Cultural characteristics of Lingnan in Guangdong

1. Gardens: Lingnan Gardens mainly refer to Guangfu Gardens in the Pearl River Delta, which is one of the three major schools of traditional gardening art in China and has a very important significance in the history of gardening in China.

2. Opera: Is Cantonese Opera also called? Cantonese opera? Originated in Foshan and sung in Cantonese, it is one of the traditional operas of the Han nationality. Cantonese opera was listed in the world intangible cultural heritage list by UNESCO in September 2009.

3. Calligraphy: Chen Xianzhang was a great calligrapher in Guangdong at that time, with many disciples and his own family? Baisha Book School? , created Lingnan calligraphy. In his later years, Chen Baisha used Maogen as a pen, which was called Maolong pen.

4. Music: Lingnan Guqin gradually developed from the Han Dynasty. There are many famous musicians in the past dynasties. They wrote many ancient books about Qin Xue, and created and preserved many famous guqin instruments and music scores.

5. Painting: Lin Liang, a native of Nanhai, Guangdong Province, was the most outstanding flower-and-bird painter in the Ming Dynasty, a representative figure of flowers and birds in the Ming Dynasty, and the pioneer of the ink-and-wash freehand brushwork school in the Ming Dynasty. He is unique in the Ming Dynasty painting school and has a great influence on later painting circles, including court painters, professional painters and literati painters.