bloom more than 3,900 flowers.
flower), as well as Lingbo Fairy, Glass White, Pink Peony, Dutch Ligum, Big White Lotus, Taiwan Yellow, Deep Red, Little Red, Spring Festival Dance, Tricolor Flower, and Japanese White, Japanese Yellow, Bay Red, Purple Lotus
Lotus, golden and other exotic varieties.
At the Spring Flower Festival, there are chrysanthemum exhibitions in Yuexiu, Wenhua, Liwan Lake, Liuhua Lake, Dongshan Lake, Haizhuang, Xiaogang and other parks, also called "Spring Chrysanthemum Exhibition".
The large-scale chrysanthemum exhibition held in autumn and around National Day is called the "Autumn Chrysanthemum Exhibition".
The most lively festival - Christmas Every Christmas, the whole city of Shenzhen resounds with the sound of hymns and music. Dance halls, restaurants and cinemas are overcrowded, and people enjoy the carnival.
The most deserted festival - the Spring Festival. During the Spring Festival, most "immigrants" from all over the country return to their hometowns to celebrate the New Year, and locals also go to Hong Kong or other places for vacation. Shenzhen becomes a quiet ghost town.
The most interesting festival - Lychee Festival. The Lychee Festival has now become a municipal festival in Shenzhen. During the festival from June 28 to July 8 every year, there will be various economic, trade and cultural activities with the theme of litchi.
The citizens of this city have a traditional custom, that is, whenever the cicadas chirp and the fragrance of lychees is heard, they go to the lychee park with their relatives and friends to taste them as soon as they are picked. They often compete with each other, and the scene is very cheerful.
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Drinking herbal tea is also a year-round living habit of Guangzhou people.
The so-called herbal tea refers to the decoction of Chinese herbal medicines with cold properties and the ability to relieve internal heat as a drink to eliminate the heat in the human body in summer or sore throat and other diseases caused by dryness in winter.
Guangzhou’s herbal tea has a long history and there are many varieties of herbal tea, including Wanglaoji herbal tea, Sanhutang herbal tea, Huang Zhenlong herbal tea, Dasdaanggong herbal tea, Shiqi herbal tea, 24-flavor herbal tea, gourd tea, healthy herbal tea, honeysuckle five-flower tea, and dried ancient melon herbal tea.
etc.; even Guiling paste soup, raw fish and kudzu soup, carrot and bamboo cane water, etc. have become traditional and old-fashioned herbal teas loved by Guangzhou people.
The most famous Wanglaoji herbal tea has always been highly praised by Guangzhou people.
After entering the 1980s, various herbal tea granules and soft-packaged herbal teas emerged at the historic moment, such as Shennong herbal tea, Xia Sangju tea, etc., which have become a fashionable summer drink for many families.
Drinking morning tea Guangzhou people love drinking tea, especially morning tea.
When we meet in the morning, we often greet people with "Drinking Cha Wei" (meaning "Have you had tea?"), which shows their preference for drinking tea.
Drinking tea is a life custom of Guangzhou people.
There is a popular proverb among the people that "a pot of tea in the morning will save you the need to find a doctor".
What Guangzhou people call drinking tea actually refers to drinking tea in a tea house (customarily called a tea house).
Not only drinking morning tea, but also eating snacks (as breakfast); not only drinking morning tea, but also drinking afternoon tea and night tea; not only filling the belly, but also spreading news, talking about friendship and discussing business.
It can be seen that tea drinking among Guangzhou people is actually a way of social communication.
This is also an important and fundamental reason why Guangzhou’s tea house industry has been prosperous for hundreds of years.
Among the time-honored restaurants in Guangzhou, a considerable number are tea houses and tea houses from back then.
Tea customers in Guangzhou can be roughly divided into two categories: one is regular customers, who must go to a fixed teahouse every morning, usually with "one cup" (pork ribs rice) and "two pieces" (snacks). These people are retired.
Most of them are elderly people; the other type is drinking "sacrifice tea", that is, drinking tea on rest days, not limited to "one cup or two", but tasting a variety of snacks and "sighing tea" calmly.
Guangzhou's tea market has three markets every day: morning, afternoon and evening. Among them, the morning tea market is the most prosperous. From early morning to about 11 noon, the seats are often packed.
Night tea drinking is also becoming more and more popular, especially in midsummer. Drinking tea while listening to opera performances and enjoying the air-conditioning.
Morning tea in Guangzhou usually opens at 4 a.m., and evening tea doesn’t close until 1-2 a.m. the next day.