1. Lion Dance
The lion dance is divided between the north and the south, and the southern part of the country is most famous for the lion dance performance in Guangdong. The lions are made of colorful cloth and each lion is performed by two people, one dancing at the head and the other at the tail. During the performance, the lion dancers have to show their southern martial arts skills with various moves, which are very masculine. It is the most common performance in all festivals in Guangdong.
2. Ying Song?
The so-called Yangge in the north and Yingge in the south. In Guangdong, there are Ying songs in Puning, Chaoyang, Huilai, Lufeng Jiazi and Chaoan, among which the Ying songs in Puning and Chaoyang are the most famous. Ying Ge is a representative folk square emotional dance in Chaoshan, originated in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, with the 108 heroes of Liangshan Mountain as its original form. Performers or holding Yingge Chui or holding drums, a combination of martial arts routines dance and other art forms, the momentum of the bold and heroic.
3, burning tower
Burning tower is a traditional festival of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Chaoshan region to carry out a folkloric activities, according to legend, it is the Han people against the brutal rule of the Yuan Dynasty insurrection signal. The burning of towers in Chaoshan is mostly a fun activity for teenagers. A few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, teenagers get busy, picking up broken tiles, accumulating withered branches and pieces of wood, and start building towers in the afternoon of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The moon rises to the sky after the Wata began to burn up, to burning fiercely, the tile was burned red and bright, the tower of the mouth of the flames straight to the sky, just at this time, people put the coarse grains of sea salt, a large large handful of a large handful of the tower, the Wata issued a crackle like firecrackers, and then sprinkled with sulphur, burning blue flame, very spectacular, attracting the masses of people to admire the onlookers.
Some places, but also to burn the tower as a competition, the tower built high, burned beautiful and strong, by the masses after the evaluation of the award.
4, burning dragon
The most famous is the Puzai burning dragon in Fengshun. People will gather at the Dragon Dance Ground on the night of the festival to watch the dragon burning performance under the loud sound of the cannonballs.
First, dozens of young men run around the field holding burning bamboo cables, then a huge dragon filled with fireworks comes out, the dragon dancers hold the dragon and dance around the field, and finally, the dragon's head starts to spit fire, and the dragon body burns up with fireworks, the gongs and firecrackers resound through the sky, and the splendid fire dragons fly all over the field, which makes for a very spectacular spectacle.
5, late-night snack
Late-night snack is a custom of life in Guangzhou, usually after ten o'clock in the evening, so the name "late-night snack", or "late-night snack". Late-night snacking varies from person to person: some people cook their own food at night.
Some alone or invite three or five friends to the street stalls or teahouse eateries in the night market to eat, and thus the city gradually formed a number of "night food street", as well as various teahouse hotels in the "night market" cafe. Teahouses in the night market often open a music cafe, in order to attract diners.
6, drinking morning tea
Guangzhou people love tea, especially drinking morning tea. When they meet in the morning, they often greet each other with "have you had your tea yet" (meaning "have you had your tea yet"), which shows their preference for tea. Drinking tea is a custom in Guangzhou. There is a popular saying that "a pot of tea in the morning is no need to look for a doctor".
By drinking tea, Guangzhou people actually mean going to the teahouse (customarily called tea house) to drink tea. Not only drink morning tea, but also eat snacks (as breakfast); not only drink morning tea, but also drink afternoon tea, night tea; not only to fill the belly, but also by the way to spread the news, talk about friends, negotiate business. It can be seen that the Guangzhou people's tea is actually a way of socializing.
This is why the Guangzhou teahouse industry over the centuries and an important and fundamental reason. In Guangzhou, a considerable part of the old food and beverage stores are the teahouses and tea houses of the year.
7, drinking herbal tea
Drinking herbal tea is also a habit of Guangzhou people all year round. The so-called herbal tea, refers to the medicinal properties of cold and cool and can dissipate internal heat of Chinese herbs decoction as a beverage to drink, in order to eliminate the summer heat in the body, or winter dryness caused by sore throats and other ailments.
The history of herbal tea in Guangzhou is long, and there are many varieties of herbal tea, such as Wang Lao Ji herbal tea, San Hu Tang herbal tea, Huang Zhen Long herbal tea, Loud Gong herbal tea, Shi Ji herbal tea, twenty-four flavors of herbal tea, Hulu tea, Healthy Herbal Tea, Gold, Silver, Chrysanthemum and Five Flowers Tea, and Ancient Dried Melon Herbal Tea, etc.; and even the Turtle Ling Ling Cream Soup, Raw Fish and Ge Cai Soup, and Carrot and Bamboo Sugar Cane Water, etc., which have become the traditional and old favorite herbal tea of the people in Guangzhou.
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