In recent years, there are south china botanical garden, Orchid Garden, Xiyuan Bonsai House, Yuntai Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuexiu Park and Cultural Park in Guangzhou, and chrysanthemum exhibitions are held every spring and autumn. In addition, Guangzhou also has the annual Winter jasmine market, which displays all kinds of flowers and plants, attracting many citizens and tourists. Furong Lin Yuyu in the outer suburbs is lush; Conghua Forest Park is beautiful, fresh and pleasant; Lotus Mountain in Panyu is unique. In addition, on both sides of the old roads such as Huifu Road, Panfu Road and binjiang road, ancient banyan trees that have been planted for decades or even hundreds of years are like giant umbrellas that hold up the sky. When the sun shines through, the mottled shadows on the road flutter with the wind, which makes people daydream. Guangzhou, the hometown of Cantonese cuisine, is famous for its delicious food.
Some foreigners once wrote in their travel notes: Guangzhou cuisine is the representative of Cantonese cuisine, with extensive materials, expensive materials, clear, fresh, cool, smooth, tender and crisp, and diverse vision. In addition, it also combines the advantages of other cuisines, such as Kyoto bone and fried eel back with shrimp, which are all created by absorbing the taste of Beijing cuisine. Steamed beef and fish-flavored chicken balls are mainly Sichuan cuisine; Wicker fish and Dongpo meat are the flavors of Zhejiang cuisine; The famous old chicken in Lingnan is the flavor of Huizhou cuisine. There are also pork chops with western sauce, steak with tomato sauce and so on. They are all transplanted from western food. In addition, Guangzhou people like to drink morning tea, afternoon tea and evening tea. Besides tea, there are snacks. There are more than 1000 kinds of Cantonese dim sum, which is the highest in China. Exquisitely made, salty and sweet, among which Cantonese moon cakes are the most famous.
Midnight snack is also a life custom of Guangzhou people, so there are many night market food streets in the city, as well as various tea houses and night market cafes in hotels. Tasting all kinds of delicious food in Guangzhou is the best way to appreciate the daily life of Guangzhou people. Shopping paradise Guangzhou is adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao. It is a city with a strong sense of business, many shopping malls and a prosperous market. The twice-yearly Canton Fair adds to the business atmosphere. For tourists, Guangzhou is a real shopping paradise. Famous comprehensive shopping malls include Tianhe City Plaza and China Plaza. In Guangzhou International Building and other major hotels, a wide variety of world famous products with fashionable designs can be seen everywhere. There are many shops in the streets of Guangzhou, such as jewelry, clothing, non-staple food, souvenirs and so on. In the bustling commercial street, there are many famous brand shops.
Strolling through the streets, all kinds of goods will add endless fun to tourism life. There are eight amorous feelings streets in Guangzhou. In addition to the famous Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street and Beijing Road Commercial Pedestrian Street, tourists can also walk in other nearby streets, such as Gaodi Street Commodity Street, Wende Road Cultural Street, Hualin Temple Jade Street and Fangshu Street Goldfish Aquarium Street. Guangzhou, the capital of cultural exchange, was the starting point of China's Maritime Silk Road in ancient times, and its foreign exchange activities were very active. Various cultural exchanges have made Guangzhou an international tourist city. 1996, Nanyue king's tomb museum went to Japan to hold China Nanyue king's treasure exhibition, which lasted 1 19 days in Tokyo, Kyoto and Aomori, with nearly 65,438+million visitors.
