What "shame for honor" phenomenon exists around us? (Give examples)

The latest statistics and predictions of the relevant authorities, in 2005, China's food and beverage consumption of up to more than 880 billion yuan, per capita consumption of food and beverage 677 yuan; in 2006, the food and beverage industry will continue to maintain the momentum of rapid growth, is expected to exceed one trillion yuan.

But behind the good news, there are many people are concerned that a few people are ashamed of the extravagance, and even wasteful, deformed consumption is accelerating the proliferation of materialism. Some people to dietary needs outside the luxury as a symbol of wealth and status, not only with the construction of a conservation-oriented society contrary to the way, but also corrupted the social atmosphere, breeding ground for corruption.

Not the best but the most expensive luxury consumption honor and shame

April 1, 12 noon, is located in Beijing's North Fourth Ring Road on the edge of a seafood restaurant has been overcrowded. The lead lady told reporters: "The hall has long been full of casual guests, only the private rooms!" Although the Beijing Municipality expressly provides that the catering industry shall not have a minimum consumption, but here the minimum consumption of 3000 yuan for the private room, as if by convention, no one has ever raised objections. Speaking, the waitress handed over the menu. The reporter turned over, 3000 yuan of consumption really can not point to what dishes, because the price of food here is much more expensive than the average restaurant, a vegetable to more than 30 yuan.

As for those so-called signature dishes, the price of high smacking. The best shark's fin: dry fishing abalone silk sky nine wings, 638 yuan per person; scallop column dry fishing sea tiger shark's fin, 480 yuan per person; signature nest burning abalone: four head of South African abalone, 688 yuan per person; six head of South African abalone, 588 yuan per person; a head of South African fresh abalone, 618 yuan per person ......

In the capital, a seafood restaurant on the road of Fushihi, a seafood restaurant. The restaurant is located on Fushi Road in the capital city. less than 6 o'clock in the evening, the entrance parking space is full, the store is full of private rooms. more than 1,000 square meters of the hall is brilliant, colorful, wigwam pools, decorated with luxury.

Of course, with the luxury corresponding to its expensive menu: six Japanese big net abalone 6,800 yuan, eight Japanese big net abalone 4,800 yuan, ten Japanese big net abalone 2,800 yuan, seventeen head of the Japanese abalone 1,380 yuan; flower gum: consumption of the original yellow only flower gum male, 1,880 yuan, at least 8-10 per plate.

Such an expensive abalone, shark fins really someone to eat? The young waitress spoke up: "Everyone rushes to high-grade dishes, otherwise who comes to this kind of place?!" Of course, the only delicious food is not enough, but also have to have a good wine and wine to accompany the meal, create an atmosphere, where the list of alcoholic beverages is enough to whet your appetite, and show your "noble" status: 50 years Maotai 6800 yuan, 30 years Maotai 3800 yuan, 15 years Maotai 1980 yuan; foreign wine is dazzling, Scotch whisky, French brandy has everything, among them, Louis XIII price per bottle as high as 11888 yuan!

At a stone's throw across the road, there is another well-known seafood restaurant, the people call it the capital's "three knives" one of the name implies is to get down hard, special "slaughter" people. The price of food is not ambiguous: two net abalone 8,800 yuan each, Taiji Bird's Nest 1,068 yuan each. The hotel has 36 private rooms, which can accommodate 600 to 800 people, and 120 parking spaces.

Since ancient times, people have always believed that abalone is a very beneficial to the body of nourishing food, said abalone can nourish the yin, moisten the lungs, tonic deficiency, clearing heat, nourishing the liver and eyesight, so there is a "bright-eyed fish," the name. But today's nutritionists believe that many of the most expensive foods, including abalone, do not have nutritional value beyond the norm.

Professor Ma Guansheng of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety said there is little difference between the protein contained in abalone and eggs, and there is no unique advantage in other nutrient content such as calcium, iron, zinc, selenium and vitamins. In terms of providing nutrition, the difference between abalone and other common seafood is not much. Therefore, these valuable things in the nutrition does not have "valuable" place.

Despite this, bird's nest, the most expensive "saliva", abalone, the most delicious flavor, is still a lot of diners dream of food, but also some people to socialize and socialize an important bargaining chip and the "strength" of the embodiment. It is no wonder that abalone is worth hundreds of times more, and some dried abalone made of abalone can even become a symbol of gold in Hong Kong, which is known as "a mouthful of abalone, a mouthful of gold". As to whether shark's fin, bird's nest and abalone are really value for money and whether they are rich in nutritional value, it can be completely ignored.

Of course, in addition to socializing and socializing, restaurants are also a place to fight for wealth. A waitress at a seafood restaurant still feels aggrieved that she once kindly advised a customer that the food was almost ready. Unexpectedly, she was loudly reprimanded: "I'm happy to spend money, what do you care?" The girl, who came to Beijing from the northwest to work, burst into tears, and in front of her eyes, she couldn't see anything but the extra-thick gold chain around the guest's thick neck and the fat hand that kept waving the emerald set.

A boss surnamed Huang spoke bluntly, to treat is face, why not find a high-grade place. Not only to invite guests to pay attention to, their own meals also speak of enjoyment. Not to mention the dishes, even the whiteness of the tablecloth, will trigger his violent reaction. What you want is lavish cuisine, luxury and grandeur. As people often tease these people extravagance: "do not seek the best, but seek the most expensive".

No most expensive only more expensive luxury feast extravagant to shame

Some people have exclaimed that the wind of extravagance prevails, the parties came to the face of the information shows that a wave of sky-high prices and luxury rolled in: 150 yuan a "sky-high price of apples", 100,000 yuan one or two "sky-high price of tea! ".

