What kind of banquets do you usually have in rural areas? What do you mean, the wedding banquet is called a red wedding, and the funeral ceremony is called a white wedding. People who are over ten years old are also engaged in wine business. In those years, the living conditions in the countryside were very poor. In addition to weddings and funerals, poor families generally do not hold banquets. We have a saying in Fuling countryside that weddings and funerals are out of the question. What does this mean? There is no excuse for weddings and funerals. When the business opens, it will be more than ten years, and there will be a banquet. This is a haunted matter while the iron is hot.
There are banquets in the countryside, and a road is full.
In those years, there was no one-stop team and no one-stop service. Where there is a banquet, neighbors, relatives and a production team all go to help, bringing cookers, bowls and chopsticks, and even delivering meals nearby. The fat pigs feed themselves and grow their own side dishes. Where can the owners spend their money? The tobacco and alcohol needed for the banquet, the spices needed for the banquet, and some dry goods needed for the banquet, such as vermicelli, kelp and peanuts, have to be spent.
Those who can cook cook at home, those who can cook help cook at home, the strong ones chop firewood and carry water, and the weak ones write numbers to welcome guests. Teenage girls usually carry a porcelain basin, bring two tables of bowls and chopsticks to help, put on fancy clothes, and help beautifully. In this way, they are quietly displayed in front of their hometown people, suddenly remembered by the matchmaker, and then the matchmaker proposes marriage. This may be the original rural catwalk. A banquet basically does not cost labor. Give the chef a red envelope at most and a waist to every woman who helps. Wedding wine, the most festive thing for everyone is to raise a dowry, and everyone is full of energy. Carrying a coffin at a funeral is a place where Hercules is selected by secret ballot, and eight powerful players are silently selected to carry the coffin safely.
One-stop service in rural areas
It is inevitable that friends and relatives will come from afar when hosting a banquet. It's called a break. Neighbors will prepare accommodation for these people, take out their own housekeeper quilts, warmly greet their hosts, chat with guests, and suddenly make a rare distant friend. Now there are guests from afar, all of whom are brought to town to stay in hotels. The guests face the cold wall by themselves, and there is no one to chat with.
I don't know when the lack of help in rural areas began, perhaps when the tide of working began, or when rural people began to run to cities. Neighbors have no help, villagers have no help, and they have to pay people; There is no food nearby, so we have to buy it in the street.
At this time, one-stop service began to rise, and a group of people who stayed in the countryside organized to cook for the banquet and help with housework, but they had to charge. If the host doesn't prepare the dishes, it is a comprehensive one-stop service.