Guangdong traditional festivals

Different regions have different customs and habits, there are also different traditional festivals. In China's Guangdong culture, there are some you do not know of the Guangdong special festival. Guangdong's traditional festivals in addition to China's traditional festivals and Dragon Boat Festival, Swallow Festival and so on. These festivals you know? Let's take a look at them together.

Dragon Boat Festival

Located in the Pearl River Delta, Gao Yao Jinli Town, interspersed with rivers, is a typical water town. Every year from the first to the fifth day of May, Gao Yao will hold the traditional dragon boat racing activities, the first day of May for the "Dragon Boat Festival", this day is also the most lively, the most grand day of the year in the town of Jinli. From three or four o'clock in the morning, the whole town of Jinli began to envelop in the sound of firecrackers and drums, each dragon boat team began to hold a dragon ceremony, the dragon ceremony is a solemn, ancient rituals before the dragon boat launching competition, to feast on the dragon boat dragon, draped in streamers, and for the dragon eyeballing.

With the strong rhythm of the gongs and drums, all the children paddle hard. The Dragon Boat Team is known as the "Dragon King". The dragon boat team that wins the "Dragon King" enjoys a high reputation in the folklore. At that time on the river flags flying, ten thousand paddles dance, the river side of the ten thousand people watching, calling endlessly, a good picture of moving, inspiring "dragon race for gold" picture.

Because Zhaoqing has a tradition of dragon boat ferry, coupled with the wide surface of the Star Lake, since 1998, Zhaoqing City, held an annual international dragon boat race, in the seven-star lake race dragon for gold, attracting dozens of dragon boat teams to participate in the sea, but also attracted thousands of tourists at home and abroad to come to watch.

Chongyang Festival

Chongyang Festival, Zhaoqing people have always been the habit of ascending, especially young men and women. Chongyang Festival, that is, the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year. Ancient China to "six" for the number of yin, "nine" for the number of yang, the first nine days of September is precisely two yang number "nine" word heavy, so called "Chongyang "or "heavy nine". According to the Liang Dynasty Wu Jun's "continued Qi Harmony Records": Ru Nan Huan with Changfang traveled for many years. Changfang said: "September 9, your family when there is a disaster urgently should go: so that the family of Jiangzhi wrapped, full of cornelian cherry, to tie the arm, climbed high, drink chrysanthemum wine, this disaster can be eliminated." Jing, as he said, raised his family to climb the mountain. The evening returned home, see chickens, dogs, cows, sheep, a violent death.

The long room heard said: "Generation of carry on." This is a ten, ten rumors. From then on, every nine days of September in the lunar calendar, people prefer to head inserted cornelian cherry, handheld chrysanthemum wine, to seek refuge from disasters. Today, Chongyang Day, head inserted dogwood ﹑ handheld chrysanthemum wine and children put Kongming these forms of play in Zhaoqing has not seen, but people climbed to play to seek transit custom is still flourishing as the beginning of the day, is the day of the countryside, children also like to climb to put the paper to play. 1996 Chongyang Festival, in Zhaoqing, from the beginning of the morning to the end of the midday, Mount Dinghu and the seven-starred Rock people reached 60,000 people, see the custom of the Chung Yeung climb to the heights of the prosperity.

Sihui Citrus Festival

Sihui City is a famous orange township, with a long history of citrus cultivation. According to historical records, more than 400 years ago in the Ming Dynasty, Sihui began to cultivate oranges on a large scale, and Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" called Sihui "Frozen Citrus". Due to the unique natural geography, climate, soil and rich experience of citrus farmers, Sihui mandarin oranges are famous at home and abroad for their thin skin, sweet and refreshing flavor and freshness without dregs.

Since the Ming Dynasty, Sihui has been sending the best mandarin oranges to the court every year, so it is called "Gongkan". At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the villages along the Suijiang River planted mandarin oranges on a large scale. Today, citrus planting has become a major industry in Sihui, with more than 30 varieties of citrus, Sihui has become a real citrus kingdom, and large-scale citrus markets have been formed on both sides of the highway of Guanghai North Line and Silien Line. Every year in the autumn, Sihui City will hold an annual citrus festival, with citrus as the coal, held a large-scale business negotiations and cultural and artistic performances, attracting guests from all directions, come to taste citrus, negotiate business.

Swallow Festival

In Zhaoqing City, Huaji County, the town of Qiaotou stone forests towering, beautiful scenery, the beautiful natural scenery has bred able to sing and dance Qiaotou people. Every year on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, Zhaoqing City, Huaji County, swim Yan Yan Cultural Festival, also known as the "Yan Festival", "play rock festival". On this day, men, women and children from four villages and eight villages flock to Yan Yan in groups, and tens of thousands of Chinese and foreign tourists also gather here to watch ten thousand swallows flying and see the stunt show of picking bird's nests. At the top of the cave more than 60 meters high to pick bird's nest people only rely on a few bamboo poles in the wall cracks, flying cliffs and walking on the wall, the thrill of the situation, people in the palpitations, had to admire the boldness of the people picking the bird's nest, the skills of the unparalleled!

Inside the Yan Yan there are also traditional folk art performances such as mountain song duets and Gui'er Opera, laughing and enjoying themselves with ten thousand people.