CCTV network news: With the Spring Festival approaching, the New Year flavor of Foshan in Guangdong is also getting stronger and stronger, visiting the flower market, hanging the Spring Festival, preparing New Year goods, everywhere is full of festive atmosphere. What customs are still preserved in Foshan for the Chinese New Year? Let's follow the reporter's lens to see it.
The flowers in the Bay Area are blooming, and the New Year is happy to celebrate. Cantonese people pay attention to the new year flower street, buy new year flowers, and draw an auspicious and good intention. Today (January 29th) we came to Chen Village in Shunde, Foshan, which is located in the cultural hinterland of Guangfu in the Pearl River Delta and has a history of more than 2,000 years of flower cultivation.
The Qing Dynasty's "Shunde County Chronicle" records that "Chen Cun sold flowers and fruits to the counties, and since the Han Dynasty, longan, lychee, Song Gong exotic flowers, gai has an ancient origin." In this millennium flower town, 9 pots of every 10 pots of annual oranges sold in the country come from here, and there are more than 100 enterprises that grow phalaenopsis orchids, accounting for 30% of the national transaction volume.
Nian tangerine and phalaenopsis orchid are also the New Year flowers that Guangdong people must buy in the New Year. The orange of the four seasons represents the auspiciousness of the four seasons, and the beautiful phalaenopsis orchid, its flower language is "happiness is flying to you". In Chen Village, Phalaenopsis orchids not only have this traditional pink color, but also this newly bred macaron phalaenopsis orchid, which is very popular with young people.
Now, more than 2,400 Phalaenopsis orchid varieties have been cultivated here, and not only that, but also the four-season flowering of Phalaenopsis orchids. Although the offline flower market was cancelled this year, everyone can still achieve it through the "cloud flower market", "flower viewing on the cloud" and "buying flowers on the cloud". At present, the annual orange flower has shipped more than 80%, the sales momentum is good, and the price is up nearly 20% compared with last year.
In addition to buying New Year flowers, there will be lions to wake up in Lingnan during the New Year's Festival. Guangdong Awakening Lion is one of the national intangible cultural heritages. Each step of the lion's head is made by hand, bamboo is made of bone, paper is made of leather, ink is added to the spirit, and the fluff shows its might. After more than 1,300 processes in about a week, a lifelike lion's head appeared in front of our eyes.
However, there is still an important final step before it becomes a dancing lion: the finishing touch.
Wake up the lion "picking green", it is this lettuce that is picked, and the lettuce is consonant "sheng cai". The lion collected the green and distributed it to the neighbors, indicating that he had distributed the wealth and blessings to everyone. Here, we also wish the audience friends good health and great achievements.