Culture

Shaoguan is the hometown of famous “Maba People”, and a famous and important historical and cultural city in Guangdong province. Shaoguan has a long historical and a galaxy of talents , cultivated outstanding figures including Hou Andu , an important minister of the Chen dynasty , Zhang Jiuling , the famous prime minister of the Tang dynasty , Yu Jing, the famous minister of the Song dynasty , etc , and kept fighting footprints of great men of a generation including Sun Zhongshan, Mao Zedong , Deng Xiaoping , etc. Shaoguan has prosperous local literature and art with distinctive characteristics , with local operas including tea-picking operas , flower-drum , Guangdong operas, Ke’s mountain airs , etc , and songs and dances including tea-picking dances , dances of spring buffalo and paper horse , dances of festive lanterns , dances of Yao nationality , etc.