2. Pick up the napkin from the dining table, fold it in half first, and then spread the crease on your leg. Never shake off your napkin, wrap it around your neck like a bib, or stuff it in the neckline. It is also wrong to put a corner of a napkin into your eyes or belt. If the clothes are slippery and the napkin slips easily, you should put a corner of the napkin into your belt, or put the left and right ends under your thighs in a less conspicuous way. In addition to wiping your mouth when necessary, the napkin cloth must be placed flat on your legs during the whole meal at the table.
3. napkin cloth, also called mouth cloth, is used to wipe your mouth.
During the meal, before drinking, you need to wipe the oil stains on your mouth with a napkin cloth.
When you leave the table temporarily, you must let the napkin drop a corner from the table, and it is best to avoid leaving the table in the middle of the banquet. When leaving the table temporarily, many people will fold the napkins and put them on the chairs. There is nothing wrong with this treatment, because the napkin placed on the table is easily misunderstood and has left the table. In fact, the most ideal method is to press the corner of the napkin with a plate or knife and let it hang down from the edge of the table. Of course, the dirty side is elegant when it faces inward.
6. After eating, take a napkin cloth from the middle and put it on the table. The specific position is on the left side of your plate. Just put it away casually, don't fold it deliberately, but be careful not to wrinkle the napkin cloth.
7. Napkin cloth is usually folded and placed on the decorative plate in the middle of the seat, which is a common napkin arrangement at formal dinners. Besides, napkins will also be placed on the edge of the plate.
8. If you don't want to dirty napkins, they may get dirty. Take out your handkerchief or tissue and use it. This is against table manners.
9. When you spit out the seeds of fishbone or fruit, you can cover your mouth with a napkin, spit directly in the napkin, and then analyze the napkin inward.
10. The first person to open the napkin cloth should be the host. This action announced the official start of the dinner.
1 1. If the napkin cloth is not placed in the middle of the plate, it will be placed on your left, and the napkin cloth on the right belongs to the guest sitting on your right. Be careful not to take another napkin cloth by mistake.
12. Sometimes the napkin cloth is put in the cup, and your napkin cloth is in the cup on the right.
13. If you are not a child or a person who is inconvenient to eat, it is best not to hang a napkin cloth on your chest.
14. Napkin cloth is used to wipe your mouth, not your face or tableware. If you need to wipe your sweat, you can use a paper towel.
15. It is unsightly to leave lipstick on the tableware, but when it is necessary to wipe off lipstick marks, use paper towels instead of napkin cloth.
16. Avoid excessive action when wiping your mouth with a napkin cloth. The correct and elegant way to use it is to gently wipe it.
17. To stand up after eating, first pick up the napkin on your leg, fold it at will, then put it on the left side of the dining table, and then get up and leave your seat. It is impolite to shake or fold a napkin after standing up. Napkins don't have to be folded too neatly after use, but you can't just rub them into a ball. If guests or elders are present, they must wait until they pick up napkins and fold them before they can follow suit. At the end of the meal, the action of putting the napkin cloth back on the table is also completed by the hostess first, indicating the end of the dinner.