What are the fun things to do during the 2018 Guangzhou Spring Festival? List of Guangzhou Spring Festival customs

Various traditional customs and entertainment projects will appear during the 2018 Guangzhou Spring Festival, which is indeed a test for many young friends. You can participate in a series of traditional folk activities. Here are some Share a list of Guangzhou Spring Festival folk activities in 2018.

The Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, and in one week we will usher in the most lively festival of the year. For the babies left behind in Guangzhou, have all the programs been arranged? Or are you waiting for your mum to give you some ideas? Without further ado, here are the exciting activities in Guangzhou during the Spring Festival.

Reference routes

Mu Ma has designed 6 tourist routes for your reference. Please see below for details of the activities. Since many activities have time restrictions, be sure to take this into consideration when planning your itinerary and confirm the opening status of each venue during the Spring Festival in advance.

Route 1 Lychee Bay Yongshui Flower Market—Chen Clan Ancestral Hall—Yuexiu West Lake Flower Market (February 13 to 15)

Route 2 Tianhe City—Spring Festival Float Parade—Tianhuan Square (February 17th to 19th)

Route 3 Haixinsha Garden Expo—Guangdong Provincial Museum—Huacheng Square Light Concert (February 13th to March 2nd)

< p>Route 4 Yuexiu Park Guangzhou Museum—Lantern Festival (February 8 to March 11)

Route 5 Guangdong Museum of Art—Fei Art Museum—Cultural Park Lantern Festival (March 1 to March 4 (Sunday)

Route 6 Zhengjia-Wanlinghui-Taikoo Hui (from now until March 2)

Xinghua Street

The Spring Festival in old Guangzhou is definitely indispensable Flower Street, although the flower market only lasts for three days, and although in recent years I have spent more time looking than buying, I still feel uncomfortable if I don’t go shopping. The Spring Festival Flower Market is an excellent place to bring children to experience the traditional festival atmosphere and create a sense of ceremony. There are a lot of people, so keep an eye on your children.

Flower Market on the Water

The Flower Market on the Water is a special event of the Spring Festival in Guangzhou. It will be held at Litchi Bay and Liwan Lake Park from February 10th to 15th. It will be held this Saturday morning. A grand opening ceremony. This year’s activities include water flower market, water float, intangible cultural heritage display, Cantonese opera private partnership, etc. I experienced it with Dibao last year. It was very interesting to taste delicious snacks and enjoy traditional arts and performances along the way.

West Lake Flower Market

The West Lake Flower Market in Yuexiu District is the traditional central flower market with the longest history in Guangzhou. It has classic brands in the flower market. Even if they don’t live nearby, many people make a special trip there every year. Buying bell flowers with my grandparents when I was a child is a precious memory for my mother.

As in previous years, the West Lake Flower Market will be located on Xihu Road and Education Road and will last from the 28th of the new year to the early morning of the first day of the new year (February 13th to 16th). In addition to various flowers and New Year oranges, the flower market also sells New Year decorations, handicrafts and other dry goods.

Many students will take advantage of the flower market to bid for a stall to experience life and get a taste of what it's like to be a boss. There is an online flower market this year. If you can't come in person, you can still enjoy it online.

There are flower markets in various districts in Guangzhou, mostly from February 13th to the early morning of February 16th. The Huadu District Flower Market opened on February 6th, and the Zengcheng Flower Market will open on February 9th. The flower markets in Conghua, Panyu and Nansha will open on February 10th, with Nansha Flower Market closing on February 14th and Tianhe Flower Market closed on February 14th.

What to buy when visiting the flower market? Pot oranges are the well-deserved number one, cinnabar oranges, four-season oranges, and kumquats, praying for good luck in the new year. Traditionally, the most popular New Year flower is the peach blossom. The delicate Phalaenopsis, elegant narcissus, and luxurious peonies also have their own fans. Lucky bamboos, five generations under one roof, pitcher plants, etc. are also common varieties in the flower market. .

In recent years, dry goods stalls have been competing with flower stalls. Citizens and tourists can buy a variety of products such as spring flowers, windmills, full boxes, red packets, and even festival dried fruits, seafood, etc. that add to the festive atmosphere. Children’s favorite plush toys and inflatable toys will also be available, so everyone will leave with something to enjoy.

Flower Lantern Appreciation

Yuexiu Park

Flower Lantern Appreciation is also a reserved program of the Spring Festival. Every year, Yuexiu Park holds a large-scale lantern show for citizens and tourists to enjoy it to the fullest. As the largest lantern event in Guangzhou, the Yuexiu Lantern Festival will be held from February 8 to March 11. This year’s scale is larger than in previous years, with 50 sets of creative lanterns, 30 sets of large-scale lighting, and 17 flower lanterns on display. scene. Enjoy flowers and exhibitions during the day and lantern viewing at night. Be sure to reserve a day for Yuexiu Park during the Spring Festival holiday.

