I. Traditional cultural elements and customs of Zhongshan The cultural elements of Zhongshan are: drunken dragon dance, floating colors at the cliff mouth, salty water songs of Zhongshan, Xiaolan Chrysanthemum Festival, traditional handmade herbal tea, etc.
1, folk dance: drunken dragon dance
Drunk dragon dance, also known as "dragon-cutting" and "dragon-turning", is popular in Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Macao and other places, and is named because it is "drunk and hazy" when dancing. In the past, on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, the legendary birthday of Sakyamuni, Zhongshan people would dance, drink dragons and eat Luan egg cakes.
2. Folklore: Cliff mouth color drift.
Cliff floating color is a traditional folk custom and folk art with local characteristics in Zhongshan. It is an intangible cultural heritage created, accumulated and passed down by local people in their long-term production, labor and life practice, which fully shows the excellent cultural values and aesthetic ideals gradually formed by the people in the historical process, as well as the creativity of folk culture.
3. Folk songs: Zhongshan Salty Water Songs
Saltwater song is a traditional Han fishing song sung by fishermen in Guangzhou dialect, also known as "vernacular fishing song". Saltwater sigh, elder brother sigh, elder sister sigh and vernacular fishing songs are popular Han folk songs near tanzhou town, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province. They are also folk songs sung by local Han working people when they entertain themselves and talk about love in fields, bases and river banks, with local characteristics.
4. Folklore: Xiaolan Chrysanthemum Festival
Xiaolan Chrysanthemum Festival is a flower viewing activity organized by civil organizations such as "Jushen" and "Juhui" during Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty. At the event site, families will put all kinds of chrysanthemum art together to compete, and the duration varies from a few days to more than ten days. The activities mainly include chrysanthemum appreciation, chrysanthemum competition, chrysanthemum singing, chrysanthemum painting, chrysanthemum tasting, water chrysanthemum dance, chrysanthemum drama and so on. , and later developed into various.
Xiaolan Chrysanthemum Festival, with flowers as media and chrysanthemums as friends, is exquisite in skills and large in scale, forming a unique folk traditional comprehensive flower festival.
5. Traditional handicraft: herbal tea
Herbal tea is a unique tea of Han nationality, and it is the general name of Chinese herbal medicine plant drinks. Guangdong herbal tea is the representative of Han traditional herbal tea culture. Herbal tea is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine with cold properties, which can dispel the heat in human body, so as to eliminate the heat in human body or treat the sore throat caused by dryness in winter.
2. Introduction to Zhongshan Zhongshan City is located in the south-central part of Guangdong Province, where the lower reaches of Xijiang River and Beijiang River in the south-central part of the Pearl River Delta enter the sea. It is located between 2211′ ~ 22 47 ′ north latitude and113 09 ′ ~13 46 ′ east longitude. It borders Nansha District of Guangzhou City and Shunde District of Foshan City in the north, Jiangmen City, Xinhui District and Doumen District of Zhuhai City in the west, Zhuhai City in the southeast, and Shenzhen City and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region across the Lingdingyang River in the east.
natural resource
Administrative jurisdiction area 1783.67 square kilometers. The average total solar radiation over the years is 445 155.4 Joule/cm2, which is one of the regions with rich solar radiation resources in Guangdong Province. There are 12 outer river and 104 1 inland river in Zhongshan city, with a total length of about 20 16.35 kilometers, dense river network and wide river basin. The minerals that have been proved, developed and utilized include granite, sand, refractory clay, mineral water and underground hot water.
Zhongshan was awarded the title of "hometown of agarwood in China" on 20 1 1 for its high-quality agarwood resources and profound agarwood culture. It has landscapes such as Zhongshan Hot Spring, Yangtze River Reservoir Tourist Area, Quanlin Mountain Villa, Zimaling Park, Shu Ming Garden, Arboretum, Admiralty Reservoir, Wuguishan Xiaoyao Valley, Cuizhuyuan Rafting Paradise, Yixian Lake Park, Dayong Zhuoqi Mountain Park, Yandun Sargu Puta, Xishan Temple, Nanshan Ancient Fragrant Forest, Song Emperor Relics, Luosanmei Mountain and Xiaolangdi Bridge.
physioclimate
It belongs to subtropical monsoon climate, with sufficient light and heat and abundant rainfall. The annual average temperature (1981-2010) is 22.5℃. There is abundant rainfall, with an annual average precipitation of 65,438 0.886 mm and sunshine hours of 65,438 0.705.4 hours. The annual average number of thunderstorm days is 68.2 days. Disastrous weather mainly includes typhoon, rainstorm and strong convection. 20 19 65438+ 10/9, Zhongshan was rated as a climate livable city in China by the National Climate Center, becoming the first prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province to obtain the national climate symbol. The assessment report pointed out that Zhongshan has excellent air quality, high forest vegetation index, good ecological environment, abundant climatic resources, abundant water resources, excellent water quality, diverse climatic landscapes and excellent climatic conditions for tourism and holiday, making it very livable, suitable for raising and traveling. In recent years, the vegetation index and forest coverage rate in Zhongshan have increased significantly. Among the 40 evaluation indexes of climate livable category, 35 are excellent, with an excellent rate of 88%.
A brief history of cities
Zhongshan was called Xiangshan before 1925. According to "Taiping Universe" in the Song Dynasty, Xiangshan in Dongguan County is "three hundred miles south of the county across the sea, with many fairy flowers, hence the name Xiangshan". The ancient Xiangshan Mountain is an isolated island on the Lingding Ocean outside the Pearl River Estuary. Its territory is only the mountainous and hilly areas around Wugui Mountain and Fenghuang Mountain, that is, the area from Shi Qi to Macau. Archaeology shows that in the Neolithic Age more than 5,000 years ago, the indigenous Guyue people had been fishing, hunting and semi-settled in Xiangshan Island. Xiangshan belonged to Panyu County in Han Dynasty, Dongguan County in Jin Dynasty and Dongguan County in Tang Dynasty. In the twenty-second year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1 152), Xiangshan County was established, which was included in the coastal areas of Nanhai, Panyu and Xinhui counties and was subordinate to Guangzhou. During the Republic of China, it was directly under Guangdong Province. Cuiheng Village in Xiangshan County is the hometown of Sun Yat-sen.1In March, 925, Sun Yat-sen passed away. On April 15 of the same year, the Grand Marshal's Office in Lu Haijun of the Republic of China decided to rename Xiangshan County as Zhongshan County to commemorate Sun Yat-sen 1949 10. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it remained Zhongshan County and was under the jurisdiction of Foshan. 1983 65438+February, with the approval of the State Council, Zhongshan County was changed to Zhongshan City (county level), which was under the jurisdiction of Foshan City. 1988 1 month, with the approval of the State Council, Zhongshan was upgraded to a prefecture-level city directly under the jurisdiction of Guangdong province.