During the Spring Festival, an upscale restaurant in the South launched a high-priced New Year's Eve dinner, "special price" but also 88,000 yuan; in the Southwest, the New Year's Eve dinner offer is also all the way to the high side, a restaurant sky-high banquet price tag pushed to 188,000 yuan. A "Changbaishan century-old ginseng stewed chicken" is worth 160,000 yuan.

The most explosive news is also counted in Hangzhou, a restaurant launched a 198,000 yuan of ultra-luxury New Year's Eve dinner! It is said that the meal has 20,000 yuan a Japan's best net abalone, Luzon yellow gum shark fin king and other delicious treasures. Even the tea, but also stored more than 50 years of Pu-erh ......

In order to satisfy the mouth, spend 198,000 yuan to eat a sky-high price of New Year's Eve dinner, the equivalent of eating a mid-range car, a staff 20 years of salary income, 1,000 students in poverty-stricken areas a year of tuition fees.

In the era of extreme material scarcity, people can only improve their lives during the New Year's Eve, so they always leave the best food for the family reunion to enjoy. People value the atmosphere and affection more than anything else, and want to celebrate the reunion. These New Year's Eve dinners seem to have changed their flavor. Affection is alienated, invisible feelings are visible luxury surrounded.

Related media in Beijing, Ji, Lu, Hebei conducted a survey, the conclusion is that the sky-high price of New Year's Eve dinner and corruption. According to industry insiders, high-priced New Year's Eve dinner is mostly for corporate consumption, group consumption, gifts in disguise. Among them, a large state-owned enterprises in a northeastern city ordered a one-time 10-table New Year's Eve dinner package priced at 16,800 yuan.

Beijing, a famous restaurant, a senior technician said, "really belongs to the luxury feast is more than a number of large enterprises, large groups of meals, a table at least a few thousand dollars, tens of thousands of yuan, more than 100,000 yuan a table is very common, and even hundreds of thousands of a table."

Mr. Ma, who has operated the catering industry, told reporters, "China's food culture has a long history. However, whether today or in history, abalone deeper meaning is beyond the food and culture and even with the wind of luxury ......"

Some time ago, a friend from the south of the deep feelings and reporters said, in the past said that the Guangdong people have more money, the south of the people have more money, did not think that in the The Beijing government has been working on a number of projects to improve the quality of life of the people in Beijing.

In Beijing, you can taste any flavor of the past and present. You can not only sit on the "Emperor Dragon Chair" dining, enjoy the palace-style luxury, to appreciate the graceful and noble royal style; you can also step into the Roman-style building with 168 luxury rooms "million people restaurant", to appreciate the known as "Asia's largest", "the largest", "the largest", "the largest", "the largest", "the largest", "the largest", "the largest", "the largest", "the largest", "the largest". "Asia's first large", an area of up to 30,000 square meters of sunshine patio; more in the membership fee of up to 100,000 yuan, the absolute guarantee of personal privacy space in the General Assembly Hall, without anyone to interfere with the banquet and party.

In fact, in recent years, the increasingly extravagant culture of corruption, the people have long had a complaint: "a cigarette, two two oil; a meal, a cow". To date, a meal has risen to ten head of cattle, a hundred head of cattle. The wind of eating and drinking not only play a misguided consumption of aberrant, but also to the whole society's extravagance to produce the role of fuel.

In 2003, the Northwest rumors of sky-rocketing prices, the year the "Dragon Imperial Banquet" actually ate 366,000 yuan! According to the Shanghai gold market at the time of the opening of the trading price, a table meal is equal to eat four kilograms of gold. This is a superb meal, there is a dragon beard phoenix rolls, with hundreds of carp whiskers to make a plate of food!

In 2005, a local restaurant launched the Qianlong Imperial Banquet. This up to 250,000 yuan of feast to eat a whole nine hours, divided into lunch and dinner two, lunch from 9 am to 1 pm, after a break of four hours for dinner, from 5:00 pm and then eat to 10:00 pm. The extravagance of the event is evident.

......This breathtaking feast can only be explained as a waste. Not only with the meaning of food itself is far away, but also today we are building a conservation-oriented society has a hundred harm rather than one benefit. As for the emergence of "human milk feast", "human body feast" and so on in recent years, it is a very small number of people indulging in the life of paper drunkenness, the pursuit of extravagance and a new hobby. In this regard, had a long time living and working abroad in Putian College, vice president of Chen Wenjin pained. He said, our country is not rich, there are tens of millions of poor people, but, a few people spend money like dirt, living a life of luxury and dissipation.

"It's easy to become extravagant from frugality, but difficult to become frugal from extravagance" is an old adage that has been passed down to the present day, but the wind of deformed consumption and extravagance has had a bad impact on society as a whole. According to Zhang Liming, editor-in-chief of Peking University Press, the evil wind of comparison and the vice of fighting for wealth have also appeared in the calm campus. Elementary school students compare the brand of learning tools, toys of high and low grades, how much pocket money. In middle school, students compare food, clothing and more than the use of cell phones, computers, private cars, than the home of the property, than the parents of the official rank and wallet. To the university, climbing more upgraded, a very small number of college students prefer to use "strength" to speak.

The prevalence of aberrant consumption and extravagance, and the early entry of students who are not yet economically independent into the ranks of the "fight for wealth", many knowledgeable people have expressed deep concern. Campus "comparison" wind and nowadays the society of this kind of extravagance compared to the vice, it is really small to see a big thing. The students' behavior is only a microcosm of the adults showing off their wealth. In the interview, many people suggested that to completely reverse this undesirable social trend, it is imperative to trace the roots, the establishment of a correct socialist concept of honor and shame, advocate a scientific and healthy lifestyle, purify the social environment, and put an end to all kinds of luxury and extravagance.