Composition of traditional festivals and customs in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province

1. Guangzhou is called the Flower City and has a history of 1000 years. Nowadays, the annual Winter jasmine market has attracted the attention of the world and become a major folk custom in Guangzhou. On the eve of the Spring Festival every year, the streets and alleys of Guangzhou are filled with flowers and bonsai, and all major parks are holding Spring Festival exhibitions. Especially three days before New Year's Eve, colorful buildings and flower stands were set up on the main streets of various districts, and flower farmers from four towns flocked to set up flower markets to sell and enjoy flowers. The crowds are surging, and the flowers in Shili Strip are in full bloom and the crowds are surging. It didn't disperse until the early morning of the first day. This is Guangzhou. Guangzhou Spring Festival custom is an indispensable benefit in interpersonal communication. Of course, the so-called profit is a red envelope. When relatives and friends get together, adults should give it to children. Among the citizens in Guangzhou, the citizen class pays great attention to giving them double envelopes, but there is no limit to the amount of money inside, but it is impolite to be a guest in Guangzhou during the Spring Festival. It is better to bring more red envelopes to avoid trouble. Even at the entrance of the shopping center, kumquat trees will be full of profits for anyone to pick for good luck.

2. Guangzhou Spring Festival custom: visiting the flower market

Around the Spring Festival, many customs and habits have been formed for thousands of years. Some customs, such as meeting gods and worshipping heaven, are superstitious. With the improvement of people's scientific and cultural level, they are gradually eliminated, and some customs have been given new contents, such as setting off firecrackers, posting Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures, playing dragon lanterns and dancing lions. It is still very popular today.

Visit the flower market

In Guangzhou, where the seasons are like spring, whenever the Spring Festival comes, the annual Lunar New Year Fair will be held according to the customs of past dynasties.

The New Year's Eve Flower Market, formerly known as the New Year's Eve Flower Market, began in the Ming Dynasty. Qu Dajun's Guangdong Xinyu mentioned that there was a flower market in Guangzhou in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, most of the people in No.33 Township, Guangzhou, Henan Province were flower farmers who made a living by growing flowers. They came from Henan to Hebei to sell flowers and landed at the dock near Wuxianmen. Later, they called this place "Flower Head", which was the earliest flower market in Guangzhou. Today's Lunar New Year's Eve flower market evolved from the previous flower market.

In order to welcome the flower market on Lunar New Year's Eve, people began to prepare one month before the Spring Festival, and strings of flowers hanging on trees can be seen everywhere in the suburbs. A few days before the arrival of the Flower Market on Lunar New Year's Eve, Guangzhou Flower Market has been set up one after another, and many people have come one after another to buy back a pair of bright flowers and put them in bottles to decorate their homes with vitality and spring.

On the day of the flower market, a sea of people merged into a huge and warm heat flow. On New Year's Eve, the flower market reached its climax. In the flower market, there are peonies who boast about traveling to the west and monopolize the first spring in the world, famous chrysanthemums of various colors who prefer to hold fragrant branches and grow old instead of dancing with yellow leaves and autumn wind, desert beauties with light makeup, such as Dali, rose, peony and Milan, as well as succulent plants cactus and cactus, and the "Ling Boxian" narcissus which has settled in Guangzhou is also in the flower market. "Hanging Bell Flower" is a distinguished guest in the mountainous area and a "flower bed leader", with hundreds or even hundreds of buds in one branch. As long as it is properly adjusted, it will be hung on the branches one by one and in pairs at the beginning of the New Year's Day, adding a warm and vigorous vitality to the festive family environment. In the flower market, all kinds of fruits, plates of oranges, oranges, oranges hanging on the branches ... as well as all kinds of "flowers in the water" goldfish and colorful lights swaying in the wind, attracted thousands of viewers. When you look at the sea of flowers and the fragrant, trembling and colorful treasures that spread with the blooming leaves, you can't help but admire that people have chosen and arranged such a scene as the climax of the Spring Festival, which is really ingenious! Thousands of smiling flowers in Qian Qian seem to whisper in a crisp voice: "Spring is coming!" "Spring is coming!" The customs of the Spring Festival in Guangzhou are different from those in other regions:11The Spring Festival market was held from February 28th to New Year's Eve, and millions of people attended the flower market. 2/ flower arrangement. Every family should buy them, including oranges, daffodils and flower arrangements. 3/ Celebration Day. People's Day is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, and many people in Guangzhou hold rich family banquets to celebrate it.