Supper is a life custom of Guangzhou people, usually after ten o'clock in the evening, hence the name "Supper" or "Supper". The way of supper differs from person to person: some cook their own food at night; some alone or invite friends and friends to the street food stalls or the night market of teahouse restaurants to eat, so the city gradually formed a number of " "Night Food Street" and "Night Market" cafes in various tea houses and hotels. The night market in the teahouse often has music cafes to attract diners.
Drinking sugar water Guangzhou people like to drink sugar water in all seasons. It is believed that some medicinal materials, beans, fruits, and noodles are cooked with sugar, which has the effects of moisturizing and relieving heat, promoting body fluid and benefiting the body. There are many varieties of syrup: beans include red bean paste, mung bean paste, and eyebrow paste; pastes include sesame paste, almond paste, peanut paste, and phoenix milk paste; medicinal materials include lily syrup, lotus seed syrup, and refreshing cold syrup; There are also stewed eggs, stewed papaya,
Drinking sugar water Guangzhou people like to drink sugar water in all seasons. It is believed that some medicinal materials, beans, fruits, and noodles are cooked with sugar, which has the effects of moisturizing and relieving heat, promoting body fluid and benefiting the body. There are many varieties of syrup: beans include red bean paste, mung bean paste, and eyebrow paste; pastes include sesame paste, almond paste, peanut paste, and phoenix milk paste; medicinal materials include lily syrup, lotus seed syrup, and refreshing cold syrup; There are also stewed eggs, stewed papaya,
sweet potato syrup, sesame soup balls, custard, ginger milk, sugar sago, soy milk, tofu flowers and so on. The syrup is boiled and the drink is hot; the frozen drink is the cold drink, and the cold drink is often connected to the ice room (a cold drink specialty store that serves ice cream, soda, beer, etc., the most famous in Guangzhou is the Taiping Pavilion Ice Room on Beijing Road) Together.
Food Customs Humans’ choice of food not only depends on their personal characteristics, time conditions, surrounding natural environment, etc., but also on their cultural characteristics. Different cultures have different standards and consumption methods for food. For example, Chinese people regard animal liver, kidney, heart and lungs as delicacies. Health is not beneficial; the Chinese are not used to eating snails, but the French regard them as treasures; India is the country with the most cattle in the world, but they would rather starve to death than eat beef, even the milk shipped to India by the United Nations Relief Agency They can only be dumped into the sea, which is closely related to their traditional culture (religious beliefs).
Eating customs is a very distinctive branch of Guangdong culture. Cantonese cuisine is well-known at home and abroad, and "Food in Guangzhou" has long been well-known in the world. Food reform and innovation can never leave the category of culture. Through the description and analysis of Guangdong's food phenomenon, we can see the cultural heritage contained in its lifestyle.
As one of the eight major cuisines in China, Cantonese cuisine is especially famous for its wide selection of ingredients. In Cantonese cuisine, birds and beasts, delicacies of mountains and seas, wild vegetables and flowers are all unacceptable. Snakes, rats, finches, insects, dogs, cats, etc. in other cuisines are jaw-dropping ingredients, but they are regarded as treasures during the meal. People from other provinces dared not import such snakes. In ancient times, there was an idiom of "cup bow snake shadow", and even mistakenly thought that the shadow of a snake reflected in a wine glass would make you get sick from fear, let alone eat it. In Cantonese cuisine, snakes are the best choice. Cantonese eat snakes, which can be said to have a long history. But in Cantonese cuisine, it is the best choice. There is a song about eating snakes in "The History of Foreign Objects in South Vietnam". Hong Qichang, Bin Heng’s banquet, is the bean or the goblet.” Today, there are nearly 50 kinds of snake food in Guangdong, and there are many restaurants with snakes as the basic dishes. Many foreigners and out-of-towners come to Guangdong. Everyone will taste the snake food, thinking it is a pleasure.
In fact, the omnipotent character of Cantonese is also a reflection of their open mind in diet. The so-called one side of water and soil nurtures one side of people, different geographical environments have created different regional personalities. Guangdong is the only place for cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. It has formed an open thinking structure of Cantonese. At the same time, due to its location on the border, the control of successive dynasties is weaker than that of the mainland, and it is less affected by orthodox feudal ideas. The traditions of the Central Plains The influence of culture on it has been diminished continuously, thus having greater freedom and capacity.
