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The New Year atmosphere in Guangzhou in 2025 is finally here! ! Visit Flower Street!

The annual Flower Street is here again! For the sake of popular science, Guangzhou Flower Street, also known as Walking Flower Street or Visiting Flower Market, is a local traditional folk cultural activity in Guangdong Province. 🕰️ Time: The Spring Flower Market is held once a year, usually starting on the 28th day before the Spring Festival and ending in the early morning of the first day of the New Year. [Overtime]Location: Each district in Guangzhou has its own flower market, such as Yuexiu West Lake Flower Market on Liwan Road, Haizhu Flower Market on Binjiang West Road and Baogang Avenue, Tianhe Flower Market at Baiyun Wanda Plaza on Yuncheng East Road, etc. 🌺Activities - A wide variety of flowers: There are kumquats that symbolize good luck, peach blossoms that symbolize great achievements, silver willows that represent both money and wealth, as well as traditional flowers such as phalaenopsis, gladiolus, and daffodils, as well as various imported flowers and newly developed varieties. - Rich folk cultural activities: In addition to flower viewing and purchase, flower markets also have dragon and lion performance parades, Han wedding folk exhibitions and other activities. Some flower markets also incorporate sports elements and intangible cultural heritage displays. For example, the Tianhe Spring Flower Market has set up an exhibition with sports as the theme, and the Liwan Flower Market has a parade of Hanfu flower fairies. - The Flower Street is beautifully decorated: The archways and stalls in the flower market are carefully decorated in various shapes and bright colors. For example, the archway of the Tianhe Spring Flower Market is designed in the shape of a "sports ribbon", which echoes the shape of the Guangdong Olympic Sports Center. Cultural significance - Inheriting folk culture: The Flower Street is the largest traditional folk custom in the Cantonese region on the eve of the Spring Festival. It carries the Cantonese folk culture and the city memory of Guangzhou and has been included in the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. - Adding festive atmosphere: The flower market is full of colorful flowers and crowds of people, filled with a festive and warm atmosphere, adding a strong festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival and allowing people to feel the strong flavor of the New Year.
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Posted: Jan 26, 2025
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