the market of winter jasmine
the market of winter jasmine Guangzhou has the custom of visiting the flower market during the Spring Festival. It was gradually developed from the ancient flower market and night flower market. Guangzhou's Lunar New Year Flower Market was formed in the 19th century during the reign of Qing Xianfeng and Tongzhi. At that time, there were two flower markets, one in front of the Francisco (now at the junction of Zhongshan Road and Beijing Road) and the other in Shibafu. The New Year's Eve Flower Market, also known as the Spring Festival Flower Market, is held on the last three days of the Lunar New Year. In these three days, the flower market is open to the public from early morning to midnight, reaching its climax on New Year's Eve and ending at 2 am on the first day of the first month. During the flower market, along the Education Road, Duobao Road, Binjiang West Road, Dongchuan Road, Fangcun Luju Road and Liwan Road, the long streets are like brocade, flowers are blooming, tourists are flocking to each other, laughing and joking, and it is very lively. Branches, pots and scattered flowers are generally sold in the market. The branches are mainly peach blossoms and plum blossoms, and most of them are bell flowers; There are many names in the basin head, such as kumquat, four seasons orange, scarlet orange, cinnabar orange, golden egg fruit, generation fruit, camellia, orchid, peony, rose, smile, daffodil, peony, begonia and so on. Scattered flowers include chrysanthemum, cockscomb, sword flower, silver willow and so on. ?
Guangzhou tea-drinking custom
Guangzhou tea-drinking custom, centering on morning tea, combines tea-drinking with refreshments with Guangzhou characteristics, including a series of tea ceremony, tea customs, folk customs and folk culture.
in the eastern Han dynasty, there were written records of people in Guangzhou offering tea to their guests. Various teahouses appeared in the Qing Dynasty, especially for the needs of social communication and business negotiation, a number of teahouses, such as Sanyuanlou and Taotaoju, which were produced in the thirteen-line area with prosperous export trade, took on various functions such as diet, communication, leisure and entertainment, and became an important folk custom and lifestyle of Guangzhou people as the carrier of tea drinking customs.
Lettuce Club
Lettuce Club is popular in Guangzhou, Nanhai and Shunde. It originated in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and declined in the early days of liberation, with a history of more than 3 years. Lettuce will eat lettuce, originally to "welcome anger." "Guangzhou Fuzhi" records, "Spring Festival ... spit lettuce and spring cakes to welcome anger." Many people also buy "a basket full of bright green lettuce" after the meeting, "to get its vitality" (see Dianshizhai Pictorial, which was founded in 1884). Later, lettuce was associated with Guanyin belief, and "developed in the social atmosphere of pragmatic and business-oriented in the Pearl River Delta, with obvious utilitarian color" 4 (Professor Ye Chunsheng of Sun Yat-sen University). The purpose of holding a lettuce party has become to seek money and children. The date of the Lettuce Festival is set on the 26th day of the first lunar month, near Guanyin Temple. Apart from watching operas and listening to music, the activities include worshipping Guanyin, touching snails and begging for children, and eating lettuce bags is an essential activity.
The birthday of King Pangu
King Pangu is a mythical man who started the world. Legend has it that he was born in the chaos of heaven and earth. Later, heaven and earth opened up, and the sky was ten feet high and the earth was ten feet thick. He grew ten feet, so at the age of eighteen thousand, the sky was extremely high and the earth was extremely low. All the sun, moon, stars, clouds, mountains and rivers, fields, plants and stones were changed from various parts of his body after his death. In order to commemorate him, later generations chose a treasure trove of geomantic omen, built large-scale buildings, invited skilled craftsmen, painted buildings and carved beams, and built the Pangu King Temple.
