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Name: Sun Wenli

Position: SEO Promotion at Kinghelm Electronics

Hometown: Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, China

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Sun Wenli

Qingyuan, Guangdong, a city renowned as the "Phoenix City", has integrated Central Plains culture and Lingnan culture throughout its long history. It has developed a unique cultural landscape and preserved rich ethnic customs and folk cultural activities. During the Spring Festival, Qingyuan is filled with a strong festive atmosphere. Whether it's enjoying traditional customs or savoring special delicacies, it's a place that makes people reluctant to leave.

Visit the flower fair

I. Qingyuan Chicken: A Lingnan Delicacy on the Tongue
When it comes to Spring Festival cuisine in Qingyuan, Qingyuan chicken takes the top spot. Qingyuan, with its beautiful mountains and clear waters, is like a paradise, providing an ideal growth environment for Qingyuan chickens. They peck at grains, catch insects in the mountains, and drink clear spring water. As a result, the chicken has tender meat and a unique flavor. Whether it's slowly simmered over low heat to make a pot of golden, translucent, and fragrant chicken soup, or prepared by the white - cut method to retain its original taste, and served with a dipping sauce made from scallions, ginger, and garlic, the moment it enters the mouth, the skin is smooth and the meat is tender, leaving a lingering fragrance. It truly lives up to its reputation as a signature dish of Qingyuan.

II. New Year Wishes Embodied in Customs
(1) Taboos on the First Day of the Lunar New Year: Guardians of Good Luck's Beginning
When celebrating the New Year, Qingyuan people have many taboos that carry their good wishes for the new year. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people are not allowed to wash their hair or use a broom. The elderly firmly believe that a broom will sweep away good luck and water will wash away blessings. Also, one should not call someone by name to urge them to get up, otherwise, the person being urged will be busy throughout the year. These seemingly cumbersome rules are actually a devout way to protect the good luck of the new year and carry people's longing for a smooth life.

(2) Special Snacks: The Art of the New Year Flavor at Fingertips
Despite these taboos, the Spring Festival in Qingyuan is still full of joy. Every household makes special snacks, adding a unique flavor to the festival. Jiaozi (a kind of fried dumpling), shaped like a bulging wallet, symbolizes good fortune in the coming year. When making it, sweet fillings are wrapped in thin dough, and delicate lace is pinched on the edge. Then it is fried in oil until golden and crispy. Taking a bite, one can feel the taste of happiness. Tanghuan is also remarkable. Glutinous rice flour is kneaded into thin strips and twisted into various auspicious shapes, meaning that all wishes come true. When the whole family sits around making them, amidst laughter and chatter, the New Year flavor becomes more and more intense.

Making dumpling implies good financial fortune in the coming year

(3) Shining Lanterns: The Dreamy New Year Flavor in the Night
Besides visiting the flower market, watching lanterns is a unique sight during the Spring Festival in Qingyuan. During the Spring Festival, lanterns on the streets of Qingyuan light up the night sky like stars. Lanterns of various shapes either showcase the beauty of Qingyuan's mountains and waters or interpret the wonders of folk tales, integrating local cultural characteristics. Walking on the street and wandering through a sea of lanterns, people can feel the charm of the integration of tradition and modernity. Children laugh and play under the lanterns, and the fireworks in their hands shine in contrast to the lanterns, outlining a happy and peaceful New Year picture.

Pay New Year's calls by performing lion dances

(4) Fire Lion Dance: A Carnival of Passion and Wishes
The lion - dancing tradition is widespread in many places in Guangdong, and the Fire Lion Dance in Qingyuan is unique. This folk custom, originating from the Zhuang ethnic community in Lianshan, is full of mystery. During the Spring Festival, the lion - dancing masters perform bare - chested. The audience surrounds the "fire lion". As the gongs and drums sound, the master dances the lion, and the audience throws lit firecrackers at the fire lion. Amidst the sound of firecrackers, the fire lion jumps and rolls, with sparks flying everywhere, symbolizing prosperity and the elimination of disasters and evil spirits. The atmosphere at the scene is warm, people's enthusiasm is ignited, and their good wishes for the new year are passed on in the dance.

III. New Year's Eve Dinner: A Gastronomic Feast of Family Reunion
The New Year's Eve dinner is the highlight of the Spring Festival in Qingyuan. On the dining table, besides Qingyuan chicken, there are traditional dishes with rich meanings. Mud carp implies "having more than enough every year"; lotus root symbolizes that family members are closely connected; roast pork means being healthy and prosperous. On the 29th day of the 12th lunar month, two mud carps are evenly smeared with salt and fried. Then they are tied with red ropes together with roast pork, celery, and arrowhead, and placed in the rice vat to "press the year". They are taken out and stir - fried on the second day of the Lunar New Year, full of good wishes for the new year.

