This is a saying in rural areas, which means "You cannot cook three dishes, you cannot use three long and two short chopsticks, and you cannot sit six people on the table."

First of all, "Don't serve three dishes" is easy to understand. In rural areas, good things come in pairs, and even numbers are considered auspicious numbers, while odd numbers are unlucky. Moreover, if you serve three dishes to a guest, the guest will think that you are swearing, and you have no intention of entertaining him sincerely. The host will also avoid so much, and the more dishes he prepares for guests, the more he or she pays attention to the guests. But now I don’t seem to pay so much attention to it. When I eat out, I just order as many as I can eat, no matter what.

"Chopsticks cannot be made into five" does not mean that there cannot be five pairs of chopsticks, but that there cannot be three long and two short chopsticks. The chopsticks used at home may not be of the same style, so the lengths will be different. When we are entertaining guests, we must be careful not to place different chopsticks on the table. This will make it appear that our host's life is too casual. Not paying attention to the banquet, this also shows the host's sincerity in hospitality in subtle ways.

"The number of seats cannot be six" means that there cannot be only six people sitting on a table. The tables we use are generally round tables. Once six people sit there, they will look like turtles. A turtle is round and has four legs. With the head and tail of the turtle, there are exactly six. This is also a curse in the countryside, so it doesn't matter whether there are five or seven people at the table, but it must not be six people, otherwise In their eyes, there is a table full of "turtles".

We have the impression that life in rural areas should be very difficult, but in fact there are still many rules in rural areas, and many things that have been discarded by the fast pace of the city are still passed down in the countryside. In fact, some of them are not the old feudalism we imagined. Instead, many of them are very reasonable and worth learning and passing on.