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My colleague Melles went to Guangdong two days ago.
At a friend’s welcome dinner, he, who has been poisoned by northern culture for many years, habitually prepares to pay the bill. For this reason, he is always concerned about the progress of the meal, pushing his forefoot on the ground with his left hand in his pocket and holding the phone, just to get the top spot when someone shouts “waiter, pay the bill!”
But what he has been waiting for for a long time is just one sentence: “Waiter, get the toothpicks!”
Life always has an end, and so is the meal. People are always used to holding a ceremony for the ending, as if this way can be worthy of the hardship of eating all the way.
In the north, this kind of closing ceremony is to rush to check out; in state-owned enterprises, the leader’s “I have something else” will promptly extinguish the second attempt. In Guangdong, the ending list of a dinner is everyone starting to pick their teeth.
This is a regional feature that most Cantonese don’t know about. No one gave an order, but everyone invariably reached out to the toothpick holder. Outsiders who strayed into the Guangdong dinner will always make a fuss in front of this southern style.
“Do you guys get stuffy after eating?? “
Cantonese people always ask back: “Huh? Isn’t it like the whole country?”
The history of the invention of toothpicks is untestable, anyway, prehistoric humans have learned how to save their expanding teeth. Toothpicks and teeth are like spears and shields. The two sides have fought for thousands of years around a gap of 0.01 millimeters. They have never distinguished themselves. The beef is still stuffed with teeth and the gums are still bleeding.
But the toothpicks in Guangdong have taken the lead in tame these interdental gaps, and there have been very few bleeding incidents on the teeth of Cantonese. Nowadays, Cantonese flick their teeth, and most of the time there is no debris between their teeth. They lift up toothpicks just to make themselves appear gregarious.
If you want to blend into this culture of wood and blood, northerners must restrain their poor and generous character, don’t call to pay, pinch thighs and stomped heels. All methods of detoxification can be used, don’t shout, shout You will find that no one is really rushing to give you money, they just look at you silently, with a trace of distress in their care.
This is how Melles went bankrupt in Guangzhou.
After he came back, he concluded: Seeing everyone taking out their teeth unhurriedly, you must take one out of them. If there is nothing, you have to poke hard. Not only do you don’t have to swipe the flowers, you might be able to extract them. The old grime that has been silent for many years in the depths of your upper jaw.
You need to use TEMPO for shit and kowtow before drinking tea. The civilization of the Cantonese has been deeply rooted. Of course they will not expose their gums in front of guests. Just like your invitation to a friend will not be directly in a hotel, you also pay attention to the depth of friendship.
In front of the first friends, everyone will dig out and cover their mouth and nose with one hand at the same time. At the same time, they will keep communicating with you with their eyes, disguising their teeth as a mouth-covering smile.
The more particular ones will put a TEMPO paper towel on the inside of the hand to deal with sudden dirt that may appear at any time. From a distance, it looks like a table of people is playing B-box.
Until your friendship is deep enough, deep enough that you are sure that you will not break up because of flossing your teeth, you can get a glimpse of their mouths.
Education must start with a baby. Parents are the best tutors for children to pick teeth. They plan for a rainy day when their children are not teething, and practice their children’s table manners. This leads to the children’s pretending to be able to master Cantonese. Take the lead in learning how to cover your mouth and pick your teeth.
In addition to being two sizes smaller, their movements are absolutely unified and absolutely standard.
Whether it is a seafood restaurant in a five-star hotel in Guangzhou, or a food stall on a late night street in Dongguan, as long as you observe carefully, there will always be someone picking their teeth intently.
But what is puzzling is that compared to the beef and mutton with thick fibers in the north, Guangdong’s fine-meat seafood and slow-cooking eating method still block the balance of Cantonese’s teeth.
If you look closely, you will find that most of the Cantonese’s teeth are neat and white. When you search for Teeth and Guangdong on Baidu, the first result is the orthodontic advertisement of Zhongshan Hospital.
I once asked my friends in Guangdong why they are so old and can’t get through with their teeth, and the answers are varied. Some people say it’s a habit formed when wearing braces. Some people say that their teeth are too big and they tend to stuff their teeth. Tell me:
“Flick your teethIt is addictive. “
In Cantonese, picking teeth is called licking teeth. If understood in modern Chinese, this is a toothpick hitting up a tooth.
When a toothpick is squeezed into the inaccessible gap of the human body and squeezed out the regular periodontal period in the past, the twisted nerves are not only slightly painful, but also inexplicably refreshing.
Especially after removing the clutter, your tongue wraps around for a week without any resistance anymore. Neatness brings you half an hour of relaxation. Compared with writing a 2,000-word push, do a half an hour Love, the time cost of this pleasure only needs five minutes of leisure after your meal, which is so small that it can be ignored.
Foreigners living in Guangdong all empathize with this.
Similarly, there are also nose picking and earwax. Cleaning can always give you a sense of transparency
In order to get rid of the geographical restrictions of picking teeth, to achieve the pleasure of picking on the go, many people like to hold a toothpick at the corner of their mouth after completing oral operations. Over time, even this derivative product has become the culture itself, even Was put on the big screen.
Whether it is Chow Yun-fat or Chen Haonan, every toothpick that appears in front of the camera has become a symbol of male status. Toothpick boy may be a curse word, but the man holding the toothpick is definitely linked to the underworld leader. Xiao Zou from Guangdong I was quite proud of introducing it to me. In order to facilitate my understanding, he specially