Chapter 21 banquet

Banquets and banquets were the same thing in ancient times. Before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, people did not use tables and chairs. Bamboo mats were spread on the floor of the house. Drinking wine and eating meat on it is called a banquet.The current banquet is basically a continuation of the appellation. There is neither banquet nor banquet, only tables and chairs.The Eight Immortals Table and the Big Round Table are already things of the Qing Dynasty. The ancients lived a relatively leisurely life, so the word banquet in the banquet means eating, drinking and ease. Regarding enjoyment and ease, Yan is the same, and contains the meaning of harmony and beauty, such as Yaner's newly married, so the banquet is also called Yanhui. In the ceremony of respecting the elderly, the old people sit on the ground in the house, you share a tripod, and I share delicious dog meat, which is called Yan Li.In short, Yanhui is a happy event where everyone sits together, eats meat and drinks.

Sometimes, people always criticize the Chinese people’s advocacy of eating, drinking and drinking, and think that this is a backward way of life. Therefore, in the past, banquets or banquets and banquets were almost eliminated for a period of time. Eating, singing, drinking and drinking activities are a rare pleasure after all. In fact, people in Europe, North America and other places are the same. There are too many activities to eat, drink and drink. Sweet, eating and drinking activities are healthy. With a banquet, there must be a row of seats, also known as seats. The seats are very important. Those with prestige, status, wealth and power sit at the chairman, and the rest sit around the table from the second to the last seat. We have been like this for so many years. , Every banquet always has a chairman, and this chairman has gradually been transferred to the power mechanism, and the chairman is established as an official position, from the class chairman of middle school students to the chairman of the country, we can see the power of the banquet up.

However, the difference between the rostrum of the conference, which was born out of the chairman of the banquet, is gradually increasing. The rostrum is often set on the stage, and the representative seat is set in the audience. This is the result of one or two tables that cannot fit. Secondly, the meeting is still different from the banquet. The meeting is a place to speak, and there is no need to gather together to eat meat and drink. The essence has not gone far, it is nothing more than about the people eating meat and drinking, if they can't eat meat, they can't drink wine, everything becomes empty talk.Therefore, there is still little difference between the current Xi and the historical Xi.