What are the customs in Guangdong?

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

The customs of Guangdong people

Among the four major ethnic groups in Guangdong, Guangfu ethnic group is the earliest resident of Lingnan, which was formed by the fusion of Guyue people and immigrants from the South China. They speak Cantonese and mainly live in the Pearl River Delta, central Guangdong and western Guangdong. With the unique natural conditions in the Pearl River Delta, Guangzhou developed into a South China commodity trading center with world influence in the middle of19th century. This unique environment affects people's group mentality, personality characteristics and customs.

The old "Folk Songs of the Spring Festival" sang: "On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, clothes are dried and washed; On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, clean the edge of the house; On the 25 th of the twelfth lunar month, sweep the house for dust removal; On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, clean the barn; On the 27 th of the twelfth lunar month, the inside and outside are washed into one; On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, clean the furniture; On the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, all the dirt was removed. " Guangzhou has been called the "New Year's Pass" since the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, and the daily activities are arranged very tightly. The above folk song reflects the situation in the suburbs and rural areas. There are twenty-three cooking stoves, twenty-four frying, twenty-five steamed cakes, twenty-six cleaning the house, twenty-seven washing, twenty-eight packets of zongzi, twenty-nine stickers for thirty years.

Winter jasmine market is the biggest feature of Guangzhou Spring Festival custom. Every family goes to the flower market to buy flowers on New Year's Eve, which is rare in other places. Most families will buy a peach blossom, a pot of kumquat, two daffodils and a bunch of chrysanthemums, peonies, gladiolus and silver willows.

As for snacks, fried dumplings and oil angle used to be a must for every family, but in recent years they have been replaced by Chinese candy and high-grade snacks. In addition, Guangzhou people like steamed cakes, mainly radish cakes, taro cakes and water chestnut cakes. The cake is divided into nine layers, called "nine-layer cake", which symbolizes "the Spring Festival is rising step by step".

In terms of entertainment, people also have the habit of dancing lions to celebrate. Lions are dancing in the street. Anyone who wants to attract this auspicious beast hangs the word "green" on the door, which contains "profit" (red envelope), ranging from 18 yuan to 18O yuan, just to get a good sign.

In interpersonal communication, "profit" is a must. When friends and relatives meet, adults should give their children "benefits", especially citizens. They are very particular about giving them "double seals". It doesn't matter how much paper money is wrapped in it, but it's impolite not to have "profit", so you should bring more red envelopes when you visit Guangzhou during the Spring Festival!

"Everyone's Day" is also an activity of Guangzhou Spring Festival. As early as the Southern Han Dynasty in the Five Dynasties, the residents of Fangcun in Guangzhou had the habit of planting flowers and trees. Since the Song Dynasty, various exotic flowers and herbs have been introduced more widely. By the Qing Dynasty, the fragrant flowers and fragrant fruits in the flower fields of Fangcun had grown to more than 1000 varieties. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a scholar named Shen Funan who claimed to be "illiterate". However, in Guangzhou, he was dazzled. "Only six or seven out of ten people know." . Since the middle of Qing Dynasty, Vantage has established more than 30 gardens, large and small. Famous gardens include Liuxiang, Zuiguan, Ren Xiang, Fangqun, Xinchangchun, Yuxiangpu, Cui Lin and Hutchison. Every holiday birthday party, all famous gardens should be decorated with flower bureaus for people to watch. Some leaders also invited scholars to sing poems and couplets to help them enjoy life. They also established poetry clubs and painting gardens, such as Huatian, Xinglin and Louhai Poetry Club, all of which were famous poetry, calligraphy and painting clubs at that time. The owner of Ren Xiang Garden also invited Liang Xiu, a juren from Guangxu period, to recite a theme for the flowers in the garden and write a book in front of the flowers and trees. Later, he compiled an integrated book and became the famous Hua Hua Shi Hua, which was published in the world and became famous for a while.

Since then, more people have gone to the garden to enjoy flowers and gardens. Especially on the "People's Day" on the seventh day of the first month, there are many tourists. During the tour, the "Queen of People's Day" will be selected to take charge of the day's affairs. Over time, the habit of traveling around the world has been formed.