Folk customs in Guangzhou during the Spring Festival

The customs in Guangzhou are: twenty-three thanks for cooking, twenty-four for frying, twenty-five for steaming cakes, twenty-six for cleaning houses, twenty-seven for washing wild things, twenty-eight for making zongzi, and twenty-nine or thirty years for pasting.

Year 23: Enter the annual ticket.

On the 23rd of this year, it is called "Chinese New Year" in Guangzhou and "Chinese New Year" in the north. In the past, the traditional ceremony of offering sacrifices to the stove should pay attention to the weight of pork, which must be three catties and six taels before it can be called "one ceremony".

There is a story about the Kitchen God circulating around Xiguan: "Once upon a time, there was a scholar who had no money to offer sacrifices to the kitchen stove and gave a piece of pork on credit to the pork seller. Later, because there was no money to pay back, the pork was taken away by the meat seller, leaving only a bowl of gray pork soup. But the chef saw his sincerity and put in a good word in front of the Jade Emperor. Later the scholar also won the first prize. "

People agree that on the 23rd day of each year, the Kitchen God wants God to tell the Jade Emperor about the good and evil of his family and let the Jade Emperor decide on rewards and punishments, so "sending the kitchen stove" has become an important ceremony. If you are polite enough, you will speak up for yourself when you go to heaven.

Nowadays, after 80' s, there are few sacrifices to stoves. After New Year's Eve, every household will buy new year's goods one after another, and merchants will publicize them everywhere, and gradually begin to feel the atmosphere of the New Year.

Year 24: Blow up.

Before the Chinese New Year, Guangzhou's special snacks: fried dumplings, oil angle, scattered eggs and doughnuts, are a must for every family.

Li, who was a political scholar in Guangdong in the forty-second year of Qing Qianlong (1777), wrote in Notes on Eastern Guangdong: "It is the custom in Guangzhou to open a glutinous rice valley that was badly burned at the end of the year, calling it Paogu, thinking that fried dumplings have stuffing; Those who fry piles are fried with glutinous rice flour to offer sacrifices to relatives and friends first, and then fry the flowers in a glutinous rice plate, which is called rice flowers; It is fried in lard with white sugar sand mixed with powder, called sand. " In addition, oil angle, tea, taro and shrimp were fried for the Spring Festival on 24th.

This folk custom was popular until the Cultural Revolution. As the Spring Festival approaches, housewives are very busy and smell of oil everywhere. Few families in Guangzhou will blow up now. Online stores and shops have all kinds of snacks featuring New Year's Day, and the supply is sufficient. Just buy it and save yourself trouble.

Twenty-five years old: steamed cake

Steamed rice cake, radish cake, Lunjiao cake, water chestnut cake, nine-layer cake and so on. "Gao" and "Gao" are homonyms, meaning "Spring Festival is rising step by step".

Steamed cakes used to be the same as frying, but they were not as troublesome as frying. Every household does it by itself, and will do a good job of welcoming relatives and friends who come to visit the New Year in the future. Nowadays, people pay attention to health, and there are so many new retailers. Some families who can make steamed cakes will sell their own steamed cakes through their circle of friends: pure natural, no added, let's try it! Sweep the house at the age of 26, wash the fields at the age of 27, and wash the mess at the age of 28.

Twenty-six sweeps the house, twenty-seven washes the wild (wild, Cantonese: things and articles), and twenty-eight washes the sloppy (sloppy: not only refers to the unclean body or clothes, but also refers to the unclean environment). To put it bluntly, it is to do a lot of cleaning. Before the Chinese New Year, people in Guangzhou basically had to do a lot of cleaning and sanitation; Today's younger generation, because young people have to go to work on December 26th and 27th, cleaning depends on the schedule. Generally, the elderly at home will follow this custom.

29 years: posting Spring Festival couplets

In the past, Spring Festival couplets were posted on the 29th, with couplets, banners and monologues. Many people wrote "God bless the people", "Happy New Year", "Everything wins", "safe entry and exit" and "Congratulations on getting rich" in their monologues. The couplets include "unification begins, everything is renewed", "the universe is dry and wide, the mountains and rivers are long, and the sun and the moon are long", "every year is full of joy, and spring is peaceful and peaceful everywhere" and so on. It used to be very popular to paste Spring Festival couplets before the Spring Festival, and almost every household had to paste them. It's not very particular now, but a large family will definitely post it.

New year's eve: reunion dinner, flower street

In the past, Lunar New Year's Eve was also called New Year's Day, and Guangzhou was commonly known as "New Year's Day". The main content of the reunion dinner is that the whole family sit together to have a reunion dinner and eat the most sumptuous dinner.

Now this custom has not changed. Every year, district governments organize a three-day flower street, and citizens will take to the streets to have a good year.

Here are some lucky items that can be bought in Flower Street.

Windmill: We'll know when we get to the flower market. In addition to selling annual flowers, windmills are the most. Buy a transshipment windmill, the bigger the better, which means the new year is coming.

Peach blossom: Cantonese "red peach" and "grand plan" are homophonic, and the original intention of buying peach blossom is "great achievements". You don't have to buy big peach blossoms. The point is that the flowers should be big enough, red enough and strong enough.

Nian Orange: Common varieties include Siji Orange, Cinnabar Orange, Kumquat and Golden Egg. The types of trees are large and small. Buying a pot at home not only symbolizes good luck, but also creates a festive atmosphere.

New Year's flowers: The new year's flowers mentioned here mainly refer to holiday flowers, including traditional chrysanthemums, peonies, daffodils, cockscomb flowers and silver willows. There are also lilies, peonies, Chinese roses, Belgian rhododendrons, roses and so on. I'm not afraid to scold you if you need anything. I'll solve your problem for you.