There is a saying in the countryside that "visitors don't serve three courses, but unfortunately nine people don't know". What does it mean?

Proverbs, as a traditional culture in China, have existed for many years. Of course, with the development of the times and the progress of society, some proverbs with strong feudal colors have also been eliminated by the times.

And those positive proverbs that encourage people to develop upward have also been preserved and even spread all over the world. So this sentence? Visitors don't set three courses, but unfortunately ten people don't know. What's the point?

This sentence is literally easy to understand, which means the etiquette of preparing dishes when someone comes to home as a guest.

In fact, this practice is quite common in our daily life, especially when friends get together or ask for help. The food on the table doesn't have to be delicious, but it must be rich, and there must be vegetarian dishes, so as to show your sincerity well.

Nowadays, many people prepare whatever is expensive when entertaining guests to show their respect for them. However, there were not many cuisines prepared by farmers at that time, but people would definitely not prepare three or four dishes when entertaining guests. Even if they tried hard, they would have to make up five dishes. This is the etiquette of hospitality.

Not only do we treat our guests like this, but people cook in their own homes on holidays, and the dishes they cook will not be three or four.

First of all, China has always believed that there are fortunes in numbers, and summed up the meanings represented by one to nine, such as "66 Dashun", "Congratulations on getting rich" and "Long-term success".

But the meaning represented by three or four is somewhat unlucky. What does three mean? Scattered? There are four homophones? Die? When people do great things, such as getting married or moving, they don't choose a day with three or four days. This is also a thing that continues to this day. Old people often say, pick one? Beautiful day? That's what it means.

Not only in the choice of dates and the preparation of cuisines, people even feel unlucky when calculating 34. Even now, with such advanced concepts, people still reject these two characters.

This is also the subtle influence of culture on us. Of course, everything has two sides. On the one hand, three and four represent bad luck, but they also have good meanings in some ways.

In ancient times, people celebrated it especially when they held some sacrificial activities? Three? The truth is that there are three dishes for ancestor worship; The number of incense burning is also three, which is to hope that the ancestors will be reborn as soon as possible and is also a kind of respect for them.

To this day, in rural areas of China, this custom continues during festivals such as ancestor worship in Tomb-Sweeping Day. But, of course, you can't prepare three courses for the living, and it may even cause guests' disgust.

The whole sentence means that you can't prepare three dishes for your guests, but nine out of ten people don't know this truth. Now that netizens understand this truth, we should pay attention to the quantity of dishes when entertaining guests in the future.