[Network media changes] It has become a new choice for young people struggling in Guangzhou to take their parents to spend the ＂warm＂ year.
Jinyang.com reporter Zhang Yang
In 2018, Guangzhou once again sent a warm invitation to the world. With the mentality that "family reunion is home", "reverse visiting relatives" is becoming more and more popular. During the Spring Festival, it is a fashionable choice for young people struggling in Guangzhou to take their parents to Guangzhou for a "warm" year.
Travel to Guangzhou for reunion at the wrong peak.
On New Year’s Eve, Chen Long hurried to Baiyun Airport, but instead of going home, he took his parents back to his "den" in Guangzhou. My parents took off from their hometown in Chongqing and arrived in Guangzhou in just over two hours. The family was reunited in Guangzhou as planned.
Although he has only been working in Guangzhou for three or four months, Chen Long likes it here very much. "Guangzhou has good air, plenty of food and beautiful scenery, which is very suitable for living." Therefore, I discussed with my parents early and took them to Guangzhou for the New Year. "The airfare for me to go back alone is almost the same as the airfare for my parents to Guangzhou. Anyway, wherever we get together, we can also take them around Guangzhou by the way, killing two birds with one stone!" When choosing where to celebrate the New Year, Chen Long made his own calculations.
Zhang Wenxuan, a "post-90s" white-collar worker, is also spending the New Year in Guangzhou with her parents for the first time. "My hometown in Hubei is too cold during the Spring Festival, and my parents are in poor health. It is better to come to Guangzhou for the New Year, so that the family can reunite and take this opportunity to take them to play easily." Zhang Wenxuan said frankly that he had only been home for a few days during the Spring Festival in previous years. He was busy visiting relatives and playing mahjong, and he didn’t have time to be alone with his parents. This time, he could spend time with his parents.
Although I spent the New Year in other places, the "taste of the year" has not diminished at all. Zhang Wenxuan’s parents brought big bags of hometown specialties from Hubei, including chicken, duck and fish. Wenxuan loved lotus root, pickled cabbage and sour pepper, and made a genuine Hubei New Year’s Eve dinner with the specialties brought to Guangzhou.
"This is the warmest year our family has ever had!" Zhang Wenxuan regrets.
Eat morning tea slowly and stroll around the flower market.
When my parents came to Guangzhou for the first time, Chen Long led them to eat the most characteristic morning tea in Guangzhou in the early morning of the first day.
"My parents have heard about the morning tea in Guangzhou for a long time, and they haven’t had a chance to taste it." Chen Long found a morning tea shop that is still open near his home, and invited his relatives in Guangzhou for the New Year. The whole family ate it from morning till noon, and experienced the leisurely life of an old Guangzhou person.
As a sign of Guangzhou, the first meal Zhang Wenxuan took his parents to eat in Guangzhou was morning tea. "My mother loves sweets and likes morning tea very much. She said that Cantonese food is really much more exquisite, and she said that she would like to have a meal when she left." Zhang Wenxuan told reporters. In order to satisfy her mother’s gourmet trip, Zhang Wenxuan prepared a gourmet strategy half a month in advance, and went to Wenming Road for dessert and soup, and to Liwan Old Street for raw porridge and rice rolls.
On the last day years ago, Zhang Wenxuan also took his parents to visit the most famous West Lake Flower Market. "Flower Street" is an ancient custom for Guangzhou people to celebrate the New Year. Wenxuan’s parents are surprised that there will be such a lively scene. Zhang Wenxuan said: "In fact, the taste of my hometown is getting weaker and weaker in recent years, but there are still many Chinese New Year ceremonies in Guangzhou, which are easy to resonate with people. It is really festive and happy to go to the flower market."