Yue people's cultural exchange with foreign countries dates back at least to as early as Han dynasty. Yue People are always open-minded, ready to accept new things and are good at copying and apprehending both material and spiritual achievements from the western world, then incorporating them with their own traditional culture.

With their courage to explore new horizons always, their broad insight, their strong sense of commerce and value, and their talent and skill in calculating, they created the multi-dimensional agricultural commodity economy in Pearl River Delta, and gained a reputation of "Guangbang Businessmen"(means Yue businessmen), the story of which extended all the way back to mid-Qing dynasty.

The influence of the advanced western ideology and the adventurous tint in their blood may somehow explain the fact that a bunch of Yue elites in Chinese modern history stood up, one after one, to fight for the overthrowing of the feudal imperialism, and also the fact that they have always be seen at the forefront of the economic development after the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

Ranked ahead among all other cultural schools of Guangdong, Yue culture is in many cases considered to be the synonym of Guangdong culture as a whole--for example, Cantonese is entitled "Yue Yu" (Yu means language in Chinese), folk song "Yue Ou" (Ou means ballad) etc. Though the dining culture of Guangdong is divided into Guangzhou Cuisine, Chaozhou Cuisine, and Dongjiang Cuisine,  "Yue Cai" (Yue Dishes) normally indicates Guangzhou Cuisine; and some of the important craftworks in Guangzhou are also dubbed by the word Yue- like "Yue embroidery", and etc.
 

Editor: Wings