In the past (including the old China before the reform and opening up), it was quite appropriate for people to invite them to dinner.

Those who invite people to the banquet must send invitations to others. The invitations should state the names of the guests, the reasons for inviting them to the banquet, and the time and place for inviting them to the banquet. Finally, write the word "welcome" to show respect for the inviter.

After receiving the invitation (delivered personally by the host family), people attending the party should prepare not only gifts, but also all kinds of clothes.

Banquet, banquet is the most exquisite location, guests, guests should be divided into primary and secondary, each with its own location, if it is chaotic, it will make a big joke.

After arriving, the host should propose a toast in turn and serve chopsticks after two rounds of drinking. At this time, under the concession of the host and the escort, they will eat food with chopsticks. The banquet is very regular, and the host and guests are very polite.

If you start serving hot dishes on the water mat, you should remove most of the cold dishes, then serve a hot dish and remove a hot dish you have eaten before, so that there are few dishes on the table, and the host and guest just enjoy it, and no one wants to pack it, because that is a very embarrassing thing. Nobody wants to make a fool of himself on that occasion.

There are no rules now, and many banquets have witnessed a spectacular battle for food, and the food was taken away before it was eaten. People nowadays have no sense of shame.

In the past, the leftovers of the host family were all stacked together and given to the neighbors.

One is interesting. Plastic bags began to be used in China in 1960s, but they were only packaged with some commodities. It was only after the 1990s that it was really widely used in rural areas.

Second, it is inaccurate. Before the 1990s, there was a saying that rural red, white and happy dishes were not plentiful and packed, even if leftovers were left, they were distributed to relatives and friends by the host family. At that time, they were all delivered in enamel pots.

The correct statement should be, red events are white events, red events are happy events, and white events are funerals, not weddings!

Let's talk about red things, just before, not to mention plastic bags. Even if there were no plastic bags, there was no need for plastic bags to make red things in rural areas, because in the past, there was no endless food in rural areas, and all the food would be swept away. In the past, life in rural areas was very difficult. In the countryside of our hometown in Northeast China, there are two standards for holding wedding banquets, one is six.

At that time, the bowl was not a big bowl commonly used in rural areas, but a middle bowl commonly used in rural areas. At that time, the plates were shallow, so there were not many dishes in the bowls and plates. At that time, the dishes at the banquet were basically meatless. A table is occupied by 10 people. When a bowl or dish is served, everyone's chopstick head will be emptied, and some people will even wait for chopsticks, bowls or plates. That is to say, after these twelve dishes or sixteen dishes are served, all the bowls or plates have been eaten, not even full. Where is the endless food?

What's more, there was a "hug". The so-called hug means that after a bowl or dish is served, everyone picks up the remaining dishes in the bowl or dish and puts them into their rice bowls with a bang. Such a bad hug behavior can also affect other people's emotions. Since you can hug, others will follow. It is also because the countryside is too poor and poor.

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Before the invention of plastic bags, almost all weddings and funerals in rural areas were completed. Even if it is not finished, there is not much left. Most of them are brought back by the main family, some of them are kept for themselves to eat slowly, and some are put in pots for relatives and neighbors to eat.

In our place, before the 1970s, there were not only plastic bags, but even extra glass bottles, and only a very limited number of foreign porcelain jars.

In the past, weddings and funerals in rural areas were mostly four dishes with cold dishes and eight bowls of rice. Four cold dishes are produced by farmers, and eight bowls of rice are noodles with tofu, pork, meatballs and chicken, with radish and cabbage as the bottom, two bowls and eight bowls each. In addition, put a bowl of popular dishes such as bean sprouts in the middle.

Four cold dishes to drink. Host, guests take turns toasting, while guests eat and drink.

Eight bowls of rice were served at the same time, and the toast was over. Chopsticks can be moved on the table, so can others. Other people's chopsticks are caught in the same bowl. After eating one bowl, they will move to another bowl, and even the soup in the bowl will be drunk in turn.

After eating eight bowls of rice, everyone makes a bowl of steamed buns (commonly known as steamed buns) or rolls (rolls are only available after drinking full moon wine) before leaving.

This is the banquet we held here before. At that time, everyone's life was more difficult, and all the tables were clean and there was no packaging.

Now that we are rich in material things, we can't finish a table with half of the banquet left. Although there are plastic bags, people have no habit of packing them. Too bad it's all wasted.

This is an interesting question. When there were no plastic bags before, when there were weddings and funerals in rural areas, what bags were used to hold inedible food? At that time, materials were not rich and living standards were low. At weddings, funerals and weddings, the host family always asks the chef in the team or nearby to open a menu, and usually counts it several times when buying it. Most vegetables are self-sufficient. At weddings and funerals, some tables can't serve guests, so there are usually few leftovers on the tables. Even if there are leftovers, it is usually the host's house.

Before the invention of plastic packaging, environmental protection materials were used in rural areas and cities. These materials are: paulownia leaves, lotus leaves, hemp paper, black cotton paper, white cotton paper and so on. Lotus leaf is the most commonly used one, and lotus leaf is used to cushion the bottom of the cage for family steamed buns. Snack bars and pot-stewed food shops all use dried lotus leaves to wrap food, while dry goods shops and tea shops use hemp paper, which is often called kraft paper. Black and white cotton paper is mostly used by Chinese medicine shops to wrap medicine. There are more paulownia leaves without lotus leaves in rural areas!

