Characteristics of Lingnan culture, what are the elements of Lingnan culture

Lingnan culture is an organic part of the long and splendid Chinese culture. The excavated materials of the Lingnan ancestors' sites prove that the Lingnan culture is a primitive culture. Based on its unique geographic environment and historical conditions, Lingnan culture has its origins in agricultural and maritime culture, and in the course of its development, it has continued to absorb and integrate the culture of the Central Plains and overseas cultures, gradually forming its own unique characteristics. Lingnan culture is pragmatic, open, compatible and innovative. Lingnan academic thought, absorbing and innovating the ideas of Confucianism, Law, Taoism and Buddhism, which were successively introduced from the Central Plains, has given birth to different styles of thought, such as the Jiangmen School of Thought, etc. In modern times, Lingnan culture has been recognized by the Chinese people. In modern times, Lingnan has become an important bridge for cultural exchanges between the East and the West, and a variety of cultural trends have intertwined to form a colorful picture, which has nurtured and produced a generation of advanced figures in modern China, represented by Kang Youwei and Sun Yat-sen.

Lingnan's literature and art of elegance and vulgarity, Lingnan School of Painting, Cantonese Opera has a strong local characteristics, the poet Zhang Jiuling, Chen Xianzhang enjoys a national reputation, the film was the first to be imported from Lingnan. Lingnan education started late, but the Song and Ming schools flourished, and in modern times, they led the education revolution. Ge Hong practiced alchemy in Lingnan, creating the theory of Taoism and contributing to chemistry and medicine. Islam and Buddhism were introduced to Lingnan from the sea earlier, and Huineng created the southern school of Zen Buddhism, a Chinese version of Buddhism, which had an impact on the whole country and even the world. Lingnan's agricultural technology, handicrafts, and medicine have a certain position in the history of Chinese science and technology, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the mulberry fish ponds in the Pearl River Delta were the earliest eco-agriculture in China; western medicine has been spreading to the east, and the western hospitals, western medical schools, and western doctors in China were the first to appear in Lingnan. Lingnan folklore and Lingnan food, different from the north, most rich in local characteristics.