What are the customs in Guangdong?

After buying a house in Guangdong, do you have to live in the first year of Spring Festival (called looking at the house)

I bought a second-hand house before the Spring Festival and will go home this Spring Festival. Therefore, according to the custom in Guangdong, it is best to move in after the Spring Festival and keep the house next year.

However, my father will come to see me in a few days. Can he stay in that house for a few days without violating this custom in Guangdong?

Ps: Friends who say I am superstitious please make a detour. All the above questions are based on this custom. Ask friends in Guangdong to help answer, thank you!

Guangdong has such a custom, not superstitious, because it is a local custom. What you say about guarding the home depends on your own ideas and time schedule! Needless to say, every custom must be observed, so we should improvise!

Lend it to friends or colleagues for the New Year.

There is faith, but if you don't believe it, there is nothing. Guangdong local customs and habits are not very concerned. You can handle it according to your own habits and arrangements.

The origin of Cantonese cuisine can be traced back to the early Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. In ancient times, before the arrival of immigrants from the Central Plains, the ancestors of the Yue nationality in Lingnan had a unique diet style. Such as hobbies such as insects, snakes, fish, clams, raw food and so on. It is recorded in Liu An in the Western Han Dynasty that "the more people get pythons, the more they think they eat". In Song Dynasty, Zhou Qufei's "A Generation Beyond the Ridge" also recorded that Guangzhou people "will eat anything without asking about birds, animals, insects and snakes". In fact, this is inseparable from the geographical environment of Guangzhou. Guangzhou belongs to the subtropical water network zone, where insects, snakes, fish and clams are particularly rich and easy to get, cook and eat, forming a lively and vigorous eating habit. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Han people in the Central Plains have been moving southward into Guangdong. They not only brought advanced production technology and cultural knowledge, but also brought the Central Plains diet style of "never tired of cooking in detail and never tired of eating in essence". During the Tang and Song Dynasties, a large number of businessmen from all over the Central Plains entered Guangzhou, and Guangzhou's cooking skills were rapidly improved. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Guangzhou's food culture reached its peak. According to the related documents recorded in the second year of Qing Daoguang (1822), "Guangzhou Xiguan Meat Forest has no wine and sea, no cold and heat, no day and night." In the 1920s and 1930s, Guangzhou's food customs were compatible with the North and the South, and a large number of unique gourmet snacks emerged. In the long years, Guangzhou people have inherited the tradition of Central Plains food culture, absorbed the essence of foreign and local cooking, and constantly absorbed, accumulated, improved and innovated according to local tastes, hobbies and habits, thus forming one of the most representative cuisines in China in the past century, which is second to none in China and enjoys a high reputation abroad. At present, there are nearly 20,000 restaurants with 900,000 seats in the city.

midnight snack

Midnight snack is a life custom of Guangzhou people, usually after 10 in the evening, hence the name "midnight snack" or "midnight snack". The way of midnight snack varies from person to person: some people cook by themselves at night; Some people eat alone or invite friends in street food stalls or night markets in teahouse restaurants, so many "night market food streets" and "night market" teahouses of various teahouse hotels have gradually formed in the city. The night market in the teahouse often has a music teahouse to attract diners.

Drink "Kung Fu Tea"

People in Guangzhou like to drink "Kung Fu Tea" in their spare time. Drinking "Kung Fu Tea" used to be popular in Chaoshan area, but now it is also popular in Guangzhou. "Kung Fu tea" is very particular about tea set, tea, water quality, tea making, tea pouring and drinking. Kung fu teapot is very small, only the size of a fist, with thin-walled porcelain, and the tea in the pot is faintly visible. This cup is only half as big as table tennis. Tea is oolong tea. Fill the teapot with tea. Then press it tightly with your fingers. It is said that the more pressed, the stronger and more mellow the tea is. The water is preferably precipitated water or mineral water. When making tea, you should immediately pour the freshly boiled water into the pot and pour it out once or twice at the beginning. When pouring tea, you should keep pouring it back and forth to avoid the situation of being strong before and weak after. Chatting while drinking tea is called "Kung Fu".

morning tea

People in Guangzhou love to drink tea, especially morning tea. When we meet in the morning, we often greet each other with "Have you had tea" (meaning "Have you had tea"), which shows our preference for tea. Drinking tea is a life custom of Guangzhou people. There is a folk proverb that "a pot of tea in the morning does not need a doctor".