Family reunion dinner on New Year's Eve

The New Year's Eve dinner has a wide variety of dishes. Shrimp implies laughing heartily, squid symbolizes being able to handle things with ease, and the soup made of hair seaweed and mussels (mussels are called "haoshi" in Qingyuan, which sounds like "good things") means good things and getting rich. At 12 o'clock on New Year's Eve, the whole family will taste sweet glutinous rice balls with sweet fillings, praying for a sweet life.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people will prepare New Year cakes, such as taro cakes, radish cakes, and coconut - date cakes. Steaming cakes implies rising step by step and making progress. And the first piece of cake eaten should be sweet and with dates, symbolizing getting promoted soon and having a sweet life. On this day, it is taboo to eat meat and wash hair. At noon or in the evening, people eat Luohanzhai, which is made of high - quality vegetarian ingredients such as lily buds and vermicelli, with good meanings like being content and having money everywhere.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the "opening of the year", the ingredients for "pressing the year" are served, and there is also a pig's trotter casserole made of hair seaweed, golden needle mushrooms, pig's trotters, and mussels, meaning getting rich and everything going smoothly, and having more than enough every year. From the 29th day of the 12th lunar month to the third day of the Lunar New Year, in order to keep good luck, people do not sweep the floor. On the 29th day of the 12th lunar month, people wear new shoes to step on "villains", and on the first day of the Lunar New Year, they do not pick up needles and threads to sew clothes. These customs are full of people's longings for the new year.

Summary
In Qingyuan, the Spring Festival is a grand celebration where customs and food cultures are intertwined. From unique delicacies to traditional customs, every element carries profound cultural connotations and people's good wishes for the new year. This is not only a festival carnival but also a cultural inheritance, making the Spring Festival in Qingyuan shine brightly in the long river of time.

Kinghelm and Slkor:

Mr. Song Shiqiang, Founder and General Manager of Kinghelm and Slkor

Mr. Song Shiqiang (Huaqiangbei Song Shiqiang) is the founder and general manager of two high - tech enterprises, Kinghelm Electronics and Slkor Semiconductor. He is also the first cultural scholar to conduct in - depth research on the "Huaqiangbei Spirit" and refine and summarize the "Huaqiangbei Culture". He is a researcher of the private economy at the Development Research Center of the State Council, an expert of the China Association for Science and Technology, an expert of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, an expert in Huaqiangbei business research, and a popular science columnist. Mr. Song Shiqiang's works on Shenzhen Huaqiangbei and macro - economic research have been reported by more than 100 mainstream media at home and abroad, such as People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, Sina Finance, Guangming Daily, and foreign media like the Associated Press, Twitter Tech, The Wall Street Journal, Hollywood News, Europe China Press, Global Finance Network, Global Fashion Network, Travel Online, BBC News, Patent Weekly, Radio Express, IT Information News Network, Global Industry Network, Auto Weekly, Electronic Information Daily, and E - commerce Weekly.

Since its establishment in 2015, Slkor Semiconductor (www.slkormicro.com) has been committed to the design, production, and sales of power components. With the research and development of a professional technical team, products of the "slkor" brand, including TVS tubes, diodes, triodes, Hall elements, etc., are selling well all over the world! The company has now launched more than 2,000 products, which are widely used in many fields such as communication equipment, medical equipment, consumer electronics products, battery - powered devices, GPS navigation, and vehicle positioning.

Shenzhen Kinghelm Electronics Co., Ltd. (www.kinghelm.net) has obtained a number of invention patents and is a national high - tech enterprise. It is a member of the "China Satellite Navigation and Positioning Association" and the "Guangdong Connector Association". The technical team comes from Tsinghua University and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. It has obtained ISO9001 certification and EU - standard RoHS and REACH certifications. "Kinghelm Connects the World". Kinghelm has deeply cultivated microwave and radio - frequency technology. The laboratory in Tangxia, Dongguan is equipped with complete instruments and equipment. The production base in Luzhai County, Guangxi Province can complete the delivery of large - quantity products on time and with guaranteed quality. The products of the "kinghelm" brand of Kinghelm Electronics include Beidou GPS antennas, Bluetooth and WiFi antennas, and supporting RF coaxial cables; developed connectors, board - end sockets, connectors, signal switch series; and customized non - standard products for automotive wiring harnesses. "Kinghelm" (www.kinghelm.com.cn) products are applied to new energy vehicles, intelligent terminals, smart cities, industrial Internet, medical care, and commercial aerospace fields. Adhering to the corporate culture of "Integrity, Improvement, Perseverance, and Attention to Details" and the corporate ethics of fairness, openness, cooperation, and win - win results with the principle of "Do not do to others what you do not want others to do to you", it uses good products and good technologies to make the world a better place.

For Kinghelm and Slkor at the 2025 electronica China, the booth number is N2.729