Tableware use
Chinese food, first on the towel to wipe your hands, in the plate under the pressure of a piece of cloth, put it on there can be.
Chopsticks: Chopsticks are an important part of Chinese food, the correct use of chopsticks relates to a person's demeanor is decent. Chopsticks should be held in the center. Chopsticks: 1 Forked Chopsticks: Forking the chopsticks up. 2 Racking Chopsticks: Racking the chopsticks with the neighboring chopsticks. 3 Licking Chopsticks: Putting the chopsticks in your mouth and licking or biting them. 4 Tearing Chopsticks: After holding a soupy food, the soup hangs on the chopsticks. 5 Flipping Chopsticks: Flipping the chopsticks through a dish
You can't put the chopsticks back after you have caught it. > General banquets will use public chopsticks and spoons, after using the public chopsticks should be placed on the right side of the dishes, do not use mix.
Spoon: Spoon in Chinese food is used from for inward, can be the soup bowl end up. Soup spoons after use due to a lot of soup, should be notched down on the cutlery rack or placed on the dinner plate.
Dining plate: can also be called bone plate, can be disliked dishes or food scraps piled up in the upper half of the dining plate, the lower side of the dishes containing food, in the feast can be changed.
Dining
Chinese banquet into the beginning of the meal, the waiter sent the first wet towel is to wipe hands, do not use it to wipe your face. Lobster, chicken, fruit, will send a small water Meng, which floats twisted lemon or rose petals, it is not a drink, but to wash their hands. To wash your hands, take turns wetting your fingers and gently rinsing them, then dry them with a small towel.
During the meal, the host may introduce the dishes, and may advise the guests to eat the dishes, but it is better not to pinch the dishes on behalf of the guests.
After the guests are seated, they should not eat immediately. Instead, they should wait for the host to greet them, and only when the host raises his glass to signal the start of the meal can the guest begin; the guest should not rush ahead of the host. The carousel should be turned clockwise, do not turn when others clip food. Clip food to be civilized, should wait for the dishes to turn to their own face, and then move chopsticks, do not rush in front of the neighboring seats, a clip should not be too much food. To chew and swallow slowly, which is not only conducive to digestion, but also the requirements of table manners. Never stuff large pieces into your mouth and wolf down your food, as this will leave an impression of greed. Don't be picky about what you eat, don't just fixate on your favorite lei to eat, or rush to pile your favorite dishes on your plate. Eat elegantly, don't touch your neighbor when you are eating, don't put the dish on the table, and don't splash the soup over. Don't make unnecessary noises, such as "gurgling" when drinking soup or "blaring" when eating vegetables, which are all vulgar. Don't eat while chatting with others. Don't spit out bones or fish splinters from your mouth on the table; cover your mouth with a napkin and use chopsticks to remove them and put them on a plate. Don't eat dishes that have been dropped on the table. Don't play with the chopsticks or use the chopsticks to point them straight at others during the meal. Don't pick at your mouth with your hands. Cover your mouth with your hand or a napkin when picking your teeth with a toothpick. Don't let the dishes make any noise.
At the end of the meal, you can wipe your mouth with a napkin, napkin or small towel sent by the waiter, but not your head, neck or chest; do not burp or belch uncontrollably after the meal; the guests can not leave the table before the host signals the end of the meal. Dining must be gentle and elegant, calm and quiet, not impatient. At the table should not only care about themselves, but also care about others, especially to greet the female guests on both sides of the table. Avoid talking when you have food in your mouth. Do not reach into the communal plate to take dishes from your own tableware. You must take small bites of food, not large mouthfuls, and when the food is swallowed, it cannot be put back into the mouth. Use communal chopsticks and spoons to take food and soup. Do not spit out what you have eaten. If the food is hot, drink water or juice to cool it down. When bringing food to the table, keep your elbows inward and do not spread them out to the sides and touch your neighbor. Avoid talking or toasting with others when you are holding a knife or fork in your hand or when others are chewing food. A good way to eat is to have your food in your mouth, not your mouth on your food. Food with meter, can not be sent to the mouth in a hurry, otherwise the soup drips on the tablecloth, extremely unseemly. Do not pull out your teeth with your fingers, use a toothpick and cover them with your hand or a handkerchief. Avoid coughing, sneezing and vomiting at the table. If you can't help it, say "sorry". If cutlery falls on the floor, ask the waiter to pick it up. In the event of an accident, such as accidentally spilling wine, water or soup on another person's clothes, it is sufficient to apologize, rather than making a scene and embarrassing the other person. If you want to take the condiments placed in front of other guests at the same table, you should ask the neighboring guests to help you pass them on, rather than reaching across the table to take the condiments. If the host cooks the food himself, do not forget to give him appreciation. If you eat something unclean or with a strange odor, do not swallow it, but gently remove it from your mouth with your thumb and forefinger and place it on your plate. If you find insects or debris on your plate that you have not yet eaten, do not be alarmed, but wait for the waiter to approach and gently tell him to replace it. When you have finished eating, make sure that the tableware is neatly arranged and not placed in a messy manner. Napkins should also be folded and placed on the table. It is not advisable to smoke during the main course of the meal. If you need to smoke, you must first ask your neighbor for permission. The speed of eating should be synchronized with that of the host and hostess, not too fast, not too slow.
