Crazy Huge Rural Chinese Wedding Banquet

by Fauna on Saturday, July 12, 2008 9 comments

Pictures of a recent and huge wedding banquet from the Shunde district of Foshan city in the Guangdong province were posted all over the internet. Traditional rural wedding banquet celebrations in China often last three days and three nights. The host treats their invited guests to three meals each day and a total of nine meals.

Imagine doing this nine times.

Some KDS Forum replies:

“Chinese rural folk are forever foolish . A Lot of show up front, a lot of debt after .”

“This wedding must be for the children of government official. Ordinary common people could not be so ostentatious.”

Chinese Lesson Time

老百姓 = lao3 bai3 xing4 = “old hundred surnames,” the common people

“How many restrooms are there? I bet after eating, there will be a long line for the restrooms. ”

“ I can’t afford to marry a rural villager wife.”

“I count 360 tables. ”

“Imagine toasting until your hands cramp.”

“360*8=2880 people! Wow, that’s a regiment.”

“I confess I’m drooling already.”

“Each block has 16*16=256 tables, total of two blocks 256*2 total of 512 tables .”

I count at least 750 tables.

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Tang Buxi

Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 10:12 pm

Hi there!

Thanks for the link, and very interesting that you also translate from Chinese forums. They had a lot of pictures we didn’t see before.

I think those on that forum are wrong though… I don’t believe this is a wedding banquet. They didn’t see the menu. I think this is just a village banquet.

We like cultural stuff too, not just politics. Maybe you’d be interested in joining efforts in some way…? Your site looks *great*.

Fauna

Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 1:24 pm

Thank you for your compliment.

Rekha

Monday, August 4, 2008 at 10:54 pm

Hmm its really interesting and unique wedding ..gr8

g

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 3:57 pm

it might not be a wedding one, because there is no signs of wedding

a girl frome guangzhou

Friday, April 17, 2009 at 5:59 pm

too waste money . if saving the money , it can help a lot of poor peoples who have nothing to eat .

Shanghairocks

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 12:12 pm

What I am having now is not lunch, but loneliness.

Irvin

Sunday, February 27, 2011 at 7:09 pm

All those poor chickens.

tony

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 11:43 pm

Believe it or not (this is the truth):
I was from this district (I lived about 1 mile away from that feast place). My family and I migrated to the US when I was 14….
Anyway, this is not a wedding. It’s an annual banquet (I don’t know how old were those photos, but he started this feast idea in 1993, when I was 10) that were promised by a mega-millionaire (last name is Liang, he’s about 60 now, but his children he brought along were assholes) who migrated to Germany when he was very little. He was very poor when he was young,…. he somehow struggled and become a business man… Then he donates every year as follow:
1. feed people every year (not three days, 1 day, actually 1 meal but take 3 days to prepare)
2. give 1 gold metal to people who are over 70 or something, not remembered (after that feast, and they were invited)
3. donate what city requested (i m not so sure about this, i only heard my parents talked about him)
4. donate to rebuilt part of school system (i am 100% sure, i went to the elementary school and middle school that he upgraded)

However, these photos was his goal to remember his people. Also, the guy is very nice, humble, and every banquet he wasn’t there. He also donated a lot of money to rebuild schools, but a lot of corrupted officials stole part of his money (that’s what I have heard) but he still keep doing it.

You should go to, or know someone from Jun’an, Shunde, Guangdong, China to ask about him to assume my words

TAKE5

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 1:16 pm

Very Grand and Very Wet!