Chinese etiquette knowledge
1, Introduction
With the continuous exchange of Chinese and Western food culture, Chinese food is not only the traditional diet of the Chinese people, but also more and more favored by foreigners. This seems to be the most common Chinese food, but the etiquette of the meal is a lot to pay attention to. Chinese tableware mainly consists of cups, plates, bowls, saucers, chopsticks and spoons. At formal banquets, the water cup is placed on top of the plate, and the wine glass is placed on the top right. Chopsticks and spoons can be placed on a special seat or in a paper sleeve.
The order of Chinese food is generally: first on the cold dishes, then on the hot dishes, and finally on the sweets and fruits. Before the meal, the waiter for each person to send the first wet towel is to wipe the hands with, it is best not to use it to wipe the face. At the banquet, on the chicken, lobster, fruit, sometimes send a small water pot (copper basin, porcelain bowl or crystal glass jar), water floating rose petals or lemon slices for hand washing (there have been some people mistakenly drink, so as to become a joke). Wash when both hands take turns wetting their fingers, gently rinse, and then dry with a napkin or small towel.
2, food rituals
Ancient food rituals are divided by class: the court, the government, the line of help, folk, etc. Modern food rituals are simplified to: the host, the host, the host, the host, the host, the host, the host, the host, the host. Modern food rituals are simplified to: host (host), guests. As a guest, to go to the banquet to pay attention to the appearance, according to the relationship between the affinity to decide whether to bring small gifts or good wine. To go to the banquet punctual and punctual; after arriving, first according to know or not, self-reporting, or by the host to introduce the introduction of the host, listen to the host arrangements.
Then take your seat: this ? Heroic seating? From ancient times to the present day, because of the evolution of tableware, so the seating arrangement also changes accordingly. Generally speaking, the seating order is The left side of the table is the east side, and the left side is the east side. The first is to sit on the left side of the table, and the second is to sit on the right side. Facing the door for the honor. Family feast chief for the highest seniority of elders, the end of the lowest; family feast, the chief for the status of the most honored guests, guest hosts at the end of the table. The chief has not been seated, can not be seated, the chief has not been hands, can not be hands, cruising from the chief in order all the way down, and then drink.
1. More elaborate, if someone comes to the newspaper, regardless of the status, the whole table should welcome.
2. If it is a round table, it is facing the door of the guest of honor, the left hand side in turn for 2, 4, 6 right hand side in turn for 3, 5, 7 until the convergence.
3. If the Eight Immortals Table, if there is a seat facing the door, then the right seat on the side facing the door is the guest of honor,
4. If it is not facing the door, then the right seat on the side of the face of the east is the chief. Then the chief of the left hand side of the seat open to 2, 4, 6, 8 (8 on the opposite side), the right hand side of 3, 5, 7 (7 on the opposite side).
5. If the feast, the arrangement of tables and tables between the chief of the front center, the left side of the order of 2, 4, 6 seats, the right side of the 3, 5, 7 seats.
6. According to the identity of the host and guest, status, affinity sitting.
7. The napkin is mainly to prevent dirty clothes, but also to wipe the mouth and hands of oil stains.
8. The napkin should be spread out and placed on the upper thighs of the knees, do not tie into the belt, or hang on the lapel of the suit.
9. Do not use the napkin to wipe the tableware.
10. After the meal, the napkin should be folded and placed on the table before leaving the table.
11. When entering the table, you should wait for the elders to be seated before entering the table.
12. When drinking soup, the first time you ladle the soup should be less, test the temperature first, and taste it lightly. Don't make a sound when drinking soup.
13. Don't stir the hot soup or blow on it to cool it.
14. The soup should be ladled up and not divided into several mouthfuls at a time.
15. After drinking soup, the spoon should be put on the soup plate or the saucer of the soup cup.
16. You must wait until everyone is seated before using a napkin.
17. When dining in a restaurant, you should be seated by the waiter.
18. Juicy fruits such as watermelon and grapefruit should be eaten with a spoon.
19. Granular fruits such as grapes can be eaten by hand.
20. Juicy fruits such as apples, persimmons and pears can be cut into four pieces and eaten after peeling.
21. Peaches and melons, peeled and sliced, eaten.
22. After taking your seat, you should have a proper posture, with your feet under your seat, and you should not straighten them out arbitrarily, and your elbows should not be leaning on the edge of the table or placing your hands on the back of the neighbor's chair.
23. With food in your mouth, you should avoid talking.
24. You must eat in small bites, not big mouth stuffing, food is not swallowed, can not be stuffed into the mouth again.
25. When taking food and scooping soup, use chopsticks and spoons.
26. If you eat something in your mouth, you can't spit it out. If the food is in soup, you can drink water or juice to cool it down.
