Lingnan traditional architecture, Lingnan food, Lingnan customs, traditional culture and art, from Cantonese, Cantonese opera, Guangdong music, Guangdong folk art, Lingnan calligraphy, Lingnan painting school, Lingnan poetry, Lingnan architecture, Lingnan bonsai , Lingnan crafts, Lingnan folk customs and Lingnan food culture all reflect the rich connotation of Lingnan culture and the unique and colorful Lingnan local characteristics.
Introduction to Lingnan culture:
Lingnan culture is an integral part of the long and splendid Chinese culture. The unearthed materials from Lingnan ancestor sites prove that Lingnan culture is a native culture. Based on the unique geographical environment and historical conditions, Lingnan culture takes agricultural culture and maritime culture as its source. During its development process, it continuously absorbs and integrates Central Plains culture and overseas culture, and gradually forms its own unique characteristics. Lingnan culture is pragmatic, open, inclusive and innovative.
Lingnan academic thought absorbed and innovated Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism, and Buddhism successively introduced from the Central Plains, and gave birth to different styles of thought schools, such as the Jiangmen School. In modern times, Lingnan took the lead in becoming popular and became an important channel for cultural exchanges between China and the West. Various cultural trends of thought intertwined and woven into a colorful picture, nurturing and producing a generation of advanced figures in modern China represented by Kang Youwei, Sun Yat-sen, etc.
The relationship between Lingnan culture and Guangzhou
As one of the centers of Lingnan culture at this stage, Guangzhou has a long history. Starting from the Neolithic period four to five thousand years ago, a city was built. The Baiyue culture before, the integration of Han-Vietnamese culture and the integration of Chinese and Western cultures after the city was founded. It has continuously formed its own unique style and distinctive regional cultural characteristics. From archaeological relics to documentary records, from historical site culture, architectural culture, folk culture, garden culture, commercial culture, religious culture to various cultures and arts, there is an open humanistic consciousness running through it, especially the consciousness of innovation, business consciousness, The pragmatic consciousness and civilian consciousness reflect the openness, compatibility and reform concepts of Guangzhou people. Traditional culture and art, from Cantonese, Cantonese opera, Cantonese music, Cantonese folk art, Lingnan calligraphy, Lingnan painting school, Lingnan poetry, Lingnan architecture, Lingnan bonsai, Lingnan crafts to Lingnan folk customs and Lingnan food culture, all reflect the rich connotation and content of Lingnan culture. Unique and colorful local characteristics of Lingnan. Although the history of Lingnan civilization began, Shaoguan in northern Guangdong and Chaoshan in eastern Guangdong benefited from the Jiangxi school's southward expansion and the Fujian school's westward expansion. They were the cultural centers of Guangdong in the Tang and Song Dynasties. The Gaozhou area in western Guangdong was the political center during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. However, starting from the Ming Dynasty, Guangzhou, as the provincial capital of Guangdong, began to establish its position as the political, economic and cultural center that other prefectures could not shake.