History and Culture of Huadu District, Guangzhou:
1. Gray Sculpture
Gray Sculpture, commonly known as "Gray Batch", is the traditional decoration of Lingnan architecture, and is a treasure of Chinese folk crafts. According to the "Song monk biography" volume 18 of the relevant records, gray molding in the Tang Xizong Zhonghe four years (884) has existed. Later, gray sculpture in the Ming and Qing dynasties is the most prevalent, especially in ancestral halls, temples, temples and mansions with the most.
2, Pangu Wangxian
Pangu Wangxian is a traditional folk event in Huadu District. Every year on the 12th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar for the birth of the day, the birth of activities from the 12th to the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the Pangu altar as a fixed place of activity.
In the early years of the Jiaqing Dynasty (1796 AD), Qiu Maosong, a scholar, found a stone tablet halfway up the mountain in the Shiling Furnace Mountain (now the Pangu King Mountain), inscribed with the words "the first opening of heaven and earth, Pangu King of the Sacred Emperor's divine position". Legend has it that this stone tablet was originally erected in the Pangu Temple in Tiemian, Tiemian Yao people fled when left behind here.
Qiu Maosong set the 12th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar, when the stone tablet was found, as the birthday of King Pangu, and built an altar of Pangu to attract people to come and celebrate. Since then, Pangu Wangxian has gradually developed into a rich and lively traditional folk event that affects the Pearl River Delta and northern Guangdong. Nearby townships organize lion dance teams to perform in front of the Pangu altar, as well as singing opera, haunting lanterns, snatching firecrackers and other folk activities.
3, Hakka songs
Hakka songs are the oral creation of the Hakka people's literature, rich in local language characteristics, belonging to a folk song genre. It inherits the style of the "fifteen national winds" in the Book of Songs, and often uses the traditional techniques of "fugue, comparison, and rise", and is characterized by puns and overlapping techniques.
Besides love songs, Hakka songs also include labor songs, persuasive songs, industry songs, juggling songs, show-off songs, false and mysterious songs, guessing tunes, ditties, and bamboo songs, etc. They are sung in solo and duet forms. They are sung in the form of solo, duet, joint singing and opera sketches, etc. The Hakka songs are melodious and beautiful. Hakka songs have beautiful melodies and implicit meanings, and are regarded as the heavenly music of the legacy of the Book of Songs.
Their easy-to-understand, vivid image, catchy rhymes, diverse forms and rich contents have been y loved and passed down by the people. Since the Tang Dynasty, Hakka songs have flourished in the folklore for more than a thousand years.
4, in the color enamel production technology
Enamel, also known as "Folang", "French blue", between 1979 and 1981, Huaxian Enamel Factory for technical innovation, the organization Yang Zhifeng, Lai Ming, Yang Zhijin, Huang Jianheng, Huang Cuifang and other 7 people went to Beijing Enamel Factory to learn "cloisonné" filigree techniques.
In 1983, Yang Zhifeng and others organically combined the "cloisonné" technology on the basis of "Guangzhou enamel" technology, and innovated a new technology named "Chinese color enamel". This craft not only inherits the "Cloisonné" craft, but also invents a new craft named "Chinese color enamel". The process not only inherits "cloisonné" brilliant floral patterns, but also can set off the "Guangzhou enamel" elegant, simple, detailed, vivid large color painting and calligraphy.
The ornamental value of the product is greatly improved. "Zhongcai enamel" products include vases, snack boxes, plates, jars, dishes, bowls, clocks, telephones, lamps, buttons and so on.
It has participated in the exhibitions held by the Ministry of Light Industry and relevant provincial and municipal departments, and has won honors and awards for many times.
On March 18th, 2009, Huadu District Government announced that the Zhongcai Enamel Making Technique was selected as one of the first batch of district-level intangible cultural heritage protection lists.
5, Huadu Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival is a traditional folk custom passed down in the Lingnan area and a form of praying for blessings in the New Year. The origin of the Lantern Festival can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. With the development of history, the lantern activities continue to continue and rich, to the Qing Dynasty its form and scale is the largest.
In the old days, the Lantern Festival parade in Huaxian County was very popular, and most of the villages held the parade on the night of the 15th day of the first month of the first month of the year, which was a very lively scene. After the parade, people started to throw lanterns to pray for the glory of ancestors, piety and filial piety, a smooth new year, a good harvest and other new year wishes.
After the founding of New China, the lantern parade was stopped, and in the early 1990s, some villages in Huadu (such as Shuikou, Shihu, Longtou, Hualing and other villages in Tanbu Town) resumed the lantern parade one by one, and after the reconstruction of the Kanggong Temple in Shuikou Village of Tanbu Town in 1996, the Lantern Association was founded by Ren Guangrong, a villager from Hong Kong, and the Lantern Parade and Lantern Throwing Activities have been held since then. Lantern throwing activities, has been held for twelve years.
6, South Lion
Nan Lion, also known as "Waking Lion", popular in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macao, Southeast Asia, overseas Chinese, is the authentic Guangdong folk lion dance. Nanlion is the traditional folk art of Huadu, and it is a favorite sports activity. It not only integrates various cultural elements such as martial arts, dance and music.
Since the jumping, squatting, horse stance, arrow stance and bow stance of the lion dance are all martial arts movements, the lion dance must practice martial arts at the same time and master certain martial arts footwork. During the Republic of China period, many villages in Huadu had martial arts halls, hiring martial arts masters to teach their children martial arts and lion dance. After the founding of New China, martial arts and southern lion performances became more popular, and during festivals and opening celebrations, village lion teams took to the streets to collect green and tour.
7, Cantonese Opera
Cantonese Opera is the integration of the Ming and Qing dynasties into the Guangdong Haiyan, Yiyang, Kunshan, Bangkok and other cavity and absorbed the Pearl River Delta's folk music, such as wooden fish, dragon boat, Nanyin, Cantonese Acura, Cantonese music, ditties, Xiaoqu, etc. formed in the south of China's Bangkok, Erhuang, a major drama, also known as the Guangdong opera, Canton Opera, and so on.
It is a kind of performing art that combines chorus, singing, reading and playing, musician's music, stage costumes, abstract forms and so on. Cantonese opera was first performed in the Central Plains phonetics, also known as the official language of the opera house, and it was only at the end of the Qing Dynasty that the language of singing was changed to the Guangzhou dialect.
8, Ruiling Bonsai
Ruiling Bonsai mainly originated in Ruiling Village, Chini Town, the town's Fengqun, Tianxin, Zhudong, on the Lianzhu, Lianzhu and other villages, as well as Tanbuhu, Shiling and other places are cultivated bonsai. Located in the western region of Huadu District, Ruiling Village of Chini Town has a vast area, rich resources and convenient transportation, and has a long history of more than 100 years of cultivating bonsai flowers and other agricultural specialties.
Ruiling Village is located underneath the Sankeng Reservoir and Shoriling Pond, which is convenient for irrigation, and the soil and climate are very suitable for bonsai planting. Ruiling Village in Chihni Town is mainly engaged in the production and management of stump bonsai and potted bonsai, which is an important part of Lingnan bonsai. Ruiling Village cultivates a wide variety of trees, among which the nine lixiang, Luohan Pine modeling more attainments.
Jiulixiang bonsai is the representative work of Ruiling bonsai, the production technique is exquisite, the modeling has very high attainments, unique. 2009 March 18, Huadu District Government announced that the Ruiling bonsai was selected as one of the first batch of district-level intangible cultural heritage protection list.
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