In Huzhou, there are several interesting etiquettes for visiting each other's homes for the first time when you are not officially married, which makes me feel sure to share them for reference to unmarried friends, hoping to help you increase the success rate of marriage.
I think that when I first met my in-laws with my husband, who was still my boyfriend at the time, my mother-in-law cooked a bowl of sugar water egg soup for me to drink, which is said to be a custom in Huzhou... The daughter-to-be daughter-in-law meets the man's parents for the first time, and the first dish cooked by the mother-in-law is a bowl of sugar water egg soup to entertain the daughter-in-law's representatives with enthusiasm and attention.
It is said that because it is not easy for the early society to eat eggs, even they are reluctant to eat, so when the family comes to the guests, they will take it to entertain distinguished guests, and now most of the Huzhou area is for the daughter-in-law to drink when she first visits the man's home, which means sweet and sweet.
After giving birth to my son a few years later, because the proportion of men and women in Huzhou is more than male, in order to fear that my foreign mother, who does not understand the rules, will not be able to marry my son in the future, so I asked my husband curiously...
After our son visits the woman's house for the first time, will there be any conventional rules? There really is!
Moreover, it is also a game of fighting wits, whether you can successfully marry your beloved girl depends on whether your eyesight is good enough? Do you understand the sophistication of human feelings...
First of all, remember to prepare the fine tobacco and alcohol as a souvenir in advance and give it to the father-in-law when visiting the woman's home.
After the father-in-law's heart is well-rounded, the next step is the highlight!
In Huzhou, there is a saying that "drink three teas and be a hairy-footed son-in-law", which means that when the son-in-law can drink "three teas" at the woman's home, it can be regarded as the approval of the mother-in-law.
There is a folk song: "One bowl is full of sweetness, two bowls are refreshing, and three bowls are homely." From the number of tea brews and the expression of the mother-in-law, we can see the satisfaction of the mother-in-law to the son-in-law.
Brewing only one tea means that it is not very satisfied; brewing two, meaning to be examined; brewing three, is very satisfied. After that, the mother-in-law will treat each other with clear tea and continue to pull the family routine with the man, at this time, the son-in-law will be regarded as the "first pass".
Tea has always been a symbol of "purity, firmness, and many children" in folk marriage customs, so the tea ceremony has also become an important form of establishing a marriage relationship between men and women.
"Huzhou Three Tea" is famous in the Tang Dynasty, is a unique specialty of Jiangnan countryside, used for the New Year's Festival, festive festivals to entertain guests or the first time to visit the new guests and visiting relatives, no matter the adults and children go to other people's homes to visit, the host will definitely invite guests to drink three teas.
And this so-called "three teas" are three different flavors of tea: first sweet (sweet tea), second way salty (salty tea) and three kinds of clear tea (clear tea), and each tea has its own meaning.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="21" > the first course - wok (huò) fin (cí) tea (sweet tea).</h1>
It means "sweet year".
Wok rice pot is glutinous rice pot fin, also known as glutinous rice pot, rice fin dry, that is, in the tea bowl or tea cup put some glutinous rice pot fin bubble to drink, also known as wind citrus (xiāo) tea, wind maple soup, also known as wind maple or egg bottom.
"Hong fishing turns into a cloud, paper thin ice and duck feathers are light, it seems to be the most precious of ordinary, only for pregnant women and relatives and friends." This slang song is about wok tea.
Put sugar on it, soak it in boiled water, is a bowl of unique flavor of the wind tea, characterized by sweet, fragrant, sticky and smooth.
Because the tea is placed in the glutinous rice pot, it is also called pot fin tea, and the pot fin tea is made of glutinous rice pot and sugar.
When the glutinous rice is cooked into rice, put the rice on a hot iron pot and paste it, sinter it into a piece of pot, take a few slices of pot, add a spoonful of sugar, add boiling water, and it becomes a "glutinous rice pot" to brew into a pot of tea.
Please drink the wind tea (pot tea), is to show respect, respect or attention to the guests, so if the host's home brews wind tea, it is a must drink!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="63" > the second course - smoked bean tea (salty tea).</h1>
Salty tea is the most elaborate of the three teas, also known as baked bean tea, windproof tea.
Smoked beans, shredded carrots, tea leaves as the main raw materials plus white sesame seeds, coriander seeds, goji berries, orange peel and other preparations.
Some people are more particular, and they will also add dried black tofu, flat tip, bamboo shoot tip or green olive, which will vary according to personal preference.
According to legend, in ancient times, deqing Xiazhu Lake Street was the seat of the ancient windproof country.
The Fengfeng Clan was a water-controlling person of the same era as Dayu and was deeply loved by the people.
The local people used orange peel and wild sesame seeds to make tea, to drive him wet and cold, and to bake green beans with local products to accompany tea.
Because of the urgency of the windproof family, the beans were poured into the tea, and the tea soup was drunk with the baked beans, and after drinking the roasted bean tea soup, the water treatment was successful because of the great increase in divine power, so it was called "windproof god tea" in the area of Xiazhu Lake in Deqing.
This unique salty tea drinking method has also continued for more than 2,000 years.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="64" > the third course - clear tea</h1>
Generally, The famous teas of Huzhou such as Mogan Yellow Bud, Changxing Purple Shoot, and Anji White Tablet from the Tianmu Mountains are generally used.
Mogan yellow bud tea, is one of the famous teas in Zhejiang; Changxing purple shoot tea, produced in The area of Guzhu Mountain in Shuikou Township, Changxing County, Huzhou City, is the "old ancestor" in Shangping tribute tea, as early as the Tang Dynasty, it was discussed by tea Saint Lu Yu as "the first in tea"; Anji white slice is a well-known specialty green tea in Anji.
If you want to talk about the most elegant tea ceremony, it is the last clear tea!
This tea is called "freshwater tea" by Huzhou people, and after drinking sweet and salty, a cup of refreshing tea is the most appropriate.
Choose a handful of Huzhou famous tea, add boiled water, appreciate its clear soup color, smell its rich tea aroma, taste its mellow tea flavor, raise a cup to pull homely, and the marriage will come to fruition.
As a daughter-in-law of Huzhou, I did not understand the rules before, and now I have just learned that when relatives and friends from Taiwan come to visit in the future, I will use sugar water egg soup and three teas to represent the characteristics of Huzhou to entertain to show my attention.
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