Guangdong has those customs and habits

Is it true that after you buy a house and live in it, you have to live in it for the first year of the Chinese New Year (which is called "keeping the house")

I bought a house before the Chinese New Year but I have to go back home for the Spring Festival this year, so according to the customs in Guangdong, isn't it better to live in it after the Spring Festival and keep the house for the next year's Spring Festival?

But my father is coming to visit me in a few days, can he stay in that house for a few days without violating the Guangdong custom?

ps:Please go around if you say I am superstitious. All of the above questions are based on that custom. Please help me to answer them, thank you!

Guangdong is such a custom, it is not superstitious or superstitious to say, because this is a local custom, you said the guard room also depends on your own ideas and scheduling it! Not necessarily that every custom must be complied with, to adapt to it!

Lend a friend or colleague a Spring Festival

Believe in it, not believe in it. The customs of this part of Guangdong are not very important. You can follow your own habits and arrangements to deal with it.

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 Lingnan Yue ancestors had a unique style of eating; such as preferring insects, snakes, fish and clams with raw food. In the Western Han Dynasty, Liu An wrote that "the Yue people got python and snake as their favorite food". The Song Dynasty Zhou to the Fei's "Ling outside the answer" also recorded that the Guangzhou people "do not ask birds and animals, insects and snakes do not eat". In fact, this is inseparable from the geographical environment in which Guangzhou is located. Guangzhou belongs to the subtropical water network area, insects, snakes, fish and clams are particularly rich, readily available, cooked and eaten, thus developing a preference for fresh, raw food habits. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, Han Chinese from the central plains continued to migrate southward into Guangdong. They not only brought advanced production technology and cultural knowledge, but also brought the Chinese culinary style of "cooking is not too fine, eating is not too refined". In the Tang and Song dynasties, a large number of merchants from all over the Central Plains entered Guangzhou, and Guangzhou's cooking skills were rapidly improved, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, Guangzhou's food culture entered its peak. According to the Qing Daoguang two years (1822) of the relevant documents: "Guangzhou Xiguan meat forest wine sea, no cold, no day and night." Into the twentieth century and the twenties and thirties, Guangzhou food customs compatible with the north and south, both Chinese and western, very rich characteristics of the food snacks emerged in large numbers. The long years, so that the Guangzhou people inherited the tradition of food culture in the Central Plains, but also from foreign and around the culinary essence, and then according to local tastes, hobbies, habits, and constantly absorbed, accumulated, improved, innovated, and thus formed one of the most representative of the domestic cuisine in the past hundred years, in the country's first, and also enjoys a good reputation in foreign countries. At present, the city's food stalls nearly 20,000, seats have reached as many as 900,000.

Late-night snack

Late-night snacking is a custom of the Guangzhou people, usually after ten o'clock in the evening, so it is called "late-night snacking" or "night snacking". Late-night snacking varies from person to person: some cook their own food at night; some alone or invite three or five friends and friends to the street stalls or teahouse restaurants to eat in the night market, and thus the city gradually formed a number of "night food street", as well as the various teahouse hotels in the "night market" cafe. Night Markets" were gradually formed in the city, as well as "Night Markets" in various teahouses and hotels. The night market in the teahouse often has a music cafe to attract diners.

Drinking Kung Fu Tea

Guangzhou people drink Kung Fu Tea in their leisure time for fun. Originally popular in the Chaoshan region, Kung Fu Tea is now very popular in Guangzhou. "Kung Fu Tea is very particular about tea utensils, tea leaves, water quality, making tea, pouring tea and drinking tea. Kung Fu teapot is very small, only fist-sized, thin porcelain, you can see the tea leaves inside the pot. The cup is only half the size of a ping-pong ball. Tea is used oolong tea. Put the tea leaves to fill the pot. And use your fingers to press the solid. It is said that the stronger the pressure, the stronger the flavor of the tea. The best water is precipitated, or mineral water. When making tea, the freshly boiled water should be poured into the pot immediately, and the first one or two times should be poured out. When pouring the tea, keep pouring it back and forth to avoid the situation where the tea is strong at the beginning and weak at the end. When drinking tea, one side of the tea and talk about the world, which is called "kung fu".

Drinking Morning Tea

Guangzhou people love to drink tea, especially morning tea. When they meet in the morning, they often greet each other with "have you had your tea yet" (meaning "have you had your tea yet"), which shows their preference for drinking tea. Tea drinking is a custom in Guangzhou. There is a proverb that says, "A pot of tea in the morning is no need to look for a doctor.

