Why does China's "wine table culture" leave a deep impression on people?

It's too elaborate and complicated. Some nomads are famous for their drunkenness and like to get drunk when entertaining guests. This is because they have little daily social interaction, and visiting guests is like a holiday; But its etiquette and attention are usually very simple, and it can pour a few bowls at most.

In Japan and South Korea in East Asia, employees like to drink in groups after work, but the Japanese are basically casual. Koreans pay more attention to seniority than Japanese, but the complexity of etiquette is far less than that of China, and they don't have to get as drunk as China.

China has a tradition of persuading people to drink since ancient times, but the ancient people's persuasion is not particularly different from other ethnic groups. Today, the wine table culture in China is not a simple inheritance of the ancient tradition, because it has formed a set of national rules.

The basic principles of wine table culture in all parts of China are the same: subordinates toast their superiors to show respect and obedience; The superior advised the subordinate to show intimacy and shelter; Fighting with each other at the same level, showing strength and active atmosphere; You can't mess up every level.

Toast order:

We have to wait for the distinguished people to toast each other first, and then the inferior people will toast the distinguished people in turn according to their grades; Be sure to find out the ranking of status, respect the highest status first, and then respect the second highest status. Once the order is wrong, it will not only cause unhappiness and doubt, but also embarrass distinguished people.

Toast gesture:

When a humble person makes a toast to a respected person, he must leave the table and approach the respected person. When touching a glass, the mouth of the glass must be lower than the other glass. No matter how much each other drinks, they should raise their glasses first. If an honorable person leaves the table to propose a toast to a humble person, the humble person will be moved and excited.

Drinking rules:

Of course, the person with the highest status is the first target of being drunk at the banquet, but it can only be enough. After a respectable person drinks moderately and fully appreciates the loyalty of his subordinates, he usually enjoys the entertainment time when his subordinates are flushed and drunk with each other.

Rules of engagement:

If two organizations attend a banquet, usually the host will try to put the guests down, but someone will change the wine. Both coaches are not the main force in the wine war, and most of them are middle-level backbones. Therefore, it is usually the middle level who dares to throw caution to the wind for the fallen leaders.

The greatest value of the wine competition between the two units is not to smooth each other out, but to enhance internal cohesion-they seldom show their subordinates the most direct opportunity in front of the leaders, and their loyal performance will make the leaders enjoy it.

Wine can make people relaxed, excited, reduce self-control, and easily establish mutual trust and intimate relationship. In human society, it is almost a universal emotional adhesive. However, in a society where human factors are less considered and rules and procedures are emphasized, it is difficult for booze to become an important link in business and official activities, and alcohol is more common in occasions where individuals exchange feelings.

Therefore, East Asian countries with relatively strong human society all have relatively strong wine-urging culture, while Japan, South Korea and China all have different social levels, and the intensity of wine table culture is obviously progressive. Although China people don't compete with each other when they are old, the organizational system of the whole society in China has been brought into the top-down 15 administrative level, which is far stricter than that in South Korea.

In addition,1China's social transformation since the late 1950s has brought all social relations of China people into the "unit"; Organizations in Japan and South Korea only care about the salary increase and promotion of their members, while organizations in China also care about issues such as household registration, housing allocation, job title evaluation and children's admission to the park.

The system of personal extreme attachment is the foundation of the birth of Chinese wine culture.

However, once you leave the hierarchical occasions, China people don't have so many rules and drink a lot less. According to a survey conducted by the University of Waterloo in Canada, the consumption of alcohol dropped by 70% immediately after Chinese immigrated to Canada.

However, as long as you stay in China, you will inevitably frequent the wine table. The booze culture not only makes some people miserable, but also becomes the biggest test and pressure for young people to enter the company. Because I can drink, I can get appreciation quickly. There are a large number of young people on the internet asking how to exercise alcohol.

I think this way of life, with the rise of the new middle-aged and new middle class, is gradually fading out of China people's wine table culture.