What are the cultural characteristics of Guangdong?

Guangdong culture has a long history and is the main body of Lingnan culture. It occupies an important position and role in the development history of China's national culture. It is one of the most distinctive and dynamic regional cultures in the splendid culture of the Chinese nation.

Lingnan culture consists of four parts: root culture (language identity culture), Baiyue culture (inherent local culture), Central Plains culture (Chinese culture that moved south from Central Plains) and overseas culture (foreign culture), all of which have rich cultural connotations.

It covers Lingnan architecture, Lingnan gardens, Lingnan painting school, opera music, arts and crafts, folk festivals, religious culture, food culture, language culture and overseas Chinese culture. Geographically, it can be divided into Guangfu culture, Guangdong Hakka culture and Chaoshan culture.

As early as 10 million years ago, "Qujiang Maba people" lived here. According to legend, there were hundreds of Yue people living in ancient times, so it is called Yue for short (as the old saying goes, Yue is interlinked). It is said that in the eighth year of Zhou Yiwang (887 BC), there was a "Chu Pavilion" in Guangzhou. After Qin Shihuang unified China, Nanhai County was established in present-day Guangdong in 2 14 BC to govern Panyu (present-day Guangzhou).

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Guangdong language and culture:

The language situation in Guangdong is rather complicated. Besides Yao, Zhuang, She and standard dialects, there are also Chinese dialects with unknown attribution, such as Lao Hua Zheng dialect, military dialect and Shaozhou dialect (northern Guangdong dialect).

There are three popular dialects in Chinese: Cantonese (including Nenggu dialect), Hakka (including Ya dialect) and Min dialect (including Chaozhou dialect, Leizhou dialect, Fulao dialect, Xuelao dialect, Shanghai dialect and Longdu dialect. ).

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