1, Guangzhou Spring Festival custom: On the morning of New Year's Day, after people get up and put on new clothes, the first thing they do is to pay New Year greetings at home. It is often the younger generation who wishes the older generation first, and then the older generation gives the younger generation expectations. After breakfast, each of them pays a New Year call to relatives and friends. As the saying goes, "the first day and the second day have the meaning of New Year's greetings, and the third day and the fourth day have no intention of New Year's greetings." It is said that the sooner you pay a New Year call, the more you can see its sincerity. Therefore, some people go to pay New Year greetings to relatives and friends immediately after getting up, and then eat after coming back.
No matter how many gifts people bring, oranges are indispensable. Big orange takes its homonym "Daji". It doesn't matter if you take more and less, but it can't be odd. People who pay New Year greetings enter the doors of relatives and friends, and they should look at different people and say different greetings. Say "Happy New Year" and "Longevity is better than Nanshan" to the old people, and they will grin. For those who have jobs, saying "smooth work" and "progress in the new year" will make the listeners very happy; If you are a business person, what you hear most is "making a big profit in the New Year" and "making a fortune and benefiting the market"; If children are studying, what they want most is to make progress in their studies and achieve excellent results in the new year. Send this greeting to them, and they will be very friendly to you. Before leaving, the host will leave two oranges in the gift of the recipient, and then exchange his oranges in order to bring good luck to the other party. Humorous people often only put two oranges in their trouser pockets when they go out to pay New Year's greetings. After the New Year call, the two oranges are still in his trouser pocket. Therefore, good-hearted people call the New Year's greetings at the beginning of the year "orange-changing movement".
2. Guangzhou Spring Festival custom: On the second and third day of the first month, the married daughter will take her husband and children back to her parents' home to pay New Year greetings. When a daughter returns to her mother's house, there must be a big bag of biscuits and sweets distributed by her mother to her neighbors, just like the scene of the New Year. If there are many daughters at home, and these daughters don't come back on the same day, then we must share one at a time. The gift is quite thin, just four biscuits. But it reflects the deep affection, the real "courtesy is light and affection is heavy", and expresses the girl's miss for the villagers. When the girl goes home, if there is a nephew at home, menstruation has to pay again. Although she gave lucky money on New Year's Day, this time it had a different meaning. The daughter must return to her husband's house before dinner.
3, Guangzhou Spring Festival custom: Visit the flower market Modern Xinhua Street From the beginning of last century to the mid-1950s, the central flower market in Guangzhou was on the paddle road. In the 1920s and 1930s, Guangzhou had relatively stable finance, developed industry and commerce, and a prosperous flower market. People set up stalls on both sides of the road, making flower stalls and pedestrians in the middle. The night market is as bright as day. At the peak of the flower market, people come and go, and the flowers in the flower market are dazzling. Because people are crowded, if you buy a bunch of flowers, you should hold them high, otherwise they will be squeezed down and there will be no branches left. At that time, there were not many varieties of flowers, and industrial and commercial households purchased more peach blossoms. Although the price is lower, the flowers are more expensive. A medium-sized peach blossom can sell for several yuan, and the upper-middle one can reach ten or twenty yuan.
After the founding of New China, the flower market became more prosperous. In 1950s, Taiping Road (now Renmin South Road) from Shangjiu Road to Gong Yan Street and Daxin West Road was designated as the flower market. Later, in order to meet the needs, Guangzhou opened flower markets in several areas, and the central flower market set up an education road, which is the Guangzhou Central Flower Market; Xihua Market is located in Duobao Road and Fengyuan Road; The eastern district was originally in Dongjiaochang, and later moved to Dongchuan Road. The southern district is located in binjiang road, Haizhu District.
In the past two decades, the government has also begun to attach importance to the flower market and carry out effective management on the original basis. The traditional flower market begins on December 28th of the lunar calendar and lasts for three days. The third day was postponed until the early morning of New Year's Day. Generally, a week before New Year's Eve, Flower Street has been closed. During the Chinese New Year, Shilihua Street is full of flowers, lanterns and colorful decorations, and people are constantly flowing day and night. Romance in the south is at its peak at the moment.
4. Guangzhou Spring Festival custom: A few days before the Lunar New Year's Eve, Ms. Huang, who lives in Baogang Avenue in Haizhu District, has begun to prepare for the family cleaning. "Buy a big broom and clean the whole house."
In the past, people in Guangzhou were all about 26 to 28 years old. As the saying goes, "at the age of 28, they can't be careless." Feng Bo, Ms. Huang's neighbor, said that the old houses in the village still had putty water (that is, painting) every year. Obviously, the walls are not old, but they need a new look in the New Year, so it is necessary to paint them once a year. Later, when everyone was lazy and the quality of paint improved, there was no such custom.
