Why do Cantonese people like to make soup?

An old fire soup is the epitome of thousands of years' history of Guangdong people.

I believe many people have heard a saying, Cantonese people often say eat? It is better not to eat vegetables than not to drink soup. . Cantonese people love to drink soup, which has long been a tradition. Serving soup first has become a fixed order for Cantonese people to eat at home and then set a banquet on the wine table. I also believe that many people who eat in Guangdong for the first time will always be asked by the waiter after ordering what they want to eat. Won't you order soup? ?

Why can't Cantonese live without soup? Many foreigners don't understand Cantonese. Why do you always have a bowl of soup for dinner? And why is a bowl of soup so complicated? Often a bowl of soup needs to be boiled in an old crock, accompanied by Chinese herbal medicine or some strange food. A bowl of old fire soup, the short one will take two or three hours, and the long one will take an afternoon before a decent bowl of old fire soup can be served.

For Cantonese people, whether they can make a delicious and beneficial soup can be regarded as one of the criteria to measure whether they can become a good wife and mother. In the lyrics of the opening song of the TV series "Foreign Daughter-in-law Local Lang"? Most afraid of cooking soup every day? This shows that countless Cantonese people are willing to spend time, patience and hard work on making soup, and people from generation to generation often enjoy it.

In people's understanding, traditional Cantonese people don't like traveling, and they don't like dressing up as Jiangnan women. Many times, they often keep a fire and a pot of soup. Every day, in the white fog of soup, they cook the soup with infinite reverie and warmth, and send their feelings to their lovers in the soup. Even now, Cantonese people still love to make soup. Whether it is a gentle lady in Kaya or a busy strong woman, they will not be lost, will they? Wei Jun washed his hands to make bridal soup? My preference.

Why do Cantonese people like to drink soup alone? In fact, this living habit is branded by the natural environment. Neijing holds that heat originates in the south, fire is bitter, and suffering is the heart. Because the climate in Guangdong is hot and humid all the year round, the water in the body is easy to lose, and it is easy to get angry and get hot inside if you live here for a long time. I also believe that many people always feel hot and dry when they first come to Guangdong, and their mouths are prone to sores. It can be said that it is not acclimatized, and it can also be said that it is a local climate problem. So for thousands of years, local people gradually learned to use local materials to hydrolyze damp heat with soup, and soup evolved from this, forming a unique food culture in Guangdong with herbal tea.

Cantonese people who know how to cook soup in four seasons will tell you that people will choose to drink winter melon, barley and red bean ribs soup in summer, which can reduce the fire, and in winter, they will drink nourishing American ginseng stewed chicken to drive away the cold. Throughout the year, Cantonese people have different recipes for medicated diets, and each household often has its own unique secret recipe. Soup is also one of the secrets of Guangdong food culture, and home tastes like soup.