China is a country of etiquette, and food culture is a very important part of it. The Spring Festival is coming, and there will be many family gatherings and friends gatherings, so I have prepared table manners for you for the Spring Festival. I hope you like it. More information is in the etiquette column!

spring festival food customs

generally speaking, the spring festival lasts for half a month from the first day to the fifteenth day of the first month. From ancient times to the present, the Spring Festival is the biggest and most grand festival in China. During this period, people congratulate each other on the New Year and increase their friendly feelings. Some people visit relatives and friends and give gifts and new year's goods, while others treat each other to dinner. New year's wine? .

The Spring Festival generally refers to the half-month period from the first day to the fifteenth day of the first month. From ancient times to the present, the Spring Festival is the biggest and most grand festival in China. During this period, people congratulate each other on the New Year and increase their friendly feelings. Some people visit relatives and friends and give gifts and new year's goods, while others treat each other to dinner. New year's wine? .

Spring Festival is also preceded by New Year's Eve, which is an ancient name? Year-old? Or? Divide by? . The eating customs of New Year's Eve are different in the north and the south. Northerners regard jiaozi as a delicacy, including dumplings, steamed dumplings, etc., which are eaten when attending the banquet. Older sex? Meaning of. In order to get lucky, some jiaozi put some candy bars, which means that life will be sweet in the coming year; Some put one in the jiaozi? Making money? , eat to make money in jiaozi, a prosperous fortune.

In the south, people regard rice cakes, Yuanxiao, muffins, zongzi, fish, meat and vegetables as delicious food. Eat more rice cakes and Yuanxiao on New Year's Eve. Yuanxiao is also called? Tuanzi? 、? Mariko? That is, glutinous rice balls, take? Family reunion? Meaning. Rice cakes are mostly made of glutinous rice for production and life. Every year? Meaning.

Before the New Year's Eve dinner, in the old days, ancestors were usually worshipped first, and a little food was given to them as a souvenir. As soon as the midnight bell rings, the resignation ceremony begins. The whole family pays tribute to the ancestors' spirits, and the children pay tribute to their elders in the order of seniority. Can seniors receive it from their elders? Lucky money? Namely? Bet money? , meaning repression? Evil worship? .

On the first day of the first month, people get up early and wish each other well. For breakfast, northerners eat jiaozi, southerners eat glutinous rice balls, and almost all parts of the country eat rice cakes. Sticky? Word and? Year? The word is homophonic, and? Year? The word "grain ripens" originally means that eating sticky cakes means that the harvest is getting better and higher every year. Now it is known as rice cake. After breakfast, people put on new clothes and go to relatives, friends and neighbors to pay New Year greetings, wishing all the best in the new year. Every family will entertain guests with snacks such as melon seeds, peanuts and candy. On this day, people eat mostly food prepared before the festival, that is, take it? Surplus? Meaning. Most people in the north eat steamed bread, while rice is the main food in the south.

Etiquette at the dinner table during the Spring Festival

1. After you sit down, keep your feet under your seat, and don't stretch out at will. Don't lean your elbows against the edge of the table or put your hands on the back of your neighbor's chair.

2. When eating, be gentle and elegant, calm and quiet, and don't be impatient.

3. You should not only care about yourself at the dinner table, but also care about others, especially the female guests on both sides.

4. Avoid talking with food in your mouth.

5. Tableware for personal use should not be inserted into the common plate to pick up dishes.

6. You must eat with a small mouth, and don't stuff it with a big mouth. You can't stuff your mouth again until you swallow the food.

7. When fetching vegetables and scooping soup, you should use public chopsticks and spoons.

8. Eat imported food, and don't spit it out. If it is hot food, you can drink water or take a shower with fruit juice.

9. When delivering food to the entrance, the elbows should lean inward, not open to the sides, and touch the neighbor.

11. If you hold a knife fork in your hand or others are chewing food, you should avoid talking or toasting.

11. Never pull out your teeth with your fingers, use toothpicks and cover them with your hands or handkerchiefs.

12. Avoid coughing, sneezing and vomiting at the dinner table. In case you can't help it, you should say? Excuse me? .

13, eating in a restaurant, you can't rush to pay the bill, push and pull for payment, which is very indecent. Without the consent of friends, it is not appropriate to pay for friends.