When people in Guangzhou say drinking tea, they actually mean drinking tea in a teahouse (formerly called teahouse). Not only drink morning tea, but also eat snacks (as breakfast); Drink not only morning tea, but also afternoon tea and evening tea; Not only can you fill your stomach, but you can also spread news, talk about friendship and negotiate business. It can be seen that drinking tea in Guangzhou is actually a social way.

This is also the important and fundamental reason why the teahouse industry in Guangzhou has been enduring for a hundred years. Among the time-honored restaurants in Guangzhou, quite a few were teahouses and teahouses of that year.

People who drink tea in Guangzhou can be roughly divided into two categories: one is regular customers who must go to a fixed teahouse every morning, usually "one cup" (ribs rice) and "two pieces" (snacks), and most of these people are retired people; The other is drinking "tea worship", that is, drinking tea on rest days is not limited to "one cup or two", but calmly tasting various snacks and "sighing tea".

There are three tea markets in Guangzhou every day: morning, noon and evening, among which the morning tea market is the most prosperous, and it is often crowded from early morning to eleven noon. Drinking tea at night is becoming more and more prosperous, especially in midsummer. While drinking tea, listen to opera singing and enjoy air conditioning. Morning tea in Guangzhou usually opens at 4 am, and evening tea doesn't close until 1-2 am the next morning.

Drink herbal tea

Drinking herbal tea is also a perennial habit of Guangzhou people.

The so-called herbal tea refers to the Chinese herbal medicine which is cold in nature and can eliminate internal heat. After boiling, it is used as a drink to eliminate the sore throat caused by summer heat or winter dryness in the human body. Guangzhou has a long history of herbal tea, and there are many kinds of herbal tea, including Wang Laoji herbal tea, Sanhutang herbal tea, herbal tea, loud male herbal tea, herbal tea, 24-flavor herbal tea, cucurbit tea, healthy herbal tea, honeysuckle flower tea and ancient melon herbal tea. There are even turtle ling paste soup, sashimi and cabbage soup, carrots and bamboo cane water. It has become a traditional old-fashioned herbal tea that Guangzhou people love.

Wang Lao Ji's most famous herbal tea has always been admired by Guangzhou people. After 1980s, various kinds of herbal tea granules and soft-packed herbal tea came into being. Shennong herbal tea and Xiasangju tea have become fashionable drinks for many families in summer.

Drink dessert store

People in Guangzhou like to drink sugar water all year round. It is considered that syrup made of some medicinal materials, beans, fruits and flour products with sugar has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, promoting fluid production and benefiting the body. There are many varieties of sugar water: beans include red bean paste, mung bean paste and plum bean paste; There are sesame paste, almond paste, peanut paste and phoenix milk paste; Medicinal materials include lily syrup, lotus seed syrup and Qingbuliang syrup; There are also stewed eggs, stewed papaya, sweet potato syrup, Ma Rong soup pills, egg milk, ginger milk, candied sago, soybean milk, tofu flower and so on. After the sugar water is boiled, it is a hot drink; What you drink after freezing is a cold drink, which is often connected with the ice room (a cold drink shop that supplies ice cream, soda, beer, etc.). The most famous one in Guangzhou is the Taiping Pavilion Ice Room on Beijing Road.

Side stove eating style.

Sichuan hot pot is loved by everyone and is related to the fun of eating hot pot. Indeed, relatives get together, friends have a drink, eat and chat around the hot pot, and it is unrestrained, and the rich aroma and harmonious atmosphere blend together, which is endless fun!

Lin Hong, a poet in the Song Dynasty, said that eating hot pot is "reunion and warmth", and Yan Chen, a poet in the Qing Dynasty, chanted the poem "All kinds of flavors melt into a small pot around the stove", which is a portrayal of this kind of fun.

However, the best thing about Sichuan hot pot is that it is suitable for all seasons. The hotter the weather, the hotter it becomes. Most people usually only eat hot pot in winter, while Sichuanese always eat hot pot in four seasons. Chongqing is one of the three "stoves" in China. In summer, the temperature in the mountain city is as high as 38 degrees, but the hot pot restaurant is still full of diners, shaking fans, eating watermelons and taking care of the hot pot.

Nowadays, Guangzhou people, regardless of the hot summer, squeeze into hot pot restaurants, blowing air conditioners on their backs and roasting hot pot on their chests, and have a good time. In fact, everyone who has eaten hot pot in summer knows that eating hot pot, sweating and drinking a few glasses of beer and drinks are refreshing and exciting. The reasons are explained by many people as follows: first, the climate is humid in summer, and eating hot pot drives away the moisture; The second is to resist heat with heat and drive heat with heat to get a refreshing feeling. A writer said that eating hot pot in summer is very much like the "bold school" of Ci writers, or "very much like the tiger-fighting school" and "quite like Mrs. Liang beating Jinshan with gongs and drums".

