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Customs in Guangzhou...

1. Drinking Tea

"Drinking tea" is called "drinking tea" in Cantonese, and the people of Guangzhou love "drinking tea". Tea culture is both folk culture and food culture. It is said that when Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty traveled south to Guangzhou, he had a morning tea with his personal guards in a teahouse.

Mao Zedong has "tea Guangdong sea can not be forgotten" poem. In Guangzhou, the folk to tea has become a kind of etiquette, such as a guest, the first thing is to serve a cup of "beautiful tea", the first sentence is "please drink tea", as a sign of the host's warmth, friendliness and politeness.

2, floating color

Piao color art originated in Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, Wuchuan City, the form and principle of a number of people pushing a color plate, color plate decorated with a fixed position of the characters, the characters rely on an invisible color stalks to support, in the air can be more than a person's hands, feet, and feet, and floating to fly so it is called the floating color. It is one of the performing art forms of social fire.

3, lettuce will

Lettuce will be, Chinese faith customs. A kind of worship Guanyin in order to seek a child for the gathering of wealth. Chinese folk to the summer calendar on the twenty-sixth day of the first month of each year for the birth anniversary of Guanyin Bodhisattva. Popular in guangzhou, nanhai, shunde area, originated in the late ming and early qing dynasty, decline in the early liberation period, has more than 300 years of history. Lettuce will eat lettuce, initially to "meet the angry".

4. Lion Dance

The Lion Dance is one of the traditional lion dances, which is still passed down in Guangdong and some parts of Guangxi provinces. There are many different kinds of lion dances in China, and they have different meanings in different parts of China.

5, Wooden Fish Song

Muyu song is short for wooden fish, also known as the fish song, is one of the traditional rap art in Guangdong Province, belonging to the system of playing words. It is popular in the Pearl River Delta, Xijiang River and South Road area of Guangdong Province. It originated in the late Ming Dynasty and flourished after the Qing Dynasty.