Lingnan folk festival

The people of South Guangdong have lived in Lingnan for more than 100,000 years and created many folk customs with regional characteristics. Although Lingnan is the forefront of the country's reform and opening up and the development of science and technology, these ancient customs and habits have not been eclipsed by modernization, and they are still symbols of Lingnan.

Take the traditional diet and lifestyle of Lingnan as an example, Lingnan snacks, snacks and porridge are mostly circulated by the people. Lingnan has belonged to Chu since ancient times, and the custom of commemorating Qu Yuan on the Dragon Boat Festival has always been popular, and Zongzi has long been famous. "Guangdong New Language" records: "Dragon Boat Festival is a custom in Guangzhou, and it is called grey zongzi and meat zongzi wrapped in winter leaves; Set hematoxylin as a red heart and bamboo leaves as a bamboo tube jiaozi; The triangle is called jiaozi Zongzi, which is soaked in water for several months, peeled and fried. " Bamboo tube mung bean wrapped in bamboo leaves is popular in the Pearl River Delta in jiaozi. Soda dumplings with sappan as the red heart are still a must-have food for the Dragon Boat Festival in rural Dongguan. Zhaoqing steamed dumplings, which have a long reputation, are also the traditional holiday food of Zhaoqing people during the Dragon Boat Festival and the Spring Festival. Porridge, called "Mi" in ancient times, is still used by Chaoqiong people. No matter how old they are, they eat porridge almost every day. In Guangzhou, the famous porridge products are champion and first porridge, fish belly porridge, fire-reducing porridge, boat porridge and so on. Guangdong dim sum, based on Lingnan snacks, has been widely developed from the court pastry and western pastry techniques in northern China, including six ancient capitals. For thousands of years, there are as many as one or two thousand kinds. Representative famous products include thin-skinned shrimp dumplings, lotus leaf rice, e-fruit powder, barbecued pork buns, Lipu autumn taro horn and so on. These are still common things in Lingnan streets and restaurants.

Hakka Dragon House is a famous traditional building in Lingnan, and its distribution is consistent with that of residents, mostly in mountainous and hilly areas, mainly distributed in Jiayingfu and northern Guangdong in the upper reaches of Dongjiang River, and extended to Guangxi, Gannan and Minnan. Mr. Zeng thinks that the unique structure of Hakka dragon house is complementary to many needs of Hakka life. Hakkas are descendants of ancient Central Plains immigrants, and their ancestors moved to Lingnan to escape famine or war. Because of the rapid movement, it was violently resisted by local aborigines, forming their unique residential architectural form with both agricultural form and defensive characteristics. This form of residence is conducive to the unity and self-defense of Hakka people and the consolidation of Hakka clan concept. Even in modern society, Hakka Dragon House still exists widely in Hakka dwellings in Lingnan area, maintaining a tough cultural endurance, which can be seen from the profoundness and tenacity of Lingnan traditional culture.

While inheriting the tradition, Lingnan is also performing modern fashion scenes. Since the reform and opening up, the government has set up many special economic zones in Lingnan. Lingnan, especially the Pearl River Delta region, has become the main position of trade and cultural exchanges between China and the West, and the lifestyle and fashion of western society have taken the lead in Lingnan. Take festival folklore as an example. In the Pearl River Delta region, including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and other large and medium-sized cities and rural areas, it has become a common thing to celebrate the "foreign festival". Before Christmas, Christmas gifts and articles can be seen everywhere in all urban and rural shops. Cultural activities such as Christmas cards, Christmas trees, Christmas gifts, Christmas food, Christmas Eve, etc. make the ancient streets and alleys filled with western festival culture. Others such as Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Father's Day have also become an important part of Lingnan people's holiday life. In addition to celebrating foreign festivals, it is a western custom for men, women and children to eat cakes, blow out candles, sing birthday songs and make wishes on their birthdays in urban and rural areas of the Pearl River Delta in the past decade, even in rural areas. Fully absorb the customs and fashions of western modern society, and make the life of people in Lingnan area full of modern colors.

Traditional folk customs are intertwined with modern fashion, which is especially obvious in cities in Lingnan. People often drink morning tea, go to the ice room to eat ice cream in the afternoon, and linger in bars at night. In Liwan District, Guangzhou, traditional arcades, xiguan big house and exotic sand houses are set off each other. In the Pearl River Delta region, Cantonese, English and Mandarin are used at the same time, which is the common language for office, business, tourism and daily communication. With the development of the times, this feature has become more and more obvious and has become a landscape of Lingnan folk culture.