Ms. Huang said that everyone in Qi Xin worked together to mobilize the whole family for a clean New Year. "Generally speaking, it is to clean up the sundries at home, clean the doors and windows, clean and wipe the floor, and the hall lighting and curtain cloth that are cleaned less every day are also among them."
5, Guangzhou Spring Festival custom: stick grilles and upside down paste the word "Fu" in the folk people also like to paste all kinds of paper-cuts on the windows-window grilles. Window grilles not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also integrate decoration, appreciation and practicality. Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art in China, which has been loved by people for thousands of years. Because it is often pasted on the window, it is also called "window grilles". With its unique generalization and exaggeration, window grilles show auspicious things and good wishes incisively and vividly, and decorate festivals with colorful colors.
While putting up Spring Festival couplets, some people have to put large and small "Fu" characters on doors, walls and lintels. Sticking the word "Fu" during the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom in China. The word "Fu" symbolizes good luck and wishes for a happy life and a bright future. In order to fully reflect this yearning and wish, some people simply put the word "Fu" upside down, "Fu has arrived" and "Fu has arrived", while others have carefully made the word "Fu" into various patterns, such as longevity, longevity peach, carp yue longmen, abundant grains, auspicious dragons and phoenixes and so on.
6. Guangzhou Spring Festival custom: New Year pictures are also common in urban and rural areas. Black and colorful New Year pictures add a lot of prosperous and joyful festive atmosphere to thousands of families. New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in China, which reflects people's simple customs and beliefs and places their hopes on the future. New Year pictures, like Spring Festival couplets, originated from "door gods". With the rise of block printing, the content of New Year pictures is not limited to monotonous themes such as door gods, but has become rich and colorful. Some New Year pictures workshops have produced classic color New Year pictures, such as Fu Lushou's Samsung, God bless the people, abundant crops, prosperous livestock and welcoming the New Year, to meet people's good wishes of celebrating and praying for the New Year. There are three important producing areas of Chinese New Year pictures: Taohuawu in Suzhou, Yangliuqing in Tianjin and Weifang in Shandong; Three schools of New Year pictures have been formed, each with its own characteristics.
Guangzhou Spring Festival custom 1. There are flower fairs in the first three days of New Year's Day: 27th, 28th and 29th (30 of them start from 28th, but not 27th)! You can go shopping these days.
2. "Wash dirty" every year, and do a good job in family hygiene.
On New Year's Day, everyone stays at home, and on New Year's Day, they go back to their parents' home to pay New Year's greetings. On the third day of the lunar new year, they can pay a New Year call to their relatives.
4. Those who are not married can get the benefits of married elders (red envelopes), and the number varies.
5. Have a reunion dinner on the eve of New Year's Eve (if there is no New Year's Eve, it will be on the 29th of 2008), and have a good start on the second day of New Year's Eve.
6. You can't do sanitation on New Year's Day, and no matter how dirty the room is, you can't do it until New Year's Day.
Celebrating the Spring Festival is as important to China people as Christmas is to westerners. The customs of Guangzhou people in Lingnan are different from those in the north, and Guangzhou has its own unique customs. Generally, there are three kinds of dishes that must be eaten: turbot, which means there are fish every year, and it must be shad, and no other fish can replace it; Then there is the lotus root, which means close connection; Roast celery, which means strong red skin, strong body, hard work and hard work, trying to survive the cold and freezing;
During the Chinese New Year, we need two shad, fried with salt, tied with red rope, and tied with celery, glutinous rice, onion, garlic and other things on a barbecue. Then put everything into the rice jar at 29: 00, and then take it out and fry it on the second day of the first year. One is according to the New Year, which means that from the end of this year to the New Year, every year is very hard.
Twenty-nine or thirty years old, there are several dishes on the table of ordinary people: shad, more than a year; Barbecue-red skin is strong; Shrimp-Laughter, Squid-Comfortable, Laver Light Vegetable Soup-A good thing to get rich (light vegetables are called oyster addiction in Guangzhou, which sounds like a good thing). At 12 o'clock in the evening, we will eat dumplings made by everyone together, which is very sweet and sweet, taking the meaning of sweet family life.
New Year's Day: In the morning, people will make or buy rice cakes by themselves. My family made it themselves. There are three flavors: taro cake, radish cake and coconut juice 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. On New Year's Day, you can't eat meat or wash your hair all day! At noon or at night, the desktop is made of Luohanzhai, which means "contentment is always happy, financial resources are rolling" and "obedience is always obedient".
The second day of the Lunar New Year is called "Opening the Year". At lunch, fish, garlic and other things used for lucky money will be taken out of the rice jar and fried. There is also a pig's hand pot made of Nostoc flagelliforme, money, mushrooms and mussels, which means that you are hardworking, kind and caring, smart and actuarial, strong and rich.
