What are the cultural heritages in Guangdong

What are the cultural heritages in Guangdong? Guangdong Lion Dance, Guangdong Cantonese Opera, Kaiping Watchtower, Hong Quan, Foshan Lion Head, etc. The details are as follows:

1. Guangdong Lion Dance

Guangdong Lion Dance belongs to the Southern Lion of Chinese Lion Dance, which is a kind of authentic Guangdong Province traditional folk dance, and it is a treasure of Guangdong Dance Garden. Historically, it was born from the Tang Dynasty Palace Lion Dance, and after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, with the migration of immigrants from the Central Plains to the south, the lion dance culture was introduced to the Lingnan region.

2. Cantonese Opera

Cantonese Opera, also known as the Great Opera or Guangdong Opera, originated from the Southern Opera, which began to appear in Guangdong and Guangxi during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, and is a performing art that combines choral singing, reading, playing, musician's music, stage costumes, and abstract forms, etc. Each line of Cantonese Opera has its own character. Each line of Cantonese opera has its own distinctive costumes. The original language of performance was the Central Plains dialect, also known as the official dialect of the opera house.

Toward the end of the Qing Dynasty, cultural figures changed the language of performance to Cantonese to make it easier for the people of Guangzhou to understand the revolution. Cantonese opera is on the May 20, 2006 list of the first 518 national intangible cultural heritages.

3, Kaiping Watchtower

Kaiping Watchtower, located in Kaiping City, Guangdong Province, under the jurisdiction of Jiangmen City, is a special type of Chinese vernacular architecture, is a set of defense, residential and Chinese and Western architectural art of multi-storey tower building, which is characterized by a combination of Chinese and Western residential, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and a variety of styles such as Islamic.

June 28, 2007, "Kaiping Watchtower and Ancient Villages" application for the World Heritage project in New Zealand's 31st session of the World Heritage General Assembly was adopted, formally inscribed on the "World Heritage List", becoming China's 35th World Heritage Site, China thus gave birth to the first overseas Chinese culture of the World Heritage project.

4, Hong Quan

Hong Quan belongs to one of the traditional Chinese boxing in the southern boxing. About its origin there are two sayings, one says that the Hong Quan is the Qing Dynasty, the southern folk secret society of the Triad (Hongmen) under the guise of Shaolin to teach a boxing; another says that by the Yuan, Ming Shaanxi local boxing red boxing plus other boxing evolved, has a history of more than 300 years.

The Hung Gar Fist has been spreading widely, such as Guangdong and Guangxi, the two lakes and Sichuan and Shaanxi, etc. It is also influential in Hong Kong, Macao, Australia, the United States, Canada and some countries and regions in Southeast Asia. In Taiwan, the Hung Gar Sect was founded by Zheng Chenggong in Taiwan "Jintaishan" began to spread, in South China to develop organizations, practice martial arts, propaganda against the Qing Dynasty to restore the Ming Dynasty ideology. 2015, the Hung Gar Sect was included in the Guangzhou Municipal Intangible Cultural Heritage.

5, Foshan Lion's Head

Foshan Lion's Head is an ancient traditional handicraft in Guangdong Province. It was created in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, with a history of more than 200 years. Its most important feature is the vivid shape, colorful and beautiful, delicate and sturdy production.

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