Table manners in China 15 Chinese people are assisted by etiquette, and food is the most important thing for the people. How can you eat without rules! Although it is three meals a day, it is better to know than not to know! 1。 It is not appropriate to inform the guests in advance, take a seat at 6 o'clock and call the guests at 5: 50. 2。 The host family can't be late; Guests should be 5- 10 minutes late. This is a very considerate guest. Attach importance to it, and the natural host and guests are very happy. 3。 If you sit on the round table, it is the main seat facing the door, or the back wall and counter; More elegant restaurants will be distinguished by napkins. Unless you plan to treat guests, you can't just sit at the top of the napkin. The host's right hand side is the host and guest, and the left hand side is the second most important guest; Facing the host by the door, he is naturally an escort who runs errands and greets. 5。 A guest can't directly give directions to the ordering staff, but wait for the host's family to order; If the guest does have serious taboos or hobbies, tell the host gently, and the host will naturally make a decision for him to meet the requirements of the guest. 6。 The host family does not order or order less food that needs to be grasped or held by hands, such as crabs, lobster legs, ribs and so on. There is no way to serve three such dishes at a meal. What manners can be said! 7。 Don't force or oppose others to drink a little, no table can be served without wine! 8。 Serve drinks! Foreigners like to praise their own cooking, while China people don't praise their own food. The host carefully observes the cold dishes served. When there is a drink in each cup, he immediately raises a glass to welcome the start, and turns the disc or signals the host and guests on the right to move chopsticks first. Don't delay the host and guest for too long, everyone is hungry, just waiting for you to eat! Don't forget to praise the food you eat. 9。 After each dish is served, although the waiter and host will still turn to the host and guest, it is not necessary to be too formal. If no one turns the disc in front of me, I'll try it with small chopsticks first! 10。 The host family should always turn discs to take care of most of the guests; Accompanying guests is a supplementary greeting service; If the guests can eat the whole meal without touching the dishes, then both the host and the guests will be happy again. 1 1。 If there is no waiter to divide the dishes or chopsticks spoons, look at them first. Don't pick and choose with chopsticks or even stir them on the plate! Not everyone doesn't mind the saliva on your chopsticks like lovers! I usually watch the part closest to me. 12。 It's best to let the food on chopsticks transition in your own dish and then send it to your mouth. It can make eating seem less urgent. 13。 When chewing food in your mouth, it is important to remember that your lips should be tightly closed to avoid talking, falling objects, overflowing juice and making unpleasant sounds. 14。 You should keep your back straight and try to sit in a chair instead of * when eating or before eating. When eating, hands are basically above the table. 15。 A host with a good appetite and a guest who is losing weight are not suitable for such a dinner party. The basic etiquette on the dining table There are many etiquette that should be paid attention to on the dining table, but these etiquette are often ignored. (1) Sit and leave. 1. You should wait until the old man is seated before you can sit down. If there is a lady at the table, you should wait until the lady is seated. If the lady's seat is next door, someone should page her. After dinner, other guests can leave only after the hostess and the host leave. 4. Sit up straight and keep a proper distance from the dining table. When eating in a restaurant, the waiter should take you to the table. 6. When leaving the seat, help the old man or woman in the next seat to drag the seat. Tableware display etiquette 1 (2) Use of scented towels 1. Napkins are mainly used to prevent clothes from getting dirty, and also to wipe oil stains on the mouth and hands. You must wait until everyone is seated before you can use the napkin. 3. After the napkin is spread out, put it on the thigh at the top of the knee. Don't wear a belt or hang it on the collar of a suit. Never wipe the tableware with napkin. (3) General etiquette at the table 1. After sitting down, stand up straight, put your feet under the seat, don't straighten up at will, don't lean your elbows on the edge of the table, and don't put your hands on the back of the chair next to you. 2. When eating, be gentle, calm and not impatient. 3. At the dinner table, you should not only care about yourself, but also care about others, especially the female guests on both sides. If there is food in your mouth, you should avoid talking. 5. Don't put your own tableware in the public plate to get food. 6, be sure to stutter, don't big mouth, food is the last to swallow, can't plug the entrance. 7. When picking vegetables and scooping soup, use public chopsticks and spoons. 8, eat imported things, can not spit it out, such as hot food, you can drink water or juice to shower. 9. When the food is delivered to the entrance, the elbows should be tilted inward, instead of being placed straight at the sides to touch the neighbors. 10. When you hold a knife and fork or others chew food, you should avoid talking or toasting. 1 1, good eating is the food on the mouth, not the food on the mouth. Food with juice can't be rushed into your mouth, otherwise the soup will drip on the tablecloth, which is extremely indecent. 12. Don't pick your teeth with your fingers, use toothpicks and cover them with your hands or handkerchiefs. 13. Avoid coughing, sneezing and sulking at the dinner table. If you really can't help it, say "I'm sorry" 14, drink casually, toast politely, and don't try to persuade people to drink, guess fists or shout. 15. If the tableware falls, ask the waiter to pick it up. 16. If you accidentally spill wine, water or soup on someone else's clothes, you can apologize. You don't have to panic to make up for it, but you will embarrass the other party. 17. If you want to take the condiments placed in front of other guests at the same table, please ask the guests next to you to help pass them around. You shouldn't reach out and drive for them. 18. If the host cooks himself, don't forget to praise him. 19. If you eat something unclean or smelly, don't swallow it. Gently take out the imported food with your thumb and forefinger and put it on the plate. Don't make a fuss if you find bugs and gravel in the unfinished dishes. When the waiter comes near, tell him to change it softly. 20. After eating, the tableware must be placed neatly and not misplaced. Napkins should also be folded and put on the table. 2 1, staple food in progress, should not smoke, if you want to smoke, you must first obtain the consent of the neighbors. 22, eating in a restaurant, you can't grab the bill, push and pull the payment, it is indecent. If you are a guest, you can't rush to pay the bill. You shouldn't pay the bill for your friend without his consent. 23. Eat at the same speed as the host and hostess, neither too fast nor too slow. 24. Don't talk about sadness at the dinner table, or it will spoil the happy atmosphere.