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Customs in Guangzhou...

1. Drinking tea

"Drinking tea" is called "drinking tea" in Cantonese dialect. Guangzhou people love "drinking tea". Tea culture is both folk culture and food. culture. It is said that when Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty went to Guangzhou from the south of the Yangtze River, he went to a teahouse to drink morning tea with his personal bodyguards.

Mao Zedong’s poem “Drinking tea across the Guangdong Sea will never be forgotten”. In Guangzhou, it has become a kind of etiquette for people to treat each other with tea. When a guest arrives, the first thing he does is offer him a cup of "good tea", and the first sentence is "Please drink tea" to express the host's enthusiasm. , friendly and polite.

2. Piaoce

Piaose art originated in Wuchuan City, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province. Its form and principle are that a number of people push a color board, which is decorated with fixed The figures in the pose are supported only by an invisible colored stem, dancing and dancing in the air at a height that is higher than a person. They are about to fly, so they are called Piaose. It is one of the Shehuo performing arts forms.

3. Lettuce Party

Lettuce Party is a Chinese religious custom. A gathering to pray to Guanyin for children and wealth. Chinese folk regard the 26th day of the first lunar month of each year as the birthday of Guanyin Bodhisattva. Popular in Guangzhou, Nanhai, and Shunde, it originated in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and declined in the early days of liberation. It has a history of more than 300 years. Lettuce will eat lettuce, initially to "welcome anger".

4. Lion dance

Lion dance is one of the traditional lion dances. It is still popular in some places in Guangdong and Guangxi provinces. Lion dance is popular in China. There are many different factions and many different types, which have different meanings in different parts of China.

5. Muyu Song

Muyu Song, also called Moyu Song, is one of the traditional rap arts in Guangdong Province and belongs to the Tanci system. Popular in the Pearl River Delta, Xijiang and Nanlu areas of Guangdong Province. It originated in the late Ming Dynasty and flourished after the Qing Dynasty.