Chapter 99: Wine Table Culture
When both of them were full, Liu Bufan raised his glass and said, "Manager Nie, I respect you, cheers!"
"Aren't you going to say something?" Nie Xiaoyu didn't rush to clink glasses, but looked at Liu Bufan and asked.
"I, I, thank you for your help, I wish you more and more success in your work, step by step!" Liu Bufan added in a hurry.
"I was praising you just now, why did you become so unenlightened, you don't know how to deal with girls at all?" Nie Xiaoyu said with some displeasure.
"That, Manager Nie, I'm sorry, I'm really not used to dealing with girls, I don't know how to talk, don't be weird!" Liu Bufan hurriedly apologized.
"It's not that you can't speak, but a straight man, I know now why you haven't talked about your girlfriend, girls don't like wooden people. Nie Xiaoyu said unceremoniously.
Liu Bufan was embarrassed by Nie Xiaoyu's words, scratched his head with his hand, and smiled awkwardly.
"Of course, you still have a lot of strengths that can make up for your shortcomings, but it would be better if you could be more flexible in dealing with girls. Nie Xiaoyu was afraid of hitting Liu Bufan, so he said it euphemistically.
"Thank you Manager Nie for your guidance, I have been like this since I was a child, I am not good at communicating, or after work, I have learned some communication methods used in work, and I have no experience in getting along with girls, so I speak more straightforwardly. Liu Bufan explained.
"Then this is your shortcoming, so let's do it, you recognize me as a teacher, I will accept you as a student for free, and in the future, I will teach you some interpersonal methods for free, especially how to get along with girls, you must be able to use it. Nie Xiaoyu said boldly.
"This, this..."
Liu Bufan hesitated, not because he didn't want to accept Nie Xiaoyu's kindness, but because every decision he made needed to go through rational consideration, and the impact of this decision on himself, so he thought about it a lot, such as what was Nie Xiaoyu's intention in doing this? Does he have time to go to class? After taking Nie Xiaoyu's class, he owes her a favor, how will he repay her in the future......
"What, you don't want to?" asked Nie Xiaoyu with a frown.
Liu Bufan recovered from his thoughts at this time, and hurriedly said: "No, no, no, I'm afraid of delaying your time, as a project manager, I have a lot of things to do on the project, and I don't know if I can arrange it." ”
"You, if you don't want to, you don't want to, why do you say such an excuse!" Nie Xiaoyu said a little angrily.
"Manager Nie, I really don't have it, so can I agree?" Liu Bufan was afraid that Nie Xiaoyu would be angry, so he agreed.
"Hmph, do you think you can learn if you want to, and you won't learn if you don't want to? Now I don't want to teach, and I don't have a chance to learn if you want to. Nie Xiaoyu continued to say angrily.
"Manager Nie, it's me who is not good, I apologize to you, I am willing to learn, please teach me. In order to calm Nie Xiaoyu's anger, Liu Bufan could only say good things to her.
"Well, for the sake of sincerity, I'll reluctantly accept you as a student. Nie Xiaoyu said with a little relief.
"Thank you, Manager Nie!"
"I have to change my name to Teacher Nie in the future!"
"Nie, Nie... Teacher!"
"Well, call it a few more times and you'll get familiar with it. ”
Liu Bufan couldn't say anything, and he always felt that this title was very awkward.
"Come, teacher, toast you!" Nie Xiaoyu said.
"Cheers!"
Liu Bufan raised his glass and touched it gently.
"Look at you, why can't you teach it! A girl toasts you, you should praise her, how can there be a dry 'cheers' like you, you have no soul when you drink like this, you know? When you deal with girls, you have to praise them more, and girls will be happy. Nie Xiaoyu taught.
"It's so complicated? Isn't it just a drink? Just drink it, and praise others, I don't know how to do it!" Liu Bufan was very puzzled.
"Then you are not competent as a project manager, drinking is not limited to men and women, in Chinese social etiquette, the wine table culture is the most common and one of the most important etiquette. Chinese like to talk about things at dinners, of course, drinking is indispensable at dinners, so there is a kind of wine table culture, in the workplace, then you must be familiar with the wine table culture, this will be of great help to your future development path!" Nie Xiaoyu taught again.
"I also know a little bit about this wine table culture, and I also ask Manager Nie to teach me. Liu Bufan said.
"Tell me, what do you know?"
"That is, we generally have to wait for the leader to toast first, before we can start toasting; the leader toasts me, I have to do it; toast with the leader, the wine glass should not be higher than the leader, which is impolite; to toast the leader, it is generally best to stand up and toast. ”
Liu Bufan told him a few points of wine table etiquette that he had learned.
"Well, these things you said are also the toasting etiquette in the wine table culture, but it is far from enough, to understand the wine table culture, we have to start from its origins. Wine culture is concerned about a word, wine and food is a common lyrical way in poetry and songs, with wine friends, wine words, wine to tell the feelings, a new song and a glass of wine, last year's weather old pavilion, when the sunset will return. In ancient times, in order to prevent the other party from poisoning the wine, the way to spill the wine out of the glass can be said to be the most unpredictable in the hearts of the people. Nie Xiaoyu said.
"Chinese culture has a long history and is broad and profound, but I didn't expect drinking to be the same!" Liu Bufan sighed.
"Yes, in the complicated wine table, persuading wine has become a kind of atmosphere, sometimes the wine is not to drink, but to be forced to drink, the state of mind of drinking alone is completely gone, the person who persuades the wine is always not a big deal, as long as he can drink, no matter whether others can drink or not, he must persuade others to drink, so that people who can't drink are like enemies. Nowadays, people no longer pay attention to the wine itself, but more to the amount of drinking, the more the better, even if you drink until you vomit, sometimes you have no idea why you drink so much, as if just to complete the task, desperately pour it into your mouth until you drink it down. ”
"Yes, I feel the same way, and I don't like it very much. Liu Bufan echoed.
