What is the traditional culture of Shawan Town?

Shawan is an ancient town of Lingnan culture with a history of nearly 800 years. Named for being located on the half-moon beach in Guwan. It is also the Lingnan Folk Architecture Art Museum. The ancient town completely retains the comb layout of traditional villages in Lingnan area. Liugeng Hall, Baomo Garden, Nanyue Garden and Aoshan Ancient Temple Group are masterpieces of Lingnan architectural art..

Shawan is the birthplace of Guangdong music. Shawan ancient town has a strong flavor of traditional life and active folk art, creating intangible cultural resources with local characteristics. He's school of elegance began with He Bozhong, the "king of pipa". After several generations' efforts, it was unique in the period of "He Jia San Jie" and developed into an influential school in Guangdong music scene. Cantonese opera that appeals to both refined and popular tastes is called "artistic conception music".

Therefore, Shawan has become one of the regions with the most active Guangdong music in history and the most historical remains of Guangdong music, and still maintains the tradition of "private board" in Qing Dynasty.

As the "hometown of folk sculpture" in Guangdong Province, Shawan Ancient Town has preserved a large number of fine arts, such as brick carving, wood carving, stone carving, gray carving and mural painting. Its artistic style has strong Lingnan characteristics. In addition, there are many traditional cultures active among the people, such as the birthday of the Northern Emperor, the Aoyu Dance, the Dragon Boat Festival, Cantonese Opera and orchids.

Shawan also has delicious traditional snacks-ginger buried milk, milk white cake and so on.