Chinese table culture etiquette:
1, etiquette
The host should arrive early, then wait by the door, and guide the guests. In general, the seating order is "ShangZhouZhunDong", face to the door is honored. Round table: is facing the door for the host, the closer the location of the host the more honored.
The Eight Immortals Table: If there is a seat facing the door, the right side of the side facing the door as the guest of honor. If not facing the door, the right side of the side facing east for the chief.
2, order
Generally speaking, per capita one dish is a more general rule. If there are more men, the appropriate amount. A table with meat and vegetarian dishes, cold and hot, try to be comprehensive. More men, more meat dishes, women mostly, more light vegetables. When ordering food, do not seek to ask the price, so as not to appear petty, the customer will also be uncomfortable.
3, pouring wine
Should be poured by the host for the guests, the status of the lowest for the most respected people to pour wine. If you are a companion, neither the host nor the guest but in the middle of the wine, then you do not have to care about anything, waiting for others to pour it for you. When one pours for others, one's own is sure to be at the end, starting with the highest status drinker and lowering it in order.
4, touch the wine
If there is no special person present, touch the wine is best according to the clockwise order, do not favor one over the other. Pick up the wine glass (beer glass), right hand choke cup, left hand pad cup bottom, remember their own cup is always lower than others. And never toast before the host toasts.
5, drinking
The seat of the drinking is concerned about clinking glasses, to clink the glass must be in the cup of wine, drink down, but also upside down to let the bystanders to see their own cup dry. In the banquet often heard a saying, called "no three is not a gift" means drinking a climax, must be in more than three cups, the so-called "wine over three patrols" is also this meaning.