Ancient people dined on dining etiquette.

The issue of dining etiquette has a long history. According to the literature, at least in the Zhou Dynasty, dining etiquette has formed a set of quite perfect system, especially once served as a Confucian priest of Lu's praise and esteem and has become an important aspect of the successive dynasties to show the appearance of a great country, the state of etiquette, civilization.

As the Han tradition of ancient banquet etiquette, has its own set of procedures: the host folded invitations to invite, temporary welcome guests at the door. Guests arrived, greetings, introduced into the living room to sit down, to tea. Guests Qi guide guests into the seat, to the left as the upper, as the chief, relative to the first seat for the second seat, the first seat under the third seat, the second seat under the fourth seat.

The guests were seated, the host toasted the dishes, the guests thanked the courtesy. There are certain rules for serving wine and food: the elders and the guest of honor should be honored first, and the host last.

Expanded:

Western eating etiquette

1, meat: cut the steak should be cut from the outside to the inside, cut a piece to eat a piece, please do not for the sake of convenience and cut it into pieces at a time, this is not only the lack of temperament, but also the loss of delicious gravy, a great pity; cut the meat pieces of the size of the right,

Do not cut so large that there is danger of the mouth not closing. When chewing your food, be sure to keep your mouth closed to avoid making a noise, and do not bring any more food into your mouth until it has been swallowed.

2, shellfish: shellfish should be held in the left hand shell, the right hand holding a fork, the meat will be picked out to eat. Eat fish fillets, the right hand can be used to hold a fork to eat, avoid the use of knives, because the tender fish meat will easily be cut and become difficult to pack;

encounter a whole fish, first eat the top layer of fish, then use a knife and fork to remove the fish bones, do not turn over, eat lobster, available fingers to remove the shell after eating shrimp.

3. Fruit: Fruits with a lot of water should be taken with a small spoon. Peaches and melons, the restaurant will first peeled and sliced, should be taken with a small fork. Strawberries are often placed on small plates and can be eaten with a spoon or fork. In addition, when eating fruits, restaurants usually provide a hand-washing box with flower petals or lemons in it. For hand washing.

4, desserts: general cakes and cakes, with a small fork to split to eat, harder cut with a knife, also with a small fork to split to eat, as for ice cream or pudding, etc., you can use a small spoon to eat. If you come across small pieces of hard cookies, you can take them directly.

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