In order to reward everyone's hard work for a year, every company must be busy with annual meetings. In ancient times, the annual meeting was also called the "tail banquet", even in many places in modern times still maintain this name. So the question is, what is "tail tooth"? What are the customs of ancient "tail teeth"? Today I will take you to find out!
The origin of "Tail Tooth"
"Tooth" is a ritual for the Chinese folk to worship the earth. According to traditional customs, business people must prepare three sacrifices and four fruits, incense sticks and paper money on the second and sixteenth of each month in the lunar calendar, and worship the foundation owner (the earliest owner of the land) and the land master.
In the lunar calendar, February 2 is the first tooth, and December 16 is the last tooth.
The origin of "making teeth" comes from good social customs and habits, which are passed on from generation to generation. The so-called "tooth" is the abbreviation of "tooth flag". In ancient times, the wasteland was full of uncultivated land, and there were struggles to open up the land, resulting in fighting, beating, etc. For the sake of identification, the western side of each region (or military flag) is painted in the shape of animal teeth, such as horns, sheep horns, etc., to represent the people of each region, or the clans, or the army; as for the purchase and sale of ancient shopping malls , Is often called "Yalang" or "Yalang". Therefore, the businessmen paid to the "Yalang" to thank the "Yalang" and paid homage to the land god.
The tail feast must be "white cut chicken"
The indispensable part of the sacrificial ritual is a white cut chicken cooked by the rooster plucking its hair, which is used to symbolize the prosperity of business. The dishes after the worship can be used for family members or employees, so it is also called "zuoya".
If the employer is about to dismiss any employee, he will face each other with his head. If more than one person is dismissed, he will hold his chopsticks and pick up his head and face the person who will be "resigned". Any employee referred to by Wei Ya Jitou means that he or she will no longer hire him or her to find another job. This metaphorical method is tacit understanding between employers and employees, and no verbal dismissal or written notice is required.
The history of "End Tooth"
The Festival of End Tooth is mainly popular in the southeast coast, especially in Fujian and Taiwan. But it is indeed a native Chinese traditional festival, which is related to the Chinese worship of the land god.
There is a legend. It is said that there was a domestic servant Zhang Fude in the Zhou Dynasty.Because the master went to be an official far away and missed the young girl, he accompanied the master's love daughter to find her father. On the way, he encountered a blizzard. Zhang Fude sacrificed his life to save his daughter from freezing to death. The owner was grateful for his loyalty and built a temple to worship. King Zhou Wu gave him the title "Hou Tu". Later, everyone regarded it as a blessing to the village and the people, and he was honored as "the god of merit".
Sacrifice of the “tail tooth”
刈（yì) package
On this day, people’s homes will burn the land and public funds to worship the god of merit and set a bench in front of the door. Serving five-flavored bowls, burning scriptures and silver paper, to worship the foundation master (the worship of the foundation of the house). All businesses will also entertain their employees to reward their hard work in the past year. However, this custom has gradually disappeared. The main food is run cakes and 刈包. Run bing is made of bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, bean curd, garlic, egg paste, tiger moss, peanut powder, citron sauce and other foods. The food in the kuaibao is three-layered meat, pickles, dried bamboo shoots, coriander, peanut powder, etc., which are all delicious local foods.
The development of "tail teeth"
The most popular custom for the development of the Spring Festival to this day is that companies and enterprises hold dinner parties and employee networking activities on the same day, which are called tail teeth banquets, as well as tail teeth parties and tail In short, the basic style is the company’s banquet for employees for a year-end dinner and networking, to thank and commend the employees for their hard work. It is the place rich in human touch that prepares the employee so as not to affect the employee's livelihood.
There are two forms of tail teeth: banquet and party. In addition to dinners in various departments, a large-scale singing and dancing concert will be held to entertain employees.
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