Guangdong has a long history and unique culture. There are four main parts: Guangfu culture, Maoming culture (such as Nianli), Chaoshan culture, and Hakka culture. The annual festival in and around Maoming is one of the most unique traditional festivals in Guangdong. The rural areas in Maoming, Huazhou, Gaozhou, Dianbai County, Xinyi and Wuchuan hold annual festivals every year. Shantang is a model of Chinese folk charity; Guangdong Cantonese cuisine and Chaozhou cuisine (also known as Chaoshan cuisine) are famous throughout the country. Looking at reality, we can see that Chaozhou Cantonese cuisine is the largest cuisine in China today! Cantonese opera and Chaozhou opera in Guangdong are among the top ten local operas in China; Guangdong music and Chaozhou music are elegant and popular all over the world; the rough and heroic singing and dancing of Chaozhou-Shantou singing and dancing are a unique flower in the southern art world. The Kaiping Diaolou is rated as a World Cultural Heritage, the Hakka enclosed houses are considered representative buildings of Chinese Han people’s southward migration culture, and the Chaoshan folk houses are also classically elegant.

According to incomplete statistics, from 1995 to 2002, Guangdong’s fiscal investment in cultural undertakings was 6.041 billion yuan (excluding infrastructure), accounting for 13.58% of the country’s total cultural industry output, ranking first in the country. In the past eight years, the Pearl River Delta region has built a number of modern cultural facilities with large investment scale and advanced equipment, which have attracted national attention. The province currently has 2,427 cultural institutions (excluding film industry, the same below) and a cultural team of 22,570 people. It has initially formed artistic creation performances, mass culture, public libraries, film distribution and screening, cultural relics museums, cultural markets, etc. Backbone network; forming a new pattern of Guangdong culture with state-run culture as the leading role and social-run culture as the basis.

The Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra are among the first-class orchestras in the country, and the Guangdong Experimental Modern Dance Company is an internationally renowned dance company. Iconic cultural facilities that have been built or are under construction include the new Provincial Museum, Xinghai Concert Hall, Shenzhen Concert Hall, Dongguan Grand Theater, etc.; the construction of grassroots cultural facilities in mountainous areas has ranked first in the country, and won the highest social and cultural award in the country - "Stars" In the selection of "Award", Guangdong Province ranked first in the country in terms of total results and number of gold medals for two consecutive years. The first underwater archaeological base in the country and even in Asia is located in Guangdong. In 1997, 2000 and 2001, there were projects listed among the "Top Ten New Archaeological Discoveries in the Country". Guangdong Audio and Video City's sales reached 1.6 billion yuan in 2002, accounting for 70% of the country's wholesale volume. For five consecutive years, the total number of incoming and outgoing cultural groups and the total number of foreign cultural exchanges ranked first in the country. But the number of museums and libraries per capita is low.

Cantonese Opera

Cantonese Opera, also known as Drama or Guangdong Opera, originated from Southern Opera. It began to appear in Guangdong and Guangxi during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. It is a combination of chorus, chanting, music by musicians, and stage costumes. , abstract forms and other performing arts. Each profession in Cantonese opera has its own unique costumes. The language used in the initial performances was Zhongyuan phonology, also known as theater Mandarin. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, intellectuals changed the singing language to Cantonese in order to facilitate the propaganda of the revolution, making it easier for Guangzhou people to understand. Cantonese opera was included in the first batch of 518 national intangible cultural heritage items announced on May 20, 2006. Cantonese opera is popular in Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao. Cantonese opera is performed in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Central and South America, where overseas Chinese from Guangdong live. Cantonese Opera is a major opera genre in southern my country, mainly composed of Bangzi (called Xipi in Peking Opera) and Erhuang, which has been formed by integrating Haiyan, Yiyang, Kunshan, Bangzi and other tunes that have flowed into Guangdong since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and absorbing folk music from the Pearl River Delta.

Teochew Opera

Teochew Opera, also known as Chaozhou Opera, Chaoyin Opera, Chaodiao Opera, and Baizi Opera, is mainly popular in Chaoshan dialect areas. It is a 430-year-old opera sung in Chaoshan dialect. An ancient local opera with a history of more than ten years. It is a branch of Southern Opera in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. It gradually evolved from the Southern Opera in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. It absorbed the specialties of Yiyang, Kun Opera, Pihuang and Bangzi Opera, combined with local folk arts, such as Chaozhou music, etc., and finally formed its own unique art form and style. The language of Teochew opera was not originally Teochew dialect. It can be seen from the Ming Dynasty edition of "The Encyclopedia of Golden Flower Girls in Chaozhou Diao" that Chaozhou opera at this time was mainly sung in Chaoshan dialect, but the singing tunes and dialogues in some of the scenes were marked to be sung in "zhengyin" (i.e. "official accent"). This shows that in the process of the evolution of Teochew opera from Nan Opera, it may first use "official accent", and then gradually reduce the weight of "official accent", and finally become completely localized.

Guangdong Han Opera

Guangdong Han Opera was formerly known as "Luantan", "Waijiang Opera" and "Xingmei Han Opera". In 1933, Qian Rechu, a native of Dabu County, Guangdong, wrote "Outline of Han Opera" ”, it was named Han Opera, and it became a convention from then on, and it has been called Han Opera to this day. It is popular in Meixian, Shantou, Guangdong, northeastern Guangdong, and the border areas of Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangxi. In fact, it comes from Hui Opera after the merger of Pihuang and Western Fujian Han operas. It is a type of opera with Xipi Erhuang as the main voice and sung in Zhongzhou Mandarin. Between the Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns of the Qing Dynasty, Anhui Opera was introduced to Guangdong and formed.