February 2 in some rural villages in Hunan, many villagers have to attend more than a hundred banquets a year, "with off" "favors" is twice the individual's annual income, the banquets brought about by wasteful comparison and a heavy burden to call the people suffering.
Today, such bad habits are gradually being abandoned. The villagers are enriching their spare time and helping each other to improve their relationship with each other. The "favor" is less, but the villagers are more humane.
In the past, the first thing you must do is to create a "momentum". Anhua County, Hunan Province, Jiangnan Town, Malu New Village, a year of firecrackers value of "at least 3 million yuan", the village of 2,000 people, the equivalent of 1,500 yuan per person annual firecrackers. Village director Wang Liangyuan said, not only the funeral firecrackers 10,000 yuan "to start", there are happy firecrackers guests "to a hang", the host "back to a hang" of the preoccupation, who put more, the more face!
In the case of the "Crackerjacks", it is the "Crackerjacks" that is the most important.
Inflatable arches on the road in front of the owner's house are also very popular. Anhua County Dafu Township resident Zhou Yan told reporters that she had counted an ordinary farmers banquet arch, a **** there are 80.
"It doesn't really work, but renting one costs a hundred dollars a day." She also said that every banquet, the dishes are more or less the same, "always make people can not raise the appetite." After guests leave, nearly half of the remaining food ends up being poured out.
Li Shizhong, a villager from Xinqiao Village in Dafu Town, said his net income of 1.5 million yuan a year, but in 2015 he participated in more than a hundred banquets and sent out more than 20,000 yuan in gifts***. In order to try to "make more money" or send out "favors" to recover, some of the villagers birthday in the summer, the banquet will be postponed to the Spring Festival, because this time outside the work of the people are back... ...
Such a trend was halted by the 2017 Spring Festival. Several Xiaoyao villagers in Dafu Township put forward a proposal to the village committee to limit gifts for wine banquets, which was supported by the majority of the village. A few days later, the suggestion was written into the village rules and regulations.
Shaw Yeh-hun, a branch secretary of Xiaoyao village, said that even if alcohol is allowed, there is an upper limit of 100 yuan for gifts and 20 tables for banquets, and no firecrackers or arches are set up.
"No one has violated these regulations until now." Xiao Yehun said.
This village rule was soon echoed by more villages in Anhua County. In Malu Xincun, the phenomenon of "fighting guns" has disappeared, and the village has become peaceful and clean. Li Shizhong's annual expenditure on gifts was reduced to less than 2,000 yuan.
"In fact, everyone from the bottom of the heart to resent the wine, but just can not let go of face." Xiao Yexun said. Mutual wine banquets were once the main means of maintaining neighborhood relations, but are now being replaced by an increasingly rich amateur life. "This year, our village is preparing for the Spring Festival gala, everyone is highly motivated!" Xiao Yehun said.
Wang Shuangfeng, a villager from Malu Xincun, said she joined the village's square dance team and flower-drum opera team set up last year, and exchanged and practiced skills with her teammates every week. Last month, the group also went on an outing to a nearby forest park.
"Now even when we get together for meals, the cost is shared equally by each person." She said that getting along in this way has made everyone's feelings deeper than in the past.
They set up a volunteer association last year, which is not only responsible for the village's daily hygiene and security, but also often contacts public welfare organizations to offer condolences and help to poor families in the same village. "Bringing the energy and spending that used to be spent on organizing banquets to do these things makes more sense to me!" He said.