Speaking of which, the officialdom official reception and treats and gifts in ancient times has long been there. According to the relevant historical records, in the dynasties, the Wei and Jin set up *** reception office of the highest grade, and the Ming and Qing official reception of the biggest row.

After Qin Shi Huang built county system, the official field appeared to receive the wind farewell banquet. According to the "Book of Han" records: "the late Western Han Dynasty, the political situation has changed repeatedly, the local officials mobilized frequently, the official or the official for several months and retired, to send the old and welcome the new, staggered road."

Wei, Jin, North and South Dynasties, the counties even set up a "send the old book" so that officials responsible for reception. In the Song Dynasty, *** had expressly provided that "where the point of inspection or discussion of official business, out of the countryside to advise farmers, etc., are permitted to public feast", visible, the ancient officialdom is allowed to "public hospitality". However, in accordance with the principle of frugality, most of the successive dynasties have stipulated the reception standards for officials of different levels.

In fact, according to the required standard of good reception, is the protection of official activities, there should be no excuse, the problem is that the ancient officialdom and the same today, not according to the standard of reception, but the competition, more and more to make the scene bigger and bigger, and then caused a lot of complaints. Here are a few ancient official reception in the official reception to make people laugh at the strange things, in order to entertain the majority of netizens.

First, the Ming Dynasty, the Secretary of the Ministry of the Army was ordered to labor, the return trip to the financial gifts stuffed 1000 cars.

From the Ming and Qing official situation, the reception of the style of rows reached its peak. The Ming dynasty governor driving to the time, the government officials, state officials and county officials, all to kneel on both sides of the road to welcome. If bad luck meets windy and rainy weather, even the governor, can not avoid the fate of the "knee sludge". In the Qing Dynasty, if you meet the Minister of the Qin Dynasty through, "dozens of miles away from the horse set up for the long detective, twenty miles within the horse set up for the short detective, no effort to tend to stagger", all want to strive to give the important members of the court to leave a good impression.

Ming Dynasty Jiajing eighteen years, the Ministry of War Secretary Zhai Luang was ordered to the plug to reward the army, the border area ministers and military generals are fully clothed to the outskirts of the welcome, and competing gifts. By the time Zhai minister to complete the mission to return to the time, the receipt of gifts was stuffed with 1000 cars. Officials to the Nanjing Ministry of War, pipe Zhidao recalled: "I do in the countryside when the student, once witnessed a governor to come to inspect the inspector pandering, patting the ass has been patted to the toilet, and even to the extent of ermine to decorate the urinal, satin mattresses spread in the toilet."

Two, Guangxi officials were reprimanded by higher-ups for poor hospitality, and went so far as to commit suicide in shame.

In the spring of the 34th year of the Qing dynasty Qianlong, the Guangxi school government Mei Lipeng to Luchuan County to preside over the examination, Luchuan County, Yang County Governor to undertake the reception work. The governor of Yang County not only took care of the food and accommodation of Mr. Mei and his entourage for nearly a month and all the supplies, but also hired people to buy goods on behalf of him, and spent a lot of extra money on gifts. In spite of this, the needs of Mei Liben and his men were still not satisfied, and continued to make things difficult for many times, and several times caned the Yang prefects to send in the school government side of Wang Sheng, Chen Zhong and others to wait for the errand.

Forced by the situation, Yang went to plead for mercy, Mei LiBen and face to face to intimidate him, said: "I and you although you are the same year, but you do not do things right, I still want to impeach you!" Governor Yang was so scared that he unconsciously actually knelt down on both knees and said, "I have just arrived in office, and I am not familiar with a lot of situations, so I beg you to teach me more." Mei Xuezheng said, "If you don't understand, go and ask the officials of the neighboring counties." Said turned into the back hall, no longer pay attention to Governor Yang.

Yang governor and Mei Xuezheng was originally the same list of birth, only because of the bad luck, the status of the gap, it was repeatedly humiliated, so that the shame of embarrassment, even in the boots pulled out a knife, in the sedan chair to kill themselves.

Three, the official reception of gifts in a variety of names, the leadership of the most important lower level to send "red envelope ".

