What do you think of the so-called wine table culture?

What do you think of the so-called wine table culture? On the surface, this question is about things related to wine, but in fact it contains content about Chinese humanities and etiquette. There is a lot of knowledge in the wine table culture.

Let’s take a look first. Wine culture is a special cultural form and has its unique status in traditional Chinese culture. In the history of civilization for thousands of years, wine has penetrated into almost every field of social life. As a special commodity, wine adds rich colors to people's lives. There is a Chinese proverb: It is difficult to have a banquet without wine, and it is impossible to be polite without wine. This means that if a banquet is not served with wine, it cannot be a banquet; without wine, communication between people cannot be treated politely. It can be seen that there are so many things to pay attention to in wine table culture.

The wine table culture pays attention to the composition of the personnel. When relatives sit together, the etiquette of toasting is very clear: respect the elders, peers, and finally drink with the juniors. When friends get together, they have similar interests, there are topics to talk about, and there is also a certain way to drink. At class reunions, the knowledge of the wine table culture is deepened. In addition to describing the friendship between classmates, it is also included in various aspects of society, life experience, career and family, etc. There must be no disagreement with each other at the wine table, and we must pay attention to mutual respect. Be tolerant of each other and avoid being competitive, which will ruin your harmony and the friendship between your classmates. Even when grandparents and grandchildren sit together for a banquet, the culture of the banquet must also be exquisite. Great-grandfathers, grandfathers, fathers, sons, and grandchildren must not mess up. They must respect the elders, care for the younger ones, and respect each other. , act within your ability and drink in moderation. Cherish your body and cherish your life.

China’s wine table culture has a long history, has been passed down from generation to generation, and continues to flourish. You can see restaurants, hotels, nightclubs, karaoke bars, Juyilou, etc. everywhere when you walk on the street. When it's time for dinner, there are a sea of ??people in front of the hotel, full of guests and friends.

It is said that wine is the essence of grains, which makes people feel relaxed after drinking it regularly. Two or three taels a day, walking like the wind. I meet a friend after a long absence, so I invite you to the hotel. The meals are served together, and the cups increase friendship. Reunion of relatives and friends after a long absence, business expansion, greeting bosses, celebrating new years, catching up with each other, etc. They are all inseparable from the wine table culture. You have to respond wisely to various occasions and types of people you entertain. If you don't respond well, it will be counterproductive. Even if you drink a lot of wine, the final effect will not be good. It also loses the meaning of holding a banquet. Therefore, China’s wine table culture is extensive, profound and has a long history. We should study and study carefully.

Based on the above, we must pay special attention to the research, study and development of China’s wine table culture. Use your wise mind to handle banquets and receptions on various occasions. Make guests, customers, friends and relatives happy and satisfied, friendship deepened and unbreakable, farewell often missed, and love as deep as the sea.

Wine table culture and wine culture are one word different, but their meanings are vastly different.

In China, almost every place has its own drinking table culture - drinking rules. These so-called wine table cultures all have the same purpose, which is to make you drink more, drink more, get drunk, and fall down. So I think this kind of wine table culture is not worth promoting.

I have a good friend who almost died because of this wine table culture when he went to his father-in-law’s house to see the newlyweds in the first year. What's going on? This brother got married a year ago, and it can be said that he married a wife again and celebrated the New Year. Good things come together. The newlyweds were busy and prepared for the New Year. During the New Year, he was tired and caught a cold. Early the next morning, he and his wife drove to the father-in-law's house to pay New Year greetings. His father-in-law There are 6 brothers, and this brother is the youngest son-in-law. He can be called a spoiled guest.

Mother-in-law and several aunts and aunts have been busy all morning, preparing three tables full of dishes, not counting the father-in-law and brothers. They were worried that they would not be able to accompany the new guests, so they also ordered some young people from the neighbors who could drink. Come and keep me company. At the beginning of the banquet, this brother wanted to drink less because he had a cold and could not drink. However, everyone persuaded him and he drank as soon as he entered the banquet.

His father-in-law’s rule is that when new guests come, they must toast to their elders, and the younger guests must toast to the new guests, and to show their appreciation, they use wine glasses to toast the elders (the elders cannot drink too much when they are old), and the younger guests must toast to the older guests. To toast new guests, you need to use a teacup. A teacup can hold half a catty of wine. Of course, it won't be full, but a cup can only hold two taels. His wife's family has many cousins ??and many children, so there are more juniors. The circle has not yet come down. The brothers complained that they couldn't drink any more, so five or six juniors brought the wine, which together weighed a pound.

But this was the first time that the juniors were toasting him, and they had to continue no matter what, so his wife said he would pour less wine while getting him a big teacup, taking a small sip of the wine he received and pouring the rest into the cup. Drink slowly.

