"300 lychees a day, I will grow up to be a Lingnan person." This is Su Dongpo's self-portrayal of letting go of his belly and eating litchi, and also his admiration for Lingnan scenery. When it comes to colorful lychees, people will think of Du Mu's "Riding a princess in the red dust and laughing, no one knows it is lychee". In addition to litchi, there are longan, yellow peel and so on, which shows that Guangdong has long been a treasure trove of rich products.
Guangdong Cantonese cuisine is one of the four famous dishes in China, including Cantonese cuisine, Chaozhou cuisine and Dongjiang cuisine (Hakka cuisine). Cantonese cuisine pays attention to freshness, freshness, smoothness, tenderness, clearness and crispness, and pays attention to "steaming", with a wide variety, color, flavor and taste. Cantonese cuisine "eats everything", which is a prominent feature of absorbing a variety of food culture. This, in turn, reflects the Guangdong people's open and compatible mentality and pioneering and innovative consciousness. Secret plum fish, golden roast pigeon, abalone seafood roll, magpie nest plum shrimp balls, Hengqin teppanyaki oysters, etc. The names of dishes are like lines of poems, so beautiful that people have an appetite. There are also dragon boat banquets and large pots of vegetables in Guangdong, which reflect the hospitality and neighborhood harmony of Guangdong people.
The pot-stewed flavor of Cantonese cuisine, represented by Chaozhou flavor, includes pot-stewed goose, duck wing, goose web, squid, pig ear and so on. Its appearance is golden red with luster, bright color, fresh and mellow taste, chewy and endless aftertaste, even bone marrow is no exception. You can combine dishes or serve them separately to add luster to the dishes.
Drinking tea is a life custom of Guangdong people. There is a folk proverb that "a pot of tea in the morning does not need a doctor". Drinking tea in Guangdong is not only about drinking tea, but also eating snacks. All kinds of snacks are packed in a small steamer, which is hot, colorful, delicious and attractive. Cantonese people drink not only morning tea, but also afternoon tea and evening tea. Not only can you fill your stomach, but you can also make friends, have heart-to-heart talks, spread news and negotiate business by the way. It can be seen that drinking tea in Guangdong is actually a social activity and a noble etiquette exchange of modern civilization.
In the words of a gourmet, "soup is the whole inheritance of Guangdong food culture, and it is also the source of happiness in the daily life of men, women and children in Guangdong Province". With a long history of soup culture, Cantonese people are experts in soup tasting and soup therapy. When the body is weak and hot, you should drink Lady Enforcers stewed pork bones or American ginseng stewed raw fish, which can not only replenish qi and blood, but also moisten the lungs; When the weather turned cold, it was replaced by a pot of sea coconut and Fritillaria stewed with rock sugar ... The time and patience that Cantonese people paid in cooking soup were beyond the reach of foreigners.
Guangdong has a long history of drinking soup, which is related to the hot and humid climate in Guangdong, and the types of soup in Guangdong will change with the seasons. Cantonese people who know how to cook soup will tell you that drinking cool winter melon, barley and red bean ribs soup in summer can reduce fire, and drinking nourishing ginseng stewed chicken in winter can dispel cold.
However, for foreign friends, Guangdong soup is delicious, but it is not easy to learn. A pot of soup alone has been filled with dried medicinal materials, such as lotus seeds, lilies, yams, Euryale ferox seeds, medlar, red dates and various beans. How to mix these materials reasonably and properly and give full play to their due functions is a university question.
Guangdong opera
Cantonese Opera, formerly known as Grand Opera or Guangdong Grand Opera, originated from Southern Opera, and began to appear in Guangdong and Guangxi from 1522 to 1566 (Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty). It is a performing art of mixing chorus, musicians playing music, stage costumes and abstract forms. , and has the reputation of "Southern Red Bean" and Lingnan cultural treasure. Every business of Cantonese opera has its own unique costumes. The language of the original performance was Zhongyuan phonology, also known as Opera House Mandarin. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, in order to publicize the revolution, intellectuals changed their singing language to Cantonese to make it easier for Cantonese people to understand. Cantonese opera was included in the first batch of 5 18 national intangible cultural heritage list published on May 20, 2006. On September 30, 2009, Cantonese opera was recognized by UNESCO and included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of mankind.
guangdong lion
Lion dance, belonging to the Southern Lion in China, is an exaggerated and colorful competition on the pile. It is a traditional sports event with strong auspicious and festive colors and atmosphere rendering ability, which integrates martial arts, dance and music. It is an authentic Guangdong folk dance and a treasure in Guangdong Dance Garden. Historically, it was born out of the court lion dance in the Tang Dynasty. After the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, with the migration from the Central Plains to the south, lion dance culture was introduced into Lingnan area. In the Ming Dynasty, lion dance appeared in Guangdong, which originated in Nanhai County. Now it is spread among overseas Chinese in Guangdong, Guangxi and Southeast Asian countries. Mainly distributed in Foshan, Suixi, Guangzhou and other counties and cities in Guangdong. Guangdong lions are regarded as auspicious things to ward off evil spirits and avoid harm. Every festival or major event, there will be a lion dance, which will last forever and be passed down from generation to generation.