Pangu King Temple is famous for its endless incense. On the birthday of King Pangu on the 12th day of the eighth lunar month, people from Nanhai, Panyu, Shunde, Guangzhou, Qingyuan and Sanshui come in droves to celebrate, and the scene is very lively. The worshippers climbed up the steps along the mountain road behind Pangu King Temple, and there was a semi-mountain pavilion on the waist behind the temple. On the west side of it, there is a huge stone, called Gankun Stone, commonly known as Pangu Wangwo Stone. Gankun stone is about 4 meters high, with a plane of more than 3 square meters. There is a crack in the middle, which is more than 3 centimeters wide and more than 1 meters deep. There are several staggered stones nearby, and the bottom of the stone springs all year round, named Longkou Spring. People call this spring "holy water". Anyone who goes up the mountain to worship will take water home to pray for exorcism and disaster relief, and the family will be safe.
Birthday of Polo
Birthday of Polo began in the third year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (137) and has a history of more than 6 years until today. Every year, February 11th, 12th and 13th of the lunar calendar is the birthday time of Polo. February 13th is the birthday. These days, the surrounding areas of Nanhai Temple, including the water, the land and the neighboring villages, are all hot.
Dancing Fire Dog
It is said that at the beginning of Mache Village in Shitan Town, in order to pray for peace and eliminate disasters, every household tied up drafters, inserted incense and smoked cigarettes at the door to pray for eliminating disasters and ward off evil spirits. Since then, some people have used sweet potato vines, or "fire" vines and hemp ropes to simulate dragons, phoenixes and kylins, inserted incense and danced in the streets of the village to wish good luck. It is held every September and has been inherited ever since. Folk nursery rhymes say, "When a fire dog comes to the door, it will add happiness and wealth." Form a unique fire parade.
Dancing the Spring Cattle
Hakka people have cultivated and read their families, and since ancient times, they have formed a lot of Niu Geng culture that advocates cattle. It is said that Paitan Dancing Spring Cattle is a Hakka who moved to Paitan from Changning, Jiangxi Province in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Around agricultural production, the customs of imitating Niu Gengdi's whipping spring and welcoming Koharu cattle prevailed, while beginning of spring's custom of welcoming local cattle and dancing spring cattle was retained. Every year, when the Spring Festival comes, Hakka people dance with spring cattle, amuse each other and express their feelings by grazing, plowing, carrying flower baskets and delivering meals, showing their prayers for future life and their happiness and love blessings to farmers.
The "Spring Cattle" in Paitan is made of bamboo and yellow satin in a carton. There are horns, eyes, mouths, bodies, feet and tails. Vivid, like a strong ox. The belly is hollow, which is convenient for an actor to carry when dancing the spring bull. The spring bull is composed of six actors, including three men, three women, and the road has a bullwhip, a plow, a hoe, a flower basket and so on.
Climbing the Mountain in Guangzhou Chongyang
Climbing the Mountain in Guangzhou Chongyang is a series of folk activities for people in Guangzhou and its vicinity, including the Pearl River Delta and Hong Kong and Macao, to climb peaks such as Baiyun Mountain in the northern suburbs of Guangzhou and buildings such as zhenhai tower to pray for luck, worship the elderly and worship the mountains every year around the Double Ninth Festival of the ninth lunar month.
The custom of climbing Baiyun Mountain in Chongyang, Guangzhou, is related to Zheng Xian's birthday, which has a history of at least 1,5 years. Since the 197s, due to the reappearance of the legend of Zheng Xian, a considerable number of people have turned to climb Baiyun Mountain in Chongyang, and absorbed part of the activities of Zheng Xian's birthday. The number of participants is more than 1, to 2, every year, and in 26, it reached 32,, making it a joyful, peaceful and lively mass festival.
Dragon Boat Racing
At the western end of Guangzhou, the "Dragon Boat Racing" in Pantang, Liwan, which has a history of more than 4 years, was staged in a city with many high-rise buildings. Every year, before the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the villagers dug up the dragon boat that was hidden in the mud near the flood last year. Traditionally, this is called "starting the dragon". When starting the dragon, you should light incense, burn gold and silver and set off firecrackers at the edge of the surge.
On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the villagers in Pantang came to watch as early as possible to welcome a grand day. The most popular is the visit of "Old Dragon" named by Pantang people as "Master Qi", because in a dragon boat race more than 3 years ago, Yanbu signed a contract with Pantang for "grabbing dragon boats".