What are the characteristics and features of the folkways and folklore of Lingnan Water Town?

Question: I want to know what are the folkways and customs of Lingnan Water Town? Seek guidance? Answer: Taking the traditional food and living customs in Lingnan as an example, most of the Lingnan snacks, dim sum and congee are things handed down from folklore. Lingnan ancient Chu, Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate the custom of Qu Yuan has been prevalent, dumplings early famous. "Guangdong new language" recorded: "Guangzhou custom, ...... Dragon Boat Festival for the dumplings, wrapped in winter leaves said gray dumplings, meat dumplings; set Su wood for the red heart, wrapped in bamboo leaves said bamboo tube dumplings; triangular said corner of the dumplings, water immersed in a few months, peeling and frying food is very fragrant." Wrapped in bamboo leaves bamboo tube green bean dumplings, prevalent in the Pearl River Delta area; to sumac for the red heart of the alkaline water dumplings, is still Dongguan rural Dragon Boat Festival essential products; the long-established reputation of the Zhaoqing Steamed Rice Dumplings is also the people of Zhaoqing Dragon Boat Festival, the Chinese New Year, the traditional festive food. Congee, the ancient name "Mi", Chao Qiong and the masses still use this ancient language, regardless of the year, they almost daily eat congee. Famous congee products in Guangzhou include Scholar's Porridge, Fish Brisket Porridge, Fire Porridge, Boat Porridge and so on. Guangdong dim sum to Lingnan snacks as the basis, thousands of years of extensive absorption of the north, including the six ancient capitals of the Palace of the pastry and Western-style pastry technology development, there are 1,000 or 2,000 kinds of more. Representatives of the famous products are thin-skinned shrimp dumplings, lotus leaf rice, E Sister powder fruit, barbecued pork buns, Lipu Autumn taro horn, etc., is still Lingnan streets and alleys, teahouse hotels, common things. The Hakka house is a famous traditional building in Lingnan, and its distribution is consistent with the distribution of Hakka people, mostly in mountainous and hilly areas, mainly in the upper reaches of the Dongjiang River in the area of Jiaying Prefecture and the northern part of Guangdong, and extended into Guangxi, Gannan, and southern Fujian. Mr. Zeng Zhaoxuan believes that the unique structure of the Hakka periwig is complementary to the many needs of the Hakka people's life. The Hakka people are the descendants of ancient immigrants from the Central Plains, whose ancestors moved into Lingnan either to escape from a disaster or to avoid war. Due to the rapid movement, by the local indigenous people's violent resistance, which formed their both agricultural form and defense characteristics of the unique form of residential architecture. This form of housing is conducive to the unity of the Hakka family for self-defense, consolidating the clan concept of the Hakka people. Even in modern times, Hakka houses are still widely found in Hakka settlements in the Lingnan region, maintaining a tough cultural endurance, and the depth and persistence of the traditional culture of the Lingnan region can be seen. While inheriting the tradition, the Lingnan region is also staging a modern fashion scene to its heart's content. Since the reform and opening up of China, the government has set up a number of special economic zones in Lingnan, and Lingnan, especially the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region, has become the main base for trade and cultural exchanges between the East and the West, and the lifestyles and fashions of the Western societies have taken the lead in staging a modern fashion show on the land of Lingnan. Taking festivals and folklore as an example, in the Pearl River Delta region, including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and other large and medium-sized cities as well as rural areas, the celebration of "foreign festivals" has become a commonplace. Every Christmas Eve, in all urban and rural stores, there are Christmas gifts and supplies everywhere, Christmas cards, Christmas trees, Christmas gifts and Christmas food and Christmas night and other cultural activities, so that the ancient streets and lanes are filled with the atmosphere of Western festivals and culture, and other festivals, such as Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Mother's Day and other festivals, are also celebrated in the Pearl River Delta. Other festivals such as "Valentine's Day", "Mother's Day" and "Father's Day" have also become an important part of the festive life of the people in Lingnan. In addition to celebrating foreign festivals, over the past decade, in both urban and rural areas of the Pearl River Delta, men and women, young and old, celebrate their birthdays by eating cakes, blowing out candles, singing birthday songs, making wishes, and holding ceremonies at night, all of which are Western customs, and which are very common even in rural areas. Fully absorbing the customs and fashions of the modern western society, the people's life in Lingnan region is full of modern colors. Traditional folklore and modern fashion are intertwined, and this is especially evident in the cities of Lingnan, where people often have morning tea in the morning, go to ice-cream parlors for ice-cream in the afternoon, and hang out in bars in the evening; in the Liwan district of Guangzhou, traditional riding buildings and Xiguan huts and exotic Shamian houses reflect each other; and in the Pearl River Delta region, Cantonese, English, and Putonghua are all spoken at the same time, and they are the In the Pearl River Delta, Cantonese and English are spoken simultaneously, and are the common languages of office, business, tourism and daily interaction. With the development of the times, this feature has become more and more significant and has become a landscape of Lingnan folk culture.