Chaozhou kungfu tea art
The most representative tea ceremony in China is a complete tea ceremony that integrates spirit, etiquette, brewing skills, tea tour art and tasting. It has always been called "China Tea Ceremony". Chaoshan kungfu tea has a long history. China tea culture prevailed in the Tang Dynasty, and Chaoshan kungfu tea prevailed in the Song Dynasty. Noble tea originated from Chaoshan Kung Fu tea, which has a history of thousands of years. Tea tasting has long been an indispensable part of Chaoshan people's life. Hipsters love to drink congou, which can be said to be the degree of "tea addiction". The ancients said that there are seven things that open the door in the sky: rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, while some "old tea drinkers" in Chaoshan ranked the ancients in the last tea place and rose to the first place. The first thing in the morning is to make congou tea. They are not afraid of the phrase "drink tea on an empty stomach in the morning and rob thieves into other people's homes", but persevere and take their time. The hipsters call tea "MC Davi", which shows the image of a person who is addicted to tea. This shows that hipsters have a soft spot for tea.
Chaozhou tea culture is another important tea culture series in Lingcheng, especially known as "Kung Fu Tea". Chaozhou kungfu tea, which originated in the Ming Dynasty and flourished in the Qing Dynasty, has become a cultural phenomenon of drinking tea in Chaozhou and an important part of Chaozhou food culture.
Chaozhou kungfu tea, regardless of elegance and vulgarity, is very common in the local area, and all of them take tea as their friends. No matter in public places or residents' homes, no matter in roadside villages, factories and shops, people are eating and drinking everywhere. Tea is not only for quenching thirst, but also for connecting feelings, exchanging information, chatting for fun, or negotiating trade. Chaozhou kungfu tea contains rich cultural connotations. Elegant people pay special attention to Kung Fu tea. There is a tea boy who serves food specially (nicknamed "the county magistrate of Lu Feng"). He carries a burden, walks into the mountains, floats, overlooks Qingxi, makes tea, talks about mountains and rivers, and expresses his feelings, which has a unique taste.
Hakka Wei Wu
Hakka wai house is a very representative Hakka residential building, which began in Tang and Song Dynasties and flourished in Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is scientific, practical and ornamental, and it is called the five characteristic residential buildings in China together with Beijing quadrangle, Shaanxi cave dwelling, Guangxi "Olive House" and Yunnan "One Pier Building". South China Luyou, Wengong Temple, Guangludi, Calyx Building, Tai 'anlou in Meizhou, Guangdong, Yongding Tulou in Fujian and Kansai Wai House in Jiangxi are all typical representatives of Hakka Wai House.
Hakkas respect nature, believe in geomantic omen, and gather wealth with water. So there is a wind pool in front of Hakka Dawei house. The house is surrounded by mountains and waters, and the back of the main hall is surrounded by one or several semi-circular or full-circular buildings, called "Longwei", which is combined with the wind pool in front of the house and the main building of the house to form the Artest Pool Circle. Its house base is majestic with the mountain, the foothills are flat and spacious, surrounded by green water, and the left and right mountains are like a case, with far peaks and pen shapes. In Hakka culture, this is the most ideal house with wealth and prosperity and a large number of literati.
Hakka wai house is known as the "oriental ancient Roman castle", and its unique dragon enclosure design is the best embodiment of the centripetal force of Chinese civilization. Hakka enclosed houses are centered on ancestral tablets, symmetrical with the north-south meridian as the central axis, with the front low and the back high, sitting firmly on the mountain and becoming centripetal. The towering arc-shaped back wall of Longwu descends gently along the mountain, showing a calm sense of force. The main building square hall in the middle is divided into upper, middle and lower halls. The left and right horizontal rooms of the hall are opposite, separated by patios and corridors. The memorial tablet ancestral hall, flower hall, wing room, study room and upper and lower corridors distributed in it have different functions, distinct primary and secondary, and crisscross. The wind pool is located at the lowest place in front of Longwei. A pool of semi-circular clear water not only protects geomantic omen, but also is used for drought prevention, fire prevention and fish farming.
Dragon Boat Racing
The traditional "Dragon Boat Drum" in Yangjiang, western Guangdong Province, is located on the coast of the South China Sea. It has a long history and rich cultural heritage, giving Yangjiang, Guangdong a unique folk cultural feature of dragon boat racing. According to relevant historical records, the folk custom of dragon boat race in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province was popular as early as the Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 200 years. Every year on the first, third and fifth day of the fifth lunar month, there are crowds of dragons chasing waves on the Yang Mo River, and the gongs and drums are loud and the audience is like a tide. The traditional dragon boat in Yangjiang, Guangdong is 30.6m long and1.2m wide in the middle. It is made of teak or poplar. The dragon head is tall and powerful, the hull is shiny and black, the scales at the head and tail are colorful, and the beard is elegant and powerful. There are 54 people on board.
Different from the customs of dragon boat racing all over the world, Yangjiang, Guangdong Province has always followed the pattern of "dragon boat racing against the current", aiming at embodying a "dragon boat spirit" that is not afraid of difficulties and strives for the first place. The world calls it "dragon boat rowing, racing spirit" During the dragon boat race, the Ssangyong went upstream side by side, the gongs and drums were loud and the water splashed like a dragon boat, which was spectacular!