What are the distinctive cultures of Guangdong?

Guangdong has a long history and unique culture. There are four major cultures: Cantonese culture, Maoming culture (e.g. New Year's Eve), Chaoshan culture, and Hakka culture. The New Year's Example in the Maoming area is one of the most unique traditional festivals in the Guangdong region, and is held annually in the rural areas of Maoming, Huazhou, Gaozhou, Dianbai County, Xinyi and Wuchuan. The Good Samaritan Church is a model of Chinese folk charity; Guangdong's Cantonese and Teochew cuisines (also known as Chaoshan cuisine) are renowned throughout the country, and when one looks at the reality, one can see that Teochew and Cantonese cuisines are the largest cuisines in China nowadays! Guangdong's Cantonese Opera, Teochew Opera belongs to China's top ten local theater; Guangdong music, Teochew music elegant rhyme floating around the world; Chaoshan Ying Song and Dance rough and bold is the southern art forest a wonder. Kaiping Watchtower was named a World Heritage Site, the Hakka House is considered to be the representative building of the Chinese Han migration of people's culture in the South, and the Chaoshan residence has another classical elegance.

According to incomplete statistics, from 1995 to 2002, Guangdong's financial investment in cultural undertakings 6.041 billion yuan (excluding infrastructure), accounting for 13.58% of the total output of the national cultural industry, ranking first in the country. 8 years, the Pearl River Delta region to build a number of investment in large-scale, state-of-the-art equipment and modern cultural facilities, attracting attention in the country. The province now has 2,427 cultural institutions (excluding the movie business, the same below), a cultural team of 22,570 people, initially forming a backbone network of artistic creation and performance, mass culture, public **** library, film distribution and projection, cultural relics and museums, cultural market, etc.; the formation of a new pattern of culture in Guangdong, which is led by the state-run culture and based on the society-run culture.

The Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra are among the first-class orchestras in the country, and the Guangdong Experimental Modern Dance Troupe is an internationally renowned dance troupe. The landmark cultural facilities that have been built or are under construction include the new provincial museum, Xinghai Concert Hall, Shenzhen Concert Hall, Dongguan Grand Theater, etc.; the construction of grassroots cultural facilities in mountainous areas has jumped to the forefront of the country, and Guangdong Province has won the overall score and the gold medal for the second consecutive year in the selection of "Qunxing Prize", the highest award for the national society and culture. In the "Group Star Award", the highest award in national social culture, Guangdong Province has won the first place in the country for two consecutive years in terms of total achievements and the number of gold medals. The first underwater archaeological base in the country and even in Asia is located in Guangdong, and in 1997, 2000 and 2001, there were projects listed as the "Top Ten New Archaeological Discoveries in the Country". In 2002, the sales volume of Guangdong Audiovisual City reached 1.6 billion yuan, accounting for 70% of the national wholesale volume. For five consecutive years, the total number of foreign cultural exchanges and the total number of people entering and leaving cultural organizations have been the highest in the country. But the number of museums and libraries per capita is low.

Cantonese Opera

Cantonese Opera, also known as the Great Opera or the Guangdong Great Series from the Southern Opera, has appeared in Guangdong and Guangxi since the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, and is a performing art that combines chorus, singing, reading, playing, musician's music, stage costumes, and abstract forms, and so on. Each line of Cantonese opera has its own distinctive costumes. The original language of performance was the Central Plains dialect, also known as the official language of the opera house. Towards the end of the Qing Dynasty, cultured people changed the language of performance to Cantonese to make it easier for the people of Guangzhou to understand the revolution. Cantonese opera is listed in the first 518 items of national intangible cultural heritage announced on May 20, 2006, and is popular in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Guangxi. Cantonese opera is popular in Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao. It is also performed in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and Central and South America where there is a concentration of overseas Chinese from Guangdong. Cantonese Opera is a major genre in the southern part of China, which is mainly composed of bangkas (known as xipi in Peking Opera) and erhuang, formed by combining Haiyan, Yiyang, Kunshan and Bangkas that have flowed into Guangdong since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, as well as absorbing the folk music of the Pearl River Delta.

Chaoju Opera

Chaoju Opera, also known as Chiu Chow Opera, Chiu Yin Opera, Chiu Tone Opera, and Bai Zi Opera, is mainly popular in the Chiu Shantou dialect area, and it is an ancient local opera genre with a history of more than 430 years sung in the Chiu Shantou dialect. It is a branch of the Southern Opera of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, which gradually evolved from the Southern Opera of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, absorbing the specialties of Yiyang, Kunqu, Pihuang, and Bangbang Operas, and combining them with local folk arts, such as the music of Teochew, to ultimately form its own unique art form and style. The language of Teochew opera did not start out in the Teochew dialect. As can be seen from the Ming book "The Complete Collection of Golden Flower Women of the Plucked Jinchao Tune", at this time, Teochew Opera was mainly sung in the Teochew dialect, but some of the singing and speech in some of the scenes were labeled as being sung in the "correct tone" (i.e., the "official tone"), which suggests that in the course of the evolution of Teochew Opera from Southern Opera, it may have been sung entirely in the "official tone" at first. This indicates that during the evolution of Chaozhou opera from a southern opera, the "official accent" may have been used at the beginning, and then the weight of the "official accent" was gradually reduced, and eventually it was completely localized.

Guangdong Han Opera

Guangdong Han Opera was formerly known as "Chuanbang", "Waijiang Opera", and "Xingmei Han Opera", and in 1933, Qian Jiedu, a native of Guangdong's Daipu County, published a book entitled "An Outline of Han Opera", in which he named it "Han Opera". Outline of Han Opera", named Han Opera, and since then it has been customary and known as Han Opera to this day. It is popular in Meixian, Shantou, northeast Guangdong and the border areas of Guangdong, Fujian and Gan. In fact, it comes from the Hui Opera after the merger of the leather and spring, and is the same as the Han Opera of western Fujian, which is a kind of opera sung in the official language of Zhongzhou with the western leather and two yellow voices as the main voice. Between the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods of the Qing Dynasty, Huizhou Opera was formed after it was introduced to Guangdong.