Thanks to this big tea cup, he was able to drink less for the time being. Even when the juniors toasted him, he drank half a catty. His father-in-law also had a rule here, that is, when a new guest comes for the first time, The elders have to add wine to the new guests, that is, each elder pours some wine at will, which means that the couple will last forever, and this wine must be drunk. Several elders poured almost half a catty of wine, so the two groups poured almost a catty of wine and placed it in front of the brothers.

At this time, he had almost drank enough, usually only half a catty. I was also very excited and happy that day. While joking and joking, I drank another half a kilo of wine that my elders added. By this point, I would basically be drunk but there would be no problems. The key is that the juniors who called him uncle, when they saw that their brother drank all the wine that the elders added, they immediately started to make noises and asked his uncle to drink the wine they offered. His wife was too embarrassed to protect her husband at home, so she didn't stop the juniors from interfering. She just said that he had drunk too much, and there was really nothing he could do. He could only continue to drink, and he could no longer sit still while holding on to the table. , the hand holding the wine glass was shaking, and then the mother-in-law came out. It was the mother-in-law who loved her son-in-law, and of course she loved her daughter first. Seeing that her daughter was too embarrassed to stop her, and her son-in-law couldn't resist, she came to the rescue from the kitchen and took the son-in-law's wine glass and drank for him.

His wife drove him home. He slept until night and still didn’t wake up. His family rushed him to the hospital. The doctor said he had alcohol poisoning. Fortunately, he was sent to the hospital. If he had slept at home all night What will happen is uncertain. In severe cases, if vomit blocks the airway, it is easy to suffocate and die in a drunken coma. In this way, this guy slowly recovered after being infused with fluids for three days in the hospital. This was thanks to his mother-in-law holding back half a cup of wine, otherwise he would not have recovered so quickly.

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For ordinary people like me, the chances of being invited to dinner are very rare. Once I get invited, I have to go, otherwise it will be disharmonious. Once you go there, you must not drink wine, otherwise it will be painful. But it seems unreasonable that the whole world is drunk and I am sober alone, and even more interested people want to get to the bottom of it...

There are three famous people on the wine table that you cannot let go of, the so-called "those who take pills, those who wear pills" The ones with glasses and the ones with pigtails." These people seem to be drunk, but his practice proves that "people cannot be judged by their appearance, and sea water cannot be measured", and they generally have a capacity for alcohol. At the wine table, there are people who like to drink but never let themselves get drunk, and there are also people who are drunk but don't make trouble for nothing. These are both better. As for those people who use alcohol to embolden themselves and make trouble over nothing, I honestly have a bad feeling about them. But I don’t know whether these people are really unspeakable and worthy of sympathy, or whether they are simply trying to make excuses to cause trouble, which is despicable. In short, the culture at the wine table is very rich, both in terms of language and social use, it is important to use it appropriately!

The culture of the wine table actually begins before drinking and eating

Who drinks with whom

It is the person who decides whether the banquet can bring out culture

< p> When talking and laughing, there are great scholars

When there are no idle people

In fact, the ancients have long concluded that

It is the same between eating and drinking and talking and laughing.

Who to drink with

Who to talk to and laugh with

In fact, when I wrote the invitation letter

I was already inseparable

There are indeed rich cultural phenomena on the wine table.

There is a whole set of rules at the wine table, from seating arrangements, to various etiquettes, to the order of toasting, and the methods of toasting. They are all filled with seemingly random rules, but in fact they contain very important rules.

For example, in official circles, sometimes the person with the highest position sits on the chair, and the others are arranged in order of their positions; sometimes the person with the most seniority sits on the chair, and the others are arranged in order. There are also rules for toasting. For example, some people have to toast to the chairperson first, but sometimes if the chairperson has his wife, he should toast to the chairperson’s wife first - this is called ladies first; sometimes the oldest person in the chair should be toasted first. , and then discuss the position; sometimes the host will be humble and let the guests from afar be toasted first, etc.

For example, in shopping malls, it is basically the same as in officialdom. Seats are arranged according to the importance of status and importance, and toasts are given first.

Folks are different. They generally arrange seats according to age, seniority, host and guest. This means: sometimes according to age, the older person takes the main seat; sometimes according to seniority, the person with higher seniority takes the main seat; sometimes according to host and guest, usually the guest takes the main seat. But there is also a saying that the guest does not overwhelm the host, so this custom is for the host to take the host seat.

When asking for something to do, ask the guest to let the person being invited sit at the head of the table while you accompany him.

On the wine table, customs vary from place to place. For example, in some places, the second seater has to toast to the leader first, but in other places, the leader stands up first to toast everyone, and then everyone in turn toasts to the leader one by one.

