People in the Song Dynasty praised Liu Yong, the great star of pop music at that time. "Wherever there is a well, you can sing Liu Ci."
this sentence is replaced by praise for the current domestic liquor, that is, "where there is a government office, liquor is produced".
In China people's vocabulary, "official residence" does not refer to the official residence and private residence. According to Ci Hai, it is the general name of official residence. In modern Chinese, official residence is actually the government, but it does not include the central government-it is called the imperial court, the official residence in the mouth of the people, and usually refers to the county-level government.
China is the world's largest producer of liquor, especially spirits commonly known as liquor. There are more than 2,4 counties in China, so there are more than 2,4 government offices. Liquor is a big taxpayer, and local governments regard wineries as a cash cow of local finance, so there are no fewer than 2,4 kinds of liquor in China.
the main measure of liquor is alcohol intensity.
Up to now, China has not invented or produced or sold a portable alcohol tester. In some places in the mainland, the basic way for people to test liquor at banquets is to dip chopsticks in the wine, then light it with a lighter, and then the qualified wine will be burned, and then the degree of aroma, catchiness, stamina and so on will be studied.
wine is a popular product. In addition to the need to buy wine with a wine ticket in the planned economy era, at present, any adult can buy wine and drink as long as he has money.
On different occasions, wine plays different roles.
In a bar, wine plays the role of a medium for lovers' tryst. It can bring two hearts together quickly by pouring and sipping their hearts.
in pubs and at home, wine is sometimes a good medicine to drown your sorrows. When you encounter stock lock-up, frustrated in love, frustrated by the company, hopeless promotion, husband and wife turning against each other, and lovers empathizing, you can forget your troubles for the time being and eliminate the obstacles in your chest.
in the 3 years of reform and opening up, in the official government-now called the government, wine has become an absolutely indispensable work content, investment promotion means, financing tools, public relations weapon and development motivation for governments at all levels.
it is no exaggeration to say that if our country had a law like the prohibition law in the United States in the 192s, and the whole country strictly banned alcohol, 3 years of reform and opening up in various places might not have made such great achievements.
wouldn't it be so exaggerated? Bloggers must be skeptical.
let me elaborate.
China's traditional culture pays attention to self-cultivation and self-restraint, and advocates self-suppression of people's personality.
In our traditional education, children are never encouraged to be outspoken and outspoken. They are all taught from an early age to respect their elders (that is, to respect their leaders when they grow up), to be polite and stable, not to be rash or frivolous, to look at people's faces, to show their emotions, to distinguish between men and women, and so on. As a result, China people are unsmiling and reserved in public, especially in official occasions, or to laugh and socialize. But deep down, China people are not introverted, and they are in spirit and ups and downs.
And wine, especially the hard liquor at the official banquet, is a stimulant, aphrodisiac and dispersing agent for the attendees.
in the past 2 years, I have traveled all over the country for my work, and I have drunk official wine for hundreds of times. I have a lot of experience in official wine, and I hereby sum it up and share it with my bloggers.
Official liquor usually has the following characteristics:
First, it is a banquet hosted by local governments as a public expense, and few officials pay for it themselves.
The reasons for hosting a banquet can be roughly divided into the following categories:
1. Entertaining superior leaders and other power departments, including project approval, financial allocation, policy fulfillment, project coordination, welcoming and sending, etc.
2. Banquet for various visiting delegations, such as Red Tour, Poverty Relief Mission, Lecturer Mission on Party Building and Theory of Three Represents's Advanced Experience, Study Mission of Development Zone, Investment Environment Mission, Foreign-funded Hong Kong Businessmen and Taiwanese Businessmen's Tour Mission, Social Security, Medical, Rural Areas, Rural Areas and Farmers' Collective Land Circulation Study Mission, Mutual Visit Mission to Counterparts, State-owned Enterprise Reform Mission, Tourism Project Development Mission, etc., with various names, which can be created at will;
3. Attracting investment: This is a top priority for local governments for domestic and foreign investors and customers who are interested in investing here;
4. government public relations: for example, a major government project needs to implement bank loans; The "three links and one leveling" in a development zone needs the help of electric tigers, oil tigers, coal tigers and road tigers. A big boss promised to invest in a big project somewhere; The industry in an advanced area should be transferred to the local area; Government leaders will personally greet each other with smiles and hold a banquet to entertain all kinds of people.
second, the official wines are generally made from famous wines produced by local governments, and it is an iron law to never use wines from other places. Sichuanese use Yanghe Daqu, which is a joke. Northeastern people drink Shanxi Fenjiu instead of Beidahuang Gaoliang, which is a disgrace for Hunan people to use Beijing Erguotou instead of alcoholic Xiangquan, and so on.
Third, official wines are high-alcohol spirits, and official banquets, red wine, yellow wine, beer and other low-alcohol wines are decorations. If you only entertain guests with this kind of wine, you will seriously neglect or despise leaders or guests.
I remember sitting at the same table with a director who came to Shanghai in Xinjiang. He looked at the red wine in the glass and said to himself, "Shit, the mouthwash is also here!"
