Guangfu culture, also known as Guangfu people, refers to the Han residents who speak Cantonese dialect in the Guangzhou Prefecture area of ??the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong Province.
1. Introduction:
Refers to the culture of the Han residents who speak Cantonese dialect in the Guangzhou Prefecture area of ??the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong Province. Cantonese culture takes the Pearl River Delta as the general scope, and the Cantonese dialect area The culture also includes the Gaoliang culture in the western Guangdong region of Guangdong, the Xijiang culture in the Xijiang River Basin, and the Gui culture in the Guangxi region. It is the core area and prosperous place of Guangfu culture, and has always been in a leading position in Guangdong Province.
2. Literary culture:
Before the Song Dynasty, the literary center of Guangdong had always been located in northern Guangdong. Starting from the Song Dynasty, the Pearl River Delta gradually replaced northern Guangdong as the center of Lingnan literature. Cui Yu and Li Pleiying were nationally influential figures at that time, and Cui Yu was the founder of Lingnan Song poetry. In the 18th year of the Yuan Dynasty (1358), more than ten poets founded the Nanyuan Poetry Society in Nanyuan, Guangzhou.
Representative figures include Sun Di, Huang Zhe, Wang Zuo, Li De and Zhao Jie, known as the "Five First Sons of Nanyuan". They created a new situation in the Lingnan poetry world and formed the "Lingnan Poetry School", which became the leading poet in the early Ming Dynasty. One of the five major schools of poetry in China, the Lingnan School of Poetry has kept pace with the other four major schools of poetry.
Guangfu cultural characteristics:
1. Festival customs:
In terms of festival customs, they not only inherit the traditional culture of the Central Plains, but also have their own place. features. 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 the flower street. It was very lively. It has become more and more prosperous and has developed to Many cities in the Pearl River Delta have this custom.
2. 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 materials, selecting rare materials, exquisite ingredients, exquisite workmanship, paying attention to "wok gas", paying attention to image, having a wide variety, all five flavors, and suitable shades. .
3. 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.
4. 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 Bian poetry, calligraphy and painting are excellent, Shunde Su Liupeng and Su Renshan are especially good at figures, Panyu Juchao, Julian works flowers and insects and pays attention to natural methods.
5. Garden culture:
Lingnan gardens mainly refer to Guangfu gardens in the Pearl River Delta region, and are one of the three major schools of traditional Chinese gardening art. In the early Qing Dynasty, under the rule of Shunzhi, Kangxi, and Yongzheng, the economic order was basically stable, social wealth was accumulated to a certain extent, and garden construction began one after another, basically forming three centers: Beijing, Jiangnan, and the Pearl River Delta.