1, seating arrangements: the Chinese is: first guests are invited to sit on the seat, and then invite the elders to sit next to the guests. When you take your seat, you should enter from the left side of the chair. The host must pay attention to the point is not let the guests sit near the seat of the food, this is a big taboo. In the case of a round table, the main seat is the one facing the door. In the more popular modern Chinese banquet etiquette, the seating order is borrowed from the Western law of right-over-right, with the first guest of honor sitting on the host's right, and the second guest of honor sitting on the host's left or on the right of the first guest of honor. In the West, after the hostess announces that the dinner