Li Jian, a famous singer, once gave such a summary: As soon as he heard it, he was from Northeast China, and he was from Liaoning; Listen, he's not from the northeast. He must say that he is from Heilongjiang and the rest are from Jilin.
Outsiders' impressions of the Northeast people are divided into two poles, either they like it very much or they don't like it. People who like it think that the northeast people are generous and loyal, while people who don't like it think that the northeast people all talk like this. "What are you looking at" and "What are you looking at?" They are savage and unruly. In their eyes, Northeasters have become synonymous with boors.
In fact, we northeast people also have a delicate side, especially in the training of table manners.
Northeasters have to receive strict table manners education since childhood. There are many taboos in table manners. If you want to eat a good meal safely, you should try to avoid these minefields.
1# Entry-level table manners
Don't smack your lips when eating. Eating loudly is regarded as disgusting behavior by the northeast people.
You can't drink soup loudly. It's impolite to purr when drinking soup.
Don't sneeze at the table. You must turn your head to one side or cover your mouth and nose with a tissue.
2# dining table is in good order.
Young people are at the end of the food chain at the dining table of the northeast people. Older people don't go to the table, and younger people are not allowed to go to the table; Older people can't move chopsticks, and younger people can't move chopsticks. Even people in their 40 s and 50 s should strictly abide by this rule as long as there are people older than them at home. The position facing south at the dinner table must be reserved for the oldest person in the family.
3# table must not knock on the bowl.
At the dinner table in the northeast, you think that knocking on the bowl with chopsticks is a performance of having fun, then you are all wet.
If the child knocks on the bowl with chopsticks, it will definitely attract the mother's scolding. "No matter what you knock, a good meal won't block your mouth."
Why are you being scolded? Because in the table manners of the northeast people, knocking on the bowl with chopsticks is to scold the chef for not doing well.
4# can't sing and hum songs when eating.
No matter how happy you are, you can't sing and hum at the dinner table. If your mother hears you, she will exclaim, "What are you singing? Do you want to grow up and beg? "
5# can't look in the mirror when eating.
When eating in the northeast, the whole family must sit around the table and eat honestly. As long as you sit down, you can't stand up at will, you can't change your posture at will, and you can't stand up and look in the mirror with your rice bowl.
Children will be scared by adults and say, "Look in the mirror when eating." Look in the mirror when eating. When you walk alone, you will feel that someone is following you.
When I was a child, I was very timid. When a person leaves, he always feels that someone is behind him, and he is most afraid of this. Sometimes I look in the mirror when I eat, and I am inevitably worried. I felt someone behind me when I was walking.
6# Be sure to finish all the rice in the bowl, not a grain left.
Northeast China is known as the "Northern Warehouse". It is rich in grain. The more food-rich places, the more people in Northeast China cherish food. Everyone will eat the rice in the bowl when eating.
If children don't eat, adults will say, "If you don't finish the rice in the bowl, you will have a pockmarked face."
Pockmarked is a sequela of smallpox, but children don't understand this. They only know that their faces are pockmarked and uneven, so they eat every grain of rice in the bowl.
7# Pay attention to chopsticks.
At the dining table of the northeast people, taking chopsticks is also very particular. Don't hold it too high, parents will worry that you will grow up, boys will be far away from home, girls will be far away, and it is not easy to go home.
When holding chopsticks, your index finger should not point at others, which is very impolite, just like pointing at others.
When holding chopsticks, the little finger should not be tilted, and people will call it sissy. "sissy" is a curse word in the eyes of northeast men and northeast women.
8# can't be all vegetables.
When eating food, you can only put the food in your own direction, you can't put the food all over the plate, and you can't pick the food from top to bottom. If you eat a banquet outside, you will be stared at by the whole table. When you finish eating, your ears will definitely get hot, because everyone at that table is talking about your ignorance.
9# Pay attention to the time when you clean up the dishes.
In the northeast, efforts will also be scolded when things are not going well. For example, if there are still people who haven't finished eating, you should clean up the dishes and chopsticks diligently. Because in the northeast, it means to dislike others eating too slowly and drive people off the table.
10# Chopsticks cannot be misplaced.
Northeasters should not put chopsticks in disorder when eating. It is best to hold it in your hand at all times. If you want to put them down, you must put the tips of chopsticks gently on the edge of the plate in front of you, not directly on the table. Never put chopsticks on rice, no matter whether they are inserted obliquely or vertically, they will be beaten, because that way of putting chopsticks is only available when worshipping God.
Because there are too many rules and taboos, children in Northeast China have to listen to their mother's nagging at every meal and always beware of their mother's chopsticks.
Eating and singing, chopsticks directly hit the mouth; The plate is full of vegetables, and chopsticks reach over to knock off the dishes; Put chopsticks in the rice, and mother's chopsticks will touch her head at once.
Simple table manners and strict training procedures have kept the Northeast people from generation to generation a little delicate in rough and unrestrained.
So did you notice these table manners when you were in contact with the northeast people? If you are a child in the northeast, can you safely finish a meal in the northeast?