Guangdong culture has a long history and is the main body of Lingnan culture. It occupies an important position and role in the development history of China's national culture. It is one of the most distinctive and dynamic regional cultures in the splendid culture of the Chinese nation.
Lingnan culture consists of four parts: root culture (language identity culture), Baiyue culture (inherent local culture), Central Plains culture (Chinese culture moving south from Central Plains) and overseas culture (foreign culture), all of which have rich cultural connotations.
It covers Lingnan architecture, Lingnan gardens, Lingnan painting school, opera music, arts and crafts, folk festivals, religious culture, food culture, language culture and overseas Chinese culture. Regionally, it can be divided into Guangfu culture, Guangdong Hakka culture and Chaoshan culture.
As early as 1, years ago, "Qujiang Maba people" lived here. According to legend, Baiyue people lived in ancient times, so it is called Yue for short (the old saying that Yue and Yue are interlinked). It is said that in the eighth year of Zhou Yiwang (887 BC), there was a "Chuting" in Guangzhou. After Qin Shihuang unified China, Nanhai County was set up in present-day Guangdong in 214 BC, where Panyu (present-day Guangzhou) was located.
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Guangdong language and culture:
Guangdong language situation is complicated, except for northern Guangdong, eastern Guangdong and western Guangdong, there are Yao language, Zhuang language, She language, standard dialect, old Chinese dialect, military dialect, Shaozhou dialect (northern Guangdong dialect) and so on.
There are three main popular Chinese dialects, namely Cantonese (including Nenggu dialect), Hakka (including Ya dialect) and Min dialect (including Chaozhou dialect, Leizhou dialect, Fulao dialect, Xuelao dialect, Shanghai dialect, Longdu dialect, etc.), which retain rich characteristics of ancient Chinese.
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