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Book a party for a friend. How to order? What are the rules?

Before dinner, the host serves a bowl of vermicelli or dried noodles with eggs, chunks of meat or fried tofu. If you just watch and don't eat, the owner is not happy. However, if the guest is not a son-in-law, nephew and other close relatives, it is impolite to eat all the bowls. Usually try one and leave three to show that the host is sincere and the guests are not full. Invite guests to the party. The dining table is against the wall, facing the door, and is the guest of honor. First of all, please invite the guest of honor to the guest table, and then choose the appropriate position according to your own identity. After the guests are seated, please order first, and the rest of the guests will be allowed in turn. Guests are often embarrassed to order expensive dishes. After the guests order, it depends on the host's arrangement. Ordering should not only highlight local and local characteristics, but also take care of the tastes and preferences of guests and guests. All this can be expressed when cooking: "You must like this dish, please use it more!" The guests got the message and were very happy. During festivals, toasts are usually made with wine. A healthy and beneficial toast is to express good wishes. When clinking glasses, clink glasses with the host and guests first, and then clink glasses one by one. Although we don't have to touch each other in the future, we still have to raise our glasses. Let the food, it should be the guest of honor first, and then respect in turn. Don't chew the food in your mouth when you are talking, wait until your mouth is empty. The host and guest can't just say two people, but try to take care of them comprehensively. Eat gently, slowly and don't make any noise. Offering rewards to accompany guests to dinner, the host first toasts the guests, which is called "offering", and the guests need to pay back to the host after drinking, which is called "reporting"; In order to persuade guests to drink more, the host must drink first to show his encouragement. This is called "reward". Today's banquet is still drunk before the guests. In order to persuade wine, they often drink with customers, but they take drinking first as the guide, say "do it first for respect", persuade wine with songs, hold a banquet in the old rich Han family, invite artists to wait on them and help them get drunk. The host will politely advise Miao, Yi, Dong and other ethnic minorities to drink. If the guests don't drink or drink badly, the host will be unhappy. At first, the drinker's wager game was a kind of official, who was elected to supervise the rewards and punishments, and to prevent the wine disaster during the banquet. Later drinking orders also refer to the win-lose game when drinking, and the loser will be fined. For example, couplets are poems read by wine officials first, requiring diners to read the next sentence quickly with the homonym at the end of the poem at a specified time, and so on. Those who fail to catch it will be punished. There are a lot of rendering atmosphere, adding elegant functions. Children don't come to dinner, and parents (and most of them are men) accompany them. Children, especially daughters-in-law, are not allowed to eat. Otherwise, it is impolite. Guests eat after eating. Guests who don't drink after meals must drink before meals and must be accompanied by their host. If the host doesn't drink, he can't serve dinner in front of the guests, otherwise it is impolite to leave. If guests have just eaten, they should not be advised to drink. According to homophonic, drinking after meals is "guilty for a long time" and taboo. When the guests come to visit, the host should go out and say goodbye sincerely to show respect. After the first day of the Spring Festival, please invite relatives and neighbors to drink with each other until the fifteenth day, commonly known as Chinese New Year wine. Please treat me at this time, because it is the beginning of the year, which is a great respect for each other. During the Spring Festival, it is the off-season, and there are many dishes. At this time, the wine is richer than usual. Welcome guests, also known as "welcome guests", hold a banquet to entertain guests from afar. Farewell is also called "farewell", which generally refers to seeing off with wine and food. When relatives and friends go out, they must hold a banquet to see them off. Fold the willow and bid farewell to the ancient road. Fold willow branches and give them to relatives and friends who travel far away. Send Yuanbao to distant relatives and friends, and send 80 boiled eggs to relatives and neighbors, named "Yuanbao", which means bon voyage. Eight means "fat", and ten is an integer, which means perfection. Hospitality custom of Mongolian people with butter. When a distinguished guest comes or holds a banquet on a major festival, the host will send a bottle of wine first, instead of giving a cup first. Butter sticks to the bottle mouth. First, the seated guest or elder wipes his forehead with a little butter dipped in his right index finger, and then wipes it by hand in order of age. Only after that can the host pour wine for the guests with a cup. Squeezing vegetables and rice is very popular among Hui people. When entertaining guests for dinner, the host must press rice and vegetables for the guests. Even if the guests say they are full, they should add a little to show their respect. It is disrespectful to the guests not to eat. Use your right hand when serving food to guests. Guests should touch each other with their hands, otherwise it will be considered impolite. Divide the customs and habits of Miao nationality with chicken heart. In the old days, Miao people in Lingnan area regarded chickens and ducks as top-grade hospitality, and regarded chicken hearts and duck hearts as the most valuable parts. When giving a banquet, the host wants the most prestigious person at the dinner table to give the chicken heart (or duck heart) to the guests, but the guests can't eat it alone, and they need to eat it with the elders at the same table. Many ethnic minorities, such as Yi people, have hospitable customs. The habit of holding live animals in front of guests and showing them before slaughter and cooking. It aims to show that the cooked food is not dead, borrowed or stolen, so as to show respect for the guests. Etiquette and custom of yi people's hospitality. When the guests arrive, they will respect their relatives and friends and slaughter cows, sheep, pigs and chickens to entertain them. All the slaughtered animals will be cooked and all the heart and lung offal will be placed in front of the guests, calling it a "full banquet" to show sincere hospitality. It is the custom of Manchu to treat guests with double respect. When guests arrive, they must stay for dinner and enjoy more wine and food. Respect even numbers when serving. Camellia oleifera hospitality is the hospitality custom of the Dong people. Camellia oleifera is made of glutinous rice, tea and corn. Boil it with oil. Hakka people make tea. Chopsticks are perfect, Tujia customs. It is customary to eat the wine in the cup and the dishes in the bowl. If the host adds too much and the guests don't eat, cross the chopsticks on the bowl to show "I can't eat any more" to show respect for the host. Chewing betel nut is very popular among Dai and Li nationalities. Betel nut has the function of promoting digestion and strengthening stomach. The host invited the guest eat areca to show his respect for the guests at home. If the guests from afar are not used to it, they should explain it so as to ask the host for forgiveness, otherwise it will be considered impolite. Shuijiu respects the hospitality of Wa people, and Wa people drink more Shuijiu made of millet, wheat, millet and sweet potato. When drinking, insert the bamboo tube into the jar and gently inhale it into the population. When making a toast to a guest, the host will take a sip first to dispel all kinds of concerns of the guest, and then pour a glass for the guest himself. Guests should be careful when drinking, or the host will think that you look down on him and are unhappy. Stand with Dongxiang people to entertain guests. Dongxiang people are very hospitable, and guests and hosts will be very attentive to accompany them. When having a meal, the male guest is entertained by the male host, but he only stands aside to serve and does not sit or eat himself. The female guest is served by the hostess, but she can sit with the guests for dinner.