"If you ask me casually on the street, 8 out of 10 people are there for a banquet." The owner of a department store in Dongfang Bazhuo Town told reporters that some people even received 6 invitations in one day.
"In the past half month, I have spent five to six thousand yuan on various banquets, which is equivalent to one month's salary." Li Wen, a villager in Dongfang Dazhanpo, said.
Chen Jun, a middle school teacher in Bazhuo Town: The college admission notice has not yet come out. Many parents just write down a random school on the invitation in order to catch up with the banquet. Some parents even threw a banquet, but their children did not Passed the exam.
Residents of Dongfang Basuo Town: When will this kind of human exchanges end?
Hotel entrance banquets are hotly booked, and tables are set up in the village for guests
html On August 16, in an open space in Dazhanpo Village, Basuo Town, a study banquet was going on lively, with the host passing cigarettes, toasting, and greeting people. of guests. Different from the exquisite decoration in the hotel, the banquet in the village is more casual. The chef is invited to set up a stove in the open space, set up more than 30 round tables (10 people per table), and a decent banquet is set up. Villagers told reporters that this open space is public land in the village and is specially used to hold various banquets.In Basuo Town, a hotel has launched two sets of study banquet packages, priced at 588 yuan/seat and 688 yuan/seat respectively. Each banquet table is based on 10 people, and each table has about 13 dishes. The reporter learned from the hotel's sales manager that reservations for the college entrance banquet have been hot recently. There is still time available from the 19th to the 24th, and any number of tables can be accepted, but it becomes more difficult to book the later.
"It doesn't matter which school you go to, as long as you get the gift money."
"It's not even half way through this month, and I've already had five or six entrance banquets. It's really too much to eat like this." Li Wen, a villager in Dazhanpo, told reporters that the college entrance examination results will be released at the end of July. , as soon as the results of some candidates at home came out, and before they even started to fill in their application forms, they were already organizing a party for further study.
"The important thing is that the favors and gifts are in place, and no one cares about other things." Li Wen told reporters that the amount of gifts mainly depends on the closeness of the relationship and the number of gifts. Most of them range from 200 yuan to 5,000 yuan. "In the past half month, I have spent five to six thousand yuan on various banquets, which is equivalent to his monthly salary."
The human touch is getting weaker and weaker, and the smell of money is getting stronger.
Xiaoling, Basuo Town Fu Tonggang, a villager, received an invitation from a friend in the same village on WeChat. What made Fu Tong dumbfounded was that the purpose of the celebration was "the joy of having our two sisters admitted to college." "It's really a long-distance relationship. I've been contacted at every turn." Fu Tong said, "During this period, I was gathering together to hold a college entrance banquet. There was someone around me who received six invitations a day and rushed two or three times a day. Everything is normal."
Lin Fei, who works in Haikou, told reporters that he recently returned to the East to attend the college entrance banquet. "I paid more than 10,000 yuan in half-month gift money. I even used it as an excuse to go to work. I lost a few.”
Chen Jun, a teacher at a middle school in Bazhuo Town, believes that organizing a college entrance banquet can raise some money for children to go to college. It should be a mutual help between relatives and friends, but someone borrowed the banquet. Name, the actual practice of making money. He said that the university admission notice has not yet come out, so many parents just write down a random school on the invitation in order to catch up with the party. "The most outrageous thing I have ever seen is that some parents wrote on the invitation that their children were admitted to a 'Chinese University', and some parents threw a banquet, but their children failed to pass the exams. They went to travel and then came back to study again. It was just a different pattern. Make money. ”
The menu for the college entrance banquet at a hotel in Bazhuo Town
Calculate the calculation: How much gift money can be recovered by hosting a college entrance banquet?
How much gift money can be recovered after a college entrance banquet? Wu Kai, who held a college entrance banquet for his son in Basuo Town last year, calculated the calculation for reporters. If it were held in a hotel or restaurant, it would usually cost 700-800 yuan per table. Including tobacco, alcohol and other expenses, it would be about 1,000 yuan. Yuan/table. If held in the village, you can save 200-300 yuan per table.
Wu Kai said that there are usually 10 guests per table, and with the minimum standard of 200 yuan per person, each table will receive at least 2,000 yuan."If you have a good relationship, the starting price is usually 300 yuan to 500 yuan. The cost per table is fixed, but the gift money received fluctuates upward. The larger the scale of the event, the more gift money you receive. After a banquet, after removing the cost , you can earn at least 30,000 to 40,000 yuan."
People are looking forward to it: Changing customs requires government departments to issue policies
"Affected by the epidemic this year, everyone's income is not as good as before, but they still have to spend a sum of money to deal with such favors. It’s really not necessary. On the surface, everyone goes to the banquet in a friendly manner, but secretly they are quite complaining.” Lin Tai, a villager in Shisuo Village, Basuo Town, said that individual or family efforts alone cannot promote local customs change. Government departments have introduced policies to promote changes in social climate.
Wang Jinbin, Party branch secretary and village committee director of Haorui Village, Banqiao Town, Dongfang City, said that since 2014, the village has successively completed the reform of red and white events customs, and made clear provisions in the township regulations and civil covenants: Each family is Immediate family members are not allowed to hold more than two wedding banquets, and they are not allowed to hold wedding banquets in the name of further education, full moon, etc. Funerals should be organized sparingly. Children should also be frugal when they get married. Guests at banquets can only eat at the host's house. "Recently, other towns and villages are organizing banquets for college entrance examinations, but there are almost no such banquets in our village."
Department Action: Dongfang City organized undercover inspections to strictly control violations and participation The reporter learned that on August 18, the Oriental Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision issued the "Notice on Carrying out Special Rectification of Party Members and Cadres and National Public Officials Organizing and Participating in the "Enrollment Banquet"." The notice stated that as the annual college entrance examination and high school entrance examination enter the application and admission stage, the problem of party members and cadres and national public officials in Dongfang City violating regulations or participating in "admission banquets" has shown a rebound and resurgence.
"Some party members and cadres and state officials blatantly organize banquets for their children to attend school; some break them up into parts and make money in batches and locations in the name of celebrating relatives and friends; some cover it up, half-promoting, and half-doing. They gradually lose their bottom line due to the persuasion of relatives and friends, and take the lead in breaking laws and disciplines; some cannot withstand repeated invitations from colleagues and students, and illegally participate in 'admission banquets' outside the scope of direct blood relatives, etc.," the notice stated, and the various disciplinary inspection and supervision agencies will talk to each other. We will strengthen the supervision and inspection of illegally organized college entrance banquets through reminders, accepting reports, and open and covert visits, and conduct random inspections at major hotels, restaurants, and villages across the city from time to time. We must resolutely discover and investigate strictly.
html On August 22, the Oriental Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision paid close attention to the entrance points of the high school entrance examination and college entrance examination, carried out overt and covert investigations into illegal arrangements and participation in "admission banquets", dug deep into clues about party members and cadres' violations of discipline, and strictly controlled unhealthy practices such as illegal arrangements for "admission banquets" .Article source: Hainan Special Economic Zone Daily (ID: hntqb2014), People's Daily client, etc.
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