Chinese Custom

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Summary

We have learned a lot of things from the process of posting these blogs. First, we can know more deeply about our own culture, such as the origins and wedding custom of each dialect group. Besides that, we can know about different kind of food from different dialect group. Hence, these blogs have increase our knowledge about our culture. In conclusion, we hope our blog can let more younger generation to know their own custom and continuing pass these custom to future generation.

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Event of ‘Lao Re’ for Teochew

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Lao Re’s meaning in Teochew is ‘hilarious’. During the event of Lao Re, Teochew people will worship god of land because they are very worship for land. Hence, it is cause legend of god of land for Teochew, it also has about thousand years ion history. From the picture, it is located in Teochew, China, they are celebrating Lao Re together, the atmosphere is very hilarious.

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Traditional Teochew Wedding Custom

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Most of the step in prepare the traditional Teochew wedding is similar to the traditional Hokkien wedding. The different place between them is in the step of prepare the Betrothal gift.  The foremost Teochew betrothal gift is the sì diǎnjīn, four pieces of jewelry including a gold necklace, a pendant, a pair of earrings and a bangle selected by a groom's mother and presented to the bride during the tea ceremony. Since sì diǎnjīn is also the name of a traditional Chinese architectural style, a four-pointed curved roof found in traditional homes, the jewelry symbolizes a blissful union in a secure home.

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The Teochew also give flaky pastries similar to hopia, as well as peanut candies.If the bride's grandmother is still alive, pastries called laoma gao are offered to her.

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Cantonese Traditional Wedding Customs

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In the traditional Cantonese wedding, the most important things are the Betrothal Package and the Returning Gift. Betrothal Package is given by the groom to the bride’s family one or two weeks before the actual wedding day and the Returning Gift is the gift that bride’s family will “return” to the groom’s family.

Betrothal Package

4 Ang Baos with cash gift

Ang Bao with Bride price

Traditional wedding biscuits

2 Chicken

2 Bottles of Whisky / Cognas

2 pairs of Dragon Phoenix     Candles

2 sets of Dragon Phoenix     Incense

19 Mandarin Oranges

19 Apples

A piece of red cloth

1 plate of chinese cakes

Some vegetables such as     lettuce, celery and shallots

Returning Gift

18 Chinese Cakes 

2 Bottles of Orange Juice

Dried food such as seeds ,  lotus seeds and lily , red dates , longan, tea leaves.

8 Mandarin Oranges

8 Apples

1 pair of undamaged lotus root

Bride’s mother will buy new     pants, belt and wallet for the groom

Return part of the bride price,     to signify that the bride’s family is generous to share.

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Hokkien Snack

Ngoh Hiang is also known as five-spice meat roll, it always a favourite during Chinese New Year.  It is a food which is easy to prepare. The ingredients need to be prepared are prawns, minced pork, fatty pork, water chestnuts, carrot, five-spice powder, Chinese wine, sheet bean curd skin and some other seasoning. First step is mix all the ingredient together. After that, lay out bean curd skin and wipe it clean. Spread meat filling along an outer edge and roll up tightly into sausages. Next step is steam the roll for five minutes. Then, it can fry until golden. It is a food which is popular for all generation.

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TeoChew cuisine

Teochew cuisine has been known as heathier food because it is light handed on seasonings with minimal use of oil. It always focusses on the freshness of the ingredient. Normally, they will use the method of poaching, steaming and braising to cook their food.

1. Dim Sum 

Dim Sum is one of the Teochew cuisine. Steamed Pork Dumpling “Siew Mai”, Prawn Dumpling “Ha Kau”, Pan-fried Radish Cake are some popular Teochew dim sum.

2.  Chew Kueh

Chew Kueh is another TeoChew is another popular TeoChew cuisine. TeoChew Chew Kueh will be served with Chai Poh and chili sauce.

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Teochew

The originated of Teochew is from the Chaosan province in China, the main cities is Shantou. Teochews arrived in Johor in 19th century. The main job of them are plant pepper and Gambier. In Johor, Teochews are distributed in Pontian, Muar, and Batu Pahat. In present day, Teochew is facing the problem of less spoken Teochew dialect among the younger generations.

(Source: http://says.com/my/lifestyle/history-ancestral-origin-spoken-dialect-of-chinese-people-in-malaysia)

Teochew Eight Districts Association is located at No. 53, Jalan Ibrahim Sultan

80300 Johor Bahru, Johor.

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Cantonese opera

The Cantonese opera is a famous performance in Cantonese. In the early time, there are only five musical instruments used in Cantonese opera which are two-string fiddle, violin, piano, three-string fiddle and Bo. There are four types of roles: Sang, Daan, Zing, and Cau. Cantonese opera early clothing is mainly imitated the Ming Dynasty dress style.

