Guangfu culture is the culture of the Han Cantonese ethnic group. It is an important part of the Chinese culture. Those: Cantonese, Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera are often used as synonyms for Cantonese culture. So what is included in Cantonese culture? I found some information, let’s take a look at urban culture together!
Festival customs and weddings
In terms of festival customs, they not only inherit the traditional culture of the Central Plains, but also have their own local characteristics. In Guangzhou, there is a New Year's Eve flower market. It has been around since the Southern Han Dynasty. By the middle of the 19th century, the flower market was regularly held a few days before New Year's Eve. Flowers and trees poured into the city. The ten-mile long street was filled with citizens walking together on "Flower Street". Many cities in the Pearl River Delta have this custom.
Panyu’s colorful entertainment activities, the Lettuce Fair (a homophone for fortune) in various parts of the Pearl River Delta, Boluo’s Birthday, Zheng Xian’s Birthday, Jinhua’s Birthday, He Xiangu’s Birthday, Riniang’s Birthday, and Queen Mother Pangu Festival, Fish and Flower Festival, Tianliao Festival, Dragon Mother Festival, etc., the contents are mostly related to the themes of worshiping local gods, getting rich, and making a safe voyage.
Reflects the deep structural character of Guangdong customs and culture. In terms of marriage customs, the feudal marriage system of the Han people was accepted in the old days. In the urban and rural areas of Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta, there are still customs of not leaving the husband's family and combing the girl herself. The former retains the ancient Yue custom. After a girl gets married, in addition to New Year celebrations, celebrations, Except for condolences and other happy events, they generally do not return to their parents' home, but stay at their husband's home. The latter is when some women announced that they would comb themselves and never marry in order to make a living independently and get rid of the shackles of feudal marriage. This kind of marriage custom is not only a variation of ancient marriage customs, but also has the color of personality liberation. After the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Food Customs
Guangzhou’s food culture is well-known at home and abroad. Cantonese cuisine is one of the four major cuisines in my country. It is characterized by being good at innovation in imitation, using a wide range of ingredients,
selecting rare ingredients, exquisite ingredients, exquisite workmanship, paying attention to "wok gas", focusing on image, variety Various, all-round flavors, suitable shades. Cantonese cuisine is good at drawing on the strengths of others and adapting it according to Guangzhou's climate and product conditions, reflecting the adaptable and changeable charm of Lingnan culture. In Cantonese cuisine, all birds and animals, delicacies from the mountains and seas, wild vegetables and mountain flowers can be included in the dishes. The famous "Dragon and Tiger Fight", "Chrysanthemum and Three Snake Soup", "Braised Grass Bird in Soup", "Braised Civet Civet", "Wabo Bowl" "Stewed grass worms", "boiled dog meat" and "baked squab with coarse salt" have become recognized delicacies.
The chicken dishes are both plentiful and delicious, which shows the skill of Cantonese cuisine. Cantonese-style dining emerged in Guangzhou at the end of the 19th century. By the 1920s and 1930s, popular teahouses had emerged and gradually became a custom, extending to towns in the Pearl River Delta and towns along the Xijiang and Beijiang rivers. The snacks in the tea house are exquisite and rich, and common ones include egg tarts, egg cups, egg powders, dry steamed rice, steamed buns, and various types of porridge. After the reform and opening up, many Western pastries were introduced, making the food more fashionable and exquisite.
Opera music
Cantonese opera is sung in Cantonese dialect and is the most popular and influential local opera in Guangdong. Cantonese opera is formed and developed by the continuous integration of various foreign opera voices, local opera and folk rap art. Later, some Western instruments were boldly used as accompaniment instruments, which greatly enhanced the effect of singing and dramatic actions. In the 1930s and 1940s, famous Cantonese opera actors included Sit Juexian, Ma Shitsang, Pak Ju Wing, and Liu Xihuai, who were known as the "Four Great Cantonese Opera Masters". The "red accent" created by the Red Line Girl has had the greatest influence in the past half century. Varieties of folk art sung in Cantonese include Cantonese opera, wooden fish songs, dragon boat songs, Nanyin and Cantonese opera.
