1. "Telling Ancient Stories" in Chaozhou Dialect

"Talking Ancient Times" in Chaozhou Dialect means telling stories in Chaoshan dialect. The form is basically the same as northern storytelling. It is a mass cultural and entertainment activity. Some people gather together spontaneously to give lectures, and some specially invite folk artists who specialize in ancient lectures to give lectures. In the past, Chaoshan did not have specialized storytelling venues like those in the north, so ancient storytelling artists used palaces, parks, squares and other crowded public places to give lectures.

2. Chaoshan Crafts

Chaoshan wood carving is the leader in arts and crafts. It is interesting to say that in the vast volume of "Cihai", to find out the word "wood carving", you must It can only be found by using the word "tide". "Chaoshan woodcarving" has become a proper term, which shows its strong artistry and wide influence. Chaoshan wood carvings began to take shape in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and were perfected by the Ming and Qing Dynasties. They still maintain strong vitality today.

3. Chaoshan architecture

Chaoshan folk houses use the traditional three-sided courtyard and four-sided courtyard as the basic layout. The most basic forms are called "Xiashanhu" and "Four Points of Gold". Residential houses in smaller towns have long and narrow "bamboo pole houses". Large-scale residential buildings are expanded horizontally or vertically based on the Four Points of Gold, and are called "Three Halls", "Eight Halls Facing each other", "Four Horses Trailer", and "Hundred Phoenixes Chaoyang". Their external outlines retain a very regular square or rectangular shape. .

4. Chaoshan Humanities

Chaoshan Shantang is the most representative of Chaoshan humanities. It is a charity organization with folk beliefs. Under the influence of this charity culture, many trendy people are willing to do charity.

5. Chaoshan Folk Customs

Chaoshan has many folk customs and retains much of the traditional culture of the Central Plains. This is something that Chaoshan people have always been proud of. In addition to traditional festivals, Chaoshan people also retain customs such as burning pagodas in the Mid-Autumn Festival and burning dragons in the New Year that have disappeared in the Central Plains. Other distinctive customs include eating seven kinds of soup on Human Day, racing giant pigs in Chenghai, grabbing pomegranates in Longwei, and dragging the gods in the salt stove.

6. Chaoshan Food

Chaozhou cuisine has a history of thousands of years. According to historical records, Chaozhou cuisine can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. After the prosperous Tang Dynasty, influenced by the cooking skills of the Central Plains, it developed rapidly. When Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty came to Chaozhou, he praised the deliciousness of Chaozhou cuisine: "Zhang lifts the waistcoat pillar, so it looks strange. There are dozens of other kinds, which are all praiseworthy." By the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Chaozhou cuisine entered its heyday. There were many famous shops in Chaozhou City, famous teachers emerged in large numbers, and famous dishes were presented. In modern times, due to the exchanges of overseas Chinese from Chaozhou, Chaozhou cuisine has absorbed the essence of famous food at home and abroad, and the dishes have become more colorful and the quality has been improved. Today, Chaozhou cuisine has developed into one of my country's famous dishes with unique Lingdong cultural characteristics and is well-known at home and abroad.

7. Chaoshan music

Teochew opera, also known as Chaoshan opera, Chaoyin opera, Chao Tiao and Baizi opera, is mainly popular in Chaoshan dialect areas and is an existing genre sung in Chaoshan dialect. An ancient local opera with a history of more than 430 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 Chaoshan music, and finally formed its own unique art form and style.

8. Chaoshan Business Culture

After the decline of Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants, the famous merchant gangs in Chinese history, Chaoshan merchants and Zhejiang merchants emerged. In today's world, trendy merchants are very powerful. The main characteristic of Chaoshang is that it operates by combining business, commercial capital and industrial capital, and its operating areas cover the world. Chaoshang has many successful business strategies and has formed a unique business culture.

The significance of Chaoshan culture

Chaoshan culture is the bright star in the splendid Chinese culture. Overseas Chinese go out from Chaoshan, and their inheritance of Chaoshan culture is the promotion of Chinese culture. . The Chaoshan Cultural Research Center is rooted in the hometown of overseas Chinese and has a profound historical and cultural heritage. It is very meaningful to hold this forum at the right time.

Chaozhou has complex and diverse cultural categories, with distinctive Chaozhou cultural characteristics and a hundred flowers blooming; it has a cultural character that strives for excellence; exquisiteness and exquisiteness are many people’s evaluation of Chaozhou arts and crafts; it has an authentic and vivid cultural inheritance , a "living thousand-year-old ancient city" retaining historical context, "seeing people, seeing things, seeing life", "precious and rare".