Etiquette of sitting and leaving the table

1. You should wait until the elderly are seated.

2. If there are any ladies at the table, they should wait until the ladies are seated. If the lady's seat is next door, she should be called.

3. After eating, the other guests can only leave after the hostess and the man leave.

4. Sit upright and keep a proper distance from the dining table.

5. When dining in a restaurant, the waiter should show you to the table.

6. When leaving the seat, you should help the elderly or women in the next seat to drag the seat.

Tableware etiquette

1. Chopsticks etiquette

Chopsticks are the most important tableware in Chinese food. Chopsticks are usually used in pairs. When picking vegetables and eating with chopsticks, you should pay attention to the following. Small? Question:

First, whether there is any food left on the chopsticks, don't lick them. Isn't it a bit appetizing to pick up vegetables with licked chopsticks?

Second, when talking to people, you should put down your chopsticks temporarily, and you can't dance chopsticks like a baton while talking.

thirdly, don't put chopsticks vertically on food. Because this kind of insertion is only used when paying homage to the dead.

the fourth is to strictly enforce the functions of chopsticks. Chopsticks are only used to hold food. It is impolite to use it to pick teeth, scratch or pick up things other than food.

2. Usage etiquette of spoon

Its main function is to scoop dishes and food. Sometimes, when eating with chopsticks, you can also use a spoon to assist. Try not to use a spoon to get food. When taking food with a spoon, don't overfill it, so as not to spill it and dirty the dining table or your clothes. After scooping up the food, you can stay in the same place? Pause? For a moment, when the soup won't flow down any more, move it back and enjoy it.

when you don't use the spoon for the time being, you should put it on your own plate. Don't put it directly on the table or put it in the food? Attention? . After taking food with a spoon, eat it immediately or put it on your own plate, and don't put it back. And if the food you take is too hot, you can't scoop it with a spoon or blow it with your mouth. You can put it in your own bowl and wait for it to cool before eating. Don't put a spoon in your mouth, or suck or lick it repeatedly.

3. Etiquette for using plates

A slightly smaller plate is a plate, which is mainly used to hold food, and is similar to a bowl in use. Plates should generally be kept in place on the dining table and should not be piled up together.

What needs to be emphasized is a kind of dish with special use, which is called a dishware. The main function of the dish is to temporarily put the dishes taken from the public dish plate for enjoyment. When using a dish, don't take too many dishes at a time. It looks messy and like a hungry ghost reborn. Don't pile up a variety of dishes together, or they will collide with each other? Smell? It's not good-looking or delicious. Don't spit the residue, bones and thorns you don't eat on the floor and table, but gently take them and put them at the front end of the food plate. When you put them, you can't spit them directly from your mouth on the food plate, but put them next to the plate with chopsticks. If the plates are full, you can ask the waiter to change them.

4. Use of water cups

Water cups are mainly used to hold soft drinks such as water, soda, fruit juice and cola. Don't use it to hold wine, and don't invert the glass. In addition, what you drink in your mouth can't be spit back into the glass.

5. Use of napkins

Before a Chinese meal, if you are more particular, a wet towel will be served to each diner. It can only be used to wipe hands. After wiping your hands, you should put them back on the plate and take them away by the waiter. Sometimes, a wet towel will be put on before the formal banquet is over. Different from the former, it can only be used to wipe your mouth, but not your face or sweat.

6. Use of toothpicks.

try not to pick your teeth in public. Cover your mouth with your other hand when you have to pick it up. Don't watch it in public or enter again, and don't throw it around or spit it out casually. After picking your teeth, don't hold a toothpick for a long time, let alone use it to get food.

women's table manners

1. It is not advisable to wear too much perfume, so as not to drown out the taste of dishes.

2. Ladies should avoid wearing hats and high boots when attending grand dinners.

3. When knives, forks and napkins fall to the ground, don't just lie down under the table to pick them up. Please ask the waiter to replenish them.

4. When food scraps are stuffed into your teeth, don't use toothpicks to get them out. Drink some water to see if the situation can be improved. If not, you should go to the bathroom to deal with it.

5. When there are foreign objects in the dishes, don't turn pale and tell the people next to you, so as not to affect others' appetite. Keep calm, pick it out with a napkin and discard it.