The most common hot pot can be roughly divided into:

1. Mutton Hotpot: As the name implies, mutton is the main ingredient. Generally speaking, the traditional copper pot with charcoal fire has the most flavor. The dipping sauce formula of instant-boiled mutton is special, and it pays attention to the kung fu of cutting meat. This kind of hot pot is eaten more by northerners.

Second, sauerkraut white meat pot: usually pork belly and pickled cabbage are the main ingredients, and the dipping material is the same as mutton hot pot. The real northeast sauerkraut white meat pot should also add blood sausage. No one can be short of winter in the northeast.

3. Beef meatball pot: the traditional charcoal copper pot is the main one, with red bull mutton and beef meatballs as the main ones, and pork is not used. Because Muslims believe in religion, there is absolutely no pork and no dip in the beef ball pot, so Muslims in the north eat more.

Four, incense pot, Yuanyang pot: Sichuanese invented incense pot, originally hairy belly hot pot, mainly rinse hairy belly, extremely spicy, and later spread to other regions, not mainly hairy belly, all kinds of materials can be put into the pot, called incense pot. The appearance of "Yuanyang pot" is a multiple choice for many people who don't eat spicy food. In Sichuan, the traditional wok is a raw wok. No matter how many people have eaten it, the soup is not changed (this is already "once"), only the soup is added, and the dipping material is simple sesame oil, because the bottom of the pot tastes really heavy. Rinse your mouth with cold water and wipe your sweat with a handkerchief! The characteristics of incense pot are: spicy to your mouth numb, spicy to your sweat, so that you can enjoy it directly.

5. Guangdong-style edge sealing furnace: Cantonese people attach importance to soup heads, so Guangdong-style edge sealing furnace is naturally based on good soup, and all kinds of seafood are delicious, and the dipping material is mainly sand tea sauce. All kinds of casseroles and earthenware pots are made of bean curd and soy sauce. Cantonese proverb: soy sauce? Dip in and eat. In Shantou, Chaozhou, all kinds of meatballs are used to make hot pot, especially beef meatballs, which are very biting and have a special flavor.

6. Gangshan Mutton Furnace: Mainly mutton with skin, with Chinese herbal medicine, spicy bean paste or tofu as the main dip, authentic Taiwan Province flavor. The same method can also be used for the fragrant meat stove.

7. Desktop seafood stove, ginger duck and roast chicken: authentic Taiwan Province flavor, with seafood, duck, chicken and various seasoning methods, with obvious themes and different flavors.

Eight, casserole: casserole fish head is the most representative, as well as assorted casserole, casserole tofu and so on are very flavor.

Nine, medicinal hot pot: Chinese herbal medicine as a supplement, ribs and chicken as the main body, simple dipping, more emphasis on the nourishing role of Chinese herbal medicine.

Ten, stinky tofu pot: with the theme of stinky tofu, it is the favorite of stinky people.

1 1. Vegetarian pot: It is mainly composed of various vegetables, mushrooms and bean products. Bean sprouts and bamboo shoots are usually used as the soup base, which is exclusive to vegetarianism.

In addition to the popularity of Chinese hot pot, Korean, Japanese and European hot pots are the most well-known foreign hot pots, among which the most popular foreign hot pots are:

1. Korean style: It's mainly roasted by fire, which is eaten together with stone hot pot and kimchi hot pot, and it's very popular to eat hot pot while roasting, and the dipping material is mostly sand tea sauce.

Second, Japanese hot pot: exquisite and beautiful, with special attention to materials and dishes. The dip is special and there is no finished product. The popular shabu-shabu is also Japanese, and miso hot pot is the most special taste of Japanese hot pot, which is very delicious.

Third, Vietnam Dongjia mutton and Vietnamese hot pot: seafood is the main ingredient, and it is very distinctive when dipped in fish sauce.

Swiss hot pot: There are Burgundy, cheese and chocolate hot pot, each with its own flavor, which is rare in China and the taste is hard to accept. They are usually aimed at foreigners and are not very popular.

The hot pot types listed above are all common hot pot types. Eating hot pot is the most comfortable way to eat, not limited by materials and technology. You can really say, "As long as I like it, why not?" Eating hot pot is so relaxing. Eating hot pot is a simple matter as long as you pay attention to your physical condition and preferences.