What are the folk customs in Guangzhou?

Guangzhou is a famous southern Guangdong city with rich folk customs. In recent years, on the basis of celebrating traditional national festivals such as Spring Festival, New Year's Day, May Day and National Day, Guangzhou has launched eight annual festivals with Guangzhou characteristics: Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, Boluo Temple's birthday in February of the lunar calendar, Dragon Boat Festival (during which there is a grand festival celebration-Dragon Boat Festival), Panyu Lotus Festival, Litchi Festival in Conghua and Zengcheng, Double Ninth Festival, China Tourism and Art Festival and Guangzhou Guangdong Happy Festival.

In addition, there are chrysanthemum exhibitions held in spring and autumn every year, float parades held on New Year's Day, Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival on Mid-Autumn Festival, and Guangzhou Tourism Art Exhibition held in June+10, 5438, which add gorgeous colors to the Flower City of Guangzhou.

Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival is a folk custom in Guangzhou. The fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month is the brightest and roundest moon every year. People use the full moon as a metaphor for family reunion. Su Shi has a famous saying: "People have joys and sorrows, and the moon is full of ups and downs", which is the lyric of chanting the bright moon and thinking of relatives and friends far away. People in Guangzhou must enjoy the moon on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival. Put a square table on the rooftop or open space, and put seasonal fruit cakes such as moon cakes, grapefruit, fried snails, taro and longan. Families will sit around, chat, sing and eat fruitcakes until the moon sets in the middle of the night. Besides enjoying the moon, most families still keep the tradition of Yue Bai. According to legend, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the birthday of the moon, and the moon's sister is a goddess, so Yue Bai is a woman. After Yue Bai, I used to eat grapefruit. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangzhou, there will be Lantern Festival. The bright moon reflects the lights, and the world is bright; Enjoy the moon and watch the lights, and bless and praise with "a thousand miles * * * *".

Double Ninth Festival

Mountain climbing on the Double Ninth Festival is a 20-year-old custom in Guangzhou. The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the Double Ninth Festival every year. Chongyang ascends the mountain and takes its luck. In the past, people mainly climbed mountains, swept graves and flew kites on the Double Ninth Festival. After the 1970s, the climbing wind in Chongyang became more and more popular, but the custom of flying kites was rare, and the number of grave-sweepers was greatly reduced, mainly for mountaineering and recreation. Guangzhou people often choose Baiyun Mountain and Yuexiu Mountain to climb Chongyang Mountain, with more than 200,000 climbers every year. Many young men and women still climb mountains on the eve of Chongyang and stay up all night.

Litchi Festival

Litchi Festival, in July every year, coincides with the mature season of cicadas. Zengcheng, Conghua and other cities are also a festive scene, holding the annual Litchi Festival respectively. During the Litchi Festival, in addition to tasting and enjoying the high-quality fruit litchi unique to Lingnan, there are also activities such as song and dance performances, sports performances, artistic photography, book exhibitions, commodity exhibitions and trade negotiations.

Since 1990, Zengcheng has held the Litchi Festival every year, and the hometown of Litchi is even more famous. Muxi gardens are in the name of green, and tourists from home and abroad come to Zengcheng in an endless stream. Businessmen are still here to discuss business, pave the way and build bridges to promote the development of local economy.

Lotus Festival

Lotus Festival, the Yangcheng Lotus Festival held in August every year, is also a great pleasure for tourists to come to Panyu to watch lotus flowers, taste lotus plant food and watch other comprehensive entertainment activities.

Panyu is a water town with a network of rivers, and lotus roots and lotus seeds are produced in ponds and rivers. Lotus, also known as lotus and lotus, is an economic plant. Lotus is graceful and graceful, but it doesn't touch mud. It smells like a hundred-mile lotus pond and has always been praised. Lotus seed is called lotus seed, which is a kind of high-quality food. Its stem is lotus root, which has high nutritional value and edible value and can be used as vegetables, lotus root powder, candied food and so on.

The lotus root produced by the newly reclaimed land in Panyu is well known. The land used to be a newly reclaimed oasis, with fertile land, soft silt and deep soil layer, and high yield after planting lotus roots. Later, high-quality lotus seeds such as "Maoertou" and "Shouxing Peach" were cultivated. They are of good quality, rich in starch, fresh and sweet, and the cooked food is fragrant, which is as delicious as cooking, frying, simmering and boiling.

Panyu held the Lotus Festival on the basis of abundant local lotus flowers. By holding this type of folk festival, the economy will open the way and the business will establish a stage to promote the development of tourism and economic undertakings.

Dragon Boat Festival (Dragon Boat Festival)

Dragon Boat Festival (Dragon Boat Festival)

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, a dragon boat crossing was held on the Pearl River from Haizhu Bridge to Ren Minqiao. By then, Guangzhou will be packed with people and full of excitement. Visitors who come to watch the dragon boat race can participate in many folk activities such as "washing dragon boat water", "hanging sachets" and "tasting dragon boat banquet".