Ancient official reception: taken from the people, used in the official. In China throughout the ages, official reception is the local officials are forever pain in the heart. Magistrates do not run businesses do not speculate in stocks, yamen public accounts have no official reception of the budget, where so much money expenses apportionment? To tell the truth, it is nothing more than to the people to increase taxes, for "self-financing" or extra-budgetary funds. To put it bluntly, it is "taken from the people, used in the government".

Twenty-three years of the Ming Dynasty Wanli, just when the Wu County magistrate only a few months of Yuan Hongdao wrote to a friend, said: Now I already know that life as a mandarin is very bitter, as the magistrate is particularly bitter, as Wu County magistrate is even more than ten thousand times more bitter than the oxen and horses are still worse than! Why? Because "the officials such as clouds, guests such as rain", come and go to the county magistrate morning and evening reception.

So, the ancient official reception, the superiors of the most important is what? The answer is "cash red envelope". And this "red packet" generally has three names: one is "Cheng Yi", that is, the carriage fee; two is "folding seat", that is, the banquet fee; three is "follow the

Fourth, Su Shi often called "Miss" to cope with the official reception, in order to recuperate their spirit.

According to "Pingzhou can talk about" records: Hangzhou city is extremely prosperous, so the Northern Song central sent to the road of the superintendent, most of the offices set up in the city, the one went to the one and then came to Hangzhou *** have to specialize in arranging for a member of the deputy to accompany them to eat, drink and play. Su Shi when he served as Hangzhou, played this role, because of the wine, tired to cope with, complained that Hangzhou, this errand is "wine and food hell".

From this, we can see that the grassroots officials to deal with the official reception, tired of running is very painful. In order to alleviate this pain, the officials have come up with a variety of strange tricks. Or this Su Shi, it is said that when he served as a magistrate, once the official reception of the banquet, we have to call the "Miss" to let the leaders of the feast attention are diverted to the "women's Kabuki sound day after day", they take the opportunity to recuperate spirit.

Fifth, the governor himself wrote a book, and advised that he must pay good attention to the people around the boss.

The basic principle of power distribution within the officialdom is always that the superior masters of the subordinate monitoring and assessment, so obedient and even meet the superior, into the subordinate's duties. Then again, regardless of the lower levels, often the ability to do a good job of official hospitality as a very important measure of adherence to this. To this end, the Qing dynasty scholar Wang Huizu, who has been a county official, also wrote a how to be a good governor of the "governor's textbook", called "Learning to rule the continuation of the said.

Wang Huizu in the "learning to continue to say", many times on the importance of reception of the boss, especially those around the boss, must be entertained. And cite an example: in the past, we have a good governor of Zhejiang, the provincial leadership of his impression has always been very good. Once the provincial leadership traveled to inspect, through his county, the governor failed to meet the needs of the people around the leadership, those people will make bad, secretly, he received the leadership of a supply of all withdrawn, the leadership also when the governor deliberately slow, angry, and later on an excuse will be impeached and removed from office.

Sixth, the official reception of food and drink standard: bird's nest barbecue, shark fins and sea cucumbers.

The most interesting thing is that, because the court has repeatedly emphasized the need to remove the subordinates to the boss to send the bad rules of carriage fees, so to the later Qinzai are reluctant to collect the money on the spot, to be changed to wait for them to return to the capital, and then through the money bank remittance of the money to the Lord's home. Banquet entertainment and what, Zhang Jixin also recorded, "each time all the theater two classes, five tables on the table, fourteen tables in the table. The first seat will be bird's nest barbecue, the middle seat also shark fins and sea cucumbers.

At that time, regardless of winter and summer, the theater banquet always get to one o'clock in the middle of the night before dispersing, "the group master", that is, the invitation to accompany the joy of the local government officials and gentlemen to send the guests one by one, on the car, "and then one by one, greeted to send". When the guests are back to stay in the pavilion, but also "with people holding the group master name card, to the guest public hall Road lack of", that is, your hard work, please rest early, good night means. "Each banquet, even the price of the theater, ready to reward, banquet miscellaneous expenses, totaling more than two hundred gold.