After buying a house in Guangdong and moving in, do you have to live in the house during the Spring Festival in the first year (called keeping a house)?

I bought a house before the Spring Festival 2 But I have to go home during the Spring Festival this year. Therefore, according to Guangdong customs, is it best to move in after the Spring Festival and just keep the house during the Spring Festival next year?

But, my father He is coming to see me in a few days. Can he temporarily stay in that house for a few days without violating the customs of Guangdong?

ps: Friends who say I am superstitious, please stay away. All the above questions are based on this custom. Please help friends from Guangdong to answer, thank you!

There is such a custom in Guangdong. This is not a matter of superstition, because it is a local custom. You also need to guard the house as you mentioned. It depends on your own ideas and time arrangements! It doesn’t necessarily mean that every custom must be followed, so you have to adapt to circumstances!

Lend it to a friend or colleague for the Spring Festival

Rules Yes, if you don’t believe it, you don’t have it. The customs and habits of this place in Guangdong are not very fussy. You can just handle it according to your own habits and arrangements.

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 immigrants from the Central Plains arrived, the ancestors of the Yue people in Lingnan had a unique eating style; for example, they were fond of insects, snakes, fish, clams and raw food. During the Western Han Dynasty, Liu An once wrote that "the Yue people obtained pythons as delicacies." "Lingwai Daida" written by Zhou Qufei in the Song Dynasty also recorded that Guangzhou people "eat all birds, beasts, insects, and snakes." In fact, this is inseparable from the geographical environment of Guangzhou. Guangzhou belongs to the subtropical water network zone, where insects, snakes, fish and clams are particularly abundant. They are readily available and can be cooked and eaten, thus developing a preference for fresh and vigorous eating habits. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, Han people from the Central Plains have continued to migrate southward into Guangdong. They not only brought advanced production technology and cultural knowledge, but also brought the Central Plains food style of "never getting tired of fine cooking and never getting tired of eating". During the Tang and Song Dynasties, a large number of merchants from all over the Central Plains entered Guangzhou, and Guangzhou's cooking skills improved rapidly. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Guangzhou's food culture reached its peak. According to relevant literature records in the second year of Daoguang reign of the Qing Dynasty (1822): "Guangzhou Xiguan is a meat forest and a sea of ??wine. There is no cold or heat, no day and night." In the 1920s and 1930s, Guangzhou's food customs were compatible with the north and the south, with a mixture of Chinese and Western styles, and were extremely rich. Special delicacies and snacks emerged in large numbers. Over the long years, Guangzhou people have inherited the traditions of the Central Plains food culture, and have also absorbed the culinary essences from outside and all over the world. They have continuously absorbed, accumulated, improved and innovated based on local tastes, hobbies and habits, thus forming a cuisine that has lasted for nearly a hundred years. One of the most representative cuisines in China, it is second to none in the country and also enjoys a high reputation abroad. Currently, there are nearly 20,000 restaurants in the city, with as many as 900,000 seats.

Midnight snack

Midnight snack is a living custom of Guangzhou people, usually after ten o'clock in the evening, hence the name "late night snack", or "late night snack". The way of supper varies from person to person: some cook by themselves at night; some go alone or invite close friends to eat at street food stalls or night markets in teahouses and restaurants. As a result, many "late night snacks" have gradually formed in the city. "Night Food Street", as well as "night market" teahouses in various teahouses and hotels. Night markets in teahouses often have music cafes to attract diners.

Drinking “Kung Fu Tea”

Guangzhou people enjoy drinking “Kung Fu Tea” in their spare time. Drinking "Kung Fu Tea" was originally popular in Chaoshan area, and now it is very popular in Guangzhou City. "Kung Fu Tea" is very particular about tea sets, tea leaves, water quality, tea making, tea pouring and tea drinking. The Kung Fu teapot is very small, only as big as a fist, with thin porcelain, and the tea leaves inside the pot are faintly visible. The cup is only half the size of a table tennis ball. Oolong tea is used as tea. Fill the pot with tea leaves. And press it firmly with your fingers. It is said that the more firmly the tea is pressed, the stronger and mellow the aroma of the tea will be. The water is preferably precipitated or mineral water. When making tea, pour freshly boiled water into the pot immediately and pour it out once or twice at the beginning. When pouring tea, you should keep pouring it back and forth to avoid the situation of being thick at first and weak at the end. While drinking tea, chatting while drinking tea is called "Kung Fu".

