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guava

Originated in the United States, it has been introduced to Guangzhou for more than 200 years. Mainly distributed in Haizhu District, Panyu and Zengcheng. What kinds are there? Variety, Early Maturity Day, Fan-Hung Gung, Jinhong, Birthday Red, July Maturity, etc. The fruits are mostly gourd-shaped, cyan or yellowish, refreshing and sweet, with unique flavor. Can be eaten raw, can also be made into canned pomegranate juice or soft-packed drinks. The famous one is Datang Guava.

carambola

Carambola is also known as "Carambola" and "Carambola", and its scientific name is "Five Lotus Seeds". Because its cross section looks like a five-pointed star, it is also called "Star Pear" abroad. It is one of the famous Lingnan fruits. The carambola fruit has a special shape, green and yellow color, thin skin like a film, crisp and juicy meat, sweet and sour. Besides containing 10% sugar, it is also rich in vitamins A and C. The main varieties are "rose (flat) sweet carambola", "pointed (pointed) sweet carambola" and "sour carambola". The most famous is the carambola produced in Huaxiang, Fangcun District.

Carambola is a small evergreen tree or shrub. Berries alternate all the year round, but the quality is the best and the yield is the highest when they bloom in July and mature in the autumn equinox. Mid-Autumn Festival is the peak of carambola.

mango

Mango belongs to the genus Mangifera of Cucurbitaceae and enjoys the reputation of "king of tropical fruits". Mango tree is an evergreen tree with a height of 10-20m, a stout taproot and a round crown. The fruit is spherical or kidney-shaped, light green or light yellow. Its pulp juice is sweet and can be eaten fresh, or made into preserved fruit and squeezed into mango juice. Mango varieties in Guangzhou mainly include purple mango' Gui Xiang mango', string mango, green mango and native mango. Among them, Xiamao Xiangmang, which is produced in Xiamao Village, Shijing Town, Baiyun District, is a high-quality mango variety renowned at home and abroad. The flesh of "Xiamaoxiangmang" is soft and sweet. After peeling, the meat is dry and refreshing, which is easy to store and carry. It is said that Xiamao Xiangmang was introduced and planted from other places during the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, and was later designated as a tribute because of its high quality. At present, there are only a few real famous-brand mango trees, and the annual harvest fruit is only 1000 kilograms, which is extremely precious.

Michelia alba

Zengcheng also produces white olives, which can be made into various cold fruit snacks, such as licorice olives, peeled olives, osmanthus olives, health olives, etc., which are processed by a series of processes such as pickling, pickling with sugar, or adding spices and food pigments.

Chinese olive

Olives and white olives are called olives, which are the specialties of Zengcheng.

Olive is one of the "Four Treasures of Zengcheng" (the other three treasures are Diaoqing Litchi, Silk Miao Rice and Mesona), and it is full of treasures: olive meat is used to make olive horns and extract oil; Lazy people can cook and are also good ingredients for snacks; Element core is the raw material of famous handicraft olive carving, which has a history of more than 300 years. There are more than 30 varieties of black olives, among which Xishan, Yang Jiao, Yellow Meat, Amanita, Sanfang and Youlanzi are the most famous.

Bananas on thousands of hectares of sandy land

Banana is one of the four famous fruits in Lingnan. The planting quantity is second only to citrus, litchi and pineapple.

Bananas have been planted in China for more than 2,000 years. Besides Dongguan, Zhongshan, Xinhui and Shunde, Guangdong also has Panyu and Guangzhou suburbs.

Banana is a large perennial evergreen herbaceous fruit tree of Musaceae. Each banana bears buds once, each banana bears more than ten combs, and each comb bears 10- 15 fruits. Its pulp is soft, sweet and delicious, with unique aroma, and it has the functions of moistening intestine, relaxing bowels, lowering blood pressure and preventing arteriosclerosis. Bananas in Panyu are produced on sandy soil, and their fruits have strong fragrance. Among the famous fruits in Guangzhou, there are plantains, and Wanqingsha is rich in plantains and bananas. Its "red-billed green Ying Ge plantain" is one of the rare plantains. Its banana fruit is golden in color, and there is a green line beside the banana. When ripe, the banana stalk remains turquoise and the top of the fruit is purple, hence the name.

