Seeing that the Spring Festival is approaching, the taste of the New Year is getting weaker and weaker, and the lively celebration in the memory seems to have not been experienced for many years, Xiao Feijun can't help but ask, where has the New Year's taste gone?
In fact, on the 9.6 million square kilometers of land, which is less than that new year's taste. Today, the city of Amway that Xiaofeijun wants to tell everyone is the most year-round place in Lingnan.
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Some people say that this is the most capable city in the country, martial arts master Huang Feihong's stunt "shadowless foot", a generation of grandmaster Ip Man's Wing Chun, of course, this is also Bruce Lee's hometown - Foshan.
The taste of Foshan is hidden in the handwritten spring paintings. Before the Spring Festival, locals have to buy a few paintings to post at home, which is a unique ritual sense of the New Year.
The taste of Foshan is hidden in the wake of the lions in the south. "No awakening lion, no Spring Festival", in the crowd of joy, the lively lion dance performance brought back the traditional and lively festival atmosphere.
The taste of Foshan is also hidden in that cuisine. Don't forget, the foodie's paradise Shunde is in Foshan, in the Spring Festival holiday, do not eat to the wall is sorry for the United Nations crowned "World Capital of Gastronomy" title.
Xiao Feijun felt that as long as that part of the city and the rivers and lakes, that touch of human fireworks did not change, the "year" would not change. As promised in 2021, go and spend time with this "martial arts master" Foshan, and by the way, get a good lottery for a year.
The old street is red
The strong smell of the New Year spreads out
After washing the dirt and dust and dirt in the twenty-eighth year, of course, it is necessary to paste the spring. In addition to the couplets we are familiar with, cantonese people also have four words, even one or two words. Waving spring and waving spring, a pen and ink sprinkles out spring to welcome the New Year.
/ Chopstick Road /
This old street hidden in the old city of Foshan was once the only way for Foshan people to get married, and the locals took the harmonic sound of "fast son" (fast life), which means many children and many blessings.
At the end of the year, this old street that is quiet in the usual days gradually becomes lively, and it seems that overnight, thousands of paintings are waving in spring. People rush into this red ocean and feel the vitality.
At this time of year, the calligraphers who are hidden in the city gather here, bounded by the pillars of the arcade building, and divide the stalls.
The old people waved a large pen, walked in the clouds and flowed water, with a little bit of the arrogance and self-sustainment of the people in the martial forest, and wrote down the most sincere wishes.
The bright red of Jiqing is painted with shiny gold, and every stroke represents the richest red flavor of Foshan. Chatting with these old literati who have been waiting for years and years, Lala homely, this is the unique taste of life in the old city.
It is gratifying that nowadays, in addition to the older generation, there are gradually more young faces, endless crowds and vigorous vitality, which is not only reminiscent of tradition, but also jerky and hard to inherit this craft.
/ Songfeng Road /
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Songfeng Road, which is across the road from Chopsticks Road, has long been booming. If the spring waving of chopsticks road is a traditional representative, then the new style of spring waving on Songfeng Road is quite "ghostly" (Cantonese interesting).
Here, wading spring can not only write Chinese, but also English, and even write auspicious words on the windshield of the car. It's so funny and cute.
Here the spring swing, you can choose on the spot can also play the imagination of their own decision, and after agreeing with the master, swing the pen, a private order of only twenty or thirty pieces freshly baked, take away the heavy blessings.
Songfeng Road, as one of the oldest flower streets in Foshan, has a lively flower market every year before the epidemic. Fortunately, this year's spring is still there, and I hope that this auspicious wish will bless us with a new year.
Lion King Battle
The word "awake" opens the Red Fire New Year
The partners who play the glory of the king will never forget the lion dance skin of Luban No. 7, don't underestimate others, this is the image of Foshan's "South China Sea Awakening Lion Intangible Cultural Heritage Promotion".
The exaggerated shape and bright color of the southern lion, dancing is called an extraordinary momentum. The vivid lion's head contains the superb plastic tying skills of the Foshan people, and touching it is also a good color head for a year.
The chivalry of Foshan people has always been so strong and soft.
So of course, Waking Lion, the exorcism of evil spirits from the Ming Dynasty, perfectly integrates the hardcore genes of Cantonese people. Perhaps to outsiders, it has become an ordinary punch card list.
But only those who grow up in the lion group know that it "wakes up" the red fire of the New Year; "dances" the whole river and lake covered under the flannel cloth of the lion's body.
Of course, waking the lion as a traditional skill is also worthy of being recorded, and in the documentary "Is One Hundred Years Long" on the B station, the director conveys the power of this ancient culture from the perspective of an ordinary person.
