The Chinese leftover feast is shocking, the waste is serious, the dishes are excessive, and the guests have left a lot of hot dishes.
Leftovers are common, food is thrown away in large quantities, hot dishes are dispersed, and waste is deplorable.
In China, leftover feasts are commonplace, half eaten and half thrown away, and hot dishes are piled up, and consumption habits need to be changed urgently.
What is a "Chinese-style" leftover? Why do you say that everyone is gone, and the hot dish is not finished yet?
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I can't afford a wedding
Nowadays, in many areas, the wedding banquet is stacked on top of each other, no matter whether you finish eating or not, just serve the food, and the final result is a table of dishes, one-third of which is not finished, and it is good to be able to eat half of it on the wine table of adults.
Many dishes guests didn't touch a chopstick, what kind of situation is this, the guests left and didn't finish the dishes, who is this going to eat?
It is normal for the newlyweds to feast on relatives and friends, and it is also the custom of many places, but now these customs are slowly beginning to change in some areas, such as comparison, extravagance and waste, expensive, etc., and the steps of the wedding are cumbersome, which makes people tired of seeing it.
As for the cost, then I don't dare to think about it at all, it's hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars at every turn, who is holding a wedding banquet, and I am directly poor at one time without a little family background.
According to the survey report of the Population and Development Research Center of Chinese University, in the survey activities from July to September 2023, it was found that the proportion of wedding banquets was increasing, and the average overall cost of weddings was as high as 330,400 yuan.
What is this concept? Let me mention a figure, the per capita disposable income of residents in the country in 2023 will be 39,200 yuan, and in comparison, the overall cost of weddings has reached more than eight times the per capita income.
The phenomenon of wasting wedding banquets is not only a problem of social atmosphere, but also a common result of many aspects.
Cause and effect catastrophe
The underdevelopment of a nation's civilization depends not only on how much money there is, but also on whether people know how to cherish food and water; if everyone in a nation wastes food, then the nation will be in danger, and it has fallen into a serious crisis.
Our country wants everyone to live a well-off life, and has been working hard through various ways, and the economic level has gone up, which is no problem, but we can't ignore one aspect, there is no law to stop extravagance and waste, resulting in waste becoming very common.
CCTV reported that the amount of food we waste on the table every year is worth 200 billion yuan, which is equivalent to the annual ration of more than 200 million people! Now that the economy is in transition, if it is difficult to form an effective binding force morally, then legislating to stop waste is much more important than just looking at GDP figures.
We still have a long way to go to see how much food we cherish is a nation's civilization and hope for the future.
A large number of dishes were left untouched, and few were packed
A wedding is not an easy thing to do, a wedding is a lifelong event for the children of the two families, and they don't want their children to regret the major events in life, but the handling of the wedding is a problem after all, and it is not strange for two generations to go into battle together.
Mr. Wu, a man from Inner Mongolia, got married in October last year because his home is in a small city in Inner Mongolia, far away from where he usually works, and most people choose to hold two banquets.
One was held in his hometown, and the other was held in the city where he worked and settled, and the difficulty and cost of a wedding were not low, but now there are two more, both of which are helped by two generations of the family, and the parents are personally in charge.
There are not many people invited to the wedding ceremony, about 100 people, it cost almost more than 40,000 yuan, and about half of the banquet alone, this standard is still only a medium level in this city, it seems that I am lonely and unheard.
Mr. Wu described that the wedding ceremony was almost halfway through the start of the service, and the guests would not be satisfied after waiting for a long time, after all, it was uncomfortable to wait for hunger, and generally speaking, chicken, duck, fish and vegetables were common.
The guests will eat and watch, the ceremony will go on as usual, and then wait for the ceremony to end, the guests will eat almost, it stands to reason that now the ceremony is over, the guests are full, leave, the ceremony is over This is the best, the problem is that the wedding banquet is not grasped well.
The guests have eaten almost the hot dishes are still on the table, people can't eat it, the dishes are piled up on the table, and some of the dishes are not even moved, and when the banquet is over, most of the old people will choose to pack, and many are left on the table.
The scale and duration of the wedding banquet in various places are different, many wedding banquets are over once at noon on the same day, there is no other, the general guest with the share of the money is now more than 200 yuan, and the close relationship may give 500.
In some areas, the banquet lasts for two or three days, and the banquet in Mr. Wu's hometown is held for two days, inviting almost 400 people, and the cost is much more than that in the city, nearly 40,000 yuan, which is not less.
The cost of the banquet, in addition to renting dining tables and chairs, hiring wedding chefs, renting venues, and adding up to the costs of ingredients, tobacco and alcohol, candy, etc., does not include the favors and red envelopes that let relatives and friends help, and it is difficult to return the favors.
There is packing, but not much
Many people will ask, since many dishes have not been touched in one bite, why not just pack them home, and indeed do this, but it is better to encourage the rest of the dishes to be packed, but it always backfires.
On the one hand, most relatives and friends came from other places to attend the wedding banquet, and they had to rush back after eating, and it was inconvenient to pack, and some people were the staple food of packing, and many dishes were eaten by people, and the dishes that had moved a few chopsticks would not mind packing unless they were close people.
This leads to the fact that although there are many left, there are few people who pack them, so it is wasted, and a large part of the reason is face.
Everyone knows that waste is serious, so is it okay not to waste it? Many people's answer is no, if you don't do it grandly, you will lose face if you lose your grade, this is the choice of many people.
There are so many dishes left, only a small part can be packed and given away, the wedding banquet money is not less, the money spent has caught up with the parents' income for a year, people are against spending so much, but the parents are not happy, they have to be grand, not worse than others.
Marriage is a big deal in the eyes of parents, it is related to the face of the two families, and if the grade is low, the face will be gone, and the loss of money will be done, this concept is really puzzling.
As for the waste of wedding banquets, the only way to do this is to actively promote new wedding etiquette, strengthen the supervision of extravagance and waste by relevant departments, and let people understand the difficulties of food production and the importance of food.
There are always other ways to make up for favors and face, so there's no need to stare at an extravagant waste, right.
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