Cultural Park

Cultural Park will hold a Spring Flower Party from February 15th to March 2nd, and a Lantern Festival Lantern Festival will be lit from March 1st to 4th. With the theme of "Celebrating the New Year with Cantonese Rhythm", the Spring Festival Flower Party also arranges a variety of cultural activities such as performances, exhibitions, and folk art performances. The Cultural Park Lantern Festival is full of childhood memories. Although it is much smaller now, it is still worth seeing.

The "Global Tower Alliance" New Year Light Concert

The "Global Tower Alliance" New Year Light Concert is themed with flowers and music, and will use technology, light, shadow, and music to celebrate the New Year. Create a stylish audio-visual feast. Lighting works such as the Liede Bridge, Huacheng Square, and Haixinsha will be lit up simultaneously. Highlights include the Canton Tower lighting show, the Liede Bridge lighting, the new central axis night view, and the miniature mobile float parade. From February 12th to March 2nd, there will be a light show every 30 minutes from 7:15 to 10:00 every night.

View the floral art

Spring Festival float parade

Every afternoon from the second to the fourth day of the Lunar New Year (February 17-19), nearly 20 beautifully designed floats , floats decorated with seasonal flowers will parade around the Tianhe Sports Center area. While citizens and tourists are feasting their eyes on the floats, they can also vote for their favorite floats.

The 24th Guangzhou Garden Expo

This year’s Garden Expo will be held in Haixinsha and other places from February 13 to March 2, with the theme of "Flowers" "Open Guangzhou, Spring Warms the City of Guangzhou", including 61 exhibition gardens (gardens), 19 groups of public landscape nodes and flower borders, indoor exhibition halls, etc. Before wandering around the sea of ??flowers with their children, it is best for parents to learn about the common types of flowers to avoid being confused about everything.

Going to the mall

My mother loves looking at shopping mall decorations more than shopping. Christmas and Spring Festival are a good time to go out every year. This year's Spring Festival decorations in major shopping malls are mostly in traditional style, which is slightly simpler than last year's Christmas.

Taikoo Hui

The theme of Taikoo Hui’s New Year activities is “Blessings from all directions

Spring fills the courtyard”. The main decoration of the atrium on the M floor displays 8 classic New Year paper-cuts. The children climbed up the stairs and walked around in circles, enjoying themselves. The theme of the children's area is kaleidoscope, the lobby of the office building is "abundant with wealth and wealth", the east glass box is "flowers are blooming and wealth is abundant", and the L3 garden is "full of gold and jade". It exudes a strong flavor of the New Year and is the perfect place to check in when the lanterns first come on. From now until March 4, Taikoo Hui will present a series of weekend performances. Interested friends can pay attention.

Wanlinghui

The "Romantic Ferris Wheel" decorated in Wanlinghui is very pink. The pink Ferris wheel is located in the large atrium on the first floor, and a Cupid angel is set up in the small atrium on the first floor. The mysterious wishing fountain, as well as illuminated roses, surrounded by peach blossoms, and a pink tunnel, this overflowing girlish heart is actually a Valentine's Day decoration rather than a Spring Festival decoration. During the Lantern Festival, a band and bunny girls will parade in the mall, handing out chocolates and mochi.

Zhengjia Plaza

This Spring Festival, Zhengjia has created a unique "Beijing City Travels to Guangdong" themed exhibition. The first floor displays the traditional "Zigong Lantern", the protagonist of which is a six-meter-tall golden dog. The atrium on the fourth floor houses the "Jingwang Mansion Gate" special exhibition and the Beijing-style temple fair. The atrium on the fifth floor houses the "Cantonese Flower Street" and the Cantonese pageant, as well as a New Year's market.

During the Spring Festival, there will be lion dances to celebrate the New Year, Lantern Festival fun lantern riddles and other activities. The stage on the fourth floor will feature exciting performances such as spitting fire, playing diabolo, Cantonese opera and Peking opera martial arts. The activities are rich and diverse, and we are ready to celebrate the festival with citizens and tourists.

Tianhuan Plaza

Although I am not a fan of "Monster Hunt", I have to say Tianhuan's "Spring Flower Dance·

Huba Pickup "Fu" Spring Festival themed exhibition is very sincere. Huba can be found on the first floor, B1 outdoor square, B2 sunken square, and indoor atrium. My mother likes the Welfare Pavilion in the sunken square of B2 the most. The hanging flowers are beautiful and the mirrored interior is perfect for a kid like me who loves to look in the mirror.

Team City

The theme of Teem City’s 2018 New Year is “Inspiring Flying

The whole city is ringing”. A large-scale Ruyi colorful drum array is set up in the north square. A music and light show will be performed in the evening. Entering the north gate, two standing drum pillars with hundreds of family names are very popular with children. The atrium on the first floor is transformed into a drum array. Looking up, I saw the colorful oil-paper umbrellas hanging in the air, just like blooming flowers. The interactive game "Happy Circle" attracted the children eager to try it, and Bibao was also fascinated by it.

