Our "wine bowl"

In the past, the "wine bowl" was generally held in the second half of the year, with the most in winter and1February. First, people who go out to work have gone home; Secondly, winter and1February are also relatively leisure; Third, it is better to store food in winter. Because of the epidemic, there are banquets all year round.

Our wine bowls (banquets) generally refer to: marriage, housewarming, full moon and funeral. In recent years, it has been extended to school banquets and soldier banquets. Generally, guests are not invited to the funeral. The host will inform the main relatives and friends, and others will go if they want.

Most host families don't accept gifts, but only send flowers to those who see them off. In order to protect the environment, flowers have been wrapped in packages in recent years. If the old man dies of natural causes, the funeral will be a "happy funeral". Not many people cry. Taoist priests are invited to do Dojo, and fireworks will be set off at night. Everyone happily sent the old man the last journey.

I went to eat a housewarming wine yesterday. Master Zhang Dage usually lives in the city, and now he has returned to his hometown (Xiangbatou) to build a villa. There is a small garden in front of and behind the house, with high-grade decoration, at least several million.

Today, the son of a friend who works in a forest farm is getting married. I heard that the plan is 300 seats. There was a "flower banquet" the night before the official date, and now there are more people holding a flower banquet than sitting at noon the next day. Dinner is often not busy and there is no need to rush to work, so it is more relaxed and casual.

It is not easy for us to catch up with the ceremony here. A few years ago, I kept accounts for one year and ate 40 thousand wine bowls. If the host invites you to dinner, it's basically a general relationship of 300, Wu Bai in general, 6,800 cooked, 12,000 especially good, and 50,000 siblings. Taboo numbers four and seven.

If you owe someone a gift, if you return their banquet, you should add the gift to the original one. There are many banquets, miserable, headaches, and some borrow money to catch up with the ceremony. Local customs are like this, and you can't change them.

Now many rural people have bought houses in the city, and some have held banquets in the countryside, but it usually takes a few days in the countryside. Invite everyone from the production team to help, kill pigs, chickens, boil water, cook, cook ... every post of "consultant" is assigned to the head, and it is busy without chaos.

The host of the wedding banquet will invite the wedding company to set up a stage with a price of several thousand to several tens of thousands, and perform various song and dance programs for the guests, and the host will push the atmosphere to a climax.

For convenience, many people now choose to hold banquets in restaurants and hotels. Save the trouble of catering in rural areas, and arrange cashier to collect bride price money at the door. Some people keep accounts and some people count money. After paying the bill, the host will give you a box of beautifully packaged wedding candy, and most of them will put a pack of cigarettes besides all kinds of candy.

Generally, there are about 20 dishes in our wine bowl: cold chicken, braised beef, elbow, egg buns, big crisp, small crisp, steamed pork ribs with powder, steamed fish ... chicken, duck and fish, all of which are cold, steamed, braised, stewed and fried, with various styles. Big fish and big meat waste a lot.

The wine bowls in hotels and restaurants are often not as delicious as those in the countryside, but the environment and furnishings are better than those in the countryside.

In order to be lively and festive, the countryside will "spoof" programs, such as letting the groom wear stockings or underwear, and the father-in-law will pick up his daughter-in-law in a chicken car. Now the local government has made it clear that it will cancel vulgar content.

I have three wedding banquets next month. Eat, eat, for the ceremony and money!