Guangdong Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon boat racing has a history of at least several thousand years in Guangzhou. Dragon boat races are held every year during the Dragon Boat Festival. The early dragon boat race was just a court activity. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Guangzhou was the heyday of the dragon boat race. The dragon boat race in ancient Guangzhou is different from today's, and it is a mass artistic activity with strong artistry. As Qu Dajun described in those days, "The dragon boat is more than ten feet long and six or seven feet high. The dragon must go to the water for two feet, and the dragon's forehead and neck sit six or seven people, of which Jin Tingting is twice as tall. " There are no less than 70 or 80 flag bearers, shields, drummers, and those waving radial blows. "Some dragon boats are" five feet on the top, a pavilion on the top, five rounds on the pavilion, and a platform on the bottom. " "Each drama has more than 50 kinds of zaju, with more than 80 boys and girls. "There are fewer people on board now. Dragon boat racing has become a kind of sports competition.

Now, the Dragon Boat Festival has evolved into the Guangdong Dragon Boat Festival. On the beautiful Pearl River, Guangzhou International Dragon Boat Invitational Tournament is held every year from 1995. Dozens of dragon boats from Guangzhou and all over the country, as well as the United States, Australia, Singapore, Canada and other countries and regions participated in the boat race on the Pearl River. It lasted for several hours.

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Dragon boat race is a folk entertainment held during the Dragon Boat Festival in Guangzhou. Before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, every township in the suburbs of Guangzhou will choose a day to perform dragon boat performances, which is called "Dragon Boat Scene". At that time, the gatehouse in front of the village will be red and green, colorful flags will fly by the river, and gongs and drums can be heard everywhere. People put on new clothes and go to the seaside to watch dragon boats perform various skills. This is called "borrowing scenery". In the past, the most famous dragon boat scene in the Pearl River Delta was Xintang scene in Zengcheng, Guangzhou. Every year, many dragon boats rush to Xintang in suburbs and nearby cities and counties to participate in performances or competitions. This activity has been passed down to this day. 1965, the first women's dragon boat team appeared in Guangzhou, which became big news and changed the old tradition that women could not go on the dragon boat in one fell swoop. Now, many women's dragon boat teams have been organized in various cities and regions in Guangzhou, such as Panyu and Huangpu. Women hold up half the sky.

The custom of Dragon Boat Festival in Guangzhou

There are many folk customs in Guangzhou Dragon Boat Festival, such as pouring mugwort, drinking vermilion realgar wine, hanging calamus and wormwood, eating all kinds of zongzi, sprinkling realgar in front of and behind the house, putting up signs in front of the door, and wearing vermilion realgar sachets for children, thinking that this can ward off evil spirits. In addition, the most distinctive features of Guangzhou are rowing dragon boats, watching dragon boat scenery and eating lychees. At that time, everyone would come to the river to watch the dragon boat rowing. According to legend, Gong Liu (958-97 1 reigned), Empress of the Southern Han Dynasty, dredged the "Jade Liquid Pool" in the west of Guangzhou that year, and held dragon boat races every year during the Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon boat races held in the Ming Dynasty are also recorded in many ancient books.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, from 65438 to 0953, Guangzhou organized dragon boat races or performances every year. During the Cultural Revolution, this folk competition was forced to stop. After 1979, the dragon boat rowing resumed. Since 1985, Guangzhou has organized four dragon boat races according to international standards. 1988 Dragon Boat Race combines sports, economy, trade, culture, entertainment and tourism activities for the first time. 1990 Dragon Boat Race 1434, received tourists1660,000, including more than 6,000 overseas tourists. Since 1995, the Guangzhou Municipal Government has established the Guangzhou International Dragon Boat Invitational Tournament held every year in the downtown area of the Pearl River, which has become a new hot spot for Guangzhou citizens to celebrate folk festivals.

Lantern Festival Guangzhou Valentine's Day

Lantern Festival is an important festival during the Spring Festival. Yangcheng's distinctive Lantern Festival will let tourists appreciate the rich local flavor and local sentiment, especially midnight snack. The lights in the city are picturesque, and the lights of major traffic arteries and tourist attractions flow like the sea, and the spring is infinite.

the Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is a 20-year-old custom in Guangzhou. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival in China, also known as the Lantern Festival.

The Lantern Festival in Guangzhou has a long history. As early as the Southern Han Dynasty, the Lantern Festival in Guangzhou was burned on the flower pagoda (now Liu Rong Flower Pagoda, then called stupa) of Changshou Temple (now Liu Rong Temple), which was called "Moon Lantern Festival" to compare with the moon and wish a bumper harvest. By the Qing Dynasty, Guangzhou Lantern Festival was located in the "Sipailou" on Jiefang Middle Road. After the Revolution of 1911, the Lantern Festival was once ignored. It prospered again after liberation.

There are many kinds of lanterns for Lantern Festival, including palace lanterns, silk lanterns, gauze lanterns, lanterns, pictographic paper lanterns, lanterns, dragon lanterns and lantern buildings. Dragon lanterns and lantern buildings belong to large colored lights. Dragon lanterns connected by dozens of lanterns can also dance and parade in the street!

In fact, the Lantern Festival in Guangzhou is an exhibition of folk lanterns. Lantern Festival is held in Guangzhou during the Spring Festival. In addition to displaying Guangzhou lights, Yuexiu Park, Martyrs Cemetery and Guangzhou Cultural Park often hold lantern festivals in Zigong, Sichuan and Datong, Shanxi.