Huang Zhongjian, a post-90s worker, desperately came to the unfamiliar Foshan to learn boxing and lion dance while working.
Like ordinary people, perhaps more "unlucky" than ordinary people, the troubles of life are thrown into Huang Zhongjian one after another, but above despair is to die, life did not crush him after all, when he took the lion's head to ride in the wind, when he finally picked up the lion's head to dance, we only felt the power brought to him by "waking the lion".
Why people attach so much importance to the New Year, in addition to the celebration of reunion, more perhaps it is the hope of starting over, looking at this jumping and running southern lion, Xiao Feijun only feels that any difficulties will cross over.
/ Huang Feihong Museum /
In Guangdong, locals like to dance lions every festive season. The Huang Feihong Pavilion is a good place to see the lions awake. The daring lion dancers walked on the high platform, tumbled and jumped, which was a bit thrilling to watch.
The lion "opens his eyes", "washes his whiskers", "licks his body", and shakes his hair, and his big blinking eyes and shaking whiskers are vivid and vivid, and people are unconsciously fascinated.
There are also exciting drum beats, strong or weak, slow and fast, the kung fu lion dancer is the best "rhythm master", step by step on the drum, but also step by step on the hearts of our audience.
At the scene of the lion dance, you can truly appreciate what is the noise of gongs and drums, and what is called joy and joy, which is called the New Year!
After watching the waking lion, don't forget to look at the Huang Feihong Pavilion, which is very Lingnan characteristics of the architectural style, high and wide, very grand. Although the generation of grandmasters with iron bones is already history, that righteous spirit has always influenced generations of Foshan people.
/ Ancestral Temple /
It is said that it is an ancestral temple, in fact, it is a folk museum, in addition to the ancient building complex of the ancestral temple, Huang Feihong Hall, Ip Man Hall and so on are also included.
Foshan people regard the ancestral temple as a temple, every Spring Festival or Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other traditional festivals, the people of the Pearl River Delta have come here to worship and pray, wishing the next year a smooth and smooth year, smooth wind and rain, which is the spiritual sacred place of Lingnan people.
In the ancestral temple, you can see the most authentic southern lion awakening performance, looking at it, in the cheers of the crowd, Xiao Feijun actually understood the joys and sorrows of the southern lion, and the movement was suspicious, which may be the heart of the same ethnic bloodline (suddenly there is a sense of national pride).
The main hall of the ancestral temple has preserved many traces of Song-style architecture, and the northern emperor god enshrined in the hall is in charge of the water and protects the people on the seashore. The Cantonese people who used water as wealth worshipped the Northern Emperor and prayed for smooth wind and rain and peace for Guotai and the people.
Everyone who comes to the ancestral temple will be attracted by the terracotta tile ridge, known as the "King of the Flower Ridge", on the ridge of the long house, there are lifelike terracotta figures, and these more than 300 characters are all shapes in Cantonese opera.
In this ancestral temple full of history, every step is a scenery, and if you are not careful, you will travel through the millennium. The bricks that have been stepped on, the tiles that have been seen, and the gods who have been worshipped, has anyone enjoyed the same scenery as Xiao Feijun?
According to locals, in that turbulent era, it was countless Foshan people who spontaneously guarded the ancestral temple and built a series of human walls to ensure that the ancestral temple would not be destroyed. The Foshan people who have been sheltered by the ancestral temple for generations also protect the ancestral temple with their own bodies.
"Four hundred and eighty temples in the southern dynasty, how many buildings in the smoke and rain", like the ancestral temple, exist in the hearts of Foshan people, looking at the whole country, it is also rare. The Lingnan people, who are righteous, guard their faith in their own way.
Row Flower Street
Trace the fragrance of ancient herbs
Every Chinese New Year's Eve night before the epidemic, the locals will take a family out of the flower street, dip some flowers and joy, and also go to join in the fun, looking forward to the happiness and peace of the coming year.
Originated in foshan Yingchun Flower Market in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, has been a tradition for hundreds of years, did not expect that the town of martial arts is also so chivalrous and tender, which may be "a tiger in the heart, smell the roses".
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Different flowers also contain different meanings, such as red peach represents "Hongtu", rich bamboo represents "flowers blossom and wealth, bamboo newspaper peace", kumquat represents "auspicious, prosperous and developed"... Such a good color head, how can you not buy a plant and bring it back?
Looking at the flow of people in the flower clusters, with the warm weather in Guangdong, and the smell of flowers, the saturation of the whole world seems to have risen, bright and moving.
