Guangxi people eat, why do the elders speak to move chopsticks?Isn't it too much trouble?When everyone is having dinner in Guangxi, have you encountered this situation, in the middle of serving, a child saw what he likes to eat, immediately reached over to clip, chopsticks also touched the dish, immediately stopped by adults, serious may be beaten.
Imagine if a table of people is waiting to be served, and suddenly a person grabs a piece of button meat without saying a word, and then eats it there, if it were you, what would you think of him?Anyway, I don't really like to eat at the same table with such a person, if he is a child, he can still speak, if he is an adult, he can only say that his parents did not educate him well.
So what should I do?What I see is that if a group of people have a dinner together, in the process of serving, everyone is generally chatting in twos and threes, and will not rush to eat a dish after saying that the last dish is served, usually the situation is that after all the dishes are served, the rice must be served, and if you drink, the wine will be full, and when everything is ready, there will be a person with a relatively large generation to greet everyone to eat: come, come, move chopsticks!That's when you can pick up your favorite dishes.
The person who speaks is not necessarily the one with the most seniority, but it must be the kind of person who is heavier. For example, during the Chinese New Year, the three generations of your family have a reunion dinner together, that is usually the grandfather or the father can only move the chopsticks, it can't be the younger sister or younger brother to speak, that is called no big or small, no rules.
Anyway, I have lived for decades, and almost all the dinners I have attended in Guangxi follow this rule. Of course, there are exceptions, such as a couple meal for two people, a girlfriend dinner, a family of three having a light meal, etc., similar to this kind of occasion can be ordered casually, if there are guests at home, or you go to someone else's house as a guest, then you can't mess with the rules.
So how did the people of Guangxi learn this kind of rule?Did you learn from TV, or did you go out to work and learn from people from other provinces?Let me tell you, when I was a child, in the 80s, there was no electricity in the village, and no one went out to work, and the people around me have already abided by such rules.
It is precisely because of the tradition that the elders cannot move the chopsticks without speaking, so that there will never be an incident of grabbing vegetables in Guangxi's banquets.