Tanzhou white sugarcane

Panyu City is rich in sugar cane, known as the "sugar capital", and the white sugar cane produced in tanzhou town enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad. Tanzhou white cane is blue and white in color, thin in skin and crisp in flesh, with more sweet juice and less fiber. It can be eaten as fruit, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.

Lingnan bonsai

Lingnan bonsai is a work of art with trees, stones and other materials. As raw materials, through artistic treatment and careful cultivation, it reproduces the natural features of Lingnan Basin. Lingnan bonsai is one of the five schools of bonsai art in China. It is unique in style, colorful, natural, full of natural beauty and full of life interest.

The production of Lingnan bonsai is mainly subtropical and tropical evergreen fine-leaved trees, and the varieties are Erythrina (Murraya japonica), Bromus (Prunus mume), Fujian tea, orange, elm, Celosia cristata (water cross-branch) and gypsophila paniculata. Guangzhou people call these "tree heads".

There are various composition forms of Lingnan bonsai: single-stem big tree type, double-stem type, cliff type, Shui Ying type, multi-stem type at one end, attached stone type, combined planting type and so on. In addition to stump bonsai, there are stone mountain bonsai makers. The stone materials in Shishan bonsai are mainly Shi Ying, calcite, coral and sand, especially Shi Ying in yingde city. Shi Ying is a specialty of Guangdong. Its stones are wrinkled, thin and transparent. Lingnan bonsai has a broad foundation in Guangzhou. The art of Lingnan bonsai can be seen everywhere in the halls or balconies of residents' homes, along long corridors or roads in parks, and in the bonsai market in Qingping market. It is worth mentioning that Xiyuan, located on the lakeside of Liu Hua, is known as the "hometown of bonsai", where many fine products representing the style of Lingnan bonsai are planted for tourists to watch and buy. In addition, there are bonsai exhibitions in many tourist attractions in Guangzhou, such as Lanpu, Chenjiaci, Guangzhou Cultural Park, Guangxiao Temple and south china botanical garden. Famous garden restaurants in Guangzhou, such as Fuyuan, Beiyuan and Panxi Restaurant, have all kinds of bonsai, which makes the restaurants more quaint and elegant.

Guangzhou woodcarving

Wood carving is a kind of carving in Guangzhou, which is famous for its exquisite craftsmanship. Wood carving can be divided into architectural decoration and furniture carving. Architectural carvings are mostly made of wooden sticks, including halls, flower beds, doors and windows, screens and mystery cases. For example, the screens, beams and columns, doors and windows in Chenjiaci Guangdong Folk Craft Museum reflect the characteristics of Guangzhou woodcarving craft everywhere. Furniture carving is most famous for mahogany furniture and wooden cases with sticks. Taking mahogany furniture as an example, it inherits the traditional carving technology and wood structure technology in China, and has the characteristics of simple and elegant modeling, fine carving, smooth polishing, bright paint surface, firm structure and durability. It is a high-level practical art of the oriental style palace.

Redwood is divided into two categories: acid process and rosewood. Mahogany furniture is made of poles without nails. Carvers mainly have three kinds of Q mahogany furniture: relief (relief), through carving (through carving) and carved (concave carving), as well as vases, bottle holders and palace lanterns, commonly known as "small mahogany pieces". The mahogany craft Jiulong Bed is one of the representative works of innovative products in recent years, and its carving design is unique. The dragon night carved on the backrest is really ingenious and breathtaking.

