Chapter 542: Polish Personality and Customs
Everywhere Ye Chao goes, he likes to learn about the local customs.
This is an opportunity to gain insight, no matter where it is, its customs, food culture has its characteristics, although there are rich and poor in the world, but there is no distinction between superior and inferior in this regard.
The wedding customs of the Kashube people in the northern regions of Poland have always maintained the characteristics of Polish tradition.
After the religious ceremony in the church, the couple also chooses an auspicious day to hold a traditional wedding feast at home. The average family usually invites about 100 friends and relatives to the wedding reception.
The traditional wedding feast of the Kashub people usually begins with relatives and friends giving gifts to the couple. To the sound of melodious music played by the band, the couple thanked their friends and family for their gifts and blessings with fruit and champagne.
Chicken soup is the first dish served at the Kashub wedding feast, and the most important role in the wedding feast is played by Polish vodka. In the wedding customs of the Kashub, not having enough wine is the worst thing.
Friends and family will have a drink to wish the couple happiness.
After a full meal, the country band played cheerful "polo" music, and the guests of all ages began to play games.
The most popular games at the traditional Polish wedding feast are "Button the Dress" and "Find the Cake". The game of "Buckle Your Clothes" is a contest to get dressed, and the participants take off their coats, and when the host announces the start, they grab their coats and put them on, not only fast, but also neatly dressed.
In order to win, some people actually go to the game wrapped in pajamas, just because the pajamas are finished as soon as they are put on, even if the buttons are not fastened, it is not obvious.
The game of "finding a cake" is to find a random person among the guests, and after blindfolding him, he starts to look for a cake in the room to the applause of the crowd.
The game of finding the cake is not easy to do, because the participant can only use his tongue to find the hidden cake, and the people around him cannot give him hints, let alone touch the things on the table with his hands, he can only lick them with his tongue. The moral of this game is that the bride and groom finally taste sweet love.
The highlight of the wedding feast was the performances of the "farmer" and the "peasant woman".
The friends of the bride and groom exaggerated their appearances as farmers and peasant women, and after introducing themselves in a pretended manner, they performed a "cross talk" about the interesting stories of the bride and groom, telling everyone about the love history of the bride and groom.
Amid the laughter of the guests, the bride and groom blushed with shame, and the "punishment" "farmer" and "peasant woman" took turns to invite all the guests to dance.
At two o'clock in the morning, the chef prepares the last hot dish of the wedding reception——— the most famous beetroot soup and tripe soup in Poland, and everyone drinks the hot soup together, singing and waiting for the new day to begin.
When the eastern sky is gradually dyed red by the morning glow, the newlyweds and half-drunk guests sing "...... when the morning sun rises" together to welcome the sunrise.
This is the last song of their wedding feast and the first morning of the couple, it symbolizes the couple's farewell to the past and welcomes the future, indicating that the young family has both love and responsibility.
For a wedding banquet of this size, the cost is around $3,000.
This expense is usually shared equally between the couple, which is also a big burden for young couples who have just started to live together and have everything to do.
Therefore, when preparing gifts for the newlyweds, relatives and friends should not only consider the practicality of the gifts to the newlyweds, which can reduce the financial pressure of the newlyweds, but also let the gifts to connect the two newlyweds.
Ania and Piot, who live in Greater Poland, recently held a wedding and a wedding reception, which was like a show on the same stage for the happy couple, and they said that it was at this time that they began to learn to cooperate with each other, understand each other, and start a new life of mutual connection.
But since the opening of McDonald's first Polish branch in the center of Warsaw, the capital of Poland, "foreign" fashion from the United States and Western Europe has begun to pour into Poland.
Today, even the wedding receptions of the couples, who best embody Polish traditions, are facing serious shocks. In the big cities of Poland, more and more wealthy people choose the location of the wedding banquet in the famous local hotel, the parents of the newlyweds ask the French or Italian chef to prepare sumptuous dishes that cannot be named by the guests, and some young people who advocate Europe and the United States even explicitly request that the traditional Polish meal should not appear in their wedding banquet.
The wedding banquet is served with a famous French brand, and the couple eats only thin sashimi, a symbol of happiness, while the guests share a multi-layered cake with Italian flavors......
Sometimes couples even go to great lengths to bring in the most famous local singers or rock bands. The proprietors of the hotel, as they counted the thick bills that were readily available, said disdainfully that these young men did not understand Polish traditions, despite their bulging pockets.
Poles are elegant in their manners and civilized in their language, and they must be called "Pan" (sir) for men and "Pani" (lady or lady) for women.
In Poland, the most commonly used greeting ceremonies are handshakes and hugs. The handshake is generally used for the first time you meet. When relatives and friends meet, they often give hugs, generally hug once, and close people hug each other three times from their left, right, and left.
The kiss is more common in some elegant social occasions.
Generally speaking, the kiss is only for married women, and the best place to do it is indoors. Poles generally love flowers. Of all the flowers, they like the pansy the most and make it the national flower. When sending flowers to the Poles, be sure to send an odd number.
Poland, like many Catholic countries in Europe, has a number of taboos. Catholics in Poland do not eat pork every Friday.
This is said to be because Friday is Good Friday.
The number 13 is taboo in Poland because it is reminiscent of Judas, who betrayed Jesus. It is taboo for the Poles to have 13 people at the same table when they eat, and they are also taboo to hold any ceremonial events on Friday the 13th, and there is no room 13 in the Polish house and no room 13 in the hotel.
If the 13th is a Friday, it is not advisable to travel.
If a Pole leaves home early in the morning and then turns back, it is a sign that the day will not go well, and if he encounters a woman in mourning clothes and a monk or nun in a black robe on the road early in the morning, it is considered unlucky, and a Polish man must take off his hat when he meets a funeral.
It is considered bad luck to meet a black cat in the middle of the night and spilled cooking oil in the middle of the day, and in Poland you cannot light more than two cigarettes with a match.
It is considered unlucky for a Pole to put a top hat on the bed when he enters the house, and the bed in the Pole house is generally not allowed to be sat on by outsiders, especially the bed of an unmarried woman.