By drinking tea, Guangzhou people actually mean going to the teahouse (customarily called tea house) to drink tea. Not only drink morning tea, but also eat snacks (as breakfast); not only drink morning tea, but also drink afternoon tea, night tea; not only to fill the belly, but also by the way to spread the news, talk about friends, negotiate business. Visible, Guangzhou people's tea is actually a way of social communication.

This is why the Guangzhou teahouse industry over the past hundred years and an important and fundamental reason. In Guangzhou, a considerable part of the old food and beverage stores, tea houses, tea houses.

Guangzhou tea guests can be roughly divided into two categories: one is a familiar guest, every morning must go to a fixed teahouse, usually "a cup" (pork chop rice) "two pieces" (snacks), this type of people to the retired elderly majority; the other type is to drink "Worship tea", that is, in the day off to drink tea, not limited to "a cup of two pieces", but to taste a variety of snacks, from the "sigh tea".

Guangzhou's tea market every day in the morning, afternoon, evening three cities, including the morning tea market is the most prosperous, from early in the morning to eleven o'clock in the afternoon, often full. Evening tea drinking is also becoming more and more popular, especially in the summer, while drinking tea and listening to opera singing, but also enjoy the air conditioning. Guangzhou's morning tea is usually 4:00 a.m. market, evening tea until 1-2 a.m. the next morning before closing.

Drinking herbal tea

Drinking herbal tea is also a year-round habit in Guangzhou.

The so-called "herbal tea" refers to herbal medicines that are cold in nature and can relieve internal heat, which are decocted and drunk as a beverage to eliminate summer heat in the body, or sore throats caused by winter dryness. Guangzhou's herbal tea has a long history, and there are many varieties of herbal tea, such as Wang Lao Ji Herbal Tea, San Hu Tang Herbal Tea, Huang Zhen Long Herbal Tea, Loud Kung Herbal Tea, Shi Ji Herbal Tea, Twenty-four Flavors Herbal Tea, Hulu Tea, Healthy Herbal Tea, Gold and Silver Chrysanthemum Five Flowers Tea, Ancient Gua Gan Herbal Tea, etc.; and even the Turtle Ling Ling Cream Soup, Raw Fish and Ge Cai Soup, and Carrot and Bamboo Cane Water, etc., which have become the traditional and old favorite of the people of Guangzhou, have become the traditional and old brand of herbal tea.

The most famous Wanglaoji herbal tea has always been respected by Guangzhou people. After entering the 80s, various kinds of herbal tea and soft packaged herbal tea came into being, such as Shennong herbal tea, Xia Sang Ju tea, etc., which has become a fashionable drink for many families in summer.

Drinking sugar water

Guangzhou people love to drink sugar water in all seasons. It is believed that the sugar water made from boiled certain medicinal herbs, beans, fruits, and noodle foods plus sugar has the effect of clearing the summer heat and generating fluids to benefit the body. Sugar water varieties are numerous: bean red bean paste, green bean paste, eyebrow bean paste; paste of sesame paste, almond paste, peanut paste, phoenix milk paste; medicinal herbs have lily sugar water, lotus seed sugar water, Qingzhengliang sugar water; there are stewed eggs, stewed papaya, sweet potatoes, sweet potato water, hemp Rong Tangwan, egg milk, ginger milk, sugar sago, soymilk, tofu flower and so on. Sugar water after boiling drink for hot drinks; frozen drink for cold drinks, cold drinks and often with the ice room (supply ice cream ice cream, soft drinks, beer, etc. cold drinks store, the most famous in Guangzhou is the Beijing Road, Taiping Hall ice room) together.

Hitting the stove to eat out of style

Sichuan hot pot, everyone loves, which is related to the fun of eating hot pot. Indeed, relatives get together, friends drink, eat around the hot pot while chatting, no restrictions, incense and heat and harmony of the atmosphere mingled, the fun!

Song Lin Hong said that eating hot pot "reunion hot warm", the Qing poet Yan Chen hot pot verse "gathering around the stove drinking cheers, all kinds of flavors melt in a small kettle", is a reflection of this fun.

But the best thing about Sichuan hot pot is that it is suitable for all seasons, and the hotter it gets, the hotter it gets. People usually eat hot pot in winter, but Sichuan people always eat hot pot in all seasons. Chongqing is one of China's three "hot stove", the summer temperature in the mountain city of up to 38 degrees, but the hot pot store is still full of diners, hand-cranked fan, while eating watermelon, according to hot pot.

