Food and drink

When it comes to eating, the ancients had many idioms, proverbs, and folk songs. Such as: Illness comes from the mouth, eating while watching the pot, sitting while watching the direction, eating a tree to fence it, eating carefully to stay full for a long time... But in general, the ancients believed that eating and drinking is a sensitive matter, because for Vietnamese people, it contains a whole depth of national culture and history. If not careful, a meal can easily become a disgrace, even causing many serious consequences just because of not following the principle of "eating evenly, dividing equally".

Taking care of the health of the elderly, people with meritorious services and policy families is one of the tasks that the province pays special attention to.

Recently, the whole country was stirred up by the incident of 11 students eating 2 packs of instant noodles with rice in Bac Ha district, Lao Cai province. The stir was because of sympathy for the children in the highlands who were already struggling and lacking food and clothing. The stir was even more intense when it was discovered that the nature of the problem was that adults were cutting down on their already "poor" rations due to the limited conditions of the country and local authorities.

In this case, it must be affirmed that the mastermind’s food is truly a shame. Shame because he disregarded the moral principles of life, which is not to bully the weak. Shame because he had the guts to eat dirty food, but he didn’t eat it properly, to be worthy of eating dirty food. And he stole from children who were still immature in terms of thinking, perception, and self-defense ability…

Moreover, when the incident was exposed, those responsible were evasive, saying that such meals were isolated, due to sudden , unexpected situations , and not regular. That is, eating the real thing but still denying that they did not eat, is truly humiliating.

The strange thing is, people, rich or poor, on average only eat three meals a day. And no matter how big their stomachs are, they can only hold a certain amount of food. Yet there are many people who, regardless of the reason or the possible consequences, just eat whatever they can find. That is called greedy eating.

It must be said that the greedy species has a very special ability. Not only can they eat food, they can also eat iron and steel, drink gasoline and oil. They can even swallow mechanisms and policies…

Besides some cases of corruption being exposed by the law and brought to trial, many cases of such corruption are still at large , but we believe that everything has its price, if the father eats salty food, sooner or later the children will be thirsty. Perhaps the price to pay is even greater than when borrowing, and by then it will be too late to regret.

In contrast to the unacceptable eating habits above, Vietnamese people also have extremely humane and noble eating habits such as eating fruit and remembering the person who planted the tree, drinking water and remembering the source...

It must be affirmed that eating fruit and remembering the person who planted the tree or drinking water and remembering the source is not only a theoretical teaching of our ancestors but has become a precious tradition of the nation for many generations. That tradition is demonstrated through practical actions, by real people , real work and real results.

Typically, in Vinh Phuc , on average each year , the province calls for mobilization and support to build hundreds of new gratitude houses for disadvantaged households; spends thousands of billions of VND on low-interest loans or supports policy families and meritorious people to overcome their circumstances and improve their lives.

The gratitude movement has been actively responded to by Party committees at all levels, authorities, sectors, unions, the Fatherland Front, socio -political organizations and people of all ethnic groups in the province with specific and practical actions. Up to now, 100% of living Vietnamese Heroic Mothers have been cared for and supported for life by socio-political organizations, agencies, military units, police, schools, hospitals, businesses and philanthropists.

Every year, the province mobilizes all cadres, workers, civil servants, and enterprises to actively participate and mobilize people from all walks of life to contribute to the "Repaying gratitude" Fund. Martyrs' cemeteries and other memorial works in localities in the province have been built and renovated to become sacred historical and cultural works. The province also pays special attention to the work of collecting martyrs' graves and resolving the relocation of martyrs' remains to their hometowns according to the wishes of their families.

With the attention of all levels, sectors and all people in the province, up to now, households of people with meritorious services to the revolution in the area have a standard of living equal to or higher than the average standard of living of the residential community, there are no policy households classified as poor households; there is no backlog in processing records of people with meritorious services...

Just realized, it's all food , but if you always know how to look up and down, remember the person who cultivated it, everyone will be respected and recognized by the whole society. On the contrary, if you only know how to clean up everything to fill your greedy pockets, sooner or later you will die from eating.

Article and photos: Long Duong

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