The year of the old, Guangdong to go home

Wen/Yangcheng Evening News reporter He Yuhua

After the lunar of the ancestors of the fast, the year, Guangzhou people will be "open years." In accordance with the traditional customs, this morning, the home of women to host the "simmer", under peanut oil, fried radish cakes, fried fish. The next is "open Dinner", which is also the most solemn meal at the beginning of Chinese Lunar New Year.

At the same time, because the daughter to go back to her mother, husband with the line, so the junior day in the civil and have "welcome husband days", "Guye Festival" commonly known. "Before our family is strict implementation of the year of the Custom of the year, the first two days early, will bring candy gifts back to her mother, to the parents, the sisters are in the home, will give their children send the benefit is." "Old Guangzhou," said Ms. Huang, "but later, the younger brother to work in Beijing, children grow up also have married to other cities, so, it is not necessarily the year of the first two years, and so people together that day dinner is open dinner." ”

The family who lives in Haizhu District earth Hua Cun thinks, "The society is different", the year vulgar natural also becomes pale. "In the past, they were married to one of the village people, or to the next village, and we all had similar customs. Now the young people go to school outside to work, married abroad people and married mainlanders are quite a lot, the village house is old, even if not to the field settlement, also won't live in the village of the old house. The birth of a home, both parents have to balance, often forget so many customs. This is something that the elderly should understand. ”

Although, at the beginning of the second home to eat open the dinner of the modern society by the new family structure impact, but in the Guangdong region, open dinner dish-style "Italian head" stress is always not free. No chicken is not a feast of Guangzhou people, the year of course is to kill the chicken, meaning born vigorous, angry full, mighty Majestic, burning meat is also indispensable, because to take its "red Skin" (health) meaning, fried rice take Italy "to show off" or great prestige; the seaweed oyster black bean takes "The good fortune" the meaning; the Pig oxtail (tongue) takes "the prosperous luck" the meaning and lettuce to take the meaning of "wealth", garlic Northern, onion metaphor bright, Qin Yu industrious hard, leek long long and so on.

It is said that the old Guangzhou firm manufacturers please eat dinner, if there is chicken, after dinner will be dismissed, called "ruthless chicken."

In addition, some suburban villages in Guangzhou at the beginning of the second also retained the "release" of the custom, that is, to buy live carp, with red paper covered with fish eyes, after worshipping God to the pond released.