World Children's Story Classics: Family Stories

Chapter 56
At the banquet, we can always see cheerful people clinking glasses with each other before drinking.How did this toast come about?
It is said that this custom originated from ancient Greece - in ancient Dila, two countries often had to sit down to negotiate due to various reasons, and the negotiation ceremony was often accompanied by a banquet.At this kind of banquet, before drinking, the leaders of the negotiating parties always hold up the wine glasses together, pour a little of the wine in each glass into the other party's sprinkle glass, so as to tell the other party that there is absolutely no adulterated wine in the wine. Poison, you can drink it into your heart.This fixed etiquette is entirely out of safety considerations.But in the eyes of outsiders, the wine glasses of the two leaders just touched each other.Over time, this etiquette of "touching wine glasses" has spread more and more widely, and has become a special form of friendship on people's tables.

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