What do Shaoguan people mean when they say fat and beautiful

What does fat and beautiful mean? Locally in Shaoguan, it stands for a delicacy. This delicacy is a kind of meat cake, made of tender pork, fish, shrimp and mushrooms and other main ingredients, which is delicious and especially flavorful. In Shaoguan, fattening is one of the very popular cuisines and many people love to savor its taste.

Besides representing cuisine, Fatty Meat also has some traditional cultural meanings in Shaoguan. In some traditional cultural events, people talk about the word fat and beautiful, which represents wealth, good life and future prosperity. The meaning of fat and beautiful in these occasions is usually associated with happiness, affluence and success, and it is people's expectation and hope for a better future.

Unlike food and traditional culture, fat is sometimes used in Shaoguan to describe a person's figure. In this sense, fat beauty usually represents a woman with a plump, fleshy and lovely figure. This usage is usually a joking term of endearment and does not involve any inappropriate or impolite meanings. In many occasions, Shaoguan people habitually use this term to refer to each other or to praise their female friends who have a plump figure.