Cantonese music is a purely instrumental folk music produced, spread and developed in the Pearl River Delta area and the Guangfu dialect area in western Guangdong. Since the 1860s, representative figures such as Yan Laolie have used the melody development method of regularly using decorative sounds and "adding flowers" to create and adapt "Thunder in the Dry Sky", "Inverted Curtain", "Linked Button", Famous pieces of music with unique styles and local colors, such as "Hungry Horse Rattles" and "Rain Beats Plantains", mark the formation of Guangdong music as a genre.
Foshan is the birthplace of "Southern Red Bean" Cantonese opera.
Art and Crafts
Guangdong painting circles have developed greatly since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the emergence of numerous talents, unique styles, diverse techniques, and pursuit of innovation and change. Its representative figures include: Nanhai Lin Liang's freehand flowers and birds, Dongguan Zhang Mu is famous for painting horses, Xinhui Gao Yan is good at landscapes, Shunde Li Jian poetry, calligraphy and painting are excellent, Shunde Su Liupeng, Su Renshan, especially He is good at figures, living in nests in Panyu, and living in cheap flowers and insects. He attaches great importance to the use of nature and created the techniques of "bumping water" and "bumping color". At the beginning of the 20th century, the "Lingnan School of Painting" emerged in Guangdong. Its founders, Gao Jianfu, Gao Qifeng, and Chen Shuren, were all from Panyu. They advocate advocating artistic revolution and establishing modern Chinese painting as their purpose; eclectic Chinese and Western methods, integrating ancient and modern times as their approach; having both forms and styles, elegance and vulgarity as their aesthetic standards; working concurrently with writing, and paying equal attention to color and ink as artistic techniques. It is unique and has become an influential art school at home and abroad.
In modern times, those who inherit and develop this school of painting include Fang Rending, Li Xiongcai, Guan Shanyue, Zhao Shaopiao, Yang Shanshen, etc. There are many types of arts and crafts of Guangfu ethnic origin, some of which enjoy high reputations at home and abroad. Such as Zhaoqing Duan Inkstone; Guangzhou’s ivory carvings, jade, mahogany furniture, gold-painted porcelain, Zhu Yisheng jewelry and Guangzhou embroidery, etc.;
Foshan ceramics, woodblock New Year pictures, paper-cutting, gold, silver, copper and tin foil, dyed paper, lion heads, etc. , colorful lights; Foshan is the main birthplace of China's Southern Martial Arts and the birthplace of Southern Lion.
Cultural Festival
The first Guangfu Cultural Festival opened on January 18, 2011. Wuxianguan, the inheritors of the five major cultural heritages of Guangxi embroidery, bone carving, sculpture, bonsai and photography, performed their arts. The 91-year-old chess master Chen Songshun came to the scene to set up a chess game. Ye Runsheng, a famous paper-cutting master, performed hollow silhouettes by himself. Guo Daqiang, the "King of Southern Xiao", demonstrated manual tuning with precision comparable to instruments. Yan Zhitu, who has been a storyteller for 50 years, told Cantonese folklore stories. ...The six-day "Guangfu Cultural Festival" opened grandly at Wuxian Temple in Guangzhou.
The launching ceremony will also include a gorgeous Hanfu show, blessings from the Five Immortals, lion awakening and other exciting performances. Poshan, the current site of Wuxian Temple, is one of the starting points of the Pearl River Maritime Silk Road - the "Poshan Ancient Ferry". It still leaves traces of the waves washing off the coast of Guangzhou in the Tang Dynasty. The organizers ingeniously designed the "Flowers and Rice Ears as Presentations to the Five Immortals" program. Visitors only need to spend two or three yuan to buy flowers and rice ears as offerings to the legendary "Five Immortals".