At the wine table, whoever organizes the wine usually pays the bill. But there are also special cases where the organizer may not necessarily foot the bill, or may secretly entrust someone to do the work, or the organizer's junior, or the organizer's subordinate.

If there are two factions at the same table, two hosts will be arranged side by side; when toasting, the toast is usually given to the other host first.

If a subordinate, junior, or person sitting down drinks on behalf of a leader or elder, he or she must drink up. The other person’s superior or elder does not need to drink up. Similarly, subordinates, juniors, or people sitting down are leaders or elders. The person making the toast has to drink it all, but the other person doesn’t have to drink it all.

Generally speaking, both parties must drink up the wine. If the other party is a leader or elder, you don’t have to drink it all.

Haha! Let’s summarize these!

The wine table culture is also broad and profound, and there is no end to learning!

More vulgar and less elegant!

The wine table culture is unique to China. When it comes to wine table culture, we must talk about Chinese catering culture and etiquette, because wine table culture develops from catering culture and is a part of catering culture. Without catering culture, wine culture cannot be elegant.

China’s dining etiquette has a long history. According to documentary records, at least in the Zhou Dynasty, food culture has formed a fairly complete system. It was especially praised and praised by Confucius and became an important aspect of expressing the style of a great country, a state of etiquette, and a civilized place in all dynasties.

The banquet etiquette in ancient times was relatively complicated, and there was a very particular set of procedures: the host folded invitation cards and welcomed the guests at the door temporarily. When the guests arrive, greet each other, sit in the living room, and serve refreshments. After all the guests have arrived, the guests are seated, with the left at the top as the chief. There are two seats relative to the first seat, three seats below the first seat, and four seats below the second seat. When the guests sit down, the host proposes a toast and the dishes are served, and the guests thank each other with courtesy. During the banquet, when pouring wine and serving food, the elders and guests of honor should be honored first, and the host last. After the banquet is over, the guests are led into the living room to sit and have tea until they say goodbye. This traditional banquet etiquette is still intact in some places, such as Shandong, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

When it comes to wine table culture, everyone has personal experience. "Wine culture" is also an ancient yet fresh topic. Most of modern people's communication is completed at the wine table. Without wine, it is difficult to have a successful conversation. This shows the efficacy and role of wine.

As a medium of communication, wine plays a unique role in welcoming guests and seeing off guests, gathering friends, communicating with each other, and conveying friendship. Even family reunions cannot be separated from wine. The wine table culture has indeed become a deeply ingrained dining culture among Chinese people.

But everything must be done in a certain degree. Everyone knows this simple truth. Especially at the wine table, you should stay sober. Excessive drinking will not only not help matters, but will also cause harm. Backfired. Personally, I think that no matter what the drinking occasion is, whether there are many people or not, and what mood you are in, you should stop drinking in moderation, don’t drink excessively, let alone treat alcoholism as drinking, and don’t endlessly persuade each other to drink. Welcoming and sending off, getting together with friends, class reunions, social interactions, family reunions, etc. are all inevitable without drinking. "No party is complete without wine". Although this is an old saying, in real life, it is indeed necessary to do this. However, it is very important to grasp the "degree" at the wine table. Often, failure to grasp this "degree" causes a lot of trouble and even costs one's life.

In the final analysis, the wine table culture is still the wine culture in the catering culture. Toasting is originally an important etiquette in catering culture. It is an important etiquette procedure and a gentle and mutual etiquette.

Originally, in the interaction between subordinates and superiors, toasting was not mandatory, but in the return of toasts from superiors to inferiors, it was often extremely mandatory, and a culture of persuading people to drink was derived. When the culture of persuading people to drink became popular, the culture of drinking became somewhat out of shape.

Generally speaking, the wine table culture has a positive side, but it also has a negative side. For example, excessive toasting and persuasion are a bad habit on the wine table, which makes the social atmosphere a mess. ; Being proud of being able to drink in large quantities not only harms the body, hurts feelings, but also wastes resources; it brings about a bad atmosphere, flattering and flattering the leader Ayi at the wine table, which encourages the rise of evil spirits and corrupts the social atmosphere. , making people more snobbish and hypocritical. Sometimes the wine table is also mixed with a lot of fake, evil and ugly things, etc.

Therefore, China’s wine table culture is neither glorious nor bad. The key lies in people and whether you can grasp the degree. Everything has a limit, everything must be reversed when it is extreme, and when the moon is full, it will be weak. If it exceeds that limit, it is a mistake!

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A hotbed of corruption, a place of communication, a dark zone, a holy place for gathering friends, a territory for transactions, and a stage for diplomacy.

I divide the wine table into three categories: official ties, kinship ties, and love ties. The official relationship is high-end, the family relationship is affordable, and the love relationship is hypocritical!