Taboos
1. hiccups. 2. sneezing. 3. make-up. 4. smoking. 5. picking teeth. 6. dropping knives and forks.
As soon as you realize that your behavior is not in line with the habits of etiquette, apologize instantly and use wit and appropriate language to get yourself out of indecent behavior.
Leaving
It is common for a party to be in full swing when someone wants to leave, causing the crowd to disperse in a flurry of activity, making the organizer really jump out of his skin. To avoid the consequences of this kind of scenery, when you want to leave in the middle, do not talk to everyone in the circle to say goodbye, as long as quietly and around two or three people to say hello, and then leave can be.
When you leave a cocktail party, you must apologize to the host for inviting you, and you can't just disappear in a puff of smoke.
When you say hello to the host, you should leave right away, and don't drag the host to the front door for a long chat. Because the other side of the day to do a lot of things, there are many guests waiting for him (her) to greet, you take up too much of the host's time, will cause him (her) in front of other guests rude.
Some people participate in the wine party, tea party, when halfway ready to leave, will be one by one to ask her to recognize each person want to go a piece. As a result, the original lively scene, by her so a drum, all of a sudden will be early dispersed. This kind of trouble is most difficult to be understood by the host of the banquet, a genteel person, can never make this clock mistake.
If the time is really long, the host can indicate that it is already late, another day to get together. Guests can also propose on their behalf.
Leaving the banquet:
1. Pay attention to the order of precedence, let the high status, the elderly and women go first, the status of the guests can be the same at the same time to leave the seat.
2. Get up gently and steadily, when you leave the table, you should not pull out the seat and leave, but move the chair back to the original place, the man should help the woman beside him to move the seat, and then put the seat back to the table.
3. Leave from the left, the same as entering the seat, adhere to the principle of "left in, left out". 4. stand before leaving, is the embodiment of steady movement.
Drinking
Chinese people prefer to drink, but the culture of drinking over time, there have been some changes in the modern way of drinking some of the influence of Western culture, but in the banquet need to take into account the preferences of the guest of honor and the guests, and to adjust the way of drinking.
In the fashionable way of drinking, the pursuit of the guest of honor to raise a glass, toast without persuasion.
In order to avoid drinking too much wine and not returning the wine after being toasted, you can return the toast after being toasted, and you can drink less than half.
As the saying goes, pouring wine is very full, pouring tea is shallow, but the modern fashionable way of drinking also advocates pouring wine in eight points, which can avoid everyone from spreading it on the dishes when you are cheering again, and you can also drink a little less.
Toast cup slightly lower than the boss, pouring wine, Tao tea hand pressure low, others to pour tea to you hand pressure cup, toast body slightly leaning forward ~ ~ ~
Remember: guests can never be noisy host messy toast, so it is very rude, but also very disrespectful to the host.
Detail one, leaders drink with each other before their turn to toast. Toast must stand up, hands raise the cup. Details of two, you can more than one person to honor a person, never a person to honor more than one person, unless you are a leader. Detail three, their own toast to others, if you do not clink glasses, how much they drink can depend on the situation, such as the other side of the amount of alcohol, the other side of the drinking attitude, do not drink less than the other side, we must know that their own toast to others. Detail four, their own toast to others, if you touch the glass, a sentence, I finished, you feel free, Fang Xian generosity. Detail five, remember to give the leader or customer to add wine, do not blindly to the leadership on behalf of wine, is to be on behalf of, but also in the leadership or customers do want to find someone on behalf of, but also pretend that they are because they want to drink rather than to give the leadership on behalf of wine and drink. For example, the leader of the A is not able to drink, you can be prepared to toast the leader of the A through the side of the people stopped. Detail six, pick up the glass (beer glass), the right hand chokes the glass, the left hand cushions the bottom of the cup, remembering that his cup is always lower than others. If you are a leader, be smart and don't put it too low, otherwise how can you tell the following to behave? Details seven, if there is no special characters present, clinking wine is best according to the order of the clock, do not favor one over the other. Detail eight, clink glasses, toast, to have words, otherwise, it will be very embarrassing. Detail ten, if, purely if, in the case of not enough wine, the bottle of wine in the middle of the table, so that people add their own, do not go one by one to pour wine, or the person behind the no wine how to do?
Note: 1, peanut rice is a good thing for drinkers. Keep a sober mind, booze is indispensable, a cup of yogurt, a cup of hot water, a hot towel all seem to you caring. 5 on the seat after the first to eat some fat meat class, milk starchy food cushion, drinking is not easy to get drunk;
Preparation before the drinking
Wine can injure the liver, before you go to the banquet, at home to eat first, so that the stomach a bit of something to cushion. It's better to eat something high in protein, such as two eggs, some milk, soybean milk, etc., because these high-protein foods can be combined with alcohol in the stomach and react to reduce the absorption of alcohol. In addition, eating some cookies, pastries, etc. can also be, so that the stomach a little something, because drinking on an empty stomach, alcohol is easily absorbed in the stomach, which leads to easy drunkenness. Note, do not use salted fish, sausage, bacon under the wine, because such smoked and salted food contains a lot of pigment and sub-X, and alcohol reaction, not only hurt the liver, but also damage the oral cavity and esophageal mucosa, and even induce cancer.
