Guangfu Residence of Guangfu Culture

Guangfu dwellings usually refer to the architecture of the Greater Pearl River Delta region and the western part of Guangdong, which is very different from the Hakka and Chaoshan architecture in the eastern part of Guangdong. In Lingnan, where the climate is hot and wind and rain are common, the dwellings are generally compact with small patios and large depths. Guangfu style ancient houses are usually inhabited by several to dozens of people in a family. The scene of life in the old movie "Seventy-two Tenants" is a typical Guangfu residence - Xiguan Daiya.

But the newly remade color version of "72 Tenants" couldn't find a suitable Xiguan Dajia as a shooting location. Guangfu houses usually meet the requirements of ventilation and shade is the same characteristics of Lingnan architecture ****, followed by the natural conditions, including geographic conditions, climate characteristics, embodied in the moisture-proof, sun-proof features; and there is a large number of drawing on the essence of Western architecture, reflecting the eclecticism of the style.

In addition to this, the typical Guangfu residence has a big "wok ear" feature, which is named after the two wok ear-like windbreaks built on both walls of the house. Wok ear houses are unique to Lingnan. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, whenever a person had money and became rich, he would build a wok house to show his wealth and dignity. The early residential architecture of Guangfu was clearly influenced by the architectural patterns of the Jiangnan region, where bureaucrats and landowners often lived in clusters of four or five generations and built closed complexes. In the early days of residential architecture in Guangfu, the basic pattern of large and medium-sized houses in the Pearl River Delta was "three rooms and two corridors". The basic layout of large and medium-sized houses in the Pearl River Delta is "three rooms and two corridors". Some houses are characterized by wok walls. The materials used for walling included concrete, pebbles, oyster shells and bricks, and after the Qing Dynasty, green bricks were mostly used. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the unique style of Xiguan Dajia houses was formed under the dense environment of Xiguan houses in Guangzhou. The internal layout is compact, the interval is flexible, and the door of the front fa?ade is composed of "three pieces of head" (foot door, trip and gate), water-worn brick wall, granite wall footing and so on, which constitute its external appearance. In recent times by the influence of Western culture, in the overseas Chinese townships appear exotic style towers, villa-style residence in the city, in the commercial bustle of the town streets on both sides of the Riding House. All of them are the first to open the South's architectural style. Guangzhou Chen Ancestral Temple is a collection of various architectural techniques, arts and crafts in one of the grandeur of the ancestral hall.

Guangzhou folk distribution of geographical Xijiang, Beijiang River Basin and the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong is the earliest development of feudal culture in the region. After the two Song Dynasty, the development of the Pearl River Delta has begun to take shape, to the Ming Dynasty, was then the famous Lingnan food and a variety of cash crops production base, Shunde, Nanhai, Zhongshan, Panyu and other places in the Kitang agriculture is famous. The multi-layered structure of the agricultural economy, backed by Guangzhou, the world's major trading port, resulted in a broad market for agricultural and handicraft products, and active production and marketing. In the late Ming Dynasty, the tendency of commercialization of agricultural production in the Pearl River Delta became more and more obvious, and it became the most active, most commodity-conscious, and thus the most antitraditional region in Lingnan.

Guangdong's modern industries, mainly from the late 19th century, emerged from the Pearl River Delta area. Economic development has promoted the flourishing of culture, the Pearl River Delta region since the Song Dynasty, the humanities flourished, has been in the province's talent advantage. Guangzhou, the center city of Guangfu culture, has been the political, economic and cultural center of Guangdong and even Lingnan region since ancient times. In various cultural fields such as architecture, crafts, gardens, painting, theater, art, religion, music, literature, food, customs, etc., Guangzhou has shown a long historical origin and distinctive personality, giving people a multi-layered, three-dimensional and rich feeling, which makes Guangfu culture occupy a superior position among the cultures of various folk systems in Guangdong. Guangfu culture is the representative of Guangdong culture or Lingnan culture.

Guangfu culture can be reflected in its language: pragmatic, optimistic and tolerant. There is a strong sense of ****similar psychological identity within the Guangfu folk system, a strong cohesion of the folk system, and people are generally proud of the prosperous Lingnan Cantonese culture. It emerged mainly from the Pearl River Delta in the late 19th century. Among the three major folk systems, they are the most open-minded, the most receptive to new things from outside, and dare to absorb, imitate and learn from Western civilization and integrate with traditional culture. Guangfu people also have the courage to explore and try the spirit of hard work, broad vision, open-minded, strong sense of goods and values, smart and capable, good at calculating, creating a diversified agricultural commodities economy in the Pearl River Delta rose to the Guangfu people as the main "Guang Gang merchants" in the middle of the Qing Dynasty has been well-known throughout the country.