I still clearly remember that in the 1970s, my aunt's son got married, and my father arranged for the three of us to go to her house fifteen miles away to give gifts. At that time, the gift money was very small, only two or three dollars. At noon on the wedding day, there was a small table with six adults and children, and eight hot dishes were placed on it. On that day, the first bowl was one. In the middle of the night, I was very hungry, but my second aunt only had cold bean sprouts. I feel sad when I think about it today!

As for the packaging at that time, it was impossible. Even if an old lady wants to give her family a bite, she must donate it herself, not to mention a plastic bag. Besides, I hadn't seen plastic bags at that time!

Before the 1990s, people lacked non-staple food. In rural areas, the adult table is better for weddings and funerals, with more or less reservations. As long as there is a table for parents, the food on the table is basically seconds.

In rural areas, tables are borrowed from house to house, and there are eight people at each table, otherwise no food will be served. Before the food was served, they were all holding spoons and chopsticks in their hands, as if they were going to the battlefield to kill the enemy. Sometimes the pallet porter will tear a chicken leg and put it in his mouth on the way!

As soon as the food was served, everyone rushed to eat it, without any courtesy or humility. When I was a child, I was thin-skinned and never robbed others. When I met the roast chicken and braised pork on the table, there was no more in my mouth, and even the bones were gone. My neighbor also satirized me and said that I was stupid at school and couldn't even eat!

However, if the host family is more particular, it is not bad money, and the amount of food served on the table is greater. Adult men mainly drink alcohol, and some dishes will be left. There are also plans for 50 tables. Due to the heavy rain, the prepared food was not used up, so it was left.

There are old people at home, so it is inconvenient to move. The host family will also take the initiative to let the guests pack the remaining braised pork in the kitchen. At that time, bowls filled with soup and oil were mainly used, and those without oil and water were wrapped in newspapers or kraft paper to take away.

At that time, people's hearts were pure, and they only attended weddings to have a good meal, improve their lives and relieve hunger. There is basically no packing, and there is no habit of packing.

When guests leave the table, they will sort the leftovers on the table and put them in a bucket. When things are done, the host will distribute the leftovers to relatives and neighbors with pots or bowls according to the distance of his family.

Although there is no hard dish left on the table, the taste of that dish is still special, and everyone still eats well. According to the relationship, if the leftovers are not sent, the neighbors will be angry and think they look down on people! Leftovers will compliment the host family, such as "You spent a lot of money this time. You see, the guests all say that your food is delicious and the quantity is still large. The guests haven't finished eating the table yet! Look at the previous paragraph, who is doing things, there is nothing left on the table, and the guests are not full! " At this time, the host will be modest. "This time we spent a lot of money and no relatives planned it. As a result, we came to several tables and went to the market to buy food overnight. Hey, it's also very lively! Everyone is happy! "

In short, at that time, materials were scarce and most rural areas were still in poverty. Usually, they have no oil and water in their stomachs, and there is nothing left at weddings and funerals. In addition, rural people are very simple, even if there is surplus after the banquet, there is no concept of active packaging.

The first time I saw plastic, what impressed me the most was the bag of carbon ammonia fertilizer produced in the county town, which was black and green. Generally, plastic mesh bag is the most commonly used one. Usually, we take steamed bread to school. At every meal, people put the steamed bread in the kitchen with a net bag, steam it on the fire, and then take it back to eat.

Occasionally, I will see someone swaggering through the city with plastic bags and showing off a smug model.

I often work in other places. It's hard to say when plastic bags appeared in my hometown and countryside, but more than 10 years ago, I attended the wedding banquet of the son of a contractor neighbor. After the meeting, the boss's neighbor took out a dozen food bags and distributed them on the table. There are really a lot of big fish and meat left on each table. "You can take away the remaining plates on the table, otherwise, you will throw them away later. It would be a pity to throw them away! "

This incident made my eyes shine. I think this neighbor has done a good job and is a caring person. Even the leftovers are packed in food bags, which is really humanized and economical.

Since 2000, food bags have been widely used, and it seems impossible to live without them. Since the boss took care of things, the host family prepared food bags for other weddings and funerals in the village. After all, everyone's life is good, the level of banquet is still improving each other in quantity and quality, and the waste on the table is becoming more and more serious.

With the tightening of environmental protection policy, because plastics are difficult to degrade, relevant departments will continue to issue the most plastic ban, and people will gradually reduce the use of disposable plastic products in their lives to protect the living environment.

In the past, the food that could not be eaten in rural weddings and funerals did not need to be packaged, and the host family would ask the helper to classify the food and put it in the bucket. If it is leftovers from a happy event, in addition to their own relatives, they will also be distributed to neighbors with elderly people. If it's nothing, two people carry buckets and one person cooks. Leftovers can be divided from house to house and called mixed vegetable soup. This was a difficult time in life at that time. If it is now, most people don't want to eat mixed vegetable soup for personal hygiene reasons.