Which characteristics do you think best reflect the Lingnan food culture? Please also briefly explain the reasons.

Lingnan food culture is a kind of cultural form in constant generation. The Lingnan region's long history and unique geographical and climatic conditions have fostered a splendid food culture. The unique Cantonese cuisine, distinctive style of Lingnan cuisine, and the popular tea-drinking custom constitute an important part of the Lingnan food culture. Cantonese cuisine is characterized by a wide variety of ingredients and dishes, which can not only be unique, but also harmonize the mouths of the people, and receive the dietary effect of elegance and vulgarity. Furthermore, it is a delicate cuisine, with strict requirements for ingredients, knives, utensils, fire, oil temperature, the order of raw materials in the pot, cooking time, starting the pot, wrapping the tail and serving the dish. The taste of Cantonese cuisine is salty and light, rich in seasonal changes, crispy texture, never get tired of eating, and is good at taking the local food culture as the basis and absorbing the essence of other domestic cuisines and western cuisine to form a unique southern flavor. Guangdong people's dietary style is nothing to eat, abundance and frugality, practicality, focus on nutrition, science, and to the enjoyment of the values of change.

Cantonese cuisine is composed of Guangzhou cuisine as the mainstay, plus Teochew cuisine, Dongjiang cuisine (Hakka cuisine), etc., with finer branches such as western Cantonese cuisine (Leizhou cuisine) and Shaoguan cuisine. Gaozhou cuisine seems to be an unimpressive cuisine in Cantonese cuisine, but with the development of the economy and the spread of Gaozhou people, a distinctive Gaozhou cuisine was formed. Of course, in all parts of the world, people still use western Cantonese cuisine to generalize the name, there should be improper.

In the Maoming area, due to the geographical environment, humanities and customs of different places, in fact, also formed a different cuisine, mainly for the electric cabbage, Huazhou cuisine, Xinyi cuisine and Gaozhou cuisine. In Maoming city is a collection of various cuisines, Maoming people's food style of the very, Guangzhou is no better. Night falls, Maoming city restaurants are overcrowded, the roadside stalls are lined up, in this small town, no big city to go to make money to run around tired, people in addition to eating to enjoy, as if they can not find a better way to spend their leisure.

Dianbai due to the sea, so Dianbai is mainly seafood-based, light taste, to clear, fragrant, fresh, tender-based, cooking is mostly clear burn, boiled, fried and white burn, and less seasoning. However, most of the people in Maoming are looking for a strong flavor, so the seafood will change into a stewed, fried, roasted, stir-fried, grilled and so on. Huazhou cuisine does not have many specialties, but is mainly famous for its white chopped chicken and steamed chicken, etc. It pursues the simplicity of the original flavor, and the taste is fragrant and heavy but not greasy. Xinyi cuisine is somewhat similar to the Gaozhou cuisine, probably influenced by the Hakka cuisine, mainly farmhouse cuisine, with a strong mountain atmosphere and distinctive rural characteristics, highlighting the main ingredients, the original flavor, the pursuit of soft and fragrant, focusing on the fire power to fry, stew, stewing, boiling, brewing, etc., is a salty and aromatic dishes. Salt-baked chicken, stuffed tofu, stuffed bitter gourd, and buckled pork with preserved mustard greens in Gaozhou cuisine share the same characteristics as Hakka cuisine from the eastern part of Guangdong Province, probably due to the dietary culture of the descendants of more than 300,000 Hakka immigrants from the eastern part of Gaozhou, and also due to the similarity in geography between Gaozhou and the Hakka ancestral land in Meixian County, which, however, still embodies the characteristics of the local culture of Gaozhou in a more specific way. The main feature of Gaozhou cuisine is the aroma, so a very simple raw materials, such as tofu, chicken, fish, pork, etc., can be made fragrant, salty, heavy, so people who are used to eating Gaozhou cuisine or "Maoming Cuisine" may not be able to adapt to the light and delicate Guangzhou cuisine.

"The Maoming area is the base of the ancient slang people, the slang hostages straight Shangxin, good courage and light death, the Maoming people speak very hard, the voice is very strong, the tone is higher, with the metal breath of the clash of swords, the people's character also has a kind of Greenwood's brashness, not to stick to the rules and regulations, righteousness, rate of will and to do. So living in Maoming is simple, fulfilling and exhilarating, and every day seems to be a festival, a reunion with friends, on the way from one end of the city to the feast on the other end of the city." This paragraph on the description of the people of Maoming is the most appropriate, but it can be said that the food culture of Maoming is the most reflective of the character of the people of Maoming a culture.