Guangdong Happy Festival was held in Oriental Paradise from 65438 to 0987 by the cultural and tourism departments of Guangdong Province and Guangzhou City. The Happy Festival aims to carry forward the national spirit and revitalize folk art ... Its main content is to organize folk art groups from cities and counties in the province to perform, and also invite folk art groups from outside the province and abroad to perform and exchange. A large number of outstanding programs with strong national and folk art features stand out, greatly enriching the Guangdong art stage. 1990 The National Tourism Administration, the Ministry of Culture, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and other units changed the Guangdong Happy Festival to "China Tourism Art Happy Festival", making it a new content of China's tourism development and a national tourism activity.

It is held around the autumn fair every year. During the food festival, various restaurants and restaurants in Guangzhou took out their own brand-name products to participate in the selection, and each food festival selected more than 100 famous dishes or innovative dishes. Since 1998, a food festival has been held in tianhe sports center, where visitors can taste the delicious food of various families.

Drinking tea is a life custom of Guangzhou people. There is a folk proverb called "a pot of tea in the morning keeps the doctor away". When people in Guangzhou say drinking tea, they actually mean drinking tea in a teahouse (formerly called teahouse).

Chrysanthemum can grow all year round in Guangzhou, and it is a traditional custom in Guangzhou to hold a chrysanthemum exhibition from late autumn to the Spring Festival when flowers are in full bloom.

Guangzhou Chrysanthemum Exhibition is famous for its large scale, wide variety and strange shape. It is mainly composed of Lilium morifolium (a kind of South Chrysanthemum, which has three colors of yellow, white and purple, and a Lilium morifolium sometimes can bloom more than 3,900 flowers), Ling Boxian, glass white, pink peony, Dutch Lijin, big white lotus, Taiwan Province yellow, crimson, Xiaohong, spring dance and tricolor.

During the Spring Festival, there are chrysanthemum exhibitions in Yuexiu, Wenhua, Liwan Lake, Liuhua Lake, Dongshan Lake, Haizhuang, Xiaogang and other parks, also called "Spring Chrysanthemum Exhibition". Large-scale chrysanthemum exhibitions held around autumn and National Day are called "Autumn Chrysanthemum Exhibition".

The most lively festival-Christmas every Christmas, that whole city of Shenzhen resound with hymns, ballroom, restaurants and cinemas are crowded, and people enjoy themselves. The most deserted festival-Spring Festival Every Spring Festival, most of the "immigrants" from all over the world go back to their hometown for the New Year, and locals will also go to Hong Kong or other places for their holidays. Shenzhen has become a quiet and empty city. Litchi Festival, the most interesting festival, has now become a festival in Shenzhen. During the festival from June 28th to July 8th every year, there will be various economic, trade and cultural networking activities with litchi as the theme. Urban residents have a traditional custom, that is, whenever cicadas sing litchi fragrance, they should go to litchi park with their relatives and friends for tasting, that is, picking and tasting. They often compete with each other, and the scene is very cheerful.

Drinking herbal tea is also a perennial habit of Guangzhou people.

The so-called herbal tea refers to the Chinese herbal medicine which is cold in nature and can eliminate internal heat. After boiling, it is used as a drink to eliminate the sore throat caused by summer heat or winter dryness in the human body. Guangzhou has a long history of herbal tea, and there are many kinds of herbal tea, including Wang Laoji herbal tea, Sanhutang herbal tea, herbal tea, loud male herbal tea, herbal tea, 24-flavor herbal tea, cucurbit tea, healthy herbal tea, honeysuckle flower tea and ancient melon herbal tea. There are even turtle ling paste soup, raw fish soup, carrots and bamboo cane water. It has become a traditional old-fashioned herbal tea that Guangzhou people love.

