Guangzhou people’s custom: drinking herbal tea. Drinking herbal tea is also a year-round living habit of Guangzhou people.

The so-called herbal tea refers to the decoction of Chinese herbal medicines with cold properties and the ability to relieve internal heat as a drink to eliminate the heat in the human body in summer or sore throat and other diseases caused by dryness in winter.

Guangzhou’s herbal tea has a long history and there are many varieties of herbal tea, including Wanglaoji herbal tea, Sanhutang herbal tea, Huang Zhenlong herbal tea, Dasdaanggong herbal tea, Shiqi herbal tea, 24-flavor herbal tea, gourd tea, healthy herbal tea, honeysuckle five-flower tea, and dried ancient melon herbal tea.

etc.; even Guiling paste soup, raw fish and kudzu soup, carrot and bamboo cane water, etc. have become traditional and old-fashioned herbal teas loved by Guangzhou people.

The most famous Wanglaoji herbal tea has always been highly praised by Guangzhou people.

After entering the 1980s, various herbal tea granules and soft-packaged herbal teas emerged at the historic moment, such as Shennong herbal tea, Xia Sangju tea, etc., which have become a fashionable summer drink for many families.

Guangzhou people love drinking tea, especially morning tea.

When we meet in the morning, we often greet people with "Drinking Cha Wei" (meaning "Have you had tea?"), which shows their preference for drinking tea.

Drinking tea is a life custom of Guangzhou people.

There is a popular proverb among the people that "a pot of tea in the morning will save you the need to find a doctor".

What Guangzhou people call drinking tea actually refers to drinking tea in a tea house (customarily called a tea house).

Not only drinking morning tea, but also eating snacks (as breakfast); not only drinking morning tea, but also drinking afternoon tea and night tea; not only filling the belly, but also spreading news, talking about friendship and discussing business.

It can be seen that tea drinking among Guangzhou people is actually a way of social communication.

This is also an important and fundamental reason why Guangzhou’s tea house industry has been prosperous for hundreds of years.

Among the time-honored restaurants in Guangzhou, a considerable number are tea houses and tea houses from back then.

Tea customers in Guangzhou can be roughly divided into two categories: one is regular customers, who must go to a fixed teahouse every morning, usually with "one cup" (pork ribs rice) and "two pieces" (snacks). These people are retired.

Most of them are elderly people; the other type is drinking "sacrifice tea", that is, drinking tea on rest days, not limited to "one cup or two", but tasting a variety of snacks and "sighing tea" calmly.

Guangzhou's tea market has three markets every day: morning, afternoon and evening. Among them, the morning tea market is the most prosperous. From early morning to about 11 noon, the seats are often packed.

Night tea drinking is also becoming more and more popular, especially in midsummer. Drinking tea while listening to opera performances and enjoying the air-conditioning.

Morning tea in Guangzhou usually opens at 4 a.m., and evening tea doesn’t close until 1-2 a.m. the next day.

Drinking sugar water Guangzhou people like to drink sugar water all year round.

It is believed that sugar water made by boiling certain medicinal materials, beans, fruits, and flour foods and adding sugar has the effects of moisturizing, relieving heat, promoting body fluids, and benefiting the body.

There are many types of sugar water: beans include red bean paste, mung bean paste, and eyebrow bean paste; paste types include sesame paste, almond paste, peanut paste, and phoenix milk paste; medicinal materials include lily syrup, lotus seed syrup, and refreshing syrup.

There are also stewed eggs, stewed papaya, sweet potato syrup, sesame soup balls, egg milk, ginger juice and milk, sugar sago, soy milk, tofu curd, etc.

Drinks after boiling sugar water are hot drinks; drinks after freezing are cold drinks, and cold drinks are often connected with ice rooms (cold drink specialty stores that supply ice cream, soda, beer, etc., the most famous one in Guangzhou is the Taipingguan Ice Room on Beijing Road)

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

In recent years, on the basis of celebrating traditional ethnic festivals such as New Year's Day, Spring Festival, May Day, and National Day, Guangzhou has carried out eight annual festivals with Guangzhou characteristics: New Year's Eve flower market during the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat 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 Guangzhou style New Year's Colorful Parade held every New Year's Day, the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Guangzhou Tourism Arts Festival held in October, which add brilliant colors to the "Flower City" of Guangzhou.

The customs of the Spring Festival include peach blossom arrangement, New Year orange display, reunion dinner, boiled glutinous rice balls, making red envelopes (receiving red envelopes), walking on the flower street, opening the new year, people's day, Lantern Festival, visiting flower fields, etc. Other customs during the year include worshiping mountains (i.e. sweeping tombs)

, dragon boat scene and dragon boat fighting, Qixi Festival begging for luck, eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, climbing on the Double Ninth Festival, etc.; Aesthetic customs include lion dance, fish dance, floating colors, flower market and Spring Festival, spring and autumn chrysanthemum exhibition, flower boats and jasmine lighting, etc.; Beliefs and customs

Nanhai Shen's birthday, Tianhou's birthday, Zheng Xian's birthday, Jinhua's birthday, Shangyuan's birthday, Zhongyuan's birthday and Xiayuan's birthday (together as "three yuan"), He Xiangu's birthday, Earth's birthday, Guanyin's birthday, King Pangu's birthday, Hua's birthday

Guangzhou, lettuce and Huaguang, etc.; lifestyle customs include drinking morning tea, late night snacks, drinking sugar water, drinking herbal tea, drinking Laohuo soup, making side stoves (hot pot), eating dog meat in winter, etc. This is the unique food culture of Guangzhou

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