1, open the oil pan
According to the custom of Guangdong people, after the twelfth lunar month, we will start to boil the oil pan. Fried oil angle, fried dumplings, scattered eggs, doughnuts, and jujube at home. People in Guangzhou call it a frying pan, which means that the family is prosperous and well-fed. This is the most traditional flavor of Guangfu people.
When cooking, while frying, you should say auspicious words. When you fired oil angle, you said that oil angle was gloomy, his descendants were rich, oil angle was crooked, and his family was worth millions. Stir-fried mushrooms are said to blossom and bear fruit for generations to come, and so on. There is also a favorite fried pile in Guangzhou. There is a saying that fried piles are boring, and gold and silver are everywhere, which means wealth and reunion. Now, some traditional Guangzhou people will also do their own bombing of oil angle as a necessity for the Chinese New Year.
2, sloppy washing, sticky spring
With the approach of the Spring Festival in China, there is a tradition of washing dirty clothes at the age of 28 in Guangdong, that is, cleaning houses around the 28th of the lunar calendar1February to welcome the New Year. After cleaning, hardworking Guangzhou people will get busy and post New Year greetings at home, which means going to the old and welcoming the new. There are many styles of waving spring, besides the word "Fu", there are also various Chinese characters waving spring to pray for good luck in the new year.
Eating Customs in Guangzhou during the Spring Festival
On the first morning of the new year, people will make or buy rice cakes by themselves. There are three flavors: taro cake, radish cake and coconut jujube cake. It's getting better and better to get up in the morning and open steamed cakes. And the first cake I eat is sweet, and there are red dates, which can be higher as soon as possible, and the family's life is sweet.
The second day of the Lunar New Year is called "Opening the Year". At lunch, fish, garlic, meat and other things used for lucky money will be taken out of the rice jar and fried, and there will be a pig's hand pot made of Nostoc flagelliforme, money mushrooms, pig's hands and mussels, which means hard work, kindness, love, intelligence, actuarial, strong body and wealth.