Follow-up to the banquet salt incident: CCTV voice, official announcement, social reaction**.
What's going on with the salt spilling at the banquet?
Banquets are a major custom in rural Guizhou. Whether it's the New Year, giving birth, or other big things, it's inseparable from the banquet. However, in recent years, the phenomenon of "doing things in a big way" has occurred again and again in the rural areas, which has aroused a lot of controversy. In order to thoroughly control the phenomenon of "indiscriminate banquets" in rural areas, relevant policies have been formulated in various localities to strictly prohibit "big operations". However, the current "three prohibitions" have not been well implemented, and some phenomena of "indiscriminate banquets" still occur from time to time.
In order to stop "indiscriminate eating," some grassroots cadres even did not hesitate to "smash pots and sell iron." In a video, dozens of staff members dressed in chengguan **, holding bags of salt in their hands, saw a meal that had just been cooked by the villagers, and did not hesitate to sprinkle layers of salt on it until the whole dish was spread. This incident has caused great controversy and condemnation on the Internet.
However, whether this "salt war" is just "indiscriminate salt sprinkling" remains to be studied in depth. The essence of the matter is that the local government has rectified the "indiscriminate banquet" behavior, but it has not fundamentally affected this problem.
The banquet culture in rural Guizhou - the custom of "banqueting guests".
In order to have a comprehensive understanding of Guizhou's rural food culture, we must start from the number and form of its organization. In the countryside of Guizhou, it is very common to have a large feast, and there is a banquet on any festival. A Guizhou netizen said he had eaten 30 meals in a month, but this was limited to individual cases. From this point, it can be seen that in the rural areas of Guizhou, the frequency of people holding banquets is very high. Moreover, the banquets here are of very high standard and variety.
In rural Guizhou, there are various reasons. In addition to common weddings, funerals, daily travel and other festivals, there are also "special" excuses, such as "pig killing and cub feast", "head shaving feast", "buying a motorcycle", etc., as well as "divorce".
In such a case of extravagance and waste, it is actually a gift money. In rural Guizhou, people have to bring a sum of money to a banquet and have to pay some money to the organizers. Those who accept donations can get more benefits, and those who donate will also feel pressure and tiredness. Some people hold banquets regardless of the cost in order to get back the money they run around, so they have all kinds of strange reasons for banquets.
On the rectification and promotion of banquet culture.
With regard to the problem of "indiscriminate banquets," the departments concerned have begun to rectify the problem, strictly prohibit the indiscriminate holding of banquets, and punish those who violate them. However, bans and penalties alone are not enough to solve the problem, and reforms must be pursued gradually. The formation of banquet culture takes a period of time to gradually change.
It is necessary to intensify propaganda and education on uncivilized phenomena, vigorously promote "civilized creation," and use examples to lead the broad masses of the people to take the initiative to resist uncivilized phenomena and form a new social custom. In order to achieve "people-to-people bonds," it is impossible to achieve the goal of "people's feelings and opinions."
While rectifying and promoting, grassroots cadres must also have a certain degree of rationality in their feelings, and must not go to extremes. Although the "salt case" is a measure put forward by some grassroots cadres to deal with the "indiscriminate banquets", such a method is too extreme and cannot fundamentally solve the problem. It is necessary to adopt more, more scientific, and more rational means, such as strengthening propaganda and education, and formulating more perfect systems and implementation methods, so as to effectively control the behavior of indiscriminate banquets and promote the healthy development of banquet culture.