What is a toast? What other etiquette should be paid attention to when friends and relatives get together?

In China, a country that pays attention to etiquette since ancient times, drinking is bound to have the custom of drinking. Drinking manners and customs are mainly manifested in pouring wine, toasting, clinking glasses, toasting and persuading wine. When pouring wine, pay attention to filling the glass. The so-called "full of wine and tea" means that it is a courtesy to fill the wine, and you can't just pour half a cup like tea. When the fellow drinkers have elders and younger generations, the wine should be poured by the elders. One kind of toast is to propose a toast to everyone present, and the other is to propose a toast to key people, elders or hosts. The people present here should take turns to propose a toast to them. The third is to toast each other between peers. You propose a toast to me and I propose a toast to you. You can't refuse a toast. Rejection is disrespectful to the other person, but when you can't drink it, you can ask others to help you drink it. When clinking glasses, you should stand up, raise your glass with your right hand, and gently touch your opponent's glass. Too hard, too hard, unsightly. The glasses of the younger generation must be lower than those of the older generation to show respect for the older generation. Toast is to drink the wine in a glass in one breath after clinking it. After drinking, you need to turn the cup upside down to show the other person if it is dry. Drink it all at once, exaggerated, interesting, my friend. However, it should be noted that people who can't drink should not be forced to explain in advance and ask for forgiveness. China has other drinking habits. For example, if you drink less, everyone thinks that drinking is boring. So, let's drink to husband and wife, father and son, brother cheers, and the gathering of relatives and friends. Emotionally speaking, whenever I am happy, I like to drink to celebrate. Of course, some people drown their sorrows. Family members drink together, mostly toasting each other and rarely persuading them to drink. Everyone can drink as much as they want. Relatives and friends drink together, propose a toast first, and then persuade them to drink. The atmosphere is often warm. The custom of persuading wine is ancient and modern, and its purpose is to hope that guests can enjoy themselves and drink enough. This is a sign of China people's hospitality. A formal banquet is different. Most strangers sit together, which is more formal and the atmosphere is often more serious. If there is a festive family dinner, there are frequent toasts and the atmosphere is extremely warm. Different places have different tastes for wine. People in Jiangsu and Zhejiang mainly drink yellow wine, while people in the north drink more white wine. Among them, Beijingers generally like Erguotou with high alcohol content. The wines at different banquets are different, and some only serve white wine, thinking that beer and wine are not strong enough; Some drink white wine before drinking beer; Some serve beer first, then liquor; All kinds of wine are served together, and guests can choose freely. Different places also have different drinking and persuasion customs. For example, in some places in Anhui, there is a person holding a hip flask to toast at the banquet, commonly known as the wine commander. After the guests are seated, the wine director (or host) pours wine for the guests according to the seating order. After pouring the wine, the host raised his glass and invited the guests to drink the first glass of wine. After three rounds of wine and two dishes, the wine commander began a general toast. This is called "full house", and everyone needs a drink or two. Sometimes toasting is the main thing, that is, to find someone who can drink a lot and let him drink more. Sometimes guests are asked to guess each other's fists to enliven the atmosphere of the party. In Lianshan County, Guangdong Province, at the beginning of the banquet, the host first spilled a glass of wine on the ground to show exorcism. The elderly guest dipped his right finger in the wine and drew a circle on the table to congratulate everything on the best. Then the host raised a glass and invited everyone to drink. If you can't drink, you don't have to drink, but you can't buckle your glass, which means that the host has no intention of drinking, and you will be fined three cups. When close friends meet, they want you to drink my wine and I'll drink yours. This is called "making friends wine". Late guests will be fined three cups before eating food. When the wine is drunk at six or seven o'clock, guess the password to help persuade the wine. Before guessing, the number of pieces and the amount of alcohol are agreed, and then a guest guesses, which is called "code introduction". Guess the elder, the elder drinks first, and the hunter drinks later. If you are guessing the younger generation, you can't drink first. After you guess the elder, the elder can drink it after drinking the younger generation. After the code is quoted, everyone here can guess the code at will. In some areas of northwest Hubei, wine is indispensable for hospitality. People here, regardless of sex, age, will persuade people to drink. There is a set of rules to persuade wine, which are divided into pushing wine commander, door cup, toasting, turning cup, urging cup, jumping cup, chasing sparrow, raising hands and not leaving the stage. This set of rules often makes tourists intoxicated. People in Ningxia have the habit of "guests don't lie down, wine tables don't leave". When drinking, the host should persuade the wine many times. If he doesn't drink enough, he often invites a few "massive" people to accompany him. He often guesses boxing all night, and the guests are drunk. Jiaodong people want to drink red wine for the first glass, then white wine, and then a glass of red wine after the banquet. This is called "full house red", which means happiness and good luck. When drinking, I hope the guests drink more. When you respect others, you should drink first. This is called "drinking first is respect". In some places, you have to drink two cups at a time, which is called "Geely Double Cup". In banquets in southwestern Shandong, it is often drunk with a large bowl of wine, and a bowl of wine is drunk in turn, which is called grinding. Drinking wine with fish soup means that you will get drunk, otherwise it will be considered as "looking down on your buddy." As the saying goes, "no wine, no ceremony". Every important event should be accompanied by wine, such as marriage, having children, birthdays, funerals, building houses, learning from teachers, inviting craftsmen to work at home and so on. Like marriage, from meeting to holding a wedding, there are meeting wine and gift wine. Children have three dynasties wine, full moon wine, one year wine and so on. The most frequent drinking in building a house is probably in Jiangxi. In some places, it takes six or seven times from the foundation of the wall to the completion of the move.