Guangdong mainly has branches such as Guangfu culture, Hakka culture, Chaozhou culture, and Leizhou culture. There are Guangcarving, Guangcai, Guangxiu, Chaozhou woodcarving, Chaozhou embroidery, Chaoshan drawn yarn, Chaozhou craft porcelain and other exquisite crafts. Leizhou Peninsula not only has the Leizhou Changing Drum, one of the "Four Wonders in the World", and the Leizhou Stone Dog of the "Southern Terracotta Warriors", but also has intangible cultural heritage - Leizhou songs, Lei operas, Leizhou music, Leizhou girl songs, Nuo dances, etc. Cantonese cuisine is the local flavor of Guangdong, also known as Cantonese cuisine. It is one of the four major cuisines in China. It is developed from the special dishes of Guangzhou, Chaozhou and Dongjiang. Guangzhou cuisine is the most popular cuisine in Guangdong; Chaozhou cuisine is famous for its exquisiteness and elegance; Hakka cuisine is famous for its original flavor.

Cantonese people’s diet is also inseparable from drinking tea. Tea drinking is inseparable from tea, snacks, porridge, noodles, noodles, and some side dishes. It is worth mentioning Chaoshan Gongfu Tea; Cantonese dim sum is One of the three specialties of Chinese pastries; Cantonese porridge is characterized by boiled rice and careful seasoning, including chicken porridge, fish porridge, Ji Di porridge and Tingzi porridge; Cantonese rice noodles are Shahe noodles, which are soft and tough. The most famous Cantonese noodles are "Yifu noodles". Zhanjiang's seafood cuisine has long been famous in China. In 2010, Zhanjiang was awarded China's first "Chinese Seafood and Gourmet Capital".

Lingnan music has multiple attributes due to its cultural diversity, including Guangdong music, Chaozhou music, Hakka music (Hakka folk songs, Guangdong Han music), Leizhou music and Lingnan minority music, as well as music spread overseas. Lingnan music belongs to the category of Lingnan music. The Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra are China's first-class orchestras, and the Guangdong Experimental Modern Dance Company is an internationally renowned dance company. Cantonese cross talk (Southern style cross talk) is powerful in Hong Kong and Macao, and its representative figure is Huang Junying.

Iconic cultural facilities include the new Guangdong Provincial Museum, Xinghai Concert Hall, Shenzhen Concert Hall, Dongguan Grand Theater, Dongguan Yulan Grand Theater, etc.; Guangdong Province has won the "Star Award", China's highest social and cultural award, for two consecutive years "The overall selection score and number of gold medals ranked first in the country. Among the 7 national historical and cultural cities, Guangzhou is one of the prosperous places of Guangfu culture and one of the starting points of the Maritime Silk Road. Chaozhou is one of the birthplaces of Chaozhou culture. Foshan is the main birthplace of Southern martial arts, the birthplace of Nanshi, and was the smelting center of South China in the Ming Dynasty. Zhaoqing and ancient Fengkai were the earliest capital of Lingnan, the birthplace of Cantonese, and one of the connecting points of the Maritime and Land Silk Road in the Han Dynasty. Meizhou is one of the birthplaces of Hakka culture. Zhongshan is one of the birthplaces of Xiangshan culture.

Leizhou is one of the birthplaces of Leizhou culture. Xuwen County is one of the earliest departure ports of the Maritime Silk Road in the Han Dynasty. There are 16 provincial historical and cultural cities: Gaozhou, Lianzhou, Xinhui, Pinghai, Tuocheng, Jieshi, Jieyang, Jiexi, Huizhou, Nanxiong, Luoding, Deqing, Shaoguan, Yingde, Haifeng, Dongguan