Which province is Zhongshan in?

Zhongshan, known as Xiangshan in ancient times, is named after "many fairy flowers". It is the hometown of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province and one of the metropolises on the west bank of the Pearl River Estuary.

The ancient Xiangshan is an island in Dingling Ocean outside the Pearl River Estuary. Its territory is now Wugui Mountain and Fenghuang Mountain (now Zhuhai City) and the surrounding mountains and hills, that is, the land from Shi Qi to Macau. Xiangshan County, Guangzhou, formerly known as 1 152, was renamed Zhongshan County 1988 1 in memory of Sun Yat-sen and upgraded to a prefecture-level city.

Zhongshan is one of the cradles of Cantonese cuisine in Guangfu and one of the representative cities of Guangfu culture. Xiangshan culture, which originated in Zhongshan, is an important source of modern culture in China. Zhongshan is a national historical and cultural city, enjoying the reputation of the hometown of Guangdong folk art (Cantonese opera) and the hometown of overseas Chinese. More than 800,000 overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan live in 87 countries and regions on five continents.

folk art

Zhongshan is rich in folk arts, including Cantonese opera, Guangdong music, Zhongshan folk songs, dragon and lion dances and floating colors at the cliff mouth. Zhongshan is the hometown of folk songs. Popular folk songs include salty water songs, Gaotang songs, songs, crane songs, drums, fishing drums, dragon boats and children's songs in minor. Among them, Salt Water Song and Gaotang Song are the most distinctive. These two kinds of folk songs have a history of more than 300 years and are popular in tanzhou town and other big Sha Tin districts. Dragon dance in Zhongshan can be divided into eight categories: Long Mu, Dragon, Jinlong, Salon, Grass Dragon, Youlong, Ban Long and Yunlong. In 2006, Tanzhou Xianshui Song, Xiaolan Chrysanthemum Club and Shaxi Herbal Tea were included in the national intangible cultural heritage, and five folk art forms, such as Nanlangyakou Piaose, Wuguishan Hakka Folk Song, Baikou Lotus Folk Song, Shaxi Crane Dance, Huangpu Kirin Dance and Huangpu Piaose, were included in the representative list of Guangdong intangible cultural heritage.

Cultural activities

Charity is flourishing.

Ten thousand people charity line was selected in the list of "One City, One Special" Spring Festival cultural activities in Guangdong Province, which was founded on 1988. It is a "million-trip" non-governmental public welfare activity in Hong Kong. With the help of social forces, it is called "Ten thousand people respect the elderly in Zhongshan". Since 1989, it has been renamed "Zhongshan Charity Bank", which is held every year on the seventh day of the first lunar month and on the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month since 2000. Charity Walk has become the most distinctive and meaningful traditional Spring Festival activity in Zhongshan, the most distinctive urban spiritual and cultural brand in Zhongshan, and the city business card that Zhongshan people relish.

Xiao LAN ju Hua hui

Xiaolan Town is located in the north of Zhongshan City. Xiaolan Chrysanthemum has a history of more than 700 years since the Southern Song Dynasty. The holding of the Chrysanthemum Festival originated in the year of Chen Bing in the first year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (AD 1736), and is known as the "Chrysanthemum City". Since then, Xiaolan has been held once a year in autumn. Every flowering period, chrysanthemum growers move chrysanthemums to the Chrysanthemum Society to observe and evaluate chrysanthemum art and exchange experiences, which has become a traditional festival in Xiaolan, Zhongshan. During the Chrysanthemum Festival, ten thousand pots of chrysanthemums are in full bloom. In addition to holding large-scale chrysanthemum exhibitions, Xiaolan people will also carry out various cultural activities, including Quyi, Piaose, Dragon Dance and Lion Dance.

Lingnan Water Town Tourism Culture Festival

Minzhong Town, Zhongshan City is the best-preserved natural and humanistic ecological scenic spot with the characteristics of water town in Lingnan area, and has the reputation of "Lingnan Water Town". In order to better develop local tourism resources and develop rural eco-tourism, Zhongshan launched the Lingnan Water Village Tourism and Culture Festival in 2007, and held a variety of activities such as "Harmonious Village" photo exhibition, famous agricultural products fair, rural food street, animal show, water town sports meeting, water town folk custom exhibition and water town folk song invitational tournament. Among them, the "Water Town Games" with strong local flavor is the most interesting and has strong public participation, including tug-of-war, harrowing, eel catching, duck catching, husband and wife running on their backs and many other activities.