Since blood relations are the relationship between "eating and eating together", and since "brothers" are "people who eat the same food", then the most convenient way to turn non-blood relations into blood relations and become "buddies" with others is to "eat the same pot of rice" with others. If God gives you this opportunity, it is certainly your blessing; If you don't have the opportunity, don't worry, because you can still invite guests to dinner.
Chinese love to invite guests to dinner.
There are many reasons, excuses, themes, and opportunities for Chinese to invite guests to dinner. The company opened, the meeting closed, foreign guests visited, the reporter interviewed, and so on, of course, it is indispensable to invite a meal; Even if ordinary people's families, every New Year's Festival, red and white happy events, the elderly do birthdays, children celebrate birthdays, who does not invite, which does not eat? We Chinese probably the most popular people in the world who love to eat.
Few people seem to think of any cultural reasons for this.
According to the average person's thoughts, inviting guests to dinner is, of course, beneficial or demanding. There is no benefit, there is nothing wrong, every day to invite guests to dinner, that is not called sick, but also stupid. The Chinese thing is a bit weird. Some things cannot be talked about in the office, conference hall, or negotiation table, but they can be discussed at the dinner table. No matter how difficult it is, as long as it reaches the wine table, it is easy to talk about it.
This method is not only used by the common people, but sometimes the emperor also uses it. For example, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin used it. Zhao Kuangyin, the emperor, was a bit unknown, it was his general, taking advantage of the seven-year-old doll emperor Zhou Gong Emperor's orphans and widows to sit unsteadily in the mountains, and he worked hard overnight to stand up. The specific method was that when he was garrisoning Chen Qiao, his generals suddenly broke into the inn, put a yellow robe prepared first, draped it on him with seven hands and eight feet, and then fell to the ground. Since Zhao Kuangyin's throne came to be like this, of course, he was afraid that others would repeat the same trick, so he invited several senior generals who held military power under his command to dinner. After three rounds of drinking, Zhao Kuangyin raised his wine glass, took advantage of the color of the wine to cover his face, and said to several senior generals: "The brothers are all trustworthy people, and they are afraid that your subordinates will covet wealth and wealth, and they will also put yellow robes on you." Upon hearing this, these generals prostrated themselves on the ground and begged one after another to surrender their military powers. In history, this is called "a glass of wine to release the military power.". A meal and a glass of wine have relieved the warlords of their military powers and now consolidated their own political power, which is really worth it.
The war is at the dinner table, and the coup is also at the dinner table. For example, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Li Ji of the Jin Dynasty wanted to murder the crown prince Zhongsheng, and the way to get rid of the powerful minister Rick was to "eat the special sheep" (killing a sheep to invite Rick to eat). Gongzi Guang of the State of Wu wanted to assassinate King Wu by inviting him to eat Taihu char siu fish. Char siu was a famous dish at that time, with a whole set of special cooking techniques, and Gongziguang's chef (actually the killer) learned it for three months. Wu Wangbian heard that there was a char siu fish to eat, and gladly went there, but he did not expect to hide a short sword in the belly of the fish. As a result, the char siu fish was not eaten, and it became a "char siu fish".
There are so many advantages to having a meal– one by one, it can not only pull relations, but also engage in conspiracies, but also openly kill or pre-murder people, of course, it has become a magic weapon that can be used from time to time in Chinese social and political life. Even when negotiating with foreigners, they often follow this approach. Unfortunately, foreigners may not all "eat" our set, and always complain about the delay in their hearts. When formally negotiating, we will not make any concessions because we have "eaten". The "devils" really don't understand China's national conditions. They don't know that Chinese even when dealing with God and the gods, they are going to invite guests to dinner. From this point of view, it is indeed a "work need".
In fact, many people's work is also the same as either inviting people to eat, or being invited to eat; Either eat with people or be accompanied by people. Therefore, the phrase "revolution is not a dinner party" later became "The revolution is not a guest, it is a meal." The folk song says, "Work is meeting, management is charging, coordination is getting drunk." How to coordinate the relationship without first "blending" at the wine table?