Wang Lao Ji's most famous herbal tea has always been admired by Guangzhou people. After 1980s, various kinds of herbal tea granules and soft-packed herbal tea came into being. Shennong herbal tea and Xiasangju tea have become fashionable drinks for many families in summer.

morning tea

People in Guangzhou love to drink tea, especially morning tea. When we meet in the morning, we often greet each other with "Have you had tea" (meaning "Have you had tea"), which shows our preference for tea. Drinking tea is a life custom of Guangzhou people. There is a folk proverb that "a pot of tea in the morning does not need a doctor".

When people in Guangzhou say drinking tea, they actually mean drinking tea in a teahouse (formerly called teahouse). Not only drink morning tea, but also eat snacks (as breakfast); Drink not only morning tea, but also afternoon tea and evening tea; Not only can you fill your stomach, but you can also spread news, talk about friendship and negotiate business. It can be seen that drinking tea in Guangzhou is actually a social way.

This is also the important and fundamental reason why the teahouse industry in Guangzhou has been enduring for a hundred years. Among the time-honored restaurants in Guangzhou, quite a few were teahouses and teahouses of that year.

People who drink tea in Guangzhou can be roughly divided into two categories: one is regular customers who must go to a fixed teahouse every morning, usually "one cup" (ribs rice) and "two pieces" (snacks), and most of these people are retired people; The other is drinking "tea worship", that is, drinking tea on rest days is not limited to "one cup or two", but calmly tasting various snacks and "sighing tea".

There are three tea markets in Guangzhou every day: morning, noon and evening, among which the morning tea market is the most prosperous, and it is often crowded from early morning to eleven noon. Drinking tea at night is becoming more and more prosperous, especially in midsummer. While drinking tea, listen to opera singing and enjoy air conditioning. Morning tea in Guangzhou usually opens at 4 am, and evening tea doesn't close until 1-2 am the next morning.

Drink "Kung Fu Tea"

People in Guangzhou like to drink "Kung Fu Tea" in their spare time. Drinking "Kung Fu Tea" used to be popular in Chaoshan area, but now it is also popular in Guangzhou. "Kung Fu tea" is very particular about tea set, tea, water quality, tea making, tea pouring and drinking. Kung fu teapot is very small, only the size of a fist, with thin-walled porcelain, and the tea in the pot is faintly visible. This cup is only half as big as table tennis. Tea is oolong tea. Fill the teapot with tea. Then press it tightly with your fingers. It is said that the more pressed, the stronger and more mellow the tea is. The water is preferably precipitated water or mineral water. When making tea, you should immediately pour the freshly boiled water into the pot and pour it out once or twice at the beginning. When pouring tea, you should keep pouring it back and forth to avoid the situation of being strong before and weak after. Chatting while drinking tea is called "Kung Fu".

midnight snack

Midnight snack is a life custom of Guangzhou people, usually after 10 in the evening, hence the name "midnight snack" or "midnight snack". The way of midnight snack varies from person to person: some people cook by themselves at night; Some people eat alone or invite friends in street food stalls or night markets in teahouse restaurants, so many "night market food streets" and "night market" teahouses of various teahouse hotels have gradually formed in the city. The night market in the teahouse often has a music teahouse to attract diners.

Drink dessert store

People in Guangzhou like to drink sugar water all year round. It is considered that syrup made of some medicinal materials, beans, fruits and flour products with sugar has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, promoting fluid production and benefiting the body. There are many varieties of sugar water: beans include red bean paste, mung bean paste and plum bean paste; There are sesame paste, almond paste, peanut paste and phoenix milk paste; Medicinal materials include lily syrup, lotus seed syrup and Qingbuliang syrup; There are also stewed eggs, stewed papaya, sweet potato syrup, Ma Rong soup pills, egg milk, ginger milk, candied sago, soybean milk, tofu flower and so on. After the sugar water is boiled, it is a hot drink; What you drink after freezing is a cold drink, which is often connected with the ice room (a cold drink shop that supplies ice cream, soda, beer, etc.). The most famous one in Guangzhou is the Taiping Pavilion Ice Room on Beijing Road.