Different places have different customs. Please respect local customs. I went to a place in Shanxi to pull apples twice a day, and I was dizzy with hunger.
To be sure, if so, you will be hated by your host family. If this happens to northerners, they will be embarrassed to stay any longer! The hospitality of northerners is obvious to all. There is no big fish and meat, even the best in the family is taken out to entertain guests! Cold dishes are side dishes in northern cuisine, and the main course is chicken, duck, fish, pork, beef and mutton! There are all kinds of seafood if conditions permit. If I give you eight cold dishes, you'd better go! I won't bother you. I'm sure I didn't treat you as a guest, so don't make a fool of yourself. If you know each other well and talk about everything, that's another matter!
Every place has different customs. You are like cold dishes in Henan, but we have many hot dishes in Hebei, and our eating habits are different. Of course, the dishes represent the enthusiasm of the host.
No cold dishes, no hot dishes.
The etiquette of entertaining guests in the north is usually sitting on a big table. The standard number of people at a table is seven, including six guests and one escort. The so-called escort is the person arranged by the main family to persuade the wine to persuade the food. Northerners are really afraid that guests are embarrassed to eat and drink. If they don't have enough to eat, the main family will lose face. There are many rules for the main table, so I won't go into details. It's all red tape Today we are going to talk about food. In the north, it's all pre-dinner wine, that is, drinking while eating vegetables. Cold dishes are usually served first. Eight cold dishes are the highest etiquette. Usually five cold dishes are served, and then we start drinking. The so-called three rounds of wine and five dishes are served, and eight cold dishes are served. After a short pause, hot dishes are served, while drinking, seven hot dishes are served, and the eighth hot dish is served. If the eighth hot dish is neither soup nor vegetable, then there are eight hot dishes behind, making a total of 24 dishes. Dishes 23 and 24 are basically soup. For example, sparerib soup and mutton soup can be used. This kind of treatment is basically the highest etiquette for receiving guests in the north. This highest etiquette usually requires a full table. If it is two or three guests, it is impossible to have such a high specification. Because the plates in the north are big, three or five people can't eat half of these dishes, which is too wasteful. I'm talking about the customs in my hometown, which are different in other places. The so-called three miles are different from the countryside, five miles are different from the customs, and ten miles become rules. Unlike your custom, there are many words [bow] [bow] [bow]
Hot dishes are the mainstay here, while cold dishes are just decorations. In general, the big seats in business are double chicken, double fish and four-party ball, followed by braised pork, big elbow and vegetable meat, and the rest is cooking. Eight desserts are appetizing before hot dishes are served. There are two courses before dinner.
Being a guest in the north, I don't know the highest etiquette. It varies according to the identity of the guests, depending on the family status and economic class. According to the old theory, the highest is the Manchu-Chinese banquet, right? This ordinary person doesn't usually. But what is certain is that the eight cold dishes mentioned by the subject are not hot dishes, but they do exist and are common, that is, ordinary people use them to entertain friends three days before a happy event. Really entertain guests, there are at least four pieces: eight cool and eight hot.
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Don't generalize between north and south! It depends on the habits of the main family! In a hospitable family, cold dishes and hot dishes are not mentioned, but hard dishes are served. When you get to the nagging person's house, you can't eat cold dishes