vs 384 Etiquette at banquets

If you meet two people sitting or standing side by side, don't get involved in the middle of it. When you encounter two people standing side by side, don't pass between them. Men and women are not allowed to sit together, share a hanger, share a face towel or comb, or hand things over to each other. Uncle and sister-in-law don't greet each other. Do not allow your mother-in-law to wash her lower garments. Women are not allowed to know and interfere with what men are talking about, and men are not allowed to know and interfere with things that women are talking about.

Conversations in the streets and alleys are not allowed to be brought into the boudoir; Nor shall the words spoken by women in the boudoir be proclaimed outside. When a woman is engaged, she wears a ribbon on her head to signify that she has a lord. No one is allowed to enter the door of the man's house unless there is a major event. When an aunt, sister, or daughter returns to her mother's house after marriage, the brother is not allowed to sit at the same table with her, nor is he allowed to share the same vessel with her to eat. Fathers and sons are not allowed to sit at the same table.

Between men and women, if there is no matchmaker to propose marriage, they will not know each other's names; If the woman has not accepted the financial gift, the two parties will not have a relationship, let alone an intimate relationship. Therefore, the date of marriage must be registered with the authorities, fasting to the ancestors, and hosting banquets to invite neighbors, colleagues, and friends, so solemnly to emphasize the difference between men and women. A wife is not allowed to marry a woman with the same surname, so if you don't know her real surname, you have to decide whether it is okay or not through divination. A widow's son is not allowed to make friends with him unless he shows great talent.

If the person who congratulates his wife is not present, he should send a messenger as follows: "I have been sent by a certain king, and when such and such a gentleman hears that you are going to have a banquet, he has sent me to offer a little food and wine." For the poor, there is no need to demand that he have to use goods as a courtesy; For the elderly, there is no need to demand that he have to use physical strength as a courtesy.

For a simple feast, the meat with bones is placed on the left, the large pieces of meat cut on the right, the food on the left hand of the man, and the soup on the right hand of the man. Finely chopped and roasted meat is kept away from the utensils for sumptuous dishes, and away from people; Vinegar and pâté are placed in the utensils of the hearty dishes, close to people. The steamed shallots are placed to the left of the vinegar and meat sauce, and the sake and pulp are placed to the right of the soup.

If you want to lay out the dried meat, the curved one is on the left and the straight one is on the right. If the guest is inferior to the host, he should stand up with his rice bowl and say that he does not dare to be at the table, then the host should get up and persuade the guest not to be polite, and then the guest will sit down again. The host invited the guests to join him in the sacrifice. The method of sacrificing food is to sacrifice whichever one is put on the table by the master first. After eating three bites of food, the host invites the guests to eat the large pieces of meat that have been cut and then the guests are invited to taste various dishes.

If the host has not finished eating, the guest is not allowed to rinse his mouth to indicate that he has eaten. Accompany the elderly to eat, if the host personally distributes the dishes, he should thank him before eating; If the host doesn't prepare the food himself, he doesn't have to thank him, and he can take it himself. When you eat together, you should pay attention to humility and not just feed yourself. When eating together, pay attention to hand hygiene. Don't rub the rice into a ball, don't put the seized rice back into the bowler, don't drink it in large gulps so that the juice doesn't flow out, don't eat with a clatter, don't gnaw the bones so as not to make a noise, don't put the bitten fish back into the bowl, don't throw the bones to the dogs, don't rush to eat something delicious, don't use chopsticks to eat millet rice, don't chew the vegetables in the soup and don't swallow it in a big gulp, and don't mix the soup in front of the owner.

Don't pick your teeth in public, don't drink bolognese. If the guest mixes the soup, the host apologizes and says that he can't cook it. If a guest drinks bolognese, the host apologizes, saying that the family is poor and that there is not enough food to eat. Wet and soft meat can be broken with teeth, but dry and hard meat cannot be broken with teeth, so it must be broken by hand and eaten. Don't swallow a large piece of barbecue in one bite. After eating, the guest should kneel in front of him to collect the food utensils and hand them to the person who serves beside him, at which point the host should quickly get up and say that he does not dare to work the guest, and then the guest will sit down again.

Accompany the elderly to drink, and when you see that the elderly will pour wine for yourself, you should quickly stand up and go to the place where the wine bottle is placed to pay respects. The elder said not to be so polite, and then the younger man returned to his seat to drink. The elders have not yet raised their glasses to drink, and the young do not dare to drink. The elders have something to give, and those who are younger and those who are servants are not allowed to give in and do not accept it. The king shall give fruit to his face, and he who has the kernel shall hide it in his bosom and shall not vomit it on the ground. When the king eats and the king gives the surplus food, it depends on whether the utensils containing the food can be washed.

If it is a washable utensils, it should be taken from the original utensils without having to pour into another utensils; If it is a food utensil that cannot be washed, it should be poured into another utensil. This is for fear of staining the king's eating utensils. There is no need to perform a sacrificial ritual to eat leftovers. Neither the father eats the leftover food of his son, nor does the husband eat the leftover food of his wife. Accompany the elders to the banquet, and if the host treats the younger ones as well as the elders, the younger ones do not need to say kind words.

As a guest at the banquet, there is no need to say kind words. If there are vegetables in the soup, use chopsticks to pick them up; If not, don't use chopsticks, just a spoon. To peel melons for the Son of Heaven, first peel and peel them, then cut them into four petals, cut them horizontally at the waist, and then cover them with a fine kudzu cloth. To peel a melon for the monarch, first peel and peel it, then divide it in two, also cut it at the waist, and then cover it with a coarse kudzu cloth. To peel melons for the doctor, just peel and peel them, and don't cover anything. The scholars only cut off the guati and then cut it horizontally. After the Shuren cut off the melon, they held the whole melon and nibbled on it.

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