What are the elements of Zhongshan culture?

The cultural elements of Zhongshan are: drunken dragon dance, floating colors in cliff mouth, salty water songs in Zhongshan, Xiaolan Chrysanthemum Party, traditional handmade herbal tea and so on.

1, folk dance: drunken dragon dance

Drunk dragon dance, also known as "dragon-cutting" and "dragon-turning", is popular in Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Macao and other places, and is named because it is "drunk and hazy" when dancing. In the past, on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, the legendary birthday of Sakyamuni, Zhongshan people would dance, drink dragons and eat Luan egg cakes.

2. Folklore: Cliff mouth color drift.

Cliff floating color is a traditional folk custom and folk art with local characteristics in Zhongshan. It is an intangible cultural heritage created, accumulated and passed down by local people in their long-term production, labor and life practice, which fully shows the excellent cultural values and aesthetic ideals gradually formed by the people in the historical process, as well as the creativity of folk culture.

3. Folk songs: Zhongshan Salty Water Songs

Saltwater song is a traditional Han fishing song sung by fishermen in Guangzhou dialect, also known as "vernacular fishing song". Saltwater sigh, elder brother sigh, elder sister sigh and vernacular fishing songs are popular Han folk songs near tanzhou town, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, and are also folk songs sung by local Han working people when they entertain themselves and talk about love in fields, bases and river banks. With local characteristics.

4. Folklore: Xiaolan Chrysanthemum Festival

Xiaolan Chrysanthemum Festival is a flower viewing activity organized by civil organizations such as "Jushen" and "Juhui" during Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty. At the event site, families will put all kinds of chrysanthemum art together to compete, and the duration varies from a few days to more than ten days. The activities mainly include chrysanthemum appreciation, chrysanthemum competition, chrysanthemum singing, chrysanthemum painting, chrysanthemum tasting, water chrysanthemum dance, chrysanthemum drama and so on. , and later developed into various.

Xiaolan Chrysanthemum Festival, with flowers as media and chrysanthemums as friends, is exquisite in skills and large in scale, forming a unique folk traditional comprehensive flower festival.

5. Traditional handicraft: herbal tea

Herbal tea is a unique tea of Han nationality, and it is the general name of Chinese herbal medicine plant drinks. Guangdong herbal tea is the representative of Han traditional herbal tea culture. Herbal tea is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine with cold properties, which can dispel the heat in human body, so as to eliminate the heat in human body or treat the sore throat caused by dryness in winter.