Wandering in the flower market, looking at the crowd, or bouqueting flowers, or holding children, or bargaining with flower farmers, everyone is looking at the flowers, the flowers are also looking at the crowd, it seems that even the flowing crowd carries the fragrance of flowers.
This is really a realistic version of the "Foshan Flower Market Map".
Flower Street is not only selling flowers, food and New Year goods are also essential, and when you are tired, you can still eat and continue to fight.
In previous years, flower markets have spread all over Foshan: Wenhua Flower Market in Chancheng District, Yingchun Flower Market in Songfeng Road, Floating Flower Market in Lishui Town... It's a city full of flowers.
Peoples or regions that love flowers, life will not be too bad. Although Lingnan people are full of hard work, daily life is like a flower, calm and beautiful, leisurely and comfortable.
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Due to the epidemic, most of this year's Xinghua Street has been cancelled, and only the Yingchun Flower Market in Gaoming District has been held online.
Roots in traditional culture
There is no shortage of petty bourgeoisie
/ Lingnan Tiandi /
In Lingnan Tiandi near the ancestral temple, although it is an old architectural style of the Ming and Qing dynasties, it has incorporated many modern elements and has become a must-have punch card holy place for literary and artistic youth.
The mottled architecture is the imprint of history, here, you can travel through the ancient and modern, you can also experience the culture of the East and the West, creative shops and intangible cultural heritage complement each other, and only the old buildings that have been baptized by time will have such tolerance and atmosphere.
Every building is a condensed history, and every piece of history is legendary.
Longtang Poetry Society
A small white building of a Western-style building, which was once the garden of Li Zhaoji, the owner of The Baoji Pill of Li ZhongshengTang during the Republic of China, because of his love of literature, he provided his own place to the poetry society for the purpose of singing in the collection.
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The combination of green brick walls and Western-style components seems contradictory but harmonious. Sitting under the longan tree, looking at these carved stone carvings, it is as if you see the poets in the garden a hundred years ago chanting poems against each other and singing to the wine.
The romance of the literati and inkers is really able to travel through ancient and modern times.
There are also occasional exhibitions here, the poet is not there, the culture is still the same.
Jane's Villa
The villa built by the Jian Zhaonan brothers, the founder of Red Double Happiness Cigarette, Western-style Roman columns, arches, marble... The atmosphere of the Italian Renaissance comes to the surface.
Time has passed, and the once bustling merchant mansions have become empty complexes, and only the tourists who come and go fill this gap every day.
There is also a big red double happiness hanging on the wall, which is the best slogan of the owner ever.
In the literary meeting, the marriage house
Foshan people pay special attention to pomp and circumstance in marriage, so as to be festive and lively. The dowry house came into being as a place for renting out wedding celebrations.
Here, couples dress in wedding dresses and sit in palanquins, experience traditional wedding ceremonies, and make lifelong promises.
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A marriage registry has also been established here, which has become a popular registration point for young people nowadays. Holding the hand of a son in the marriage house that has witnessed countless happiness, it is romantic to think.
Reservations are only accepted here, so you must make a reservation two days in advance
/ Nanfeng Ancient Stove /
In Shiwan Town, Foshan, there is a national treasure-level ancient kiln that was built more than 500 years ago and is still in use, because the kiln mouth is south, the locals call it "Nanfeng Ancient Stove".
Saying that it is a "stove" is actually a kiln, and the locals seem to affectionately call it the stove in their own home, love the house and the wu, and the pottery that is burned must be full of feelings.
The Nanfeng Ancient Stove Scenic Area is mainly composed of the South Wind Stove and the High Stove. As soon as you enter the scenic spot, you can see the five-hundred-year-old south wind stove, which is 234 meters long, built along the mountain and looks like a long dragon, so the locals also call it "Dragon Kiln".
According to locals, the South Wind Stove and The High Stove are used once a year, and there are two kiln opening ceremonies on the 12th and 28th of each month.
The large chimney not far away is like a coordinate point, announcing to the world the existence of the south wind stove.
Opposite the South Wind Stove, there is a four-hundred-year-old high stove, which is said to be built behind the high temple, hoping to carry the incense of the high temple, so it takes the name of "high stove".
Behind the ancient stove there is a magical banyan tree, called the "ancient stove god banyan tree", which is also an old man of more than four hundred years old, the tenacious banyan tree grows on the rock, behind the high temperature of the ancient kiln, still leafy and vibrant.
"Touch the head of the banyan tree and live a life without worry." Touching this old man with the banyan tree that has been with the ancient stove for a hundred years may really sweep away all sorrows.
For hundreds of years, the three "old people" have been accompanied by each other, and Xiao Feijun touched not only the temperature of the kiln that day, but also the temperature of history.
