Eight characteristics of Chaoshan culture

1, Chaozhou dialect "telling the ancient"

Chaozhou dialect tells stories in Chaoshan dialect, and the form is basically the same as that in the north. It is a mass entertainment activity, which is told by people who gather together spontaneously and by folk artists who specialize in telling ancient stories. There was no special storytelling field in Chaoshan before, so ancient storytellers used temples, parks, squares and other public places to give lectures.

2. Chaoshan Technology

Chaoshan woodcarving is a leader in arts and crafts, which is interesting to say. In the voluminous Ci Hai, to find out the word "woodcarving", we must use the word "tide" consistently. "Chaoshan woodcarving" has become a proper noun, which shows its strong artistry and wide influence. Chaoshan woodcarving had begun to take shape in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and it became more and more perfect in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it still has a strong vitality.

3. Chaoshan architecture

The traditional courtyard houses in Chaoshan are the basic layout, and the most basic forms are called "Shang Lu Gen" and "Si Fen Jin". Small-sized residential buildings in cities and towns have a long and narrow "bamboo pole" layout. Large-scale residential buildings expand horizontally or vertically on the basis of four cents, which are called "three halls series", "eight halls opposite", "four-horse trailer" and "Baifeng Chaoyang", and their external contours remain very regular squares or rectangles.

4. Chaoshan culture

Chaoshan Shantang can best represent the humanistic color of Chaoshan, and it is a charity with folk beliefs. Under the influence of this good church culture, hipsters are more willing to do charity.

5. Chaoshan folk customs

There are many folk customs in Chaoshan, and many traditional cultures in the Central Plains have been preserved, which Chaoshan people have always been proud of. In addition to traditional festivals, Chaoshan people still retain the customs that have disappeared in the Central Plains, such as burning towers in the Mid-Autumn Festival and dragons in the New Year. In addition, there are other distinctive customs, such as eating seven kinds of soups, competing with big pigs in Chenghai, grabbing pomegranates with the dragon's tail, dragging the gods with salt stoves and so on.

6. Chaoshan diet

Chaozhou cuisine has a history of thousands of years. According to historical records, Chaozhou cuisine can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. After the prosperous Tang Dynasty, influenced by the cooking skills of the Central Plains, it developed rapidly. When Han Yu was in Chaoshan in the Tang Dynasty, he praised the delicacy of Chaozhou cuisine: "It is strange to hold a vest column." There are dozens more, beyond reproach. "In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Chaozhou cuisine entered its heyday, with many famous shops, famous teachers and famous dishes in Chaozhou. In modern times, due to the communication between overseas Chinese and Chaozhou people, Chaozhou cuisine has absorbed the essence of famous food at home and abroad, and the dishes are more colorful and the quality is also improving. Today, Chaozhou cuisine has developed into one of the famous dishes in China with unique cultural characteristics in Lingdong area.

7. Chaoshan music

Chaozhou Opera, also known as Chaoshan Opera, Yin Chao Opera, Chaodally and Bai Zixi, is mainly popular in Chaoshan dialect area. It is an ancient local opera with a history of more than 430 years. It is a branch of Southern Opera in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, which gradually evolved from Southern Opera in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, absorbed the specialties of Yiyang, Kunqu Opera, Pihuang and Bangzi, and combined with local folk arts, such as Chaoshan music, and finally formed its own unique artistic form and style.

8. Chaoshan commercial culture

After the decline of Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants, the famous merchants in China's history, Chaozhou merchants and Zheshang merchants rose. In today's world, tide merchants are very strong. The main feature of Chaozhou businessmen is that they operate in a way of combining business with business, commercial capital and industrial capital, and their business areas are all over the world. Chaozhou businessmen have many successful business strategies and formed a unique business culture.

The Significance of Chaoshan Culture

Chaoshan culture is a bright star in splendid Chinese culture. Overseas Chinese go out from Chaoshan, and they inherit Chaoshan culture and carry forward Chinese culture. Chaoshan Cultural Research Center is rooted in the hometown of overseas Chinese and has profound historical and cultural connotations. It is timely and meaningful to hold this forum.

Chaozhou's cultural categories are complex and diverse, with distinctive cultural characteristics and a hundred flowers blooming. With the cultural character of Excellence, exquisiteness and exquisiteness are many people's comments on Chaozhou arts and crafts; A "living thousand-year-old city" retains the historical context, and the original flavor of "seeing people, seeing things and seeing life" is vivid and precious.