What are the special holiday traditions in Foshan?

Foshan holds a flower market on New Year's Eve three days before the Spring Festival, a lion dance performance during the Spring Festival, and a charity trip on the 16th day of the first month every year.

Lunar New Year's Eve Flower Market: "Walking the Flower Street" is a long-standing folk custom of the people in the Pearl River Delta. The flower market is held three days before the Spring Festival, and New Year's Eve is the climax of the flower market. The crowd was packed, and tourists bought flowers to show their good luck and great ambition.

Lion King for hegemony: Lion King for hegemony is one of the cultural activities of "One City, One Special" in Guangdong Province during the Spring Festival. In Foshan, there is no Spring Festival without lion awakening. During the Spring Festival, lion dance performances can be seen all over Foshan, and some towns and streets will organize large-scale "Lion King Competition". Nowadays, lion dance can be seen in many places, but it can become a characteristic activity of Foshan Spring Festival, and its cultural atmosphere and technology are unique in China.

Every year on the 16th day of the first month, Foshan people have a custom of "giving financial aid". It is said that there used to be a river near Nanpu Park in the south of Foshan, and there was a bridge on the river called Tongji Bridge. Foshan people believe that "doing good is harmful" (Foshan dialect, which means doing good without sorrow). On the 15th day of the first month of every year, the government organizes people to cross the bridge, burn incense, throw lettuce and spin windmills here.

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Foshan woodblock New Year pictures have a long history. According to the description in Guangdong Cultural Relics: "The front door is carved with shrines and cliffs as high as the eaves", which proves that the custom of sticking to the door gods has become popular in Guangzhou and Foshan in Han Dynasty. The production of Foshan woodblock New Year pictures was very popular before Qingganlong, Jiaqing and War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, belonging to local folk crafts.

Foshan is "Tao Dou in the South China" and "Porcelain Capital of China", with a long history of more than 700 years, and has a reputation of "Shiwanwa is the best in the world" since ancient times. Nanfeng ancient stove, built in Zhengde period of Ming Dynasty, is the oldest firewood burning dragon kiln in the world. It has been handed down from generation to generation for more than 500 years and is known as the "living fossil of ceramics".

Foshan is the "hometown of Lingnan medicine". The history of ancient medicine has been more than 400 years, and a number of time-honored and famous medicines such as "Huangxianghua" Ruyi Oil, "Popular" Medicinal Liquor and "Yuanjilin" Ganhe Tea have emerged. ?

The foundry industry in Foshan began more than 2000 years ago. Pots, pots, bells and towers cast in Foshan in the Song Dynasty were famous all over the country. By the Ming Dynasty, Foshan's casting technology had reached a fairly high level and became the smelting center of South China.

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