There are also many cultural and creative shops in the scenic spot, which are suitable for slow shopping and slow appreciation. There are also different themed markets every month, so don't miss them if you're a "catcher".
Eat and drink enough
It's the best look of the New Year
/ Big Chicken Big Lee /
Here you need to have a harmonic stem, "big chicken big profit", Foshan people treat guests, take chicken as the top product, "no chicken is no feast", the New Year meal must have "raw chicken" (rooster), meaning "there is vitality".
The love of Guangdong people for chickens is obvious to all, and every day of life is inseparable from chickens, not to mention the grand season of the New Year.
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As a century-old famous dish in Foshan, The Pillar Hou Chicken requested to fight.
Authentic Pillar Hou chicken using hens, using lard and Pillar Hou sauce, just out of the pot of The Pillar Hou chicken is fragrant for ten miles, the aroma is the best signboard, generally as long as there is a table lit up the Pillar Hou Chicken, then the next few tables are bound to order a few more.
Watching the soup roll down like a pearl jade, Xiao Feijun is already secretly drooling, everyone who wants to move wants to be the first chopstick, a poinsettia, the entrance meat is tender and smooth, a bite down, is full of delicious soup.
Piece by piece, how to eat is not enough, golden appearance, pungent chicken aroma, delicious taste, Zhuhou chicken "body practice" to interpret the coloring aroma is complete, of course, to give enough face, all finished eating.
Of course, in the matter of eating chicken, Lao Guang is serious, in addition to the pillar hou chicken, white cut chicken, soy sauce chicken, sand ginger chicken... Chicken practices are ever-changing, and this is a martial arts discipline.
/ More than every year /
Jun did not see, a plate of Shunde fish raw charmed the world's many foodies and gourmets, "fishing up, wind and water rise", in this place to be auspicious and happy Chinese New Year's Eve rice, fish is of course indispensable.
A mud carp, Foshan people can have 101 ways to eat, Jun'an fish cake, stuffed mud carp, fish raw... Xiao Feijun had lost count of how many times he had used the ellipsis.
The fish is chopped, kneaded into a cake, fried over a slow heat, and the bite is "crunching" to the point of bouncing teeth.
If fish cake is just a small fight, then brewing mud carp is a big trick to cultivate for many years. Without destroying the skin, the fish bones are removed, the meat is chopped, mixed with very finely minced horseshoes, mushrooms and tangerine peels back into the skin, fried and shaped, and simmered.
The crispness of the fish skin wrapped around the tenderness of the inner filling, because of the relationship with the horseshoe, it is actually a bit refreshing to eat, the unique taste makes people sigh, and the people of Foshan are also too good at eating it!
Speaking of raw fish, it is also an extremely testing dish, raw fish meat is turned into thin fish fillets under the chef's knife technique, and it can be illuminated under the lamp.
Mix well with shallots, ginger, garlic, peanuts, soy sauce and other spices ( called fishing in Cantonese ) , which is the most original and sweetest natural gift.
/ Potted Vegetables /
The Chinese New Year's Eve meal, which symbolizes reunion, of course, requires a hearty dish to come to the town scene, and it is the turn of the potted dish to appear.
A pot full of chicken, duck, fish, shrimp, abalone, hair vegetables and other more than a dozen ingredients, set fried, fried, roasted, boiled, stewed, brine and many other cooking methods in one, is really the master of cooking.
Rich in fragrant mouth, and full of pots and bowls, the good meaning of reunion and auspiciousness, is the well-deserved protagonist of Foshan's Chinese New Year's Eve meal.
/ Fried heaps, gold and silver full of house /
In the first few days of Chinese New Year's Eve, the elderly will start to cook traditional foods such as fried piles and oil horns. For the old Cantonese who can eat, making a frying pile in the New Year means "frying heap, gold and silver full of houses".
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In the past, making fried heaps was a very grand thing, saying auspicious words while doing it, and asking for a good color for the New Year.
Different from the common Cantonese frying heap, Foshan's Jiujiang frying heap is known for its "flatness", golden color, solid filling, crisp and crisp.
Fried heaps are foods that are wrapped in temperature. It smells like a faint sesame flavor, and when you eat it, peanuts and poppy grain are "fried" in the mouth, sweet and delicious.
In addition to frying piles, Foshan people also like to pick up oil woks and fry oil horns, which means that there is more "oil and water" in the coming year.
There are too many delicacies in Foshan, and Xiao Feijun will not get an axe in front of a crowd of old gourmets. Real delicacy, right on the streets and alleys of the old town, around the corner of the intersection. Famous nameless, casual surprises are as exciting as blind boxes.
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