The actual Cantonese cuisine was formed in the Qin and Han dynasties. It is based on the local food culture and absorbs the essence of domestic Beijing, Shandong, Jiangsu, Sichuan and other cuisines and Western cooking techniques. The methods of frying, frying, etc. are borrowed from Western food, and gradually formed a unique southern flavor.
All similar cultures can be explored from historical contacts. In the comparison of the same things in the two places, the greater the qualitative similarity, the more significant the mutual communication. The openness of Guangdong culture is bound to be compatible, so that the food culture has the characteristics of inclusiveness, and unconsciously promotes the development of food customs.
While absorbing the strengths of others, Guangdong's dietary customs can gradually abandon some bad habits in out-of-town diets and form a style that is not luxurious and pragmatic. Cantonese people’s diet is small and refined. Even if you entertain guests, they will never be extravagant. The principle is to eat well and eat well. This contrasts sharply with the feasting in some places in the north. The extravagance of the northerners is precisely due to the etiquette, which certainly has its bold and lovely side, but it should be noted that the red tape on the diet cannot be accepted by the behavior of modern society. Of course, this does not mean that Cantonese people do not pay attention to etiquette. On the contrary, Cantonese people pay great attention to politeness when entertaining guests, so that guests can come and return with pleasure, while the kind of extravagance that is divorced from reality is unwilling to pragmatic Cantonese. For it.
The pragmatic spirit of Guangdong's current dietary style is the inevitable result of the development of modern society. Cantonese people don’t respect fame, they pay attention to reality. The Confucian culture's spirit of paying attention to form and other retreats does not have a deep influence on Guangdong. On the contrary, they are influenced by the realistic attitude of Westerners. This influence has formed Cantonese people's ability to learn from others' strengths while maintaining a pragmatic attitude towards food.
The pursuit of fine production to enjoy the production of a delicious meal depends on the methodical cooperation between all links. Cantonese cuisine has very strict ingredients, knife skills, heat, cooking time, potting, tailing, utensils, serving methods and many other links. Require. If you make fish, you must kill it and cook it, so as to maintain the freshness of the fish. As with the production of the platter, you must pay attention to the choice of ingredients to achieve the effect of beautiful appearance and rich taste. A good platter is not only a delicacy. It is also a work of art, which is pleasing to the eyes and appetite.
Among the Cantonese cuisine, chicken dishes are most commonly seen in master craftsmanship. There are hundreds of varieties, allowing customers to taste dozens of chicken dishes without the feeling of repetition. Almost every famous restaurant has its own creation. The signature chickens, such as Wenchang chicken from Guangzhou restaurant, Huadiao chicken from Beiyuan restaurant, Zhuhou chicken from Foshan, and white-cut chicken from Qingyuan, are too numerous to mention, each with its own characteristics. For white-cut chickens, you must choose young hens or capons. Qingyuan three-yellow chickens are the best. The most important thing in production is heat. It is better to have just cooked, and the leg bones are still slightly bloodshot after cutting. As the meat gets old, it loses the smooth and delicious characteristics of white-cut chicken.
The meticulous production of food is inseparable from the Cantonese culture that emphasizes personal value and pursues enjoyment. Enjoyment is not a one-sided pursuit of eating, drinking and having fun. It belongs to a kind of moral category, which corresponds to asceticism. Asceticism rejects worldly wealth and enjoyment, and suppresses desire to achieve certain social goals or moral self-improvement. From the perspective of moral types, Guangdong culture does not belong to asceticism, but shows a tendency of hedonism, full of humanity and sentiment of secular pleasures, manifested in the pursuit of comfort, happiness, and a better life, in order to work hard and enjoy it. Enjoy as the purpose. The word enjoyment has always been given a derogatory meaning in Chinese culture. It has always been associated with gain for nothing. It is believed that enjoyment is the way of life of the bourgeoisie, and it seems that only the bourgeoisie is qualified to enjoy it. In fact, enjoyment is a very advanced way of survival for human beings, and an inevitable cultural choice when human civilization has developed to a certain level.
