Guangzhou people's custom

Drinking herbal tea

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

the so-called herbal tea refers to the Chinese herbal medicine which is cold in nature and can dispel internal heat, which is decocted as a drink to eliminate the summer heat in the human body or the sore throat caused by dryness in winter. Guangzhou has a long history of herbal tea, and there are many kinds of herbal tea, including Wang Laoji herbal tea, Sanhutang herbal tea, Huang Zhenlong herbal tea, Loud Gong herbal tea, Shiqi herbal tea, 24-flavor herbal tea, cucurbit tea, healthy herbal tea, jinyinju five-flower tea, and dried ancient melon herbal tea. Even turtle ling cream soup, raw fish soup, carrot and bamboo cane water, etc., have become the traditional old-fashioned herbal tea that Guangzhou people love.

The most famous herbal tea, Wang Laoji, has always been admired by Guangzhou people. After the 198s, various herbal tea granules and soft-packed herbal tea came into being, such as Shennong herbal tea and Xiasangju tea, which have become a fashionable drink in many families in summer.

people in Guangzhou love drinking tea, especially morning tea. When we meet in the morning, we often greet each other with "Have you had tea" (meaning "Have you had tea"), which shows our preference for tea. Drinking tea is a life custom of Guangzhou people. There is a folk proverb that "a pot of tea in the morning does not need a doctor".

When people in Guangzhou talk about drinking tea, they actually mean drinking tea in a teahouse (used to be called a teahouse). Not only drink morning tea, but also eat snacks (as breakfast); Drink not only morning tea, but also afternoon tea and evening tea; Not only fill your stomach, but also spread news, talk about friendship and negotiate business. It can be seen that drinking tea in Guangzhou is actually a way of social communication.

this is also an important and fundamental reason why the tea house industry in Guangzhou has been prosperous for a hundred years. Among the time-honored restaurants in Guangzhou, quite a few were teahouses and tea houses in those days.

Tea drinkers in Guangzhou can be roughly divided into two categories: one is regular customers, who must go to a fixed teahouse every morning, usually "one cup" (ribs rice) and "two pieces" (snacks), most of whom are retired people; The other is to drink "worship tea", that is, to drink tea on the rest day, not limited to "one cup or two", but to taste a variety of snacks and "sigh tea" calmly.

There are three tea markets in Guangzhou every day: morning, noon and evening, among which the morning tea market is the most prosperous, and it is often full from early morning till eleven o'clock noon. Drinking tea at night is becoming more and more prosperous, especially in midsummer. While drinking tea, you can listen to opera singing and enjoy air conditioning. The morning tea in Guangzhou usually opens at 4 am, and the evening tea will not close until 1-2 am the next day.

drink sugar water

Guangzhou people like to drink sugar water all the year round. It is believed that the syrup made of some medicinal materials, beans, fruits and flour products with sugar has the effects of clearing away summer heat, promoting fluid production and benefiting the body. There are many varieties of sugar water: beans include red bean paste, mung bean paste and plum bean paste; There are sesame paste, almond paste, peanut paste and phoenix milk paste; Medicinal materials include lily syrup, lotus seed syrup and Qingbuliang syrup; There are also stewed eggs, stewed papaya, sweet potato syrup, marong soup pills, egg milk, ginger milk, candied sago, soybean milk, tofu flower and so on. After the sugar water is boiled, it is hot drink; What is drunk after freezing is cold drink, which is often connected with the ice room (a cold drink store that supplies ice cream, soda, beer, etc., and the most famous one in Guangzhou is the Taiping Pavilion ice room on Beijing Road).

Guangzhou is a famous southern Guangdong city with rich folk customs.

In recent years, on the basis of celebrating traditional national festivals such as New Year's Day, Spring Festival, May Day and National Day, Guangzhou has launched eight annual festivals with Guangzhou characteristics:

Spring Festival Eve Spring Festival, Spring Festival, Panyu Lotus Festival, Litchi Festival in Conghua and Zengcheng, Double Ninth Festival, China Tourism Art Festival and Guangdong Happy Festival, Guangzhou International Food Festival, etc.

There are also the colorful parade of Guangzhou customs and New Year's Day held every year, the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival in Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Guangzhou Tourism Art Exhibition held in October, which add gorgeous colors to the "Flower City" in Guangzhou.

In the Spring Festival customs, peach blossoms are inserted, New Year oranges are placed, reunion dinners are held, dumplings are cooked, fun is given (red envelopes are given), flower streets are held, New Year is celebrated, people's day is celebrated, Lantern Festival is held, and flowers are visited.

In other years, it is customary to worship the mountains (that is, to sweep graves), dragon boat scenery and dragon boat fighting, begging for luck on Qixi, eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival, climbing on Chongyang Mountain, etc.

Aesthetic customs: lion dance, fish dance, floating colors, flower market and Spring Festival, spring and autumn chrysanthemum exhibition, flower boat and jasmine lighting, etc.

Beliefs and customs include Nanhai God's Birthday, Tianhou Birthday, Zheng Xian's Birthday, Jinhua Birthday, Shangyuan Birthday, Zhongyuan Birthday and Xiayuan Birthday (collectively "three yuan"), He Xiangu Birthday, Land Birthday, Guanyin Birthday, Pangu King Birthday, Huaguang Birthday, Lettuce Party and Huaguang Birthday.

Life customs include drinking morning tea, midnight snack, sugar water, herbal tea, old fire soup, cooking pot and eating dog meat in winter, which is a unique food culture in Guangzhou.

a study on the customs and habits of Manchu people in Guangzhou

Manchu people who lived in Guangzhou, also known as the children of the Eight Banners, have been stationed in Guangzhou in batches for more than 24 years since the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and have gradually formed their own customs and habits in the long years. Although some of them have changed or faded since then (that is, after the Revolution of 1911), many of them still exist.

A festive package

"Bobo" used to be the general name of a kind of flour food in the north, but in the south, the Manchu people in Guangzhou only called jiaozi Bobo. However, the jiaozi wrapped by Manchu people in Guangzhou is different from that made by northerners. Its shape is half-moon, and its manufacturing method is also different. Add the cooked pork into the bean paste, which is called the cake stuffing, and mix the chopped yellow teeth, spinach and leeks well when wrapping the cake. It is a traditional habit of Guangzhou Manchu people to treasure cakes and cakes for more than 2 years. They always treasure cakes and cakes during the Spring Festival every year, or on festive days and when their relatives travel far away. This habit has never stopped. When you treat people, you also receive them, and you like to treat your children and grandchildren when you get married. Children's cake is in a cake, wrapped in 12 small cakes. Because in the old society, sanitation was extremely poor, and everyone hoped that their children and grandchildren would be prosperous, they liked to wrap up their children and grandchildren when they got married.