The History and Culture of Huadu District in Guangzhou

The history and culture of Huadu District in Guangzhou;

1, gray plastic

Grey plastic, commonly known as "grey batch", is a traditional decoration of Lingnan architecture and a treasure of China folk crafts. According to Volume 18 of Biography of Song Monks, gray sculptures have been in existence for four years (884). Since then, gray sculptures in the Ming and Qing Dynasties have been the most popular, especially in ancestral halls, temples, temples and big houses.

2. King Pangu's birthday

King Pangu's birthday is a traditional folk activity in Huadu District. Every year, August 12 of the lunar calendar is the birthday, and the birthday activities are held from August 12 to August 15 of the lunar calendar. Pangu altar is a fixed activity place.

In the early years of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1796), scholar Qiu Maosong found a stone tablet on the mountainside of Lushan Mountain (now Pangu Wangshan) in Shiling, engraved with the book "Pangu Wang Tian Di Chu Shen Di". Legend has it that this stone tablet originally stood in the Pangu Temple on the terrace, which was left here when the Yao people on the terrace fled.

Qiu Maosong designated August 12th of the lunar calendar, when the stone tablet was discovered, as the birthday of King Pangu, and built an altar of Pangu to attract people to celebrate. Since then, Pangu's birthday celebration has gradually developed into a traditional folk activity with rich content and lively scenes, which has influenced the Pearl River Delta and northern Guangdong. Nearby towns and villages organized lion dance teams to perform in front of Pangu altar, as well as folk activities such as singing big plays, playing lanterns and grabbing fireworks.

3. Hakka folk songs

Hakka folk songs are Hakka's oral creative literature, which is rich in local language characteristics and belongs to a genre of folk songs. It inherits the style of The Book of Songs and the Style of Fifteen Kingdoms, and often uses the traditional techniques of "Fu, Bi and Xing". It is also good at puns and overlapping words.

In addition to love songs, Hakka folk songs include labor songs, exhortation songs, career songs, opera songs, boasting songs, metaphysical songs and guessing tunes, minor songs and bamboo songs. Singing forms include solo, duet, chorus, opera sketch and so on. Hakka folk songs have beautiful melody and implicit artistic conception, and are regarded as the natural sound of the heritage of The Book of Songs.

Easy to understand, vivid in image, catchy in rhyme, diverse in form and rich in content, it is deeply loved and circulated by people. Since the Tang Dynasty, Hakka folk songs have been popular among the people, with a history of 1000 years.

4, winning enamel production skills

Enamel color, also known as "Falang" and "Falan", was innovated in hua county Enamel Color Factory from 1979 to198. Seven people, including Lai Ming, Yang Zhijin, Huang Jianheng and Huang, were organized to study cloisonne in Beijing Enamel Color Factory for many times.

1983, Yang Zhifeng and others organically combined cloisonne technology with wide enamel technology, and innovated and invented a new technology named "Cai Zhong enamel". This technology not only inherits the bright patterns of cloisonne, but also sets off the elegant, simple, meticulous and vivid large-scale color paintings and calligraphy of Guangzhou enamel.

The ornamental value of the product is greatly improved. "Cai Zhong Enamel" products include vases, snack boxes, plates, cans, dishes, bowls, desk clocks, telephones, desk lamps and buttons.

He has participated in many exhibitions organized by the Ministry of Light Industry and relevant departments of provinces and cities, and won many honors and awards. On March 18, 2009, Huadu District Government announced that Cai Zhong's enamel skills were selected into the first batch of district-level intangible cultural heritage protection lists.

5. Huadu Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is a traditional folk custom spreading in Lingnan area, and it is also a form for people to wish the New Year. The origin of lanterns can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. With the development of history, lantern-touring activities have been enriched, and its form and scale reached the maximum in Qing Dynasty.

In the past, the Lantern Festival in Huaxian County was very popular. On the fifteenth night of the first month, most villages held lantern festivals, and the scene was very lively. After the parade, people began to throw lanterns, pray for glory, be filial to their parents, have a smooth New Year and have a good harvest.

After the founding of New China, the custom of tourist lights stopped. In the early 1990s, some villages in Huadu (such as Shuikou, Shihu, Rantou and Hualing in tanbu town) gradually resumed the custom of traveling with lanterns. From 65438 to 0996, after the reconstruction of Hong Kung Miu Temple in Shuikou Village, Tanbu Town, Ren Guangrong, a Hong Kong citizen, initiated the "Lantern Festival" to resume tourism and lantern throwing activities, which has been held 12 times so far.

6.southern lion

Nanshi, also known as "lion awakening", is popular in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia, the hometown of overseas Chinese. It is an authentic Guangdong folk lion dance. Southern lion is a traditional folk art in Huadu, and it is also a popular sports activity. It not only combines martial arts, dance, music and many other cultural elements.

Since jumping, squatting, lunging, lunging and lunging are all martial arts movements, lion dancing must practice martial arts at the same time and master certain martial arts footwork. During the Republic of China, many villages in Huadu had martial arts schools, which hired martial arts tutors to teach children martial arts and lion dance. After the founding of New China, martial arts and southern lion performances became more and more popular. On holidays and opening ceremonies, the village lions took to the streets to pick green and travel.

7. Cantonese Opera

Cantonese opera is one of the major operas in southern China, which combines Haiyan, Yiyang, Kunshan, Bangzi and other operas that have flowed into Guangdong since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and absorbs folk music from the Pearl River Delta such as Muyu, Dragon Boat, Nanyin, Cantonese opera, Cantonese opera, minor tune and ditty. Also known as Cantonese Opera and Guangfu Opera.

It is a performing art, such as string-kneading chorus, chanting, musicians' music, stage costumes, abstract forms and so on. The original performance language of Cantonese opera is the Central Plains phonology, also known as Mandarin in the Opera Studio. It was not until the late Qing Dynasty that the singing language was changed to Guangzhou dialect.

8. Ling Rui bonsai

Ling Rui bonsai mainly comes from Lingrui Village, Chini Town, where people plant bonsai in Fengqun, Tian Xin, Zhudong, Shanglianzhu and Zhu Xialian villages, as well as Tanbu and Shiling. Lingrui Village in Chini Town is located in the west of Huadu District, with vast territory, rich resources and convenient transportation. Planting characteristic agriculture such as bonsai flowers has a long history of 100 years.

Lingrui Village is located under Sankeng Reservoir and Ailing Mountain Pond, with convenient irrigation, and the soil and climate are very suitable for bonsai planting. Lingrui Village in Chini Town mainly produces and manages stump bonsai and potted bonsai, which is an important part of Lingnan bonsai. There are many kinds of trees planted in Lingrui Village, among which Murraya murraya and Luohansong are more accomplished in modeling.

Murraya miniascape is the masterpiece of Ling Rui miniascape, with exquisite craftsmanship and high modeling attainments. On March 18, 2009, Huadu District Government announced that Ling Rui bonsai was selected as the first batch of district-level intangible cultural heritage protection list.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-huadu district