Guangzhou jade carving

This process was formed in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, with a history of 1000 years. Its jade carving crafts are mainly divided into jade ornaments and jade carving ornaments. Jade ornaments are made of precious Burmese jade materials, and have formed three categories of products: bare parts, flowers and jade bracelets. Jade carving ornaments are mostly carved from precious jade materials such as Cui Yu in Myanmar, Baiyu in Xinjiang, Tiger, Malachite, Shuidan Marui, Yuyu and Xinyi Jade. Jade carving ornaments mainly include figures, flowers, birds and animals, bottles and jars, as well as unique jade balls, flowers, pagodas, vegetarian stoves and other advanced handicrafts. Especially the jade ball, with unique conception. The big ball is covered with small balls, which are uniform in thickness and freely rotate at different levels, and are carved with exquisite flowers such as mountains and rivers, flowers, figures, fish and insects, flowers and birds, and the image is extremely vivid. At present, jade carving balls have been carved to 20 floors, forming a group of ball carving systems. Guangzhou South Jade Carving Craft Factory is a factory specializing in producing all kinds of jade carving products.

Guangzhou tooth carving

This process began in the Jin Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,000 years. Guangzhou tooth carving products mainly include figures, ornaments, landscape bonsai, flowers, birds, insects, fish and Four Treasures of the Study. Its traditional famous products are: tooth pills, tooth tendons, vases and so on. Tooth pill is the most famous. In terms of carving techniques, Guangzhou tooth carving can be divided into two categories: round carving and general carving: round carving is used to make three-dimensional and three-dimensional handicrafts, such as figures, animals and mountain scenery; Bronze carvings are used to make transparent and exquisite varieties such as flower butter, vases, flower towers, crab cages and tooth balls. Daxin Road Guangzhou Ivory Craft Factory is one of the well-known ivory carving manufacturers at home and abroad, and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad.

Guang Cai

Guang Cai is the abbreviation of Guangzhou colored porcelain, also known as Guangzhou Zhijin colored porcelain. It is a kind of handicraft with rich oriental characteristics, painted on various white porcelain vessels. Most of them adopt China brocade patterns and are famous for their bright colors. It is a unique variety of axial color porcelain in China.

Guangzhou colored porcelain began in Guangzhou tricolor in Ming dynasty, developed into multicolored in Qing dynasty, and gradually formed the artistic style of sleeves during Qianlong period, which has a history of more than 300 years.

Guang Cai is famous for its brilliant colors, rigorous composition and exquisite paintings. On white porcelain, craftsmen weave gold threads, such as thousands of gold threads woven on precious stones, giving people a sense of elegance. The self-made porcelain tires produced for Guang Cai mainly come from the main porcelain areas in Jiangxi, Hunan and Guangdong. There are more than 20 colors in Guang Cai, such as scarlet, turquoise, green, river lip, bright black and double yellow. By using various painting techniques such as weaving, filling, dyeing, washing, tracing, stacking, engraving and brushing, exquisite patterns are drawn on the self-made porcelain tire, and then fired in an electric kiln at about 800℃.

Guang Cai's painting process has seven steps: tracing lines, filling colors, weaving gold, filling green, fighting for colors, covering the golden mouth and burning flowers. Colorful designs include figures, flowers, birds, insects and fish, scenery and so on. Guang Cai's products are mainly divided into three categories: exhibition art porcelain, daily appreciation porcelain and craft porcelain. Guang Cai has more than 500 varieties and more than 2,000 pieces of exquisite craft porcelain.

embroidery

Embroidery is mainly embroidery, and its masterpiece "Peacock Bauhinia" is hung in the Guangdong Hall of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Gold and silver thread embroidery is to wrap gold and silver thread into a pattern and fix it with wool. Some also put cotton strips on the main patterns such as dragons and phoenixes to make them stand out, dazzling and lifelike. Among them, the golden dragon style dress is nailed; This is a durable export product. The common products of bead embroidery are hanging pictures, handbags, clothes, Wang Yi shoes, belts and so on. , quite practical and artistic. Machine embroidery is an embroidery method which uses clothes cart instead of manual work. Products are mostly pillowcases, bedspreads, tablecloths and other daily necessities. Among them, the machine embroidered "Female Python Skirt" won the "Excellent New Product Award" in China Arts and Crafts Hundred Flowers Award.