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Chu Hua Yuan for Teochew

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    Chu Hua Yuan(出花园) is a ceremony for 15years old of teenage during the seventh day of the seventh lunar month which is auspicious day. And, Chu Hua Yuan is meaning ‘out of garden’, it is a ceremony for coming of age and is to determine child turn to teenage, they are growing up without playing in garden, it also is determining a growth process. On the day, they will worship the god of ‘Gong Mu Po’ who is god in charge to protect children live and health. Parents will prepare a lot of dish to their children. From the picture, they bite head of chicken is to proof they are growing up.

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Cantonese Cuisine

Cantonese cuisine also known as Guangdong cuisine or Yue cuisine. The distinguishing feature of Cantonese cuisine are sweeter, favouring braising and stewing, adding various sauces.

1. Deep Fried Dishes

Deep Fried Dishes also known as Youtiao. It is one of the famous Cantonese cuisine. Youtiaos are usually eaten for breakfast served with soy milk, porridge.

2. Char Siu 

Char Siu literally means “fork roast”. It will be made in red colour to attract more customer because red colour meat are more visible compare with others. The taste of Char Siu is sweet, savoury and juicy.

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Origin Of Cantonese

(Source: http://says.com/my/lifestyle/history-ancestral-origin-spoken-dialect-of-chinese-people-in-malaysia)

Cantonese is the second largest Chinese subgroup in Malaysia. The originated of Cantonese is from the Guangdong province in China, the main cities are Guangzhou and Guangxi. In Mandarin, it always referred “gwong dung yan” as “guang dong ren”. The main job of them are tin mines. In present day, the Cantonese are approximately 80% living in Kuala Lumpur, Petaling Jaya, and Ipoh.

Kwong Siew Wai Kuan is located at No.24,JALAN SIU NAM ,

80000, JOHOR BAHRU, JOHOR. It was established by Mr Wong Ah Fook in 1878.

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Hainan Traditional Food

1. Hainanese chicken rice

Hainan chicken rice is one of the most representative of the local Hainan cuisine. In the early days, hawkers will carry the shoulder pole or hold the bamboo basket which fills with boiled chicken and oil rice and sell it on street. It is usually served with cucumber and a dipping sauce of freshly minced red chilli and garlic. At present, Malaysia is generally selling Hainan chicken rice.

2. Hainan bread

Johor Bahru has a famous traditional hainan bread shop at Tan Hiok Nee road. The shop is called Hiap Joo Bakery & Biscuit Factory. The breads have many flavours like kaya, red bean, coconut, butter and others. The shop owner uses the traditional wood furnaces baking to bake the breads. Therefore, the breads are very rich and texture. The most important thing is the owner is not put the preservative and softener in the breads. Hence, customer can rest assured when buying and eating the breads.

This is kaya bread.

Location: 13, Jalan Tan Hiok Nee, Bandar Johor Bahru, 80000 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia

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Traditional Hainan Wedding Custom

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There are many steps in the traditional Hainan wedding. The steps that include in the traditional Hainan wedding are Betrothal Package, Returning Gift, Dowry, Bed Setting, Hair Setting, Gate Crash, Fetching The Bride and Tea Ceremony and Returning Home.

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Prohibition of choosing partner (Husband/Wife) in life

Before wedding, hainanese lovers must ensure they are different blood relation and in different surname because they thought that if married couple is same blood relation or close to blood relation, and same surname, they will birth unhealthy children and clumsy children. In this era of modern, this custom will not strict to them, if they aren’t race in indifference surname, they will be approval to be married couple.

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Origin Of Hainanese

(Source: http://says.com/my/lifestyle/history-ancestral-origin-spoken-dialect-of-chinese-people-in-malaysia)

The originated of Hainanese is from the Chinese island of Hainan. Early Hainanese migrate to Malaka, Penang, and Singapore. The main job of them are coffee shop owners. In present day, the Hainanese concentrated in Selangor and Melaka.



Persatuan Hainan Johor Bahru is located at No. 38, Jalan Ibrahim, 80000 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.

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Hakka Traditional food

Yam Abacus is Hakka traditional food. The ingredients of yam abacus are yam, tapioca flour, minced meat, mushroom, dry shrimp, black fungus and other. The round shape of the yam abacus symbolizes unity. Therefore, a lot of Hakkanese will eat the yam abacus in Chinese New Year. They hope that they will be more careful in reckoning and earn more money in next year by yam abacus.

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Hakka Traditional Funeral Custom

Compare to the person from other birthplace, the funeral customs of the Hakkas are unique among the Han nationality. They differ from others mainly in three aspects. The three aspects are the addressing of the female on the tombstone, the custom of twice burial and the tomb structure.