Visiting exhibitions

During the Spring Festival, some museums will remain open as usual, so you can pick up exhibitions that you don’t usually have time to visit.

Guangdong Provincial Museum

Guangdong Provincial Museum has been recommended many times. Recent free exhibitions include "Blue and White Porcelain: Science, Technology, Culture and Trade" and "The First National Animation Art Works Exhibition", and the paid exhibition includes "Musha and the Art Nouveau Movement".

The Blue and White Porcelain Exhibition showcases the achievements of blue and white porcelain in my country during the Ming and Qing Dynasties from aspects such as materials, culture, and trade, as well as the important role played by Guangdong in the process of economic and cultural exchanges between China and the West.

The National Animation Exhibition exhibits outstanding works from animation masters, popular rising stars, animation companies, etc., in the form of comics, picture books, animations, animation sculptures, dolls, etc.

The Mucha exhibition runs until March 25. About half of the exhibits are Mucha's works, most of which are posters, as well as the "Lord's Prayer" picture book, oil paintings, Slavic mythology wallpapers, tapestries, etc.;

The other half is the work of well-known Czech artists in the Art Nouveau movement, including Frantesco Bilek, Maximilian Pirner, Voigt Plessig, etc. All exhibits are This is the first time to exhibit in mainland China. (Click here for my review)

Guangdong Museum of Art

The Guangdong Museum of Art is currently hosting the "Guangzhou Image Triennial 2017 Duplicate·Duplicate" and "Between· Exhibition of New Chinese Ink Painting Works (Mexico)".

The "Guangzhou Image Triennial" with the theme of "Simulta-neous" (Simulta-neous)

Eidos has attracted much attention. The exhibition focuses on cameras, photo studios, Motifs such as darkroom, mirror image, simulacra, analog image, picture frame and picture album, nature and life reflect on traditional photography and image dissemination and consumption.

"Between ·

China's New Ink Painting Exhibition (Mexico)" uses the medium of "ink and painting" to provide the Mexican people with a dialogue between traditional Chinese culture and contemporary culture. The "samples" provide a window to examine Chinese contemporary art and contemporary painting, and also prompt the gaze, attention, interaction and exchange between different cultures. The exhibition runs until February 28th.

Guangzhou Museum

The Guangzhou Museum is located in Yuexiu Park and is commonly known as the five-story Biao Zhenhai Tower in the old city of Guangzhou. Currently on display are exhibitions such as "City Symbols·

City History - Guangzhou History Exhibition" and "Sails of Color - China's Exported Artworks of the 18th and 19th Centuries".

"City Logo·

City History" is a permanent exhibition officially launched this month. It includes animation and VR equipment and other media display contents. It is highly interactive and interesting, and There is a reading room.

The "Sails with Colorful Wind" exhibition runs until March 18. It displays exquisite maps, navigation instruments, ship models and other cultural relics and treasures drawn in the Age of Discovery. If you have played the popular " "The Age of Discovery" will be quite touching.

Audiences can also see Tongcao paintings, watercolor prints, blue and white porcelain and other export artworks.

Guangdong Folk Craft Museum

The Chen Family Ancestral Hall is the largest and best-preserved traditional Lingnan ancestral temple-style building in Guangdong. It has gorgeous decorations and elegant courtyards. It is known as the "Pearl of Lingnan Architectural Art" , "Guangzhou's cultural business card", its wood carvings, brick carvings, gray sculptures, painted paintings, etc. are all worth a closer look.

Currently held exhibitions include "A Century of Guangzhou Style—Wan Zhaoquan Ceramic Works Exhibition" and "East and West on Fans: Chinese and Western Fans from the 18th to 19th Centuries."

Wan Zhaoquan uses a sophisticated and lively approach to recreate the past customs of Guangzhou. Although the people in the alleys and hawkers are no longer there, they are still memorable.

The Chinese and Western Fans Exhibition displays exported fans from the collections of three British museums and the Guangdong Folk Craft Museum, allowing the audience to experience the intersection of Chinese and Western cultures from the 18th to the 19th centuries, as well as the colorful changes therein.

It will be more interesting to watch it together with the Guangzhou Museum's "Sails of Colorful Winds" exhibition.

Fei Art Museum

The "Borderless Wall - Song Dong Solo Exhibition" is currently on display until March 5. The exhibition is quite interesting. Various period items are displayed in each window, which evokes the memories of Bu’s mother and Bibao’s grandma.

A series of activities held in conjunction with the exhibition, such as the Poon Choi Street Bed Banquet, bed brushing, etc., were very unusual, but attracted many fans. Some staff are not very friendly to children, which seriously affects the experience.

Guangzhou is full of exciting activities during the Spring Festival. In addition to visiting relatives and friends, you might as well go out and walk your children.

I hope everyone has a fulfilling and happy holiday!