"On the wine table, except for the wine and food, the others are very hypocritical, don't look at one by one hugging each other, calling brothers and sisters, but they all have their own little abacus in their hearts, running trains with their mouths, drunk and drunk, what they said at this time, everyone has formed a consensus, and they don't need to be responsible. In ancient times, there were drunken poems, and now there are drunken bragging, and poetry is just a cultural bragging, so there is not much difference between ancient and modern commonalities. ”
"That's so right, you've got my thoughts out there. Liu Bufan agreed.
"There is also snobbery is especially serious at the wine table, in ordinary life, everyone will also rein in their snobbery, but to the wine table, this layer of convergence is washed away by the wine, toast to the leader, block the wine for the leader, the wine is full of flattery, money and power transactions, has been the belief of many people now, and wine has just become the catalyst for these transactions. The declining wine culture and the rising wine table culture have formed the sustenance of the current people, the decline of life, the pressure of life, and the distant ideals. Wine confidant a thousand glasses less, until now is a thousand cups of wine in the recognition of oneself, after the hangover, the confidant also dissipates with the wine awakening, if one day, can meet a person, to taste the drink, to the heart to declare, no snobbery, no hypocrisy, no so-called rules, that is a confidant is undoubted. ”
"That's great, I feel that Manager Nie is my confidant, come, I'll toast you!" Liu Bufan was too happy to hear it, and raised his glass to toast.
"Hehe, you've learned it now, but I don't know if it's true or not, cheers!" Nie Xiaoyu said with a smile.
The two clinked glasses and drank them all, Nie Xiaoyu's face was slightly red and said: "I told you earlier that these are the essence of today's wine table culture, you just know it yourself, and now I will tell you about the real wine table etiquette." ”
"Okay, please ask the teacher for advice, and the students will listen!"
Liu Bufan also made a tricky move to Nie Xiaoyu.
"Come less!" Nie Xiaoyu said with a wave of his hand.
Then, she stabilized her demeanor and continued: "1. During the banquet, the host should arrive in advance, and then wait at the door and lead the guests to a seat; 2. The seat is "Shangzuo Zun East", facing the door as respect, such as a round table: it is facing the door as the guest of honor, the closer to the host and guest position, the more respectful; 3. A la carte, generally speaking, one dish per capita is a more general rule, if there are more men, increase the amount appropriately, a table of dishes with meat and vegetarian, There are hot and cold, try to be comprehensive, more men, more meat dishes, more women, more light vegetables, do not ask the price when ordering, so as not to appear small, customers will be uncomfortable;4, If you are a guest, neither the host nor a guest but a wine in the middle, then you don't have to worry about anything, wait for others to pour it for you, pour wine for others, your own will definitely be in the end, to start with the person with the highest status of drinking, and then lower in turn. ”
"I have been taught, I really need to study hard, thank you Teacher Nie for your teaching. Liu Bufan said modestly.
"It's not enough, there is also the toasting etiquette, the points you just listed are the toasting etiquette, I will add a few more:1. Leaders drink each other before it is their turn to respect;2.You can respect one person with many people, and you must not respect many people by one person, unless you are the leader;3.You respect others, if you don't clink glasses, how much you drink depends on the situation, such as the amount of alcohol that the other party drinks, The attitude of the other party to drink must not be less than the other party's drinking, you must know that you respect others; 4. If you can't drink, then don't take the first sip, and don't drink a little bit, and tell the other party that you can't drink; 5. Respect others, if you clink glasses, a sentence, I drink it, you are free, show generosity; 6. Drinking should also learn to be obscure, accumulate thick and thin, and never be full as soon as you are on the wine table; 7. Although some private drinks like to say "deep feelings, a sip of stuffy; shallow feelings, lick it" 8. Toast with the leader, or find someone to do something, remember that your own glass must be more than the other party, so that the other party can feel that you take him seriously, if you pour wine for others, do not be sure to pour eight points full, your own wine glass can not be lower than others; 9. There is no order, no rules, just pick up the wine glass to toast others, if the table is sitting at the same level of friends, please salute clockwise, and the cup should be lower than others in the process, in order to show respect for others, do not, can not be no order, think of who to drink with whomIf the leader and the boss are sitting at the table, it must be the first to start toasting from the top leader, and then go down in turn, you need to organize the language before toasting, and leave the bench to stand up and clink glasses;10. Don't have all the dishes, everyone has an empty stomach, you start to toast, toast to the leader, you must wait until the leader and the elders toast each other, you can start, and, if the object of the toast is your own leader, or someone with more status and value than yourself in this society, you must not persuade you to drink;11. Colleagues toast youIf you don't want to drink the amount of alcohol, you can prevaricate two sentences and say hello, but if it is a leader, no matter how bad your alcohol is, you had better not refuse, which will make the leader have no face, and it will also make people feel that you don't know how to lift, the leader toasts you may be optimistic about you, at this time what you have to do is to be warm and polite, and the wine in the cup must be more than the leader, say some greetings, such as: thank the leader for appreciation, I did it, you are free to wait, give face is what you need to do. ”
"Thank you for the advice, this time I was really taught, this is so shocking, I didn't pay much attention to it before. Liu Bufan sighed again.
"Then you have to start learning now, it's not too late. ”
"No problem, I must learn. ”
"We also talked a lot today, ate and ate, it's time to go home!"
"Okay!"
The two went out of the restaurant together, Liu Bufan first sent Nie Xiaoyu to the taxi, and then took a taxi home.