Guangzhou folk custom

Drink 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 eliminate internal heat. After boiling, it is used as a drink to eliminate the sore throat caused by summer heat or winter dryness in the human body. Guangzhou has a long history of herbal tea, and there are many kinds of herbal tea, including Wang Laoji herbal tea, Sanhutang herbal tea, herbal tea, loud male herbal tea, herbal tea, 24-flavor herbal tea, cucurbit tea, healthy herbal tea, honeysuckle flower tea and ancient melon herbal tea. There are even turtle ling paste soup, sashimi and cabbage soup, carrots and bamboo cane water. It has become a traditional old-fashioned herbal tea that Guangzhou people love.

Wang Lao Ji's most famous herbal tea has always been admired by Guangzhou people. After 1980s, various kinds of herbal tea granules and soft-packed herbal tea came into being. Shennong herbal tea and Xiasangju tea have become fashionable drinks for many families in summer.

People in Guangzhou love to drink 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 say drinking tea, they actually mean drinking tea in a teahouse (formerly called 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 can you fill your stomach, but you can also spread news, talk about friendship and negotiate business. It can be seen that drinking tea in Guangzhou is actually a social way.

This is also the important and fundamental reason why the teahouse industry in Guangzhou has been enduring for a hundred years. Among the time-honored restaurants in Guangzhou, quite a few were teahouses and teahouses of that year.

People who drink tea 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), and most of these people are retired people; The other is drinking "tea worship", that is, drinking tea on rest days is not limited to "one cup or two", but calmly tasting various snacks and "sighing tea".

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 crowded from early morning to eleven noon. Drinking tea at night is becoming more and more prosperous, especially in midsummer. While drinking tea, listen to opera singing and enjoy air conditioning. Morning tea in Guangzhou usually opens at 4 am, and evening tea doesn't close until 1-2 am the next morning.

Drink dessert store

People in Guangzhou like to drink sugar water all year round. It is considered that syrup made of some medicinal materials, beans, fruits and flour products with sugar has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving 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, Ma Rong soup pills, egg milk, ginger milk, candied sago, soybean milk, tofu flower and so on. After the sugar water is boiled, it is a hot drink; What you drink after freezing is a cold drink, which is often connected with the ice room (a cold drink shop 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:

During the Spring Festival, there are Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Panyu Lotus Festival, Litchi Festival in Conghua and Zengcheng, Double Ninth Festival, China Tourism and Art Festival, Guangdong Happy Festival and Guangzhou International Food Festival.

There are also the annual parade of Guangzhou, the Lantern Festival on New Year's Day and Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Guangzhou Tourism Art Exhibition held in June+10, 5438, which add gorgeous colors to the "Flower City" of Guangzhou.

In the custom of Spring Festival, peach blossoms are inserted, oranges are placed, family reunion dinner is eaten, jiaozi is cooked, and flowers are enjoyed in the street, New Year's greetings and Lantern Festival.

At other ages, it is customary to worship the mountain (that is, to sweep the grave), enjoy the dragon boat scenery and dragon boat race, beg for luck on Qixi, eat moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival, and climb the mountain on Chongyang.

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

Beliefs and customs: Nanhai God's birthday, Tianhou's birthday, Zheng Xian's birthday, Jinhua's birthday, Shangyuan's birthday, Zhongyuan's birthday, Xia Yuan's birthday (collectively called "Sanyuan"), He Xiangu's birthday, Land's birthday, Guanyin's birthday, Pangu's birthday, Huaguang's birthday, lettuce party and Huaguang's birthday.

Life customs: drinking morning tea, midnight snack, sugar water, herbal tea, old fire soup, boiling pot, eating dog meat in winter, etc. This is a unique food culture in Guangzhou.

A Study of Manchu Customs and Habits in Guangzhou

Manchu people living in Guangzhou, also known as the children of the Eight Banners, have been stationed in Guangzhou in batches since the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and it has been more than 240 years. In the long years, they gradually formed their own customs and habits. Although it changed or faded later (that is, after the Revolution of 1911), many still exist, mainly except the folk festivals that Han people attach importance to the Spring Festival, such as Bao Bobo and Bao Bobo.

The celebration was full of joy.

"Bobo" was once the general name of a kind of pasta in the north, but in the south, the Manchu people in Guangzhou only called jiaozi "Bobo". However, jiaozi wrapped by Manchu people in Guangzhou is different from that wrapped by northerners. Its shape is half-moon, and its manufacturing method is also different. Add the cooked pork to the bean paste, which is called cake stuffing. When wrapping the cake, mix the cut yellow teeth, spinach and leek well. Collecting cakes and cakes is a traditional habit of Manchu people in Guangzhou for more than 200 years. They always treasure cakes and pastries during the Spring Festival every year, or on festive days and when relatives travel far away. This habit has never stopped. Treating people is also a reception, and I like to treat my children and grandchildren when I get married. The cake of future generations is in a cake, wrapped in 12 small cakes. Because in the old society, the sanitary conditions were extremely poor, and everyone hoped that their children and grandchildren would prosper, they all liked to wrap their children and grandchildren when they got married.