Other customs of Chinese New Year in Guangzhou:
1. potted oranges in Guangzhou have a good meaning.
Spring flowers in Guangzhou are also used in flowerpots and vases. Flower pots and orange pots are wrapped in spring flowers printed with the words "good luck" and "flowers bloom with wealth", and some auspicious three-dimensional picture ornaments or red envelopes with coins are hung on peach blossoms and oranges. There is also a "Changman" on the top of the rice jar, and there is a "God bless the people" on the balcony wall. Many homes have red carpets with the words "safe passage" on them.
2. Washing Sloppy in 2008
As the saying goes, "You should wash clothes at the age of 28", which is a dialect of Cantonese, meaning that December 28th of the lunar calendar is the time to sweep the dust and clean up. According to the folk saying: Because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not being new", and its original intention is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck. This custom has placed people's desire to break the old and create new ones and their prayers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of electrical appliances, dismantle and wash bedding curtains and dust cobwebs.
3. Say "Italy" in the New Year
In Guangzhou, Chinese New Year is the most important thing, just like Guangzhou people have a soft spot for flowers, not because Guangzhou people are elegant people who know how to appreciate flowers, but because flowers can represent countless beautiful intentions. Whether it is an elegant person or a vulgar city, you must buy a pot of kumquat, a pot of narcissus and a peach blossom for the New Year (because Guangzhou people don't buy a peach blossom, but cut down the whole tree and take it home). Guangzhou people buy peach blossoms in the New Year, just like westerners buy Christmas trees at Christmas. Flowers symbolize the prosperity of flowers, and kumquat represents good luck, which perfectly fits the mentality and needs of Guangzhou people.
Step 4 steam a "bottom" before the festival
Pay attention to the meaning of food, movement and mouth. For example, before the festival, a "bottom" (Guangdong dialect: basin) rice cake should be steamed, including glutinous rice rice cake, radish cake, taro cake, water chestnut cake, nine-layer cake and muffin. The homonym of rice cake is "Niangao", which means that Kuaigao (cake) rice cake is made of glutinous rice, soft and sticky. Red dates and cypress branches are inserted on the golden cake surface, which means good luck. ?
5, the new year's eight-treasure fruit box
During the Spring Festival, every household in Guangzhou has a treasure chest to entertain relatives and friends. There are red melon seeds and black melon seeds in the fruit box. There are all kinds of sweets, chocolates and pistachios. There are Cantonese-style candied Chinese New Year, such as: sugar kumquat, sugar lotus seed, sugar horseshoe (water chestnut), sugar coconut horn, sugar coconut slice, sugar wax gourd and sugar lotus root; And oil angle, fried dumplings and scattered eggs. I remember going door-to-door to pay New Year greetings with adults when I was a child. Everyone will always give oil angle to each other and sprinkle eggs to see who has the better posture. Then when I leave, everyone will always grab a handful of red melon seeds and put them in their pockets while walking.
Step 6 worship god
What Guangzhou people commonly call "worshipping God" in festivals not only refers to worshipping God in temples, but also refers to worshipping God and ancestors at home. Guangzhou people have the greatest respect for God and ancestors. Many families have god cabinets, in which the gods such as Guanyin or Guan Gong are worshipped, the gods of ancestors are worshipped in the middle, and the land is below. Heaven, earth and earth are hung on the walls of their homes. On major festivals and anniversaries, chickens and ducks should be slaughtered, and heaven and earth should be worshipped, ancestors should be worshipped, and the god of wealth should be welcomed. Anyway, as housewives, since Xie Zaojun was 23 years old, we have to be as busy as a bee, what food and offerings to offer.