Where is the custom of visiting the flower market?

Visiting the flower market is a custom in Guangdong Province, also called Flower Street. Visiting the flower market in the Spring Festival is the biggest traditional folk custom in Guangfu area on the eve of the Spring Festival, which is popular in the Pearl River Delta and Hong Kong and Macao.

The Spring Festival is held once a year, starting from the 28th day before the Spring Festival and ending in the early morning of the first day of each year. It is loved by the masses with a festive and warm atmosphere and a beautiful meaning of peace. The formation of the flower market can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty, when the flower land in Fangcun, Guangzhou (now Flower Town) became the origin of flowers. Winter jasmine city has been included in the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

Origin:

As an ancient traditional folk culture, in ancient Guangdong, it did not follow the laws of the Central Plains. Since the reunification of Qin Shihuang, the whole Lingnan has been incorporated into the territory of the Qin Dynasty. General Ren Xiao built a city in Panyu County, Nanhai County (now Gufanshan and Yushan, west of Cangbian Road, Guangzhou City) as a county magistrate. In history, it was called Renxiao City, and later it was built in South Vietnam through Zhao Tuo. Liu Li, the king of the South China Sea, proclaimed himself emperor in Panyu (now Guangzhou, Guangdong) and built a great mountain.

Guangzhou became the ancient capital of three dynasties. The southern part of Guangzhou, once regarded as a wild land, is endowed with this unique geographical environment, although its folk customs are different from those of the Central Plains, because there is no heat in summer, no cold and freezing in winter, abundant rainfall, moist soil, evergreen trees and blooming flowers in Lingnan, which has handed down this story of grass fragrance and flowers throughout the ages.