The Yao people are hospitable. When new guests or distant guests arrive, the host will invite neighbors or friends to chat with them, and he will immediately make a fire to cook camellia oleifera. Because it is a reception for new guests, the intimate host will prepare three pots for the guests, combining bitter, medium and light camellia into one earthen pot, and then configuring neutral tea flavor that is not bitter, spicy, salty or light. When offering tea, there is also stress. Generally, elders, elders or guests with higher status come first. The hospitable Yao people treat guests for the first time. They are afraid of being unfamiliar and polite. They will treat guests to three small bowls. Of course, if you are not used to drinking, guests will not pour again if you can't finish it. For drinking camellia oleifera, there is a folk song of Yao people that says, "One bowl is no good (no good), two bowls are meaningless (meaningless), three bowls are numb (ok), and five bowls and six bowls are enough for friendship".
For regular customers and friends, the way Yao people receive and drink Camellia oleifera is much more relaxed and casual. Guests can chat with the host, appreciate the host's skill in cooking camellia, and help each other, reflecting a casual friendship between the host and the guest. When drinking Camellia oleifera, guests can make tea according to their own tastes. There will be salt, peanuts, fried rice, chopped green onion, fruit, coriander and other ingredients on the camellia table, which can be freely selected and matched like a buffet. When guests say goodbye, they usually say "I'll wait for you to come to my house for tea" to show their gratitude and invite friends to have tea.
Drinking camellia oleifera is also one of the important ways for Yao men and women to meet and maintain love. In the process of blind date, the woman usually brings tea and water to the guests, but when serving tea, she will still pay attention. On the first night, she married the matchmaker, then the elder, then the young man on a blind date, and then the young man's companion. If both men and women are interested, the next step is to boil oil tea to get along.
It is said that the dietary custom of Camellia oleifera was gradually formed as early as the Tang Dynasty. In the baptism of years, the custom of Camellia oleifera has not been lost in the dust of history, but has entered a new era with people and achieved new development. Now more and more people like Camellia oleifera, and the Camellia oleifera culture of Yao people will be more widely promoted.