You can't sweep the floor from the 29th to the 3rd, nor can you sweep away the god of wealth and good luck. On 29th, 2008, you should put on new shoes and take to the streets as a "villain", which means that you will not kick others' hind feet in the new year. You can't sew clothes with needle and thread on the first day of the new year. The older generation said that sewing clothes on New Year's Day will only wear out clothes year after year.
Guangzhou Spring Festival Flower Market Guangzhou is known as the "Flower City", and the annual Spring Festival Flower Market attracts worldwide attention. On the eve of the Spring Festival, the streets and alleys of Guangzhou are filled with flowers and pots of oranges, and all major parks hold spring flower exhibitions, especially three days before New Year's Eve. Colorful buildings and flower stands are set up on the theme streets in each district. Flower farmers from four villages and towns swarmed in, arrayed, selling flowers and oranges, and there were miles of streets. Flowers are like flowers, and people are like mountains and seas. It didn't disperse until the early morning of the first day. This is a unique New Year Fair in Guangzhou.
People in Guangzhou love to insert peach blossoms in the Spring Festival. The so-called "a peach blossom is full of spring". A beautiful peach blossom is inserted in the hall, full of stars, festive lights and green silk and apricot ribbons, which really adds a lot of spring scenery, so it is not only loved at home, but also decorated with a big peach blossom in major hotels and restaurants. Peach blossom has become the "Christmas tree" of Guangzhou Spring Festival.
Kumquat symbolizes "good luck". In fact, what people like now is its small and rich shape: small trees 30 to 40 centimeters high, full of fruits, shining, and green branches and leaves supporting each other. It is really cute and interesting to put a few seats on them. Four Seasons Orange, Golden Egg and Cinnabar Orange similar to Kumquat can also play this role, so ordinary families only buy one of them. Similarly, it is the fruit handed down from generation to generation, which means to reproduce from generation to generation: the fruit of bergamot, like the palm of your hand, is as elegant and solemn as a believer, and is favored by good men and women.
Narcissus will be planted in the Spring Festival. At the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, there were a large number of narcissus heads shipped from Zhangzhou, Fujian Province. After people buy it back, they cultivate it carefully and control the flowering period by adjusting the water temperature and sunshine. Narcissus seems to understand people's feelings. It often blooms in turn at the family reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, or in the firecrackers on the first day of the first month of the first month, bringing people endless fun. As the saying goes, "Flowers bloom with wealth", which is just a good sign. In addition, daffodils are delicate, graceful and fragrant, which is a must for every family.
I. Flower Street "Flower Street" in Guangzhou's population refers to visiting the large-scale winter jasmine market in the city at midnight during the first three days of this year, that is, from the 28th to the 30th (starting from the 27th in the lunar calendar). Although it may take ten days and a half months to set up a set of scaffolding before, the flower market will definitely not open until 27 or 8 o'clock. The flower market will end at midnight, that is, the early morning of the first day, and all the scaffolding will be removed in a few hours. On the morning of New Year's Day, the streets of Baihua Market will resume traffic.
Therefore, if you want to spend the New Year in Guangzhou, it is strongly recommended that you take part in this annual "performance art". There is at least one traditional central flower market in all districts of Guangzhou, and other small flower markets are dotted around. Recommend "Yuexiu West Lake Flower Market" near Beijing Road. It is the oldest, most famous and most lively flower market in Guangzhou. It has existed for more than a thousand years, and it is located in the center of the city. It is convenient to buy something, eat a meal and watch a movie after visiting the flower street. Visiting the flower market is divided into day and night. The light is good during the day, so you can enjoy flowers. You can enjoy and feel the atmosphere at night. Radish and vegetables have their own tastes.
Second, turn to big freight to join in the fun. What is the purpose of going to Flower Street? Anyway, good luck in the new year. So on the day of visiting the flower market, if you accidentally take the wrong road in the flower market, then congratulations, you will be very lucky in the new year. Don't go to the flower market empty-handed What to buy at the flower market is also very particular.
One of the options, windmill. We'll know when we get to the flower market. Apart from annual flowers, windmills are the most abundant. Buy a transshipment windmill, the bigger the better, which means the new year is coming.
Option 2, peach blossom. Cantonese "heart" and "grand plan" are homophonic, and the original intention of buying peaches is "grand plan". You don't have to buy big peach blossoms. The point is that the flowers should be big enough, red enough and strong enough.
Option 3, Year Orange. Common varieties are four seasons chrysanthemum, cinnabar orange, kumquat, golden egg fruit and so on. The types of trees are large and small. Buying a pot at home not only symbolizes good luck, but also creates a festive atmosphere.
