The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and the time difference between the eastern and western countries is one whole day. The world is a big place, and it's a place of different customs and etiquette between countries. Many of the behaviors we see as normal are unacceptable to other people. For example, our countrymen in the meal will be customary bowl up, and this behavior in the eyes of Westerners, is very rude behavior, this is the difference between Chinese and Western culture. Along with the editor to understand it.

China as an ancient civilization, with thousands of years of cultural heritage, dining culture is fully developed. China's food can be said to be countless and varied. Dietary tableware is also a variety of tableware, which bowl as our country's important dietary tableware is every day on our table. Bowls are the tableware we use to serve porridge as well as the tableware we use to serve rice. Whether we eat at home, or in public occasions to eat, we use the bowl, generally customary bowl up, on the one hand, in order to facilitate the consumption, on the other hand, is also in order to maintain the posture of sitting down to eat, to avoid the embarrassment of bending over and lowering the head.

Western food culture with our fried, stir-fried, cooked, fried different, Westerners are accustomed to cold food, and Westerners in order to match their cold food culture, in the tableware, with our country is also a big difference. Western tableware, rarely see the bowl, Westerners are generally accustomed to using the plate, and is the kind of wider plate, in order to put a variety of cold food in the plate in kind. In the West, in order to complement cold food, dining utensils such as knives, forks and spoons are used, and the fork or spoon is used to bring the food into the mouth, maintaining a seated position. Also Westerners usually drink beverages with their food and rarely drink porridge. Even when they consume steak with matching porridge, Westerners consume it with a spoon and do not directly pick up the bowl of porridge to consume it. In their opinion, it is very impolite behavior to pick up the bowl or plate and consume it.

In fact, the cultural differences between the East and the West go far beyond the dining culture, as long as there is mutual respect and understanding, there will be harmony. The above is only my personal opinion, welcome to comment.