Dragon Boat Festival
Jinli Town, Gaoyao, located in the Pearl River Delta, is a typical water town with criss-crossing rivers. Every year from May/KLOC-0 to May 5, Gaoyao will hold a traditional dragon boat race. The first day of May is the Dragon Boat Festival, which is also the most lively and grand day in Jinli Town. From three or four o'clock in the morning, the whole town of Jinli began to be shrouded in firecrackers and gongs and drums, and various dragon boat teams began to hold dragon-issuing ceremonies. Dragon issuing ceremony is a solemn and quaint ceremony before the dragon boat launching competition. It is necessary to put on a dragon boat banquet and a banner to make the dragon ceremony the finishing touch.
Accompanied by the strong rhythm of gongs and drums, the athletes struggled to paddle. The superb dragon boat team is called "Dragon King". The dragon boat team that won the "Dragon King" enjoys a high reputation among the people. At that time, flags fluttered on the river, thousands of oars danced, thousands of people paid attention to the river, and there were endless voices. "Ride the dragon to win the gold" is such a touching and exciting picture.
Because of the tradition of dragon boat rowing in Zhaoqing, Xinghu Lake is wide. From 65438 to 0998, Zhaoqing held an international dragon boat race every year, winning the gold medal on Qixing Lake, attracting dozens of dragon boat teams at home and abroad, and attracting thousands of tourists from home and abroad to watch.
Double Ninth Festival
On the Double Ninth Festival, Zhaoqing people have the habit of climbing mountains, especially young men and women. Double Ninth Festival, that is, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. In ancient China, "six" was negative, "nine" was positive, and the ninth day of September was exactly the same as the two positive numbers, so it was called "Double Ninth Festival" or "Double Ninth Festival". According to Wu Jun's "Continued Harmony" in Liang Dynasty, Ru Nan Huan traveled with Changfang for many years. "On September 9th, if there is a disaster in your house, hurry: wrap your family in crimson, hold dogwood, climb the mountain with your arms tied, and drink chrysanthemum wine. This disaster can be eliminated. " With the scenery, the whole family climbed the mountain. When I came home at night, I saw chickens, dogs, cows and sheep suddenly die.
Hearing this, the eldest room said, "Take your positions." This story is circulating, circulating. Since then, on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, people like to stick their heads on dogwood and carry chrysanthemum wine to seek shelter from disasters. Nowadays, on the Double Ninth Festival, it is rare to see children playing with dogwood, chrysanthemum wine and Kongming in Zhaoqing, but the custom of people climbing mountains and transferring goods is still as prosperous as ever. Even in Japan, children in rural areas still like climbing mountains and playing with paper. 1996 During the Double Ninth Festival, in Zhaoqing, the number of people climbing Dinghu Mountain and Qixingyan reached 60,000 from early morning to noon, which shows that the custom of climbing on the Double Ninth Festival is flourishing.
Sihui Citrus Festival
Sihui City is a famous hometown of citrus, with a long history of citrus cultivation. According to historical records, in the Ming Dynasty more than 400 years ago, Sihui began to grow oranges on a large scale. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica called Sihui "frozen oranges". Because Sihui has a unique natural geographical environment, climate, local products and rich experience of orange farmers, Sihui citrus is famous at home and abroad for its thin skin, sweet and refreshing taste and fresh taste without residue.
Since the Ming Dynasty, Sihui sent the best oranges to the imperial court every year, so it was called "Gongju". In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, citrus was planted on a large scale in the villages along the Suijiang River. Today, citrus cultivation has become a major industry in the four fairs, with more than 30 citrus varieties. Sihui has truly become a citrus kingdom, and a large-scale citrus market has also been formed on both sides of Guanghai North Line and Silian Highway. Every autumn, Sihui City will hold the annual Citrus Festival, with citrus as the medium, holding large-scale business negotiations and cultural and artistic performances to attract guests from all over the world to taste citrus and negotiate business.
Swallow Festival
In Qiaotou Town, Huaiji County, Zhaoqing City, the stone forest is magnificent and beautiful, and the beautiful natural scenery has given birth to Qiaotou people who can sing and dance. Every year on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, it is the Youyan Rock Culture Festival in Huaiji County, Zhaoqing City, also known as "Swallow Festival" and "Rock Opera Festival". On this day, men, women and children from four villages and eight villages flocked to Yanyan in droves, and tens of thousands of Chinese and foreign tourists gathered here to watch Yanyan fly and watch the bird's nest stunt. People who collect bird's nest at the top of a cave more than 60 meters high can fly over the cliff and walk up the wall with only a few bamboo poles inserted in the cracks in the wall. Its breathtaking appearance makes people tremble with fear, and I have to admire the bird catcher's boldness and prudence, and his unique skills are unparalleled!
In Yanyan, there are traditional folk art performances such as folk song duet and Guangxi opera, which are full of laughter.