Guo, a villager in Dengta Village, Sichuan Province, held a banquet for his father on the "third anniversary of his death" and was fined 1,000 yuan. The author thinks that the punishment is good!
The village cadres of Dengta Village, Jiachuan Town, Wangcang County, Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province, said that they fined Guo after receiving a report from the villagers, and the name of the fine was "education fee", which will be transferred to the collective account and used for local construction, including repairing bridges and roads. The village cadre said that Guo had held three banquets in the past four years, including two for his father's death and one for his daughter's marriage. According to local customs, some people in the village hold banquets, and the villagers have to pay for them, and some villagers can't stand this clever way of making money, so they reported Guo.
According to the "Implementation Plan for Jiachuan Town to Regulate Rural Self-organized Banquets" released on the official website of the Wangcang County Government, the town has clear regulations on what things can be held. Guo's "third anniversary of death" banquet for his father was not within the scope of the regulations, so he was fined according to the "Village Rules and Civil Covenant".
To be honest, the author has always opposed the excessive interference of public power in the daily life of the people, especially the intervention of the people in doing things according to the customs and customs. However, Guo's holding of his father's "third anniversary" banquet is still far beyond the scope of the author's understanding.
In any place, every family in the village will have deceased family members, including parents, grandparents, etc., if Guo is allowed to hold a "N anniversary of death" banquet for his relatives, I am afraid that the whole village will have to sit on the banquet every day to eat wine, and every day will have to rush people's favors. The money of the favorites will become a bottomless pit and completely drag down the lives of the locals. Therefore, the local punishment of Guo is very correct and serves as a warning.
In recent years, the money of rural people has become a major burden on the common people. Appropriately reducing the amount of money needs to be guided by the government and the people consciously. However, for banquets that completely exceed the folk customs and customs, grassroots units such as villages (communities) must come forward and use public power to restrain them.