In the twenty-seventh year of the twelfth lunar month, the flavor is getting stronger ｜ Guangdong： New Year flowers reflect the New Year lion dance and the New Year.

CCTV News:As the Spring Festival approaches, the annual flavor of Foshan, Guangdong Province is getting stronger and stronger. Visiting the flower market, hanging Spring Festival couplets and preparing new year’s goods are filled with festive atmosphere everywhere. What customs are still preserved in Foshan for the New Year? Let’s follow the reporter’s lens and have a look.

The flowers in the Bay Area are in full bloom, celebrating the New Year in Guangdong. Cantonese people pay attention to walking the flower street and buying flowers for the New Year, in order to make a good fortune. Today (January 29), we came to Chencun, Shunde, Foshan, which is located in the hinterland of Guangfu culture in the Pearl River Delta and has a history of planting flowers for more than 2,000 years.

The Qing Dynasty’s "Shunde County Records" recorded that "Chencun sold flowers and fruits to various counties, and offered longan, lychee and Song Gongyi flowers since the Han Dynasty, which has a long history". In this Millennium Flower Town, 9 pots of oranges for every 10 pots sold in China come from here, and there are more than 100 enterprises that cultivate Phalaenopsis, accounting for 30% of the national trading volume.　　

Mandarin orange and Phalaenopsis are also the annual flowers that Cantonese people must buy for the New Year. Four-season orange represents four seasons of good luck, and the beautiful Phalaenopsis, its flower language is "happiness comes to you." In Chencun, Phalaenopsis not only has this traditional pink color, but also has this newly cultivated Phalaenopsis from macaroon, which is very popular among young people.

Now, more than 2,400 varieties of Phalaenopsis have been cultivated here, and not only that, but also Phalaenopsis blooms in all seasons. Although the offline flower market was cancelled this year, everyone can still pass "Yunshang flower market"to achieve," flowers on the cloud "and" flowers on the cloud ". At present, the shipment of annual orange flowers has exceeded 80%, the sales momentum is good, and the price has increased by nearly 20% compared with last year.

In addition to buying New Year’s flowers, there must be lion awakening in Lingnan on holidays. Guangdong lion is one of the national intangible cultural heritages. Every step of the lion’s head binding is made by hand, with bamboo as the bone, paper as the skin, ink as the charm, and fluff as the power. After more than 1300 processes for about a week, a lifelike lion’s head appeared before our eyes.　 　 　 　　

However, there is an important last step before it becomes a dancing lion: the finishing touch.

Wake up the lion and "pick the green", and this lettuce is picked. Lettuce is homophonic for "making money". The lion picked the green, and then distributed it to the neighborhood, indicating that he distributed wealth and blessings to everyone. Here, we also wish the audience good health and great success together.