In previous years, I would return to rural Guangxi during the Spring Festival. This year, my mother came to Guangzhou to celebrate the Spring Festival and said that her hometown in Shantou was very deserted and had no New Year flavor. The old man is getting old and always afraid of loneliness and nagging. I am the only person she confides in.

No, it's not yet the 30th of the New Year, but Guangzhou is already very lively and has a strong New Year flavor. The streets and alleys are decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations. Flower streets and New Year goods stalls can be seen everywhere. Xinghua Street has become a top priority for Guangzhou people.

In order to let my mother have fun during the Spring Festival, considering that the elderly are not far from walking, we took the subway to check in for free attractions. The one-day tour route in Guangzhou is: Litchi Bay Water Flower Market-Guangzhou City God Temple-Guangzhou Tower Night View.

[Litchi Bay Water Flower Market]

Liwan Lake Park used to be the old Litchi Bay. Before the park was built, it was famous for its "Five Sows in Pantang". It now consists of Xiaocui Lake, Yucui Lake, Ruyi Lake and Wuxiu Lake. You can rent a boat or water bike to tour the lake to enjoy the beautiful scenery.

During the Ming Dynasty, the "Liwan Fishing Singing" in Litchi Bay was listed as one of the eight scenic spots in Yangcheng. This place belongs to the center of Laoxiguan. It is a place where Guangfu cultures such as Xiguan House, Miss Xiguan, Five Treasures of Xiguan, Xiguan cuisine and Cantonese opera and folk arts gather together.

Legend has it that more than 2,000 years ago, when Lu Jia, a famous official of the Western Han Dynasty, was sent to the State of Yue, he planted many lychee trees and lotus flowers along what is now Litchi Bay, giving rise to the name of "Litchi Bay". Later, royal families, officials, and giants all built gardens here, such as the "Li Garden" of the Tang Dynasty, the "Changhua Garden" of the Royal Garden of the Southern Han Dynasty, the "Haishan Fairy Hall" of the Qing Dynasty, etc., which gave it the reputation of "Little Qinhuai" and "The First Scenic Spot in Lingnan".

The Guangzhou Flower Market has not yet begun. The 2020 Guangzhou Water Flower Market has long been opened. The event lasts until January 24, and it is free to play without tickets for seven consecutive days. The Water Flower Market is in the Litchi Bay Scenic Area. It takes two to three hours to go around the lake from the main entrance of Liwan Lake Park. There are areas such as poverty alleviation exhibitions, traditional craft production, calligraphy, intangible cultural heritage displays, and creative markets.

I was so busy during this period that I had no time to buy New Year's goods. I came to the Litchi Bay Water Flower Market today and bought them. I didn't reward myself with food and spicy food during the Spring Festival. How can I be worthy of having a hard year? There are many stalls selling New Year's goods. I like to eat Cantonese cured meat, so I bought sausage and cured duck and went home to steam rice. The cured fish is the dried dace fish in the CCTV documentary "Taste of Shunde", and there is also the very fragrant named Cang fish dried, which is very suitable for single dogs. Eat, haha!

Fresh dendrobium is sold on site. When you break it, you can see that the gum is sticky, so you can use some to make soup and drink it. It has a therapeutic effect of beautifying and moisturizing the skin. Seeing morels, matsutake mushrooms and dried porcini mushrooms, my eyes immediately lit up and drooled. Unfortunately, it was too expensive and I had to endure the pain of buying some.

Guangzhou people like to buy New Year flowers during the New Year, and the coming year will have a good omen when it is red and purple. Phalaenopsis is the most popular annual flower. Its purple-red petals are like butterflies spreading their wings in the sky, swaying gently in the wind, as if waving to you to take it home.

Water-friendly platform There are both Shuian Butou Market and Water Spring Flower Market. Lines of flower boats and flowers on the shore set off each other. Poinsettia and chrysanthemums are used to form "Litchi Bay" and "Greater Bay Area". The shape of the words requires a bird 's-eye view from a high altitude to see the whole picture.

The Litchi Bay Theater is a gathering place for the elderly in Liwan District. There are often traditional performances here. There was a Cantonese opera performance on the day we came. It was also an excellent thing to sit down and listen to Cantonese opera and experience Guangfu culture.

There are also cruise ships to ride in Litchi Bay. If you have enough time, you can charter a boat to visit Litchi Bay and enjoy the different scenery from a different angle.

Li Garden in Liwan Lake Park is free to visit. The park embodies the essence of Lingnan style architecture, with rockery, flowing water and a small stage.

Many girls wearing Hanfu took photos in the garden. They either leaned on the railing and looked around or raised fans and lowered their heads in meditation, giving people the illusion of traveling back to ancient times.

The first floor of Liyuan is the Guangxiu School, and the second floor is the Guangcai Exhibition Hall. Guangzhou Embroidery is Guangzhou's intangible cultural heritage. Many people come here to learn Guangzhou Embroidery, or they can take them home to embroider themselves. The teacher will teach you how to get started on the spot. In the Guangzhou Embroidery School, you can see the works of many students and see women wearing Han costumes concentrating on embroidery.

In addition, Guangzhou also has many intangible cultural heritage products, including mahogany palace lanterns, Guangzhou enamel, dancing spring cattle, Guangdong lion dancing and Guangzhou snacks. If you want to see the intangible cultural heritage exhibition area, you can go diagonally opposite the Litchi Bay Theater, where there are bronze art products, Nanhai pineapple rice dumplings and other intangible cultural heritage products.