The fourth choice is annual flowers. The annual flowers mentioned here mainly refer to the flowers used for festivals, such as traditional chrysanthemums, peonies, daffodils, cockscomb flowers and silver willows. There are lilies, peonies, roses, Belgian rhododendrons, roses and so on.
Guangzhou has two classic Spring Festival activities to recommend to you: First, watching fireworks. Every year on the first (or second) night, the municipal government will set off fireworks at the Pearl River White Swan Pool (opposite the White Swan Hotel) and Pazhou (opposite the Convention and Exhibition Center). The atmosphere is good. The second is to look at lanterns. Generally, the Lantern Festival in Guangzhou will not end until 15. The traditional Lantern Festival places are Cultural Park, Yuexiu Park and Baiyun Mountain. The above two activities are held in the evening, which is very suitable for couples to date.
Third, it is the link that most people look forward to most in the new year. People in Guangzhou call red envelopes and lucky money "good for the city", and some write "good" or "good for things". The name and form are not important, but the content is our focus.
There are two basic principles for Guangzhou to send and receive the profit market during the New Year: First, married men and women, regardless of age, must send the profit market (take the initiative to send red envelopes); Second, unmarried men and women, regardless of age, should make fun of the market (take the initiative to ask for red envelopes). No matter what the content of Guangzhou's profit market is, it must be even in principle. On the ground of Guangzhou, only "ugly things" are sealed in odd numbers. But you said to give two profit letters of 5 yuan, that's no problem, the total is even. Moreover, it's best to give "double envelopes" a profit, that is, two envelopes. There is no limit to the amount of money in them, but it's rude not to give "profit", so it's better to bring more red envelopes when visiting people in Guangzhou during the Spring Festival.
Fourth, celebrate the New Year in the Fat Year. Of course, eat well. What's more, when eating in Guangzhou, you must not mistreat your "five zang-organs temple".
Snacks, fried dumplings, oil angle, scattered eggs, doughnuts, every family must have. There are also sweets in China, such as candied melons, candied horseshoes, candied lotus roots, candied lotus seeds, candied coconut horns and so on. In addition, Guangzhou people like steamed cakes, mainly rice cakes, radish cakes, taro cakes and water chestnut cakes. It symbolizes "a better life in the new year". These foods can be bought in supermarkets in Guangzhou, both in hardcover and paperback.
The reunion dinner in Guangzhou is not necessarily eaten on New Year's Eve. Choose a good day, and it can be held from the 23rd to the 30th. You can eat it for lunch or dinner. For your reference, there are several ingredients in the festive New Year's Eve: chicken (Cantonese say that no chicken is a feast), fish (more than a year), pig's hands (making a fortune), lettuce (making money) and barbecue (keeping fit). It's not the food, it's the atmosphere, as long as you have fun.
Celebrating the seventh day of people's month is called "People's Month Festival" in Guangzhou, as the name implies, "everyone's birthday". The origin of Men's Day is related to the story that Nu Wa made a creature every day in the first month. From the first day of the first month to the sixth day of the first month, it is chicken day, dog day, sheep day, pig day, cow day and horse day in turn. When people were created on the seventh day of July, it was called "People's Day".
Since it is everyone's birthday, the gathering of friends and relatives should be the first choice. Many people in Guangzhou hold a sumptuous family dinner on this day to celebrate. Traditional restaurants in Guangzhou also have special people to save food. I recommend several old-fashioned Cantonese restaurants that the general public can afford: Lianxianglou in Shangxiajiu, Taotaoju in Shangxiajiu, Guangzhou Restaurant Headquarters in Wenchang Road, Lucky House Restaurant in Taikang Road and Yunxiang Restaurant in Dongchuan Road. Everyone should be able to eat festive Cantonese food.
Sixth, to celebrate the New Year, we always want to have a good omen and a good meaning, so we should mention some things that should be paid attention to. The fundamental purpose of "talking about meaning" is not superstition, but to ensure that you and the people around you have a happy and comfortable mood in the new year.
Washing sloppy is cleaning, cleaning. There is a saying in Guangzhou called "twenty-eight-year-old, washing sloppy", which means that on the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household should clean up, get rid of the filth of the past year and pray for a new atmosphere in the New Year.
People in Guangzhou often regard it as a sign of good luck or bad luck in the New Year. Several "simple and easy" taboos: first, you can't do sanitation in the first day, especially you can't sweep the floor. No matter how dirty the room is, you can't do it until the second day of junior high school. Of course, it is necessary to wash dishes after meals. Second, avoid eating meat for breakfast (the first meal) on the first day. There are several sayings: one is that the meal is fast and the effect is equal to one year; Another metaphor is frugality, not extravagance and waste. Third, comrades who do not wash their hair on New Year's Day may like to wash their hair every day, and they should exercise restraint on that day. Of course, there is no haircut on the first day, but there is also a custom of not having a haircut in the first month in other places.