This is the largest and longest overseas cultural relics exhibition in Guangzhou. Acrobatic trampoline won the gold medal in the 5th Belgian International Acrobatic Competition. Guangzhou also successfully held the 7th China Tourism Art Festival and Guangdong Happy Festival, the 4th Yangcheng Art Expo Month, Yangcheng International Cantonese Opera Festival, Guangzhou International Art Expo and Kang Youwei International Calligraphy Seminar. At the same time, Guangzhou also received visiting overseas teams and held art exhibitions, photo exhibitions and cultural performances, so that citizens can directly appreciate foreign culture and art at a higher level. 65438-0996, Guangzhou successfully held the second Asia-Pacific City Summit. All these activities have increased the charm of Guangzhou as a tourist city. At present, Guangzhou has become a full member city of world association of major metropolises. Guangzhou, a famous hometown of overseas Chinese, is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in China and a big city with the largest number of overseas Chinese. Guangzhou has a long history of emigrating overseas. With the development of transportation and trade between China and foreign countries, Guangzhou people have traveled all over the world for a long time and settled down to become overseas Chinese.
According to the data, after the Tang Dynasty, more and more Guangzhou people emigrated. In the middle of Kangxi, the sea ban was opened, and more people went abroad to make a living. There was an immigration climax in modern Guangzhou. The vast number of overseas Chinese have a long tradition of loving their country and hometown, and have made indelible contributions to the motherland and hometown. First, they enthusiastically supported and actively participated in the revolutionary movement and all patriotic activities of the motherland. During the whole period of the old democratic revolution and the new democratic revolution, from the democratic revolutionary movement led by Sun Yat-sen to War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the People's Liberation War and all anti-imperialist and anti-feudal patriotic democratic movements, patriotic overseas Chinese were almost everywhere, and many of them went bankrupt, worked hard and fought bloody battles.
Second, actively invest in the establishment of modern industrial enterprises, which opened the prelude to the establishment of national capital enterprises in Guangzhou. 1860, Li, a Peruvian overseas Chinese, founded the Export Bank of Bandung Bank in Guangzhou, which was the first investment of overseas Chinese. 1872, Chen Qiyuan, an overseas Chinese from Nanyang, founded the first machine silk reeling factory in China in Nanhai. Then, overseas Chinese living in the United States set up the first household lamp company in Guangzhou. At the beginning of the 20th century, Malaysian overseas Chinese founded the first rubber enterprise in China in Guangzhou, and American and Canadian overseas Chinese invested and founded the first bus company in Guangzhou. Third, it spread western culture widely and promoted the exchange between Chinese and western cultures in Guangzhou. 1840 After the Opium War, the development of modern architecture in Guangzhou experienced several stages, such as the migration of western architecture, the revival of traditional architecture and the introduction of modernist architecture.
There are several types of western-style buildings in Guangzhou, such as religious buildings like the Sacred Heart Cathedral of Shishi; Guangzhou Postal Administration Building, Guangdong Customs Building, Municipal Government Building, Provincial Finance Department Building, Provincial Federation of Trade Unions Building and other public buildings; Such as Jinlong Xixi Guangong Hall Community, Zhulou, Dongshan Garden House, Xiaoyanglou and other houses; Memorial buildings such as Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall and Seamen's Guild Hall; There are also Aiqun Building, South Building, City Bank Building, Provincial Bank Building, Xinya Hotel, and commercial arcades all over Guangzhou's main commercial streets. In fact, commercial arcade architecture first appeared in ancient Greece more than 2,000 years ago, and then became popular in Europe, and then spread all over the world in modern times.
Because the arcade part of a commercial building is built across the sidewalk in the first half of the building, it is connected with each other on the roadside to form a free-walking corridor, which can be hundreds of meters long or even one or two kilometers long. There is a saying in Guangzhou that when May Day comes, children's faces will change. Therefore, the arcade is adapted to this climate feature, which swept the city of Guangzhou for a time and gradually formed the main pattern of Guangzhou street view.
Arcade buildings are concentrated in Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street, Beijing Road Commercial Pedestrian Street, Shifu Road, Zhongshan Road, Jiefang Road, Renmin South Road, Yide Road and other commercial streets. The arcades around Xihaokou are the boldest: Xinya Hotel, Nan Mansion and Aiqun Mansion. It is one of the best arcade buildings in early Guangzhou. Since the 1960s, this form has rarely been used in new enterprises.