Another time, in a development zone in Ningbo, the host entertained a rich man in Northeast China with aged yellow wine. Several Northeasters obviously showed displeasure and took out a large stack of red tickets on the spot to greet the waiter: "Miss! Take a few bottles of Maotai! " Make the host extremely embarrassed.
In other words, guests can't help drinking when the host makes a toast. Unless you beg to pretend to be a grandchild and brother, I won't drink at all, otherwise you despise or neglect the host, which leads to unhappy seats. I have experienced this scene many times, and I have described it in detail in my essay "Talking about the Drinking Habits of Shanghainese".
It seems that the phrase "lay down one's life to accompany a gentleman" is frequently used only in banquet occasions.
fourth, the official banquet usually has one or several local beautiful civil servants or even local TV anchors with amazing capacity for drinking as the leading role of the whole audience, which is an indispensable highlight of official banquet. Without beautiful women, the official banquet may turn into an empty joy such as drawing water from bamboo baskets or beating dogs with meat buns.
as I said before, the hard liquor at the official banquet is a stimulant, an aphrodisiac and a dispersing agent for the attendees.
once a beautiful woman gets mad at a banquet, raise a glass to the visiting leaders, bosses, all kinds of electric tigers and road tigers frequently. Those officials and bosses who are usually reserved and unsmiling can borrow wine to play at this time, and take the opportunity to behave frivolous and have a mouthful of erotic jokes, and all the official shopping malls are swept away.
I remember attending an official banquet hosted by a municipal government in Jiangxi, and several beautiful women ran to propose a toast to the guests.
The dialect there calls drinking tuo wine, or tuo for short.
The host emphasized the ambiguous pun meaning of drinking tuo wine.
As a result, the beauty and the boss and leading guests looked at each other with deep affection, holding up a full glass of white wine and shouting: "You take off", "You take off", "You take off first", "Let's take off together" and "If you don't take off, it doesn't count." As a result, the whole audience was booed. Then I took it off, and the atmosphere reached a climax. Next, I took a photo with the beautiful woman in my arms.
Do these leading bosses dare to shout "You take off first" to beautiful women in another occasion? The aphrodisiac and exciting effects of official wine are vividly reflected here.
when I went to Qinghai that year, a director gave a banquet, accompanied by the second generation of beautiful women who were married between Han and Tibetan. As soon as the director opened his mouth, he stopped me: "She is a kilo of alcohol!" Looking at the graceful beauty, I was almost dumbfounded, and the idea of taking the initiative to propose a toast was scared away.
because I was going to do a project, they gave me a break. They didn't ask the beautiful woman to force me to drink a kilogram of white wine, but I was so drunk that I had to hold the wall when I walked the next day. I had a splitting headache and even forgot what the beautiful woman looked like, but I still had to drink it at night!
Fifth, official liquor has really played a great role in promoting the local economy.
Mr. Runzhi has a famous saying: "Revolution is not about inviting guests to dinner, making an essay, painting and embroidering, so it can't be so elegant, so leisurely and gentle, so gentle and courteous."
When the reform and opening up came, people kept pace with the times and changed this supreme instruction to: "Revolution is to treat people to dinner".
Indeed, the current reform is also a revolution. How can the economy develop at a high speed without inviting guests to dinner during the reform and opening up?
in order to keep Guan Yunchang, Cao Cao "had a small banquet on three days and a big banquet on five days, and he got on the horse and got off the horse with gold and silver". In now, Cao Mengde will feel very ashamed---three days to open a banquet? It's too petty for a talented and ambitious traitor!
in recent years, if the local government dares to entertain investors, investigation groups and leaders for inspection for three days, the result must be that it will quickly become an underdeveloped area.
Because China people deeply believe that the host's enthusiasm and solemnity for entertaining guests, the richness of the banquet and the beauty of the banquet are the most basic attitude of the host to the guests.
"Food is the most important thing for the people" is an old saying of China people, but in modern Chinese, it means "wine is the most important thing for officials". The most concrete manifestation of the host's hospitality is booze, and I don't drink wine, but I've been all over the country, and I don't seem to have met it once.
in order to attract investment, local governments should not only build an investment environment and design various preferential policies, but also express their enthusiasm and urgency through banquets.
wine is a stimulant and an emotional adhesive. Between the cups, the gentle mask is torn off, the strangeness is eliminated, and family ties are born, so you can be brothers and shake hands, and investment projects, bank loans, and higher-level approvals will be green all the way.
it's hard to find a province, city, district and county in the country that doesn't rely on drinking at all, but only introduces projects to promote economic development by negotiating and signing contracts in government conference rooms.
Sixth, sometimes, an official wine will produce unexpected dramatic effects.
this is a true story.
the new secretary m of j province took office.
secretary m used to be the director of the bureau of retired veteran cadres in a certain city, and he knows that among the retired veteran cadres, there are many talented people, but people often go for a cool tea and get a cold shoulder. There are few cars and horses in front of the door, and it depends on their faces if they want a car-the retired veteran cadres are quite resentful.
on his third day in office, secretary m held a banquet in the first guest house of the provincial government, usually the banquet hall of the state guesthouse in each province, and personally hosted a banquet for more than a dozen veteran cadres who once held high positions in the province.
