If you visit a Polish home, you can bring a bunch of flowers to your hostess. Remove the wrapping paper from the flowers before giving them to the hostess. But be careful, don't send red roses, red roses represent warm love.
toasts are often made at formal or informal banquets. Poles like guests to talk about their country, culture, American lifestyle and your personal family life.
associate with poles and avoid giving expensive gifts. The company's new product can be used as a gift. Poles mainly eat western food, and their taste is light, so don't be too greasy. They generally like to eat baked, boiled and stewed dishes, and they also like to use butter dishes. Poles generally like bars. They are usually used to strong liquor before meals and sweet wine after meals, and they usually drink a lot of alcohol. They also like coffee and China black tea. They like to put a lemon in black tea, and the tea color should be light. Poles generally.
Poles attach great importance to weddings. Both men and women should first register at the marriage registration office and invite relatives and friends to attend the registration ceremony. The bride and groom should choose a man and a woman from their relatives or closest friends as their witnesses. People attending the marriage registration ceremony should wear formal dresses. A Polish wedding begins with a wedding March. As soon as the wedding March rang, the bride and groom walked into the hall, led by the officiant in black robes. The bride and groom stand opposite the officiating person, the witness and parents of both parties sit in the front chairs of the hall, and the others follow. The officiating person asks and listens to the bride and groom according to the rules, and then the bride and groom slowly walk out of the hall with the wedding March. The whole ceremony doesn't last long, usually only ten minutes, but it is solemn and solemn. After the bride and groom walked out of the hall, others attending the ceremony lined up in turn, giving flowers to the bride and congratulating them.
Religious people will have a religious wedding in the church after their marriage registration. The bride wears a white gauze skirt and the groom wears a black suit. When the bride and groom walk out of the church after the religious wedding ceremony, people throw coins prepared in advance on the ground, and the bride and groom pick them up one by one. Whoever finds more indicates who will be the richest. Choosing a wedding date generally avoids rainy days. According to folklore, if it rains on the wedding day, it will indicate that "marriage is not perfect", married life will be "full of dark clouds" and even God will be sad and cry.
In Poland, people are buried after death instead of cremation. Poles attach great importance to the repair of cemeteries, and each cemetery has a tombstone with photos of the deceased and engraved with the date of birth and death. On the Day of the Dead on November 1 every year, people come in an endless stream from morning till night, bringing their own chrysanthemums and wax bowls to the cemetery for sweeping. They cleaned the gravestones in the cemetery, put wax bowls, inserted chrysanthemums of various colors, and kept silent in front of the graves to show their mourning and grief for the dead
Religion More than 95% of the residents in Poland believe in Catholicism. With a strong religious color, churches of all sizes are spread all over China, and going to church is an important part of residents' life
Poland, like many Catholic countries in Europe, has many taboos. Catholics in Poland do not eat pork every Friday. It is said that Friday is the Good Friday when Jesus was crucified. Therefore, the Friday before Easter is called Good Friday every year.
Poles are forbidden to eat in odd numbers, especially 13 people sitting at the same table. They are also taboo to hold any ceremonial activities on the 13th and Friday. Not only does there not sit 13 people at the table, because it is easy to remind people of Judas who betrayed Jesus, but there is no room 13 in the house and no room 13 in the hotel. If the 13th is a Friday, you should not go out. Going out early in the morning, leaving home and then turning back, bodes ill for this day. It is considered unlucky to meet a woman in mourning, a monk or nun in black robes on the road early in the morning. Poles meet black cats in the middle of the night. It is considered unlucky to meet spilled cooking oil at noon. In Poland, one match can't light more than two cigarettes. Europeans don't like to meet funerals when they go out. Polish men take off their hats when they meet funerals. It is also considered unlucky for Poles to put their hats on the bed when they come home from outside. Poles are generally not allowed to sit in beds at home, especially for unmarried women.
Poland's bumpy history, together with the special eating habits of monks and businessmen, has enriched the local food, making Polish food have French, Italian and Jewish characteristics at the same time. Poles live on meat, potatoes and cream, but they don't eat as much starchy food as Czechs, and the food is not as spicy as Hungarian or Belgian food.
Poles eat soup first. There are three kinds of soup: sweet potato soup (barszcz), cold egg soup (chtodnik), cabbage soup (kapusniak) and barley soup (krupnik). Some barley soups also include eggs and sausages (zurek). There are many kinds of main meals, the common ones are: gotabki, which contains rice and meat; Kotlet schabowy; Pancakes and soft cheese (Nalesniki); And all kinds of foreign dumplings (pierogi), such as meat, potatoes, cheese or blueberries.
Poles love drinking, especially beer, vodka and special spirits. Zywiec is the most popular kind of liquor (12%), and EB is also very good, a little milder. There is also an EB Czerwone, which is darker in color and heavier in taste. There are various kinds of beer circulating in the market, among which Okocim and Piast are famous. There are many kinds of vodka, from wheat to potato, among which Wyborowa, Zytnia and Polonez are the most famous, all with specially designed bottles. Kosher vodka is said to be the highest grade, but the origin of the name Kosher is unknown. There is a kind of Zubrowka vodka made of herbs, which will be accompanied by a handful of grass from the bison habitat, often mixed with apple juice and named z sokem jabtkowym. Miod and Krupnik are the favorites of the upper class. Some Polish grandmothers brew vodka privately, which is also well received.
There are some similarities between Christmas in Poland and New Year's in China, such as: 1. No matter whether you leave home or live outside, you will definitely go home and reunite with your family at Christmas every year. Second, cook something different from usual. Third, there are red envelopes to take. Fourth, wear new clothes and hats. 5. Visit friends. Poles will go home for Christmas, because it is the most unforgettable experience every year and it is also a time for family reunion.