Guangfu Culture

Guangfu culture, also known as Guangfu people, refers to the culture of the Han Chinese inhabitants of the Guangzhoufu area of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong Province who use the Cantonese dialect.

I. Introduction:

Refers to the culture of the Han Chinese inhabitants of the Guangzhou-Fu area of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong Province who use the Cantonese dialect. Guangfu culture takes the Pearl River Delta as the scope of passage, and the regional culture of the Cantonese-speaking area also includes the Gao Liang culture of the western part of Guangdong, the Xijiang culture of the Xijiang River Basin, and the Gui system of the Guangxi area. It is the core area and flourishing place of Guangfu culture, which has been in the leading position in Guangdong Province.

II. Literary Culture:

Before the Song Dynasty, the literary center of Guangdong had been located in the northern part of Guangdong. Starting from the Song Dynasty, the Pearl River Delta region gradually replaced the northern part of Guangdong as the literary center of Lingnan, and Cui and Zhi and Li Pleiades were the nationally influential figures at that time, and Cui and Zhi was the beginning of the Song lyrics in Lingnan. In the 18th year of the Yuan Dynasty (1358), more than ten poets founded the Nan Yuan Poetry Society in Nan Yuan, Guangzhou.

Representative figures include Sun Shanxian, Huang Zhe, Wang Zuo, Li De, Zhao Jie, known as "the first five sons of the South Garden", who created a new situation in the poetry world of Lingnan, forming the "Lingnan School of Poetry", which became one of the five major genres of Chinese poetry in the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and has been on a par with the other four major schools of poetry. The Lingnan School of Poetry was already on a par with the other four schools of poetry.

Cultural characteristics of Guangfu:

1. Festivals and marriages:

In terms of festivals and customs, there is both the inheritance of traditional culture from the Central Plains and its local characteristics. In Guangzhou, there is a New Year's Eve flower market. The Southern Han Dynasty has been, to the mid-19th century, the flower market routine set a few days before New Year's Eve, flowers and trees into the city, ten miles long street, the public companion "line flower street", lively and extraordinary, and so far more and more prosperous, the development of the Pearl River Delta, many cities have this custom.

2, food customs:

Guangzhou's food culture is renowned at home and abroad. Cantonese cuisine is one of the four major cuisines in China, which is characterized by innovation in imitation, wide range of ingredients, selection of rare and exquisite ingredients, exquisite workmanship, pay attention to the "wok", pay attention to the image of a wide range of flavors, all the five flavors, the right amount of thick and thin.

3, opera music:

Cantonese opera, sung in Cantonese, is the most popular and influential local opera in Guangdong. Cantonese opera is formed and developed by the continuous fusion of a variety of foreign opera voices and local native opera and folk rap art. Later on, some Western instruments were boldly used in the accompanying instruments, which greatly enhanced the effect of accentuating the singing and dramatic movements.

4, arts and crafts:

Guangdong painting from the Ming and Qing dynasties has been a large development, a large number of talented people, unique style, a variety of techniques, and seek new changes. Its representatives are: the South China Sea, Lin Liang's birds and flowers, Dongguan Zhang Mu is known for painting horses, Xinhui Gao Yanyan is good at landscapes, Shunde Lijian poetry, calligraphy and painting, Shunde Su Liupeng, Su Renshan, especially good at figures, Panyu Jiu Chao, Julian work flowers and grasses and bugs, and attach importance to the law of nature.

5, garden culture:

Lingnan gardens mainly refers to the Pearl River Delta region Guangfu gardens, is one of the three major schools of traditional Chinese gardening art. The early Qing Dynasty by the governance of Shunzhi, Kangxi, Yongzheng three dynasties, the economic order is basically stable, the social wealth has a certain amount of accumulation, one after another began the construction of gardens, basically formed three centers in Beijing, Jiangnan, the Pearl River Delta.