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Heyang: Did you drink or was forced to drink at various dinner parties during the just passed Spring Festival? A late survey has shown that people in some provinces drink a lot more than others. We’ll find out who is the king of drinking in china. Guys, did Chinese people drink a lot during the Chinese New Year holiday week?
Ryan: Well actually I just saw a report published on sohu.com that showed that netizens from 26 provinces and cities have been drinking alcohol every day for 7 days straight the spring festival vacation. And some of the numbers are 59 percent of the drinking activities took place in the evening, since many people stayed up late during the vacation and would not like to get up early to have a big lunch with alcohol. So the big dinner came in the evening when people finally had enough time to drinking, chat at the table. And most drinking activities happed on the second day of January on the Chinese lunar calendar, right.
Heyang: So instead of on New Year’s Eve, it was the second day of the new year’s. Why is that, Luo Yu?
Luo Yu: Because it’s da nian chu er, and da nian chu er is the time when married daughters go back to their original family, and it is the time for the married couples to meet their in-laws, especially for husband to meet his in-laws, you know.
Heyang: so the guy came to your house, and the father-in-law is like you need to show me that you are devoted to her so you drink more! It that the situation?
Luo Yu: Yeah it is (really?), I think it’s more or less the situation here we are talking about, also the ranking is also very interesting. If you look at the ranking of drinking monsters or the king of drinking in china, the top 9 drinkers on Spring Festival Eve dinners are people from Shandong, Jiangsu, Hebei, Shanxi, Anhui, Henan, Beijing, Shanxi and Sichuan which I totally disagree with. Because where’re the people from Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia?
Heyang: Luo Yu is from Xinjiang, so do you think that you guys in general drink a lot?
Luo Yu: I think they drink a lot. And even people from Hebei, that’s our Chinese culture. I mean, I don’t know whether Ryan has got used to get this already but you know I remember when I visited Cheng de, a city very famous for it’s mountain resort, and the drinking culture there is that you have to drink up two mugs of red wine or bai jiu, and then the banquet can officially get started.
Heyang: if you just piled it down, go bottoms up all the time you don’t have the chance to appreciate the taste of the wine, but that’s really interesting, is that a very different drinking culture China versus the US?
Ryan: Oh my god, so much so. I mean, so the way Luo Yu described it, it sounds kind of obligatory. You know what I mean? It’s like, there is such a structure to it. I feel like in the US, there is not really a structure, people kind of drink in their own pace, you know what I mean. And you know, something like, I could at any time during the meal like I give someone a cheers just like a sip, nothing more than that I think. So I definitely think that’s a huge difference, this structure.
Heyang: is there a drinking custom during this spring festival?
Luo Yu: We did have this custom according to our social conventions. But the original purpose during this spring festival was that we were worshipping our gods and goddesses and pay our tribute to our ancestors. However, as this society has been evolving, the custom has been changed.
Heyang: And there are a few of our wechat listeners who can’t believe that that rankings champion wasn’t someone from the northeast china provinces.
Luo Yu: But actually if you look at the ranking 7 out of 9 provinces are located in northern part of china so which comes as a not surprise to me.
Heyang: So stereotype sometimes works. Sometimes! And also I think it’s not like Chinese people drink all the time. Like what Ryan said earlier, it’s more because when people are gathering together and you’re with friends and family and you’re having a big meal and people almost feel it’s imperative that you need to fill up the glasses and drink. But it’s hardly because people enjoy it so much or you do it everyday, right. It’s because the occasion.
Luo Yu: Yeah I mean according to a research 84 percent of the respondent dislike drinking culture. And nearly 75 percent of the people disgust it. So not so many people like the drinking culture, especially we have a drinking culture like always persuading other people to drink and you always flatter your bosses during some occasions, so it’s not very pleasant for me.
Heyang: Thank god spring festival is not a time you have to meet up with your bosses. It’s only family, right?
Luo Yu: Sometimes occasionally you have to do.
Heyang: Yeah I think the drinking culture has sort of kidnapped some of us. But sometimes you need to try to break away from it. I think as drinking too much could be a problem but drinking a glass or two or having something that is totally complimentary to the food you’re having. Let’s say when you are having a piece of red meat, isn’t it just superb and ideal to have half a glass of red Borolo. Or, just you know, red wine. Isn’t it? Have I said too much?
Ryan: Well yeah and I would even say like in the US you know, I would dare you to go to a barbecue and not have like a beer or two you know what I mean, it just kind of something that you do, but it’s not something you would go overboard with.
Heyang: As our wechat listeners Han says quit drinking. They were made by the process of, I think he is taking about the fermentation process and he thinks it’s not very pleasant based on lots of research, is more of a drug and is harmful to people and he’s even saying it’s more harmful than tobacco and weed. I think binge drinking certainly, it becomes a killer to you. And as a matter of fact, they contain more calories than most people think, that is also something that we should let people know.
Luo Yu: Yeah for health concerns, I think if we look at the liver diseases, 80 percent of the liver diseases are related to drinking, it also does a lot of harm to our cardiovascular system as well.
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