We spent the whole month in Chaozhou in February 2021. We will be in Chaozhou every January of the lunar calendar since we got married in 2013. My husband Zhou Shiwu is from Chaozhou, Guangdong Province. He lives and works in Wuyishan with my family all year round. But no matter how busy we are, we must go back to his hometown to celebrate with his family during the Chinese New Year. This is a tradition in the bones of Chaozhou people. I respect it very much. When I have my own child, I I also support this behavior of my husband even more.
(my sister in-law with her unty )
Chaozhou is a very interesting place, where there are very delicious food, traditional customs, strong clan spirit, and of course Kung Fu tea available in every household. It is a place that makes me feel a strong human touch. I am very fortunate and grateful that I have a relationship with this city.
(my husband'shometwon in chaozhou )
Every first month of the year, we will take turns eating at the family's relatives' house in chaozhou. On the 3rd day of the first month of every year,they all ate at my husband’s house. There are no big meals. The meals are ordinary home-cooked dishes. The relatives who are more able to cook are responsible for the cook, and we are responsible for washing the dishes and washing the dishes.
(The third day of the first month ,relatives have dinner at my husband's house)
After the meal, the entire clan gathers in the Zhou clan's ancestral hall. The more prestigious members of the clan will speak and make a statement about the good or bad things that happened in the clan in the past year. Then the older generation will spontaneously sing Chaozhou opera.
We are very busy in February 2021. Since April 2019, my father-in-law has signed a lease contract with the government. We have a 50-year use right for a tea mountain. Then, starting in 2019, he will start to open the mountain and build roads. Finally, in 2020, at the end of the year, we planted the first batch of saplings brought over from Wuyi Mountain, as well as some more popular varieties in Chaozhou. This will be our organic tea base. We don’t know what will happen in the future, but I told you My husband is very happy, just to give this beautiful world a little bit more green.
(zhou shi wu with my father in-law )
(my new garden with wuyi cutlviar in chaozhou )