In the past 30 years, Guangdong’s dietary customs have developed to a higher level, which has had a strong impact on traditional values. The traditional Confucian concept of "gentlemen consolidate the poor" and the concept of "satisfaction with food and drink" has been severely challenged. . Confucianism regards ethics as the only criterion for measuring personality, and regards being poor as a symbol of upholding ethics. The essence of this kind of thinking is to limit human beings to the lowest standard of living. Cantonese in the tide of reform realize that it is advisable not to be luxurious in life, but poverty must not be used as the criterion for judging ethics. This enables them to let go of their minds and bravely pursue the continuous improvement of living standards.
Food customs are an important cultural phenomenon. Food not only contains organic matter that can be used by humans to sustain life. For each food and its consumption method, it is also necessary to label its reliability by the culture. Similarly, the choices of Cantonese on their diet are the result of the long-term and subtle influence of their culture. The reform and innovation of food can be ever-changing, but it must be based on culture to be accepted and liked by people.
Food Customs Humans’ choice of food not only depends on their personal characteristics, time conditions, surrounding natural environment, etc., but also on their cultural characteristics. Different cultures have different standards and consumption methods for food. For example, Chinese people regard animal liver, kidney, heart and lungs as delicacies. Health is not beneficial; the Chinese are not used to eating snails, but the French regard them as treasures; India is the country with the most cattle in the world, but they would rather starve to death than eat beef, even the milk shipped to India by the United Nations Relief Agency They can only be dumped into the sea, which is closely related to their traditional culture (religious beliefs).
Eating customs is a very distinctive branch of Guangdong culture. Cantonese cuisine is well-known at home and abroad, and "Food in Guangzhou" has long been well-known in the world. Food reform and innovation can never leave the category of culture. Through the description and analysis of Guangdong's food phenomenon, we can see the cultural heritage contained in its lifestyle.
As one of the eight major cuisines in China, Cantonese cuisine is especially famous for its wide selection of ingredients. In Cantonese cuisine, birds and beasts, delicacies of mountains and seas, wild vegetables and flowers are all unacceptable. Snakes, rats, finches, insects, dogs, cats, etc. in other cuisines are jaw-dropping ingredients, but they are regarded as treasures during the meal. People from other provinces dared not import such snakes. In ancient times, there was an idiom of "cup bow snake shadow", and even mistakenly thought that the shadow of a snake reflected in a wine glass would make you get sick from fear, let alone eat it. In Cantonese cuisine, snakes are the best choice. Cantonese eat snakes, which can be said to have a long history. But in Cantonese cuisine, it is the best choice. There is a song about eating snakes in "The History of Foreign Objects in South Vietnam". Hong Qichang, Bin Heng’s banquet, is the bean or the goblet.” Today, there are nearly 50 kinds of snake food in Guangdong, and there are many restaurants with snakes as the basic dishes. Many foreigners and out-of-towners come to Guangdong. Everyone will taste the snake food, thinking it is a pleasure.
In fact, the omnipotent character of Cantonese is also a reflection of their open mind in diet. The so-called one side of water and soil nurtures one side of people, different geographical environments have created different regional personalities. Guangdong is the only place for cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. It has formed an open thinking structure of Cantonese. At the same time, due to its location on the border, the control of successive dynasties is weaker than that of the mainland, and it is less affected by orthodox feudal ideas. The traditions of the Central Plains The influence of culture on it has been diminished continuously, thus having greater freedom and capacity.
The actual Cantonese cuisine was formed in the Qin and Han dynasties. It is based on the local food culture and absorbs the essence of domestic Beijing, Shandong, Jiangsu, Sichuan and other cuisines and Western cooking techniques. The methods of frying, frying, etc. are borrowed from Western food, and gradually formed a unique southern flavor.
All similar cultures can be explored from historical contacts. In the comparison of the same things in the two places, the greater the qualitative similarity, the more significant the mutual communication. The openness of Guangdong culture is bound to be compatible, so that the food culture has the characteristics of inclusiveness, and unconsciously promotes the development of food customs.
