Including customs and habits in production, life, traditional festivals, and folk art, as follows:
1. Production customs
Choose a date to start work: after the New Year Festival , all walks of life like to choose a good omen day to start work. On that day, firecrackers were set off in front of the workplace to celebrate. Farmers in mountainous areas put incense and candles in the fields to worship gods on the day when work starts, use hoes to dig a few times in the fields to mark the official start of work, and then set off firecrackers to hope that the start of work will be auspicious.
Neighborhood helpers: Whenever farmers in Shatin District build houses or handle weddings and funerals, their relatives and neighbors are usually willing to help. The host will provide meals without having to worry about remuneration.
Dry Ponds: Pond fish farmers should catch big fish in the fish pond and drain the pond water. Anyone can go down and catch the remaining fish and shrimps. The pond owner doesn’t mind at all.
2. Lifestyle customs
Zhongshan specialties Zhongshan cuisine is famous all over the country and even overseas. "Eat in Zhongshan" is a popular choice for citizens of the Pearl River Delta, compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and overseas Chinese. knowledge. There are more than 6,000 large and small restaurants in Zhongshan. Xiaolan chrysanthemum meat, Shenwan pineapple, Tuwei flower food, Shixia longan, Zhongshan pink fruit Jinzha, almond cake and other specialties are also famous.
The language situation in Zhongshan City is relatively complex, with Chinese dialects mainly used, including Cantonese, Fujian and Hakka dialects. Among them, the largest number of people speak Cantonese dialect, accounting for 84% of the total population. They are mainly distributed in the northern alluvial plain area and the central Shiqi area. Cantonese dialects, generally called vernacular, are divided into four types: Shiqi dialect, Shatian dialect (near Shunde dialect), Triangle dialect (near Dongguan dialect), and Guzhen dialect (near Xinxin dialect).
3. Traditional festival customs
Lingnan Water Town Tourism and Culture Festival: Lingnan Water Town has rich folk customs and rich local characteristics of Lingnan. Zhongshan launched the "Zhongshan Lingnan Water Town Tourism and Culture Festival" in 2007, hosting a "Harmonious Village" photography exhibition, famous and high-quality agricultural products exhibitions, rural food and custom streets, animal performances, water town sports games, water town folk custom exhibitions, water folk song invitational competitions, etc. Activity.
Charitable Thousands of People: Selected into the list of Guangdong’s “One City, One Special” Spring Festival cultural activities, held every year on the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month. Men, women and children from all walks of life inside and outside the city, together with "piaose", lion dance, dragon dance, crane dance and other folk art teams, formed a huge parade of ten thousand people, starting from the western suburbs and walking along Sunwen Road to Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. Along the way, the streets are deserted and the lights are brilliant.
4. Folk Art
Zhongshan is rich in folk art, including Zhongshan folk songs, dragon, lion, crane and phoenix dances, and the floating colors at the cliff mouth. Zhongshan is the hometown of folk songs. Popular folk songs include Xianshui Song, Gaotang Song, minor-key children's songs, etc. Zhongshan dragon dance is divided into eight types, including wooden dragon, wandering dragon, plate dragon and cloud dragon.
In 2006, Tanzhou Salt Water Song, Xiaolan Chrysanthemum Festival, and Shaxi Herbal Tea were included in the national intangible cultural heritage. Five folk art forms, including the dance, Qilin dance and Piaose, have been included in the representative list of intangible cultural heritage of Guangdong Province.
Extended information:
Zhongshan is a national historical and cultural city. The Xiangshan culture originated in Zhongshan is an important source of modern Chinese culture. It enjoys the reputation of the hometown of folk art (Cantonese opera) in Guangdong Province and the reputation of overseas Chinese. The reputation of the town. There are more than 800,000 overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan living in 87 countries and regions on five continents.
Zhongshan belonged to Guangdong Province after the Revolution of 1911. On April 15, the 14th year of the Republic of China (1925), it was renamed Zhongshan County in memory of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. On December 22, 1983, with the approval of the State Council, Zhongshan County was removed from the county and changed to a city (county level), and was managed by Foshan City. On January 7, 1988, it was promoted to a prefecture-level city. In December 1983, Zhongshan was allowed to withdraw from the county and change into a city, and it came under the jurisdiction of Foshan City. In January 1988, it was upgraded to a prefecture-level city.
Baidu Encyclopedia Zhongshan
Zhongshan Municipal People’s Government Folk Customs