6. Don't wave your knife and fork unconsciously when making witty remarks.

7. You should not vomit during meals. In case of food that is too spicy or hot, you can drink ice water to adjust quickly. If you really can't eat it, go to the bathroom for treatment.

8. Ladies should wipe off lipstick before eating, so as to avoid leaving lip prints on cups or tableware, which will give people a sense of impurity.

Don't just focus on the chicken, duck and fish on the table, don't just focus on the delicious cakes and snacks, have a happy Spring Festival, please be a polite person and leave a civilized image.

children's table manners education

1. Eat together. The more opportunities children have to dine with their parents, the more they will learn proper manners.

2. it is not required to be fast. Teach one or two rituals in a planned way at the same time.

3. The goal is reasonable. Every child is an independent individual. Parents should try their best to understand their children's abilities. What works for one child may not work for other children at all. Pay attention to the age difference.

4. Be flexible. If something is wrong with your child, just relax and put it off until the next day.

5. lively and interesting. Children have rich imaginations, and they all like to play the characters in life. Sometimes they might as well arrange exquisite meals, invite them to dress up for dinner, and teach them to behave in a manner commensurate with the characters they play.

6. Practice regularly. Parents take their children to restaurants for dinner and familiarize them with the manners they usually learn in public.

7. Positive teaching. Children are easily disgusted with what they are forbidden to do. It is better to tell them what to do in advance than to criticize them after they have done something wrong.

8. Make good use of opportunities. On holidays or festivals, seize the opportunity to teach children the principles of dress, catering and coping.

9. explain why. At any time, try to explain to children the reasons for observing etiquette, which will help to cultivate their consciousness.

11. Set an example. Teach children to learn from children who have done well, and also educate them with the help of videos, books and pictures.

How to adjust the atmosphere at the dinner table during the Spring Festival

1. Let's have fun together and avoid whispering.

There are many guests at most banquets, so we should talk as much as possible about some topics that most people can participate in and get the approval of most people. Because one's hobbies and knowledge are different, the topic should not be too partial as far as possible, so as to avoid being the only one, being far apart and talking endlessly, which leads to digression and ignores everyone. In particular, try not to whisper to others, giving others a sense of mystery, which often occurs? Just you two? Jealousy affects the effect of drinking.

2. aim at the host and the guest, and grasp the overall situation

3. use proper language and be humorous

spilling it on the table can show a person's talent, common sense, cultivation and communication manners. sometimes a humorous language will leave a deep impression on the guests and make people feel good about you invisibly. Therefore, we should know when to say something, and it is crucial to use proper language and be humorous.

4. Don't try to persuade others to drink moderately.

There is always a phenomenon of persuading others to drink more at the wine table. Some people always like to use the wine field as a battlefield and try their best to persuade others to drink more, thinking that it is unrealistic not to drink enough. ? Talk about heroes with wine? It's ok for people who drink a lot, but it's difficult for those who drink a little. Sometimes it will completely destroy the original friends' feelings by persuading them too much.

5. Toast in an orderly way, with clear priorities

Toast is also a science. Generally speaking, toasting should be in the order of age, position and the identity of the guest and the host. Before toasting, we must fully consider the order of toasting and distinguish between priorities. When drinking with people you don't know, you should first inquire about your identity or pay attention to what others call you, so as to avoid embarrassing or hurting feelings.

when toasting, you must grasp the order of toasting. If you want a guest at the table, you should be more respectful to him, but it should be noted that if there are people with higher status or older people present, you should not only be respectful to those who can help you, but also toast the venerable elders first, otherwise everyone will be embarrassed.

6. Look at words and deeds, understand people's hearts

If you want to get everyone's appreciation on the wine table, you must learn to look at words and deeds. Because of communication with people, it is necessary to understand people's hearts, so as to play a good role on the wine table.

7. Keep your edge on Mount Tai.

At the banquet, you should see the occasion clearly, correctly evaluate your own strength, don't be too impulsive, try to keep some sense of alcohol and talk, don't let others underestimate you, don't show yourself too much, choose the right opportunity and gradually radiate your edge, so as to keep your edge on Mount Tai and avoid giving it to others? That's all you can do? The idea of making everyone dare not underestimate your strength.