The composition of local customs in Shenzhen

It is said that the custom of visiting the flower market during the Spring Festival was first unique to China and Guangzhou. The flower market in old Guangzhou is called "Flower Street". In Cantonese, "It is not Chinese New Year without visiting the flower market", which means that it is not Chinese New Year without visiting the flower market. Later, this custom gradually spread to other counties and cities, and became a custom for Cantonese to celebrate the Spring Festival. Compared with other areas in Guangdong, the Spring Festival market in Shenzhen started late. 1982, Shenzhen held the first winter jasmine market, and this year, it is the 27th flower market. It has become an indispensable custom for Shenzhen people to buy and enjoy flowers at the flower market before the Spring Festival. Enjoy flowers and scenery, buy flowers to pray, and people greet the best days of the year with flowers. Orange oranges and colorful flowers are the protagonists of the flower market. In Cantonese, oranges are "auspicious" and flowers are "hair". Oranges indicate good luck and flowers indicate prosperity, so every family will put oranges and flowers in the living room during the Spring Festival.

Dancing grass dragons is a unique custom in Nan 'ao Town. On the night of the second day of the first month of every year, fishermen's boys tie grass into a "dragon", each of which adds up to 200 to 300 meters long, and then fill this "dragon" with incense. As the "Dragon" swam, the band beat gongs and drums and crossed the streets, imposing. Dragons shine up and down when dancing, just like a dragon rolling down. Where the grass dragon passed by, there were many onlookers, orderly, setting off fireworks and firecrackers, praying for purple gas to come often, good luck and prosperity, and a festive scene. Dancing grass dragon is not only the psychological expression of fishermen's hope for smooth sailing and rich life, but also a fitness exercise that the public is willing to participate in, so it is more popular and lively every year.

Burning incense and worshipping God is a custom in Shajing Town. The custom of burning incense in Shajing villagers began to spread in the Tang Dynasty. Every family has a shrine, and the elders in the family preside over the ceremony every day. Before the incense, the host cleaned up, straightened his appearance, lit three sticks of incense in a solemn and pious place, put them in the incense burner, and then performed the ceremony of three worships. Then the whole family bowed down one by one. On the first and fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, the ceremony is more grand, the worship is more pious, and the incense used is more exquisite, mainly sandalwood ground into fine powder. Before the incense burner is scented, tribute fruits should be placed, mainly seasonal fruits such as litchi, mango and longan, as well as meat dishes and rice. After worshipping God, the whole family will eat vegetarian food together instead of greasy and meat dishes. The villagers' custom of burning incense shows people's pursuit of a healthy and prosperous life.