While absorbing the strengths of others, Guangdong's dietary customs can gradually abandon some bad habits in out-of-town diets and form a style that is not luxurious and pragmatic. Cantonese people’s diet is small and refined. Even if you entertain guests, they will never be extravagant. The principle is to eat well and eat well. This contrasts sharply with the feasting in some places in the north. The extravagance of the northerners is precisely due to the etiquette, which certainly has its bold and lovely side, but it should be noted that the red tape on the diet cannot be accepted by the behavior of modern society. Of course, this does not mean that Cantonese people do not pay attention to etiquette. On the contrary, Cantonese people pay great attention to politeness when entertaining guests, so that guests can come and return with pleasure, while the kind of extravagance that is divorced from reality is unwilling to pragmatic Cantonese. For it.
The pragmatic spirit of Guangdong's current dietary style is the inevitable result of the development of modern society. Cantonese people don’t respect fame, they pay attention to reality. The Confucian culture's spirit of paying attention to form and other retreats does not have a deep influence on Guangdong. On the contrary, they are influenced by the realistic attitude of Westerners. This influence has formed Cantonese people's ability to learn from others' strengths while maintaining a pragmatic attitude towards food.
The pursuit of fine production to enjoy the production of a delicious meal depends on the methodical cooperation between all links. Cantonese cuisine has very strict ingredients, knife skills, heat, cooking time, potting, tailing, utensils, serving methods and many other links. Require. If you make fish, you must kill it and cook it, so as to maintain the freshness of the fish. As with the production of the platter, you must pay attention to the choice of ingredients to achieve the effect of beautiful appearance and rich taste. A good platter is not only a delicacy. It is also a work of art, which is pleasing to the eyes and appetite.
Among the Cantonese cuisine, chicken dishes are most commonly seen in master craftsmanship. There are hundreds of varieties, allowing customers to taste dozens of chicken dishes without the feeling of repetition. Almost every famous restaurant has its own creation. The signature chickens, such as Wenchang chicken from Guangzhou restaurant, Huadiao chicken from Beiyuan restaurant, Zhuhou chicken from Foshan, and white-cut chicken from Qingyuan, are too numerous to mention, each with its own characteristics. For white-cut chickens, you must choose young hens or capons. Qingyuan three-yellow chickens are the best. The most important thing in production is heat. It is better to have just cooked, and the leg bones are still slightly bloodshot after cutting. As the meat gets old, it loses the smooth and delicious characteristics of white-cut chicken.
The meticulous production of food is inseparable from the Cantonese culture that emphasizes personal value and pursues enjoyment. Enjoyment is not a one-sided pursuit of eating, drinking and having fun. It belongs to a kind of moral category, which corresponds to asceticism. Asceticism rejects worldly wealth and enjoyment, and suppresses desire to achieve certain social goals or moral self-improvement. From the perspective of moral types, Guangdong culture does not belong to asceticism, but shows a tendency of hedonism, full of humanity and sentiment of secular pleasures, manifested in the pursuit of comfort, happiness, and a better life, in order to work hard and enjoy it. Enjoy as the purpose. The word enjoyment has always been given a derogatory meaning in Chinese culture. It has always been associated with gain for nothing. It is believed that enjoyment is the way of life of the bourgeoisie, and it seems that only the bourgeoisie is qualified to enjoy it. In fact, enjoyment is a very advanced way of survival for human beings, and an inevitable cultural choice when human civilization has developed to a certain level.
In the past 30 years, Guangdong’s dietary customs have developed to a higher level, which has had a strong impact on traditional values. The traditional Confucian concept of "gentlemen consolidate the poor" and the concept of "satisfaction with food and drink" has been severely challenged. . Confucianism regards ethics as the only criterion for measuring personality, and regards being poor as a symbol of upholding ethics. The essence of this kind of thinking is to limit human beings to the lowest standard of living. Cantonese in the tide of reform realize that it is advisable not to be luxurious in life, but poverty must not be used as the criterion for judging ethics. This enables them to let go of their minds and bravely pursue the continuous improvement of living standards.
Food customs are an important cultural phenomenon. Food not only contains organic matter that can be used by humans to sustain life. For each food and its consumption method, it is also necessary to label its reliability by the culture. Similarly, the choices of Cantonese on their diet are the result of the long-term and subtle influence of their culture. The reform and innovation of food can be ever-changing, but it must be based on culture to be accepted and liked by people.