There are two routes to Fengshuiji Characteristic Street. It takes a big circle from the main entrance of Liwan Lake Park. The fastest way is to walk for a few minutes to the left side of the main entrance, and after passing Panxi Restaurant, you will reach this Shouxin Street.

We were hungry after shopping all afternoon, so we ate Guangzhou snacks such as beef offal and fish eggs here. We also bought handmade chicken cakes and horseshoe cakes to take home. As for radish cakes, I want to make them at home, heh!!

[City God Temple sends blessings and wishes]

Posting blessing characters and waving spring are traditional customs for Guangzhou people to celebrate the New Year. Writing blessing characters and couplets in Liwan Lake Park costs money, while at Guangzhou City God Temple on Zhongshan Fourth Road, you can receive blessing characters for free as long as you queue up, and each person can only get one copy. In addition to the word "Fu", you can also ask a calligraphy master to help you write it to attract wealth, so that your family can be blessed and rich.

At the entrance of the City God Temple, two gods of wealth are giving gifts to everyone. Each person is giving two bags of sugar and can also take photos for free. Unfortunately, this event will end on January 20 and will have to wait until this time next year. The 2020 Guangfu Temple Fair will start on February 8. As one of the branch venues, the Guangzhou City God Temple Fair will feature many folk activities and performances. You can bring your family to see it then.

Guangzhou City God Temple was built in the Ming Dynasty and is the largest and most majestic City God Temple in Lingnan during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It was once rated as one of the "Eight Scenes of Yangcheng" in the Qing Dynasty and is now open to tourists for free.

The City God Temple enshrines statues such as the City God, the God of Wealth, and the Star King of Wenchang. If you want to seek wealth and children or if your children are smart, you can come and burn incense and make wishes. This year, I celebrated my honor for Tai Sui. In order to prevent villains and diseases, I specially paid my honor to Tai Sui.

The spacious hall is resplendent, with large murals "The Founding Immortals" inlaid on both sides of the wall. The height is more than 8 meters. It took dozens of painters half a year to make. It may be the largest mural in Guangdong Province.

[Night view of Guangzhou Tower Xiaomanyao]

As long as foreigners come to Guangzhou, they will come to the Guangzhou Tower to check in. This time my mother came to Guangzhou for the New Year, and I specially brought her to see the night view of Guangzhou Tower. We took the subway to Zhujiang New City Station, walked from Huachenghui Square to Haixinsha, and walked along the way, enjoying the lights and flowers.

After passing through Haixinsha, walk to the cruise ship terminal by the Pearl River and admire the Guangzhou Tower across the Pearl River. Compared with the gray sky during the day, the Guangzhou Tower under the night is colorful and changes in different colors. It can be photographed with your mobile phone to create a large picture.

[Guangzhou tourism must check in daily materials]

After watching the night view of Guangzhou Tower, I took my mother to Matsukuki self-catering, hoping that she would try Japanese food. I like the quiet and comfortable environment of Songyue. I am tired and hungry after a day of play. I sit down to eat Japanese food and drink wine, listen to the old people's gossip, and enjoy a rare and comfortable time.

If you want to watch the chef's Japanese cuisine up close, you can sit in the open-plan area, chat while drinking wine, and appreciate the chef's superb cutting skills and skillful cooking techniques.

Japanese cuisine pays attention to the freshness of seasonal ingredients. Matsuzuki also pays attention to the origin and freshness of the ingredients. She only selects high-quality seafood recognized as the best original producing area in the world. All ingredients are made from order. More than 30 kinds of seafood from 15 countries arrive at the store within 48 hours after fishing and are placed directly in the-45℃ freezer for preservation.

Pine Leaf Crab:

Pine leaf crabs from Tottori Prefecture, Japan, weigh more than 2 kilograms. They subvert the practice of traditional ingredients and use cooking methods such as sashimi, charcoal roast, steaming, cheese roast, and crab meat hot pot to diversify the fresh and sweet crab meat. Come out.

Sea urchin sashimi:

I like to eat sea urchin sashimi most. The horse dung gall from Hokkaido is called "yellow diamond". The sea urchin is full, round and short thorns. The yellow gall must be taken out when it is fresh. It has a smooth and fragrant taste like ice cream, and is also fresh and sweet. Taste.

Salmon sashimi:

Most of the salmon sashimi on the market are not fresh, and the meat is soft and fluffy, which makes me disappointed as a person who loves eating salmon. Songyue's salmon bones come from the Atlantic Ocean of Norway and are freshly flown in within 48 hours. Each piece is cut to 1 cm thick. The appearance is shiny and ruddy, and the meat is tender and plump. This is the perfect salmon in my mind.

Australian Tomahawk Steak:

The Tomahawk steak was stunning as soon as it was served. It weighed 3 kilograms and was 50 centimeters long. The weight was so real that it made people's fingers palpitating! Australian Tomahawk steak has an even ratio of fat to meat, the meat is tender, juicy, slightly chewy, and the taste is just right medium rare.

Raw roast beef:

Cut the beef as thin as paper, keep the thinness within 2 mm. Select the most tender and tough beef, use a spray gun to micro-roast it at low temperature to lock the oil, and roast it until it is cooked twice. Wrap the beef with onions and dip it in a secret sauce. The beef is delicious, but it has a slight spicy and slightly sweet taste of onions. The taste buds on the tip of the tongue are instantly opened, making it unforgettable!