For reference: heart-warming fish sticks, red barbecue, respect shrimp cakes, crispy flower kernels, stir-fried bones with pineapple, pork tripe with ginkgo, turtle soup, stir-fried pork tripe, sour radish, cowherd weaver girl (vegetarian dish), Taiwan Province fish skin, celery with red sausage, yellow bean jelly, Pleurotus eryngii with pepper and sesame oil, duck chicken, seasonal vegetables with seafood.
(a) the wedding process:
Whenever a man and a woman marry, get married and have children, many relatives and friends come to congratulate them, and the main house is crowded inside and outside the courtyard. Many people came to congratulate them, including cyclists, motorcycles and tractors, and they were in an endless stream.
Rural people are very serious about holding wedding ceremonies, so they have to make preparations for them for a long time in advance. After the date is set, we should discuss the matter of treating guests, estimate how many people and prepare how many tables of banquets, and be aware of it. Then, the specific division of labor among family members. Guests are very particular. You must first invite your grandmother, uncle and elders. It is impolite to be late, otherwise you will be blamed. After the relatives are invited, please invite your relatives, three friends and four friends in the village, as well as the families and neighbors who come to help. On the day before doing business, men and women in the neighborhood, old and young, all came to the main house to help. People who come here wear new clothes, greet each other with tools they need, and the branch directors invited by the main family divide their work one by one according to each person's specialty. They buy and buy, borrow tools, make a fire, and post couplets .............................................................................................................
It is very particular about weddings in rural areas. Tables are all old-fashioned square tables, and stools are long benches, one for each side and two for each side. At that time, although the countryside was poor, it was civilized, which had to be admired. When you were seated, you kissed me warmly and gave way to each other. Young people let the elderly sit first, healthy people let the disabled sit first, and gay men let women with children sit first. After the firecrackers sound, even if the banquet is officially started, the host's big branch will shout loudly and loudly, please come to the table first! Everyone at the table was beaming, talking and laughing. Cold dishes and hot dishes were served together. Chicken, duck and seafood were slowly eaten, and the wedding wine was slowly drunk by pushing a cup for a change. The sound of guessing fists and festive firecrackers were endless. There is no opening time and no ending time for banquets in rural areas. Visitors can eat as soon as they sit down, and as many people as they come. If there is not enough food, buy it and cook it again. The seating time is also in no particular order. If you don't finish entertaining today, you will continue to entertain tomorrow. In short, you should entertain the guests well.
The most lively thing is to entertain the bride's family besides her relatives and friends. Generally speaking, on the day of marrying a daughter-in-law, there are more etiquette. Although you are joking, you should be polite first, and you should be gentle, humorous and polite. In particular, the host family is more cautious about the person who looks for the wedding, understands the generational relationship between the bride and the bride, and comes to find a person with the same seniority, steady work, strong ability and rich experience in this field. When the bride was sent by her family, the implication was that she was handed over to your family, so you should be kind. Therefore, after sending relatives, you should be polite and have a good sense of proportion. You should not be casual, and you should not make your relatives angry.
With the development of rural economy, it is much more convenient to prepare seats in rural areas, and the use of table benches is no longer the original bulky high-table bench, but a big round table and small square bench. Everyone has a special catering table, stool, dishes and other utensils. If someone has something to do, the tractor will come soon, so there is no need to go from house to house to find it. And the round table? Although people generally don't pay attention to attending the banquet, young people still push the elderly and elders to the position of attending the banquet. The toasts first respect the banquet and then on, and so on, which has not changed so far. The seasons have changed one after another, and year after year, rural banquets are becoming more and more prosperous and lively in the simple and civilized rural style. In the past, my family said, "You should take a handkerchief at the table", which means wiping your mouth after eating. But now, on the banquet table in rural areas, disposable paper cups are used to drink water, and napkins are used to wipe your hands and mouth. The grade of the banquet is not lower than that in the city.
(B) Significance: The rural banquet inherits the rural civilization, brings the distance between people closer, and produces endless life and vitality in an atmosphere full of peace, celebration, enthusiasm, unity and friendship.