What folk arts and holiday habits are there in Foshan?

Foshan folk art has its own characteristics. Through cutting, engraving, flapping, molding, tying, casting, painting, gluing and other techniques, dozens of works of art such as paper cutting, tying, colored lights, autumn colors (including paper flapping, carving, carving, gluing, casting, etc.), woodblock New Year pictures, calligraphy and painting are produced. Foshan folk art is deeply loved by the masses because of its local flavor.

In the celebration of Hong Kong's return to the motherland in 1997, Foshan Folk Art Research Association designed and produced the largest float (48m long, 3m wide and18m high). Adding a strong national color to Hong Kong at the reunification celebration has become the focus of global attention. The colorful dragons designed and produced by our association are listed in Guinness World Records.

On the occasion of welcoming the year 2000, the Hong Kong SAR Government held a large-scale lantern festival "Dragon Lantern Celebrating the Millennium", and our society designed and produced more than 2,000 colorful lanterns as part of the artistic performance. In the Lantern Festival, the dragon is 280 meters long and the faucet is 14 meters high, covering an area of 4,800 square meters. It is recognized by Guinness World Records as the largest dragon lantern in the world.

In the Spring Festival of 2000, the Guangzhou Municipal Government held a large-scale light show in Guangzhou Pearl River. Foshan Folk Art Research Association has designed and produced 38 floats (each leader 16 meters, 5 meters wide and 5 meters high), which stretches for 5 kilometers during the Pearl River cruise. The media praised the Pearl River stunt.

Foshan's traditional lamps have been bundled into art, and three works have been recorded in Guinness World Records. The following is the custom of Chinese New Year. Other festivals are nothing special. 1. "Twenty-eight years old, washing sloppy", this is Cantonese. It means cleaning the house inside and out on the 28th of a year. Clean up all the bad things this year and welcome the new year.

2. Open the oil pan to steam rice cakes before the Chinese New Year. Stir-fry horns, scattered eggs, stir-fry piles, etc. In the frying pan; And rice cakes are generally steamed radish cakes, horse tellurium cakes and so on.

Have a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve (September 29th if there is no New Year's Eve), and the whole family should get together neatly all year round. Eat new year's eve dinner on the second day of the lunar new year.

4. Hanghua Street, according to the customs of past dynasties, the annual Lunar New Year Flower Market will be held every Spring Festival. The Chinese New Year's Eve flower market usually starts about ten days before the Spring Festival and ends at twelve o'clock on the 30th. New Year's Eve is the climax of the Chinese New Year's Eve flower market. The closer it is to the first day of the Lunar New Year, the more popular it is. The flower market sells flowers, oranges, handicrafts and so on. Every household in Foshan will plant flowers to celebrate the Spring Festival. Peach blossom is an essential winter jasmine, pray for peach blossom luck in the coming year. Kumquat symbolizes "good luck". Four Seasons Orange, Golden Egg and Cinnabar Orange similar to Kumquat can also play this role, so ordinary families only buy one of them. Similarly, it is the fruit passed down from generation to generation, which means prosperity from generation to generation. Narcissus is also one of the decorations for Foshan people in the New Year.

5. Pay New Year greetings. No matter how many gifts you bring, it can't be odd. People who pay New Year greetings enter the doors of relatives and friends, and they should look at different people and say different greetings. Say "Happy New Year" and "Longevity is better than Nanshan" to the elderly; For those who have jobs, say "smooth work" and "progress in the new year"; If you are a business person, what you hear most is "making a big profit in the New Year" and "making a fortune and benefiting the market"; If children are studying, what they want most is to make progress in their studies and achieve excellent results in the new year. Before leaving, the host will leave two oranges in the gift of the recipient, and then exchange his oranges in order to bring good luck to the other party.

Back to her mother's house, on the second day of the first month, the married daughter went back to her mother's house with her husband and children to pay New Year's greetings. When a daughter returns to her mother's house, there must be a big bag of biscuits and sweets distributed by her mother to her neighbors, just like the scene of the New Year. If there are many daughters at home, and none of them came back on the same day, then they should come one by one to show the girls' yearning for the family.

6. Giving gifts (red envelopes or lucky money) to underage juniors means bringing them blessings and good luck. The main meaning of auspiciousness lies in red paper, because it symbolizes good luck. Therefore, it is impolite to open the welfare in front of the elders who distribute it.

When visiting the New Year during the Spring Festival, the elders should distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that lucky money can kill evil spirits, because "old" and "expensive" are homophonic, and the younger generation can spend a year safely with lucky money.

Folks believe that giving children lucky money, when evil spirits or "Nian" hurt children, children can use the money to bribe them and turn evil into good luck.

7. On the 16th day of the first month, there is a saying in Foshan that "there is no place for the economy". On the same day, I bought windmills and lettuce and walked on Tongji Bridge to pray for Geely (the homonym of lettuce) and make a fortune.