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Custom of New Year's Eve in Nanxiong, Shaoguan

1. Eat sour bamboo shoots, which are the traditional seasoning in Nanxiong. A small amount of sour bamboo shoots are added to the dishes, which taste rich and long. Most families in urban and rural areas are equipped with sour bamboo shoots, such as duck with sour bamboo shoots, braised dried fish with sour bamboo shoots, fried pig intestines and fried eggplant. Smoking, Nanxiong is rich in yellow smoke, smoking is very popular, in smoking areas smokers account for 90% of adult men. Mainly to locally produced tobacco, self-processing and shredding, self-rolling and self-smoking.

2, dress custom: men are not special, women wear aprons at the waist, black handkerchiefs on their heads and gloves on their hands. Drinking and eating habits: both urban and rural areas eat chili, especially in rural areas, no food is not spicy, the Spring Festival eats wax flavor, every family entertains visiting relatives and friends with cured duck, bacon, sausage and self-made glutinous rice wine. Marriage custom: in the old days, the same surname did not intermarry. During the festive celebrations, Nanxiong people like to express their joy with dozens of folk arts such as dragon and lion dance.

3. The traditional customs of the Spring Festival in Guangdong: cleaning clothes and bedding, cleaning the corner of the roof, washing the dirt of benches, tables and chairs, which is called "dust sweeping". Dust sweeping is one of the customs of removing old cloth and new cloth during the Spring Festival. As the saying goes, "24 in the twelfth lunar month, dust sweeps the house." At the end of the year, 23 / 24 officially began to make preparations for the Lunar New year. To sweep the dust is to clean the house at the end of the year, which is called "house cleaning" in the north and "house cleaning" in Guangdong in the south.

4. Camellia Lantern: Camellia Lantern is a traditional dance of lanterns. According to the Records of Chinese Opera, the custom of singing lanterns during festivals prevailed in Nanxiong after the reign of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty. Floating colors: floating colors originated from the spirit-welcoming competition in the Central Plains, and then gradually spread to the southeast coast and northwest regions. It was popular for a time in the Qing Dynasty, and combined with the specific conditions of various places in the process of spreading to form different characteristics.

5. There is a custom in southern Fujian that children from two villages throw stones at each other during the Lantern Festival. It is said that if stones are not thrown, there will be a plague in that village. [Guangdong Province] the people of Xin'an County who gave birth to boys last year were all on the Lantern Festival night celebration lanterns. When Nanxiong is busy with lanterns, parents take the dragon beard thread on the dragon lantern and tie it to their children, which is said to protect children from disease. And take the remaining candles in the dragon lantern to shine under the bed, it is said that you can give birth to a noble son.

What are the characteristics of Guangdong?

1. Guangzhou native products include Cantonese-style sausages, chicken cakes, fried dumplings and chicken roast. Guangzhou sausage: Guangzhou sausage is a traditional famous dish in Guangdong, China, which is made of fresh pig lean meat, pig fat, pig liver, pig heart, pig lung, pig sausage, pickled, ground meat, stirring, enema, hanging and so on. With its delicious taste, tender and smooth taste and unique wax flavor, it is one of the most popular snacks in southern China.

2. Guangdong characteristic culture includes Lingnan traditional architecture, Lingnan characteristic food, Lingnan characteristic customs, traditional culture and art, from Cantonese, Cantonese opera, Guangdong music, Guangdong Quyi, Lingnan calligraphy, Lingnan painting school, Lingnan poetry, Lingnan architecture, Lingnan bonsai, Lingnan crafts to Lingnan folk customs and Lingnan food culture, all reflect the rich connotation and unique and colorful Lingnan local characteristics of Lingnan culture.

3. Guangdong white sugar cake was first founded in Shunde Lunjiao, Guangdong in the Ming Dynasty, and now it is a characteristic pastry of Han nationality in Guangdong, Hong Kong and other places. It is said that it was created by a peddler surnamed Liang who accidentally made the powder fall when steaming muffins. It is sweet and refreshing, and the tooth smoke is tough. It looks simple, and the actual process is extremely tedious: it is milled rice, fermented with rice cake, and steamed with sugar.

What are your most unforgettable hometown delicacies when you are away from home?

1. Sichuan hot pot is famous for its hemp, spicy, fresh and fragrant. As a kind of delicacy, hot pot has become the representative food of Sichuan and Chongqing.

2. As Guangdong Hakkas, the hometown delicacies that I miss most in life outside 1, Hakka brewed tofu 2, sweet bean curd 3, Xianxian 4, boiled meatballs wonderful Yunnan cuisine introduction, steam pot chicken, steam pot chicken, got its name from steam pot steaming. The purple pottery steam pot produced by Jianshui in the south of Kunming is made of local red, yellow, green, purple and white clay. It has the characteristics of "color as copper, sound as loud, smooth as a mirror, and never fade".

3. Stewed noodles: stewed noodles, known as one of the top ten noodles in China, has a history of more than 1300 years. This traditional Henan cuisine, which integrates meat, vegetarian, soup, vegetables and rice, is famous for its delicious and economical taste in the Central Plains and has spread all over the country. Hu Lai Tang: also known as paste hot soup, originated in Henan Province, especially the most famous Hu La Tang in Beiwudu Town, Wuyang County, Luohe City and Xiaoyao Town, Xihua County, Zhoukou City.

4. Cross Bridge Rice Noodle from Mengzi, Yunnan. At that time, I followed veterans who had participated in the counterattack against Vietnam to the Yunnan border to revisit the battlefield of that year. One of the itinerary was to visit the Mausoleum of Mengzi Martyrs, where they ate the most authentic Cross Bridge Rice Noodle.