What are the time-honored customs of Shunde. (To all)

1. Dragon boat racing Shunde's dragon boat racing is famous since ancient times. Early Qing Dynasty Qu Dajun "Guangdong new language - boat language": "Shunde Dragon River, the year five or six months fighting dragon boat. On the day of the fight, the body of the river is not too big or small, and the water is straight but not bay ring for the dragon boat field. ...... fight to win the port, then widely called friends and relatives to feast, the port will be a good year people happy, trade to the rich clouds." In fact, the county's townships Fort are emerging rowing dragon boat, now the city museum still exists in the Kangxi years Xingtan Beishui Village "pressure all the dragons" stone plaque. Dragon boat is divided into "dragon" and "dragon race" two kinds of: "dragon" large size, beautifully decorated, called "dragon boat", focusing on cruising to show costumes, flags and drums. Focus on cruising to show costumes and drums for fun; "dragon" is small, called "dragon boat", from three to fifteen radius, focusing on racing speed. 2. "Dragon boat" rap "Dragon boat" rap is a folk rap art. Originated in the Qing Dynasty, the 20th century before the 1950s popular in the county and Guangzhou dialect area, to Shunde accent for the authentic. Artists mostly sing under the banyan tree in teahouses, townships and villages. They hold a small wooden dragon boat as a prop and a small gong and drum in front of their chest. They sing and beat while singing, and the content of the songs are mostly funny stories and words of peace and blessing. During the period of the 1911 Revolution and the Anti-Japanese War, the "Dragon Boat" was used in social propaganda, and the long lyrics written by the artists against the Qing Dynasty, the Japanese, and the "Three Pests" (drug abuse, gambling, and prostitutes) had a wide social impact. Guanyin Kaiku Every year on the night of the twenty-sixth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the folk "Guanyin Kaiku" day, Ronggui Bailianchi Guanyin Hall, Longjiang Town, Jinping Hill of the Purple Cloud Pavilion and Longjiang Town, Longfeng Hill Guanyin Pavilion will be held in front of the annual worship temple fair. After nightfall, the sound of stalls selling incense and candles, windmills and other works of worship rises and falls, and there is a steady stream of pious worshippers from all parts of Shunde and the provinces, Hong Kong and Macao, like a tidal wave of people pouring in, stuffing the open space in front of the hall with windmills and incense candles in the hands of the crowd, cutting through the golden arc, turning Guanyintang into a bustling marketplace of heavenly light. Gongs and Drums Cabinet The gongs and drums cabinet is in fact a pavilion sedan chair-style wooden cabinet made of stranded wood, on which are carved lifelike historical figures of various shapes and sizes, and which contains various kinds of musical instruments used for blowing, playing, strumming, playing, and striking, and which forms a performing troupe on the basis of the "cabinet" as a unit. The performance of gongs and drums was prevalent during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, and it was most famous in Hengtan and Junean. In the Guangxu period, the gongs and drums of Gaozhan Village in Xingtan went to Guangxi to play and won the "Two Guangdong Shengkui" championship. Burning Cannon The mountains are bathed in festive songs, the crowd is filled with the taste of happiness, and the happiness and wishes are sent in the sound of joyful cannons, the colorful rain floats, the songs are long, and the charm of tradition is noisy in the ancient folklore. In Longjiang, Shunde, the Guanyin Temple Fair in January and February every year - a custom known locally as "Burning Cannon" - continues to be staged year after year amidst the bustling crowds. Singing Cantonese Opera Shunde's countryside opera societies (commonly known as "private bureaus") are famous far and wide, with Junan, Ronggui and Daliang in particular being the most popular. It is rumored that a few years ago, when experts from the Chinese Opera Association came to Shunde to evaluate the "Hometown of Chinese Opera", they quoted the phrase "ten thousand lights and ten thousand strings" to describe the prosperity of Shunde's private bureaus. At night, when the lights come on, three or two of the "guys" came to the ancestral hall at the entrance of the village, although it is an ancestral hall, but it is a bit of a modern atmosphere, and the banners and trophies in the window have witnessed the former honor. Playing the piano, playing the erhu, playing the flute, playing the gong, each in his own position, not half a bit of ambiguity. The melodious music accompanied by crisp and mellow singing, through the night sky, drifting into the lights. Fish Lanterns Shunde has the custom of "Lantern Festival", and fish lantern competitions are also held at Daliang Lantern Festival. "Daliang Fish Lanterns" is a craft that is rich in the characteristics of the water town, with bamboo tied into a fish-shaped skeleton, covered with a bright veil, painted and dyed scales and fins, and candles are lit, making them lifelike. Wushu Culture Shunde has a long history of folk martial arts, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were Wushu Scholar and Wushu Tanhua. In the early years of the Republic of China, there were dozens of martial arts centers in Shunde, and each school of martial arts was famous. Bruce Lee, the international martial arts superstar who originated from Shunde, further developed the culture of Shunde martial arts. Lion Dance Dragon Dance Dragon dance, lion dance is a bright pearl in Chinese culture, is the people like a folk sports activities, in a variety of festivals and celebrations can be seen, is one of the most familiar traditional Chinese dance. Dragon dance, also known as "play dragon lantern lantern", "dragon lantern dance". Originating in the Han Dynasty, it was first performed as a ritual to worship ancestors and pray for rain, and then gradually became a common recreational activity during festivals.

Shunde covers an area of 806 square kilometers, with a household population of 1,121,900, a floating population of 665,000, and 400,000 people living in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, as well as overseas Chinese, making it a famous "hometown of Hong Kong and Macao" and "hometown of overseas Chinese".