And now the Guangzhou people also ignore the heat of the day, a group of people crowded into the hot pot store, back blowing air-conditioning, front chest roast hot pot, eat very addictive. In fact, people who have eaten summer hot pot understand, hot food hot pot, sweat, a few cups of beer, drinks down, body through Thai, God refreshing, people have a sense of floating. The reason for this, many people explain as follows: First, the summer climate is humid, eat hot pot to drive moisture; Second, to heat against heat, to heat to drive heat, to seek a refreshing. A writer said that summer hot pot is like a word in the "bold faction", or "such as Wu Sung tiger style", "quite Mrs. Liang beat the drums of the concept of the war Jinshan".

The most common types of hot pot can be divided into the following:

Shabu-shabu (涮羊肉): As the name implies, it is mainly made of lamb, and is usually served in a traditional charcoal-fired copper pot with the most flavorful dipping sauces.

Two: Sauerkraut and white meat pots: Usually made with pork and homemade sour cabbage, the dipping sauce is the same as for shabu-shabu. The real Northeastern version is served with blood sausage, which no one can do without in the winter.

Three: Beef meatball pots: traditional charcoal-fired copper pots are used, with beef, mutton and beef meatballs as the main ingredients, and no pork is used. Because of the relationship between the halal Muslims, so there is absolutely no pork in the beef meatball pot, and without any dipping sauce, the northern Muslims eat more.

Four, spicy pot, mandarin ducks pot: Sichuan people invented the spicy pot, the original maw hot pot, to shabu maw-based, extremely spicy and extremely numb, and later spread to other regions, and not to maw-based, all kinds of materials can be into the pot, called spicy pot. The emergence of "mandarin duck hot pot" is a multiple choice for many people who don't eat spicy food. In Sichuan, the traditional pot is a raw iron pot in the middle of the table, and 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 sauce is simple sesame oil, because the flavor of the bottom of the pot is too heavy. Cool water to gargle and a handkerchief to wipe away sweat! Spicy pot is characterized by: spicy to your mouth numb, spicy to your sweat, so you call addictive.

Fifth, Cantonese style hot pot: Cantonese people value soup, so the Cantonese style hot pot is naturally a good soup as the base, plus a variety of seafood, mountain treasures into the flavor, dipping sauce is based on sacha sauce. For casseroles and pots, the dipping sauces are made of bean curd milk and soy sauce. In Cantonese, soy sauce is used as a dipping sauce. For dipping, soy sauce is the main ingredient. In Shantou, Chaozhou area, to all kinds of meatballs for hot pot, especially beef meatballs, very strong bite, special flavor.

Sixth, Okayama lamb stove: with the skin of the lamb-based, with Chinese herbs, dipping sauce to spicy bean paste or tofu milk-based, authentic Taiwanese flavor, incense meat stove can be used in the same way.

Seven, Taiwan-style seafood stove, ginger duck, barbecue chicken: authentic Taiwanese flavor, seafood, duck, chicken plus various ways of seasoning, the theme of the performance of the obvious and each flavor.

Eight, casserole category: casserole fish head is the most representative, and assorted casserole, casserole tofu, etc. have a good flavor.

Nine, medicinal hot pot: to Chinese herbs for the complement, available ribs, chicken as the main body, simple dipping sauce, more emphasis on the tonic effect of Chinese herbs.

Ten, stinky tofu pot: to stinky tofu as the theme, is the stink of a favorite family.

Eleven: Vegetarian hot pots: with a variety of vegetables, mushrooms, soy products, usually soybean sprouts and bamboo shoots for the soup base, is exclusive to vegetarians.

In addition to the popularity of Chinese hot pot, from the exotic hot pot flavors and Korean, Japanese and European hot pot is the most known, which is the most popular exotic flavors of hot pot are:

One, Korean style: to fire roasted two to eat, fire roasted three to eat, and the stone hot pot, kimchi hot pot, etc., the main side of the grilled hot pot, dipping sauce for the sacha sauce, very popular.

Second, Japanese-style hot pot: delicate and beautiful, with materials and dishes especially elaborate, dips are special, not finished products, now very popular shabu-shabu is also a Japanese flavor, miso hot pot to miso as the base broth, is the most special flavor of Japanese-style hot pot, very delicious.

Three: Vietnamese Dongjia lamb and Vietnamese hot pot: seafood is the main ingredient, and fish sauce is used for dipping, which is very special.

Four, Swiss hot pot: Burgundy, cheese, chocolate hot pot, each with a different flavor, rare in China, the taste is also difficult to accept, usually more foreigners for the object, less popular.

The hot pots listed above are the most common types of hot pots. Hot pot is the most comfortable, free of materials and technical limitations of eating, can be said to be "as long as I like what can not be?" Eating hot pot is so easy, usually as long as you pay attention to their own physical condition and preferences, eating hot pot is a simple thing.