Provence people's strange social etiquette customs, men kiss men
Provence people like physical contact. When two men meet, shaking hands is the minimum. Even if you are holding something in your hand, spare one little finger to hold it. If your hands are a little wet or dirty, you should use your forearms or elbows to perform the ritual. Riding on a bicycle or driving does not constitute a reason for not having physical contact with people. Therefore, you often see dangerous scenes on crowded streets: pairs of hands sticking out of the car windows, groping for each other. This is only a preliminary and minimum action. If someone you are familiar and close to meets, a stronger expression than this is needed.
Unlike elsewhere, in Provence, men kiss each other. In addition, they also made a series of actions such as pinching each other's shoulders tightly, slapping each other's back, punching each other's abdomen, and pinching each other's cheeks tightly. When you meet an old Provence friend you haven't met for a long time, you may have been tortured until you are black and blue when you break up.
Women are much less likely to suffer physical injury when they meet. But people who are unfamiliar with etiquette cannot figure out the correct number of kisses may also make a social mistake and may lead people to mistake you as a hypocrite-a hypocrite only kisses once, or a lonely and miserable creature. The correct procedure for kissing the ladies: three kisses, left-right-left. Three kisses are a rude custom of Provence people, but two kisses are enough for civilized people.
When you meet a woman, you must pay close attention to her head movements. After two kisses, if your head stops swinging, you will stop. The recipient has the responsibility of estimating the correct number of times to turn his head, or whether he needs to turn his head. But things could change at any time. Therefore, you can never guess what kind of etiquette the other person will give you.
After the ceremony, the conversation can begin. Vegetable baskets, big and small bags of things, all have to be put down temporarily. If it is a dog, it will be tied to the foot of the coffee table. If it is a bicycle and tools, it needs to be made to stand against the nearest wall. This is important because a serious and pleasant conversation must require both hands to express language accuracy. Gesture can be used as a comma, a period, an exclamation point, or even simply used to decorate words. Because if words are just words, they cannot satisfy Provence people. Both hands joined in and exchanged opinions silently.
Even his shoulders are full of expression. You can know a thing or two about the conversation content of Provence people from a distance based on their expressions and movements.
There is also a silent language that begins with waving your hand. We learned this from construction workers at home. They only use this language to express denial when talking about time or price. But the practical uses of this gesture are infinitely wide. It can be used to describe your health, or whether you and your mother-in-law get along well, your career progress, your evaluation of a restaurant, or your prediction of this year's melon harvest. When discussing less important matters, just shake your hand casually, supplemented by raising your eyebrows lightly. When it comes to more serious matters-such as politics, someone's liver disease, the probability of a local racer winning a prize on this year's tour, the hand-cranking increases. The hand swings slowly, the upper body swings gently, and the serious expression focuses on the face.
When warning or arguing, the tool used is the index finger. There are three ways to use it: pointing it at the tip of the other person's nose without moving to remind the other person to be careful; shaking it quickly under the other person's face like a metronome to remind the other person that what he just said is completely wrong; Next, he will state the correct theory, and then the index finger will change from shaking left to right to stabbing forward. If the unenlightened party is a male, this finger will poke his pectoral muscles and tap them several times; if the other party is not a female, the fingertips will stop a few centimeters on the chest.
When a conversation needs to end abruptly, it takes two hands from two people to express it: one person stretches his left finger and meets the falling right palm from his waist up-a limited version of a traditional and extremely vulgar upper-body movement. You can often see the unrestricted version when there are traffic jams on the hot summer day.
Drivers quarreling with each other would deliberately jump out of narrow cars to allow their bodies to exercise the greatest freedom to complete the classic action of swinging their left arm upwards and then suddenly being pressed down by their right hand on the upper arm to stop. At the end of the conversation, there is an action to show attention to staying in touch. Fold the middle three fingers into the palm of your palm, stand upright, and raise your thumb and little finger to your ears in the shape of a phone. Shake hands again before saying goodbye. Then each pack up his own packages, dogs, bicycles, etc. Walking less than a hundred meters forward, I met another acquaintance, and everything had to start over. No wonder aerobic exercise has not become popular in Provence. Ten minutes of chatting is enough for one day.