Guangxiu

Guangdong embroidery, also known as Guangdong embroidery, is a general term for folk embroidery crafts in Guangzhou and its neighboring Nanhai, Panyu and Shunde. It, together with Suzhou embroidery, Xiang embroidery and Shu embroidery, is also called the four famous embroideries in China. Its representative works include "A Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix" and "Shuang Mianxiu Goldfish".

Guangxiu has a production history of more than 2000 years. It is said that it originated in the ancient Li nationality and is of the same origin as Li brocade. Guangdong embroidery is famous for its rich composition, rich colors, distinctive style, clear texture and changeable stitches.

The varieties of Guangdong embroidery include clothing, daily necessities, decorations, appreciation paintings and costumes. Generally speaking, Guangdong embroidery can be divided into velvet embroidery, gold and silver thread embroidery (that is, plate embroidery, commonly known as nail gold), bead embroidery and machine embroidery.

At present, Guangzhou Embroidery Craft Factory, China Garment Craft Factory and Guangzhou Machine Embroidery Factory are the main professional manufacturers of Guangzhou embroidery. However, with the development of Guangdong embroidery today, there are more and more varieties, including embroidery, brocade, drawnwork, machine embroidery, embroidered clothes, embroidery, bead embroidery, hand weaving and so on. Especially the beaded shoes and evening dresses in beaded embroidery are quite competitive in the international market, and their products are exported to more than 50 countries and regions such as Europe, America, Australia and Asia.

Longan in Shek Kip Mei

Longan, whose real name is Longan, is a perennial evergreen arbor plant, which blooms in spring and bears fruit in summer. Its fruit is spherical, its shell is light yellow or brown, its flesh is white and transparent, and its juice is sweet. It is one of the best fruits in Lingnan. Longan with shell can also be processed and baked into dried eyes (that is, longan meat), which is a kind of medicinal material with sedative and nourishing functions.

Longan originated in China and has been planted for more than 2,000 years. At present, longan is widely planted in Baiyun District, Haizhu District, Zengcheng, Panyu and Huadu City. The varieties are Wuyuan, Shi Xia, Shuiyan, Mizaiyan, Round Eye, etc. Among them, Shijie longan produced in Zhou Xiao Village, Zhao Xin Town, Haizhu District is the most famous.

Shi Xia longan has large fruit, high yield and sweet as honey. Legend has it that "Xiashi" originally meant "stone clip". The earliest longan tree grew from a crack in a big stone. Because its roots are caught by a big stone, it has to be drilled into deep soil, and the roots absorb the "essence" of the underground, and the longan fruit is particularly delicious.

pawpaw

Also known as papaya, also known as Chaenomeles, is one of the four famous fruits in Lingnan, and is known as "the king of fruit waste in Shannan".

Papaya originated in Mexico and was introduced to China in17th century. Now it is cultivated all over Guangdong, especially in the suburbs of Guangzhou.

Papaya is an evergreen cork tree of Caricaceae, which is also called "three tropical herb fruit trees" with bananas and pineapples. The better varieties produced in Guangzhou are Lingnan species, Suihong, Thai red meat and so on. And the quality of Lingnan species is the best. Its fruit shape is long, round and full, with thick meat and few seeds, and it has the fragrance of osmanthus. Papaya fruit is huge, the fruit weighs one or two kilograms, and the big one can reach six or seven kilograms. Its fruit is fresh, tender and delicious, and rich in nutrition; Can also be stewed, papaya stewed with rock sugar can clear the heart and moisten the lungs, and treat laryngitis and other diseases; Immature papaya can be sugared, eaten as vegetable soup, or masked and made into "salty and sour papaya".