During the dinner, Secretary M respectfully toasted the veteran cadres, asked them to be caring and attentive, and humbly asked them about the situation in M province. The veteran cadres were greatly moved and lamented. Except for the official Spring Festival group worship, the former two provincial party secretaries never invited them once. Occasionally, when they met in the provincial government, they only nodded sideways.
So, the veteran cadres were given a face-to-face lecture on how to start things in J province, and what aspects should be paid special attention to.
At the end of the banquet, Secretary M personally helped the veteran cadres get on the bus, and each gave a gift.
a few days later, the province held a meeting of directors of all departments in the province, and a seat card marked with the name of the director was made in front of each seat.
J province's style of work has always been exhausted, and all the people present at the meeting were small roles such as office directors of various departments and bureaus, and most of the top leaders were absent.
Because Secretary M had already learned the situation from the veteran cadres, he had a well-thought-out plan. When he spoke, he slapped the conference table hard and said with an expression, "The cadres in J province are really busy! Too busy to even have time to go to the provincial party Committee meeting! None of Sika matches the number! How will this meeting be held? It's closed today! Meeting! "
The cadres below were frightened out of their wits, and when they knew that something was wrong, they immediately reported it to their immediate superiors.
The meeting continued the next day, and the heads of all the departments and bureaus sat behind the seats honestly, but almost no one brought notebooks and pens.
secretary m thundered on striking table again: "all the cadres in j province are so obsessed with computers that they don't even have to bring notebooks to the meeting!" "
These two acts of intimidation severely killed the cadres in M province. Since then, officials of all sizes have been much more honest.
under the leadership of secretary m, the economy of j province has doubled in a few years, and secretary m has gained excellent reputation among officials and people in j province.
However, everything has two sides.
the first is health.
Many local officials suffer from banquet dependence and alcoholism, and they feel uncomfortable without a banquet for three days. I have a friend who worships officials at the department level, and really turns into a banquet every night and a bathing place every day. He yawns at meetings and is full of energy at night. At a young age, I always have medicine boxes in my pocket, from Viagra to Pills, and I swallow them one at a time.
If you drink too much wine, fatty liver, diabetes and pancreatitis will become common diseases in officialdom. When I went to Inner Mongolia, Qinghai Province, I met young officials who drank a lot of meat while taking insulin at the banquet. According to them, almost all the cadres there had various chronic diseases, and many young cadres died suddenly, all of which were caused by acute pancreatitis and cirrhosis.
Last night at the Silk Road Hotel, a friend entertained the secretary of the county party committee of a Tajik autonomous county near the Afghan border in Xinjiang. He had attended a training course at the National Cadre College in Shanghai. I'm in the last seat.
"Silk Road" is the guest house of Xinjiang Office in Shanghai, where almost all ethnic minorities from Xinjiang live.
I'm trying to go on a diet these days. I want to relax for a while. In the morning, I have a steamed stuffed bun, a cup of soybean milk and an apple, half a box lunch at noon, and two slices of bread and a plate of boiled celery at night.
as soon as I received the text message, I knew that the diet plan had been aborted.
A table full of Xinjiang flavor: hand-grabbed mutton, tiger dishes, spicy mutton trotters, fried sheep kidneys, mutton offal soup, saute spicy chicken, red army dishes, thin paper bags, mutton pilaf, naan, cold-water fish in Selimu Lake and so on. The wine is Illite Qu.
on this occasion, pretending to be a grandson will be laughed at. So, I gave up drinking and drinking, and began to drink with some friends in Xinjiang.
The deputy general manager of the Silk Road Hotel, Uighurs, also came to accompany us intermittently-leave after a toast and come back later. He said that he would wander around five banquets at the same time tonight, wandering back and forth for entertainment. I was startled.
From 7: to 1: , it was a full three hours, which was still civilized. Eight people (three people didn't drink white wine) made three bottles of Yilite Qu.
After the end of the banquet, the fruit was served, but the secretary of the county party committee still wanted a big plate of roast mutton and a bowl of Xinjiang noodles for everyone.
I really admire their appetite and ability to drink. Aren't they afraid of illness?
I'm still going to stick to my diet plan.
next is corruption.
wine can be promiscuous.
If the banquet includes official banquet and three glasses of white wine, people's defensive mentality will be eliminated and they will enter a state of euphoria, and they can borrow wine to talk about everything. Therefore, all kinds of activities, such as abusing power for personal gain, accepting bribes, extramarital affairs and over-the-counter transactions, will get the tacit understanding through toasts at the banquet, so there are frequent official wonders of corrupt officials who advance wave after wave, one falls down and thousands stand up.
alas! Official wine, success is Xiao He, failure is me!
Although the Song Dynasty was always in fierce ethnic conflicts, in the early period of the Northern Song Dynasty, efforts were made to govern, the regime was stable, and politics, economy and culture were developed. The Southern Song regime also had a period of stability, and the economy also got some recovery and development.
the brewing industry in the song dynasty,