27. When sending food into the mouth, both elbows should be leaning inward, and should not be spread out to the sides, touching the neighboring seats.
28. Good eating is food on the mouth, not the mouth on the food. Food with juice, can not be sent to the mouth in a hurry, otherwise the soup drops on the tablecloth, and is not elegant.
29. Do not pull out your teeth with your hands, use toothpicks and cover them with your hands or handkerchiefs.
30. Avoid coughing, sneezing, sulking and farting at the table. In case you can't help it, you should say ? Sorry?
31. Drinking should be casual, toast to salute to the end, do not remember to persuade, guessing, yelling.
32. If the tableware falls to the ground, ask the waiter to pick it up.
33. In case of accidents, such as accidentally splashing wine, water, soup on other people's clothes, apologize, do not panic to make amends.
34. 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 pass, do not reach across, long drive to take things.
35. If the host personally cooked food, do not forget to give the host appreciation.
36. If you eat unclean or strange flavor, do not swallow, should be the entrance to the food, gently with the thumb and forefinger to remove, into the plate. Tell the waiter softly to replace it.
37. When dining, if you find that the food you haven't eaten has insects or debris, don't make a fuss, it's better to wait for the waiter to approach and tell the waiter to replace it softly.
38. After eating, the tableware must be placed neatly, not messy.
39. After eating, the napkin should be folded and placed on the table.
40. During the main meal, it is not appropriate to smoke, if you need to smoke, you must first obtain the consent of the neighbor.
41. Dining in the restaurant, you can not rush to pay the bill, push and pull to pay to the indecent. If you are a guest, you can not rush to pay the bill.
42. The speed of eating should be synchronized with the host and hostess, not too fast, not too slow.
43. Can not talk about sad things at the table, otherwise it will affect the happy atmosphere.
44. You should wait for the elders to be seated before taking your seat.
45. If there is a woman at the table, you should wait for her to be seated before taking your seat.
46. After the meal, must wait for the host and hostess to leave the table, the other guests can leave!
Chinese food ordering? Three excellent four taboos?
Chinese food ordering priority dishes:
1. Chinese food characteristics of the dishes. Banquet foreign guests, this article should be more important. Like fried spring rolls, boiled dumplings, steamed dumplings, lion's head, Gongbao chicken, etc., is not a delicacy, but because of the distinctive Chinese characteristics, so by many foreigners respected.
2. Dishes with local characteristics. For example, Xi'an's lamb steamed buns, Hunan's braised pork, Shanghai's braised lion's head, and Beijing's shabu-shabu. When entertaining foreign guests there, I'm afraid that these specialties will be more appreciated than the same old raw seafood.
3. The restaurant's specialties. Many restaurants have their own specialties. To serve a specialty of the restaurant shows the host's care and respect for the person being invited.
At the same time, when arranging the menu, it is also necessary to consider the dietary taboos of the guests, especially to pay great attention to the dietary taboos of the guest of honor.
Chinese food ordering taboos are mainly four:
1, religious dietary taboos, can not be negligent. For example, Muslims usually do not eat pork, and do not drink alcohol. Domestic Buddhists eat less meat food, it refers not only to meat, but also includes onions, garlic, leeks, mustard and other pungent smell of food. Some Buddhists who believe in Goddess of Mercy in the diet especially prohibited to eat beef, this point to entertain Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese compatriots should pay particular attention.
2, for health reasons, for some foods, there are some contraindications. For example, heart disease, cerebrovascular, vascular sclerosis, hypertension and post-stroke, not suitable for eating dog meat, hepatitis patients avoid eating lamb and turtle, gastroenteritis, gastric ulcer soup and other digestive disorders are not suitable to eat turtle, high blood pressure, high cholesterol patients, to drink less chicken soup and so on.
3, different regions, people's dietary preferences are often different. For this, in the arrangement of the menu to take into account. For example, people in Hunan Province share a general preference for spicy food, less sweets. People in Britain and the United States usually do not eat pets, rare animals, animal offal, animal head and claws. In addition, when entertaining foreign guests, as little as possible to point to the raw hard to gnaw dishes, foreigners in the meal will be less likely to bite into the mouth of the food and then spit out, which also need to be taken into account.
4, some professions, for some reason, in the dining often have their own different special taboos. For example, the state civil servants are not allowed to eat in the performance of official duties, in the official banquet is not allowed to eat and drink, are not allowed to exceed the national standard dining, are not allowed to drink hard liquor. Another example is that drivers are not allowed to drink during their work. If this is ignored, there is still a possibility that the other party will make a mistake.