Pouring tea
First of all, the tea set should be clean. After the guests into the house, first let sit, after the tea. Before the tea, be sure to wash the tea set, especially the tea set is not used for a long time, inevitably stained with dust, dirt, more carefully with water to wash and brush again. In the tea, pouring tea before the best use of boiling water to scald the teapot, tea cups. In this way, both hygienic and courteous. If no matter whether the tea is clean or not clean, haphazardly pouring tea to the guests, this is not a polite performance. People see the teapot, teacups on the stains on the stomach, how still willing to drink your tea? Now the general company are disposable cups, before pouring tea, pay attention to the disposable cups set on the cup holder, so as to avoid hot water scalding, so that guests can not end the cup to drink tea.
If the guests take the initiative to introduce themselves to like to drink strong tea or light tea habits, then in accordance with the guest's appetite to tea. Pouring tea, both large and small cups, should not be poured too full, too full easily overflow, the table, stool, floor wet. Careless, but also scalding their own hands and feet or guests, so that the guests and hosts are very embarrassed. Of course, should not pour too little. If the tea only cover the bottom of the cup to the guests, it will make people feel that it is in a show, not sincere.
Again, the end of the tea to the right way. According to the traditional habits of our people, as long as the two hands are not disabled, are using both hands to the guests of the tea. However, now some young people do not know the rules, with one hand to the guests of the tea. Tea with both hands should also pay attention to the ear of the cup, usually with one hand to grasp the ear of the cup, the other hand to hold the bottom of the cup, the tea to the guests. There is no cup ear of the tea cup after pouring full of tea around the hot, hands are not good close, some comrades regardless of three or seven, with five fingers to pinch the edge of the cup in front of the guests to send. This tea method can prevent scalding accidents, but it is very unsightly, and not hygienic enough. Please imagine, let the guest's mouth lick the master's finger marks, good?
Add tea, if the boss and customers need to add tea in the cup, you are obliged to do. You can signal the waiter to add tea, or let the waiter to leave the teapot on the table, by yourself to add the better, this is not know what to say when the best way to cover up. Of course, you should add tea to your boss and customers first, and then to yourself last.
Checking out
For a formal dinner, the host should check out quietly, letting the person being served know the amount is very embarrassing.
1 men's checkout: men's checkout is not a uniform rule, but in most cases, due to the fact that in this contains a deep cultural factors and social group psychological factors of social recognition of men's characteristics, and therefore, men's checkout naturally formed the basic rules of table manners, and become the heavy weight of the catering culture.2. women's checkout: in the world of emotional Men and women in the emotional world, the checkout more need a tacit understanding. The lady's checkout expresses a kind of consideration, a kind of confidence in pursuing equality between men and women.3. Master's checkout: of course, the master will check out the bill for inviting guests to dinner, but the master party has different people from upper and lower levels to participate, and the checkout work should be completed by subordinates.4. Each pays his own fee: adopting this kind of fee payment method needs to be said in advance. In the settlement of accounts, what the host has to do is mainly hands-on accounting, reaching out to collect money, running errands to pay the bill only.5. Whoever has the ability to pay the bill.
Invitation and invitation as
1, invitations to the party before the invited to receive, in general, formal social and business invitations to be sent 14 days in advance or longer, casual parties can be sent 7 days in advance, depending on the importance of the party Chengdu to determine the more important, the more important, then the earlier the issuance of time.
Seating arrangement
Seating arrangement is generally the opposite door for the honored seat, the guest of honor's seat, close to the door of the seat for the male and female hosts, for the convenience of welcoming the guests as well as for the late arrival of the guests to arrange the seat. Specifically see PPT
such as formal banquets should have a seat sign, to facilitate the seating of guests. And the number of formal dining is carefully taken, if the guests are arranged as a cross between men and women, then the man should serve the woman on the right.
Preparation of the host before the banquet
1, do not overly praise someone, grasp the appropriate principles. If others come to make introductions, it should be ascertained beforehand whether the two people are willing to be introduced, otherwise it will seem abrupt. When the person being introduced is asked if he or she would like to meet someone, he or she should generally not refuse, but should readily agree. When introducing someone to another person, you should observe the principle that the honored person comes first and maintain a certain posture. If the atmosphere is appropriate, the other party is in a good mood, and do not disturb each other, you should seize the opportunity to introduce yourself, first nod to the other party to get the other party's response and then introduce yourself, brief and concise, half a minute is good.
2, after taking a seat in a proper posture, feet under my seat, do not arbitrarily straighten, elbows shall not lean on the edge of the table, or put their hands on the back of the neighboring chairs. You want to sit properly, but do not look formal, you can gently lean your body on the seat back, hands naturally on the knees. Don't place your chair so far from the table that you have to struggle to keep food off the floor while eating. And more importantly, learn to smile at the right time and answer questions politely. If you do this, you will feel comfortable and at ease at the table.