Sugar pineapple

"Sugar pineapple" belongs to Sarawak species. Sarawak, also known as "Hawaii", has two or three kilograms of large and shallow-eyed fruit, which can be eaten after peeling. Its fruit shape is regular, its flesh is smooth and juicy, and its sweet and sour taste is moderate. It is an excellent variety of fresh food and canned food. Among the "sugar-heart pineapples", "Huangdeng Pineapple" produced in Huangdeng Village, Huangpu District, Guangzhou is the best. It is famous for its large meat, thick juice, sweet as honey and unusual smell.

Zengcheng gualv

"Zengcheng hangs green" red has a green shell, four points are slightly green, and six dividends are paid. Every litchi is surrounded by a green line. The pulp is white and crystal clear, sweet and refreshing, and has a unique flavor. Gualv, who grew up in Gualv Garden in Licheng Town, Zengcheng, is the ancestor of Gualv litchi varieties. It has a history of more than 400 years and is more than five meters high. It has successfully cultivated several generations of Gualv descendants and planted more than 100 plants in several towns and villages in Zengcheng.

pineapple

Originally known as pineapple, it originated in Brazil and was introduced to China in16th century. There are many varieties, which are one of the four famous fruits in Lingnan.

Pineapple is a perennial evergreen herb of pineapple family, with only one fruit in the center of each plant. Its fruit is cylindrical and is a compound fruit, which consists of many ovaries and floral axis. Pineapple peel has many flower organs (commonly known as fruit eye or pineapple chicken), which is hard and tricky. It must be peeled and dug up before eating.

Pineapple has three fruiting periods in a year, and the quality is the best when it matures from June to August. Fresh food should be bright in color, straight in shape, solid and medium-ripe. There are three common varieties of pineapple: Shenwan, Bali and Sarawak, and the "sugar-heart pineapple" carefully cultivated by Guangzhou fruit farmers in recent years is the best.

Citrus fruit trees

Oranges, oranges, lemons, oranges and plums are a large category of fruits. Citrus is one of the famous fruits in Guangzhou, which is widely planted in Guangzhou. As early as the Southern Dynasties in the 5th century, there were many orange and pomelo orchards in Guangzhou. Today, the American Citi tangerine is indirectly introduced from Europe by Guangzhou Sweet Orange.

Citrus is an evergreen shrub or small tree, with white flowers in late spring, summer and autumn, oblate fruit, red or orange yellow, and sweet and sour taste. Rich in China, it has a cultivation history of more than 4,000 years. The main excellent varieties of oranges in Guangzhou are: dark orange, banana orange, checkered orange, bright red orange, Sihui orange, mandarin orange, Niannan orange and Xinhui sweet orange. Guangzhou people say: high orange, naked orange and flat orange vividly illustrate the shapes of orange, orange and orange. Among them, Luogang Black Willow Sweet Orange produced in Luogang Town, Baiyun District is the most famous.

lychee

Litchi, known as the "king of fruits", is abundant in Conghua, Zengcheng and several suburbs of Guangzhou. Its fruit shape is unique, its face is red and pleasing to the eye, its pulp is like jelly, and it is sweet and rich. Excellent varieties include glutinous rice paste, princess smile, hanging green and so on. Among them, the number of Huai branches is the largest, accounting for 70% to 80% of the total output. Litchi is a precious fruit in subtropical zone and one of the four famous fruits in Lingnan. It originated in southern China and has been cultivated for more than 2000 years. At present, there are more than 100 varieties of litchi branches in China, and there are more than 60 varieties in Guangzhou alone. The quality of cinnamon glutinous rice paste is the best. Guiwei is attractive for its crisp and sweet meat, while glutinous rice paste is famous for its small core, thick meat and rich juice. In the past, it was called "Three Unique Litchi" together with "Bicun Glutinous Rice Paste", "Luogang Guiwei" and "Zengcheng Gualv". Among the three outstanding figures, "Zengcheng Guaqing" is the most precious and has been listed as a tribute by the court.