Drinking morning tea

Guangzhou people love drinking tea, especially morning tea. When we meet in the morning, we often greet them with "Have you had tea?" (meaning "Have you had tea?"), which shows your preference for 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 from seeing 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 Guangzhou people’s tea drinking is actually a way of social communication.

This is also an important and fundamental reason why Guangzhou’s tea house industry has endured for hundreds of years. Among the time-honored restaurants in Guangzhou, a considerable number are tea houses and tea houses from back then.

Guangzhou’s tea customers can be roughly divided into two categories: one is regular customers, who must go to a fixed teahouse every morning, usually serving “one cup” (pork ribs rice) and “two pieces” (dim sum) , this type of people are mostly retired elderly people; the other type drinks "week tea", that is, drinking tea on rest days, not limited to "one cup or two", but tasting a variety of snacks and calmly "sighing tea".

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 singing 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 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 drink for many families in summer.

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. Those who drink sugar water after boiling are called hot drinks; those who drink after freezing are called cold drinks. 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) Together.

Eat in style with a side stove

Sichuan hot pot is loved by everyone, and this is related to the fun of eating hot pot. Indeed, relatives get together, friends have a drink, and they eat and chat around the hot pot without restraint. The fragrant heat blends with the harmonious atmosphere, and it is endless fun!

Lin Hong, a Song Dynasty man, said that eating hot pot has "the warm feeling of reunion." ", Qing Dynasty poet Yan Chen's poem about hot pot, "We gather around the stove to drink and cheer, and all kinds of flavors melt into the small cauldron", which is a portrayal of this kind of fun.

However, the best thing about Sichuan hot pot is that it is suitable for all seasons. The hotter it is, the "hotter" it is. Most people usually only eat hot pot in winter, but Sichuan people always eat hot pot all year round. Chongqing is one of the three "hot pots" in China. In summer, the temperature in the mountain city is as high as 38 degrees, but hot pot restaurants are still crowded with diners, fanning themselves, eating watermelon and simmering the hot pot.

Nowadays, Guangzhou people ignore the heat of the dog days and crowd into hot pot restaurants in groups, with the air conditioner blowing on their backs and hot pot grilling on their chests, enjoying their meals. In fact, only those who have eaten summer hot pot will understand that after eating hot pot, you will sweat profusely, drink a few glasses of beer and drinks, and feel refreshed and refreshed, making you feel happy. Many people explain the reasons: First, the climate is humid in summer, so eating hot pot is to drive away the moisture; second, it is to use heat to resist heat, use heat to drive away heat, and seek to feel refreshed. A writer said that eating hot pot in summer is like the "bold style" of poets, or "like Wu Song fighting a tiger", "quite like Mrs. Liang beating drums to fight against Jinshan".

The most common hot pots can be roughly divided into:

1. Mutton-boiled: As the name suggests, it is mainly mutton. Generally speaking, the traditional charcoal copper pot has the most flavor. , the dipping recipe of hot pot mutton is more special, and it pays more attention to the skill of cutting the meat. This type of hot pot is eaten more by northerners.

2. Sauerkraut and white meat pot: usually based on pork belly and self-pickled sauerkraut, with the same dipping sauce as mutton-shabu-shabu. The real Northeastern sauerkraut and white meat pot should also add blood sausage. In the winter in the Northeast, no one can live without it.

3. Beef meatball pot: It is based on a traditional charcoal-fired copper pot, with red beef, mutton and beef meatballs as the main contents, and no pork is used. Due to the religious beliefs of the Muslim Muslims, there is absolutely no pork in the beef meatball pot, and there is no dipping sauce. The Muslims in the north eat more.

4. Spicy hotpot and mandarin duck hotpot: The spicy hotpot invented by the Sichuan people was originally the tripe hot pot, which mainly boiled tripe. It is extremely spicy and numbing. Later, it was spread to other areas and was not popular in other regions. Mainly made from tripe, all kinds of ingredients can be put into the pot, which is called spicy pot. The emergence of "Yuanyang Hotpot" gives many people who don't like spicy food multiple choices. In Sichuan, the traditional pot is a cast iron pot. In the middle of the table, no matter how many people eat, the soup is not changed (this is "in the past"). Only soup is added, and the dipping sauce is simple sesame oil, because of the taste of the bottom of the pot. It's just too heavy. Rinse your mouth with cold water and wipe your sweat with a handkerchief! The characteristic of spicy hot pot is: it is so spicy that your mouth is numb, your back is sweating, and you will say it is so satisfying.

5. Cantonese-style stir-fried stove: Cantonese people value soup, so the Cantonese-style stir-fried stove naturally uses good stock as the base, plus a variety of seafood and delicacies, and dipping sauces. Shacha sauce is the main one. Various types of casseroles and clay pots use bean curd and light soy sauce as dipping sauce. In the Shantou area of ??Chaozhou, various kinds of meatballs are used as hot pot, especially beef meatballs, which are extremely chewy and have a special flavor.

6. Ganggoat Meat Stove: Mainly made from mutton with skin, with Chinese medicinal materials, spicy bean paste or fermented bean curd as the main dipping sauce. Authentic Taiwanese flavor, Xiangmei Stove is also available. Same approach.

7. Taiwanese seafood stove, ginger duck, shochu chicken: authentic Taiwanese style, using seafood, duck, chicken and various seasoning methods, the theme is obvious and each has its own flavor.

8. Casserole: Fish head casserole is the most representative, as well as assorted casserole, tofu casserole, etc., all of which have good flavors.

9. Medicinal Hot Pot: Chinese medicinal materials are used as supplements. Pork ribs and chicken can be used as the main body. The dipping sauce is simple and the nourishing effect of Chinese medicinal materials is emphasized.

10. Stinky tofu pot: with the theme of stinky tofu, it is the favorite of the stinky people.

11. Vegetarian hotpot: It mainly uses various vegetables, mushrooms, and soy products, and usually uses soybean sprouts and bamboo shoots as the soup base. It is exclusive to vegetarians.

In addition to the popularity of Chinese hot pot, hot pot flavors from foreign countries are also most well-known, such as Korean, Japanese and European hot pot. Among them, the most popular exotic hot pots are:

< p> 1. Korean style: mainly grilled for two meals, grilled for three meals, stone hot pot, kimchi hot pot, etc. Hot pot is eaten while grilled, and the dipping sauce is mostly sand tea sauce, which is very popular.

2. Japanese hot pot: exquisite and beautiful, with special attention to materials and plate styles. The dipping sauces are all specially made and no finished products are used. The now popular shabu-shabu pot is also Japanese-style, and miso hot pot is made with miso. The base soup is the most special taste of Japanese hot pot and is very delicious.

3. Vietnamese Dongjia mutton and Vietnamese hot pot: seafood is the main ingredient, and fish sauce is used as the dipping sauce, which is very special.

4. Swiss hot pot: There are Burgundy, cheese, and chocolate hot pot, each with a different flavor. It is rare in China and the taste is difficult to accept. It is usually targeted at foreigners and is less popular.

The types of hot pot listed above are all relatively common types of hot pot. Eating hot pot is the most comfortable way of eating and the least restricted by materials and techniques. It can really be said that "as long as I like it, what's wrong?" Eating hot pot is so relaxed and comfortable. Usually, you only need to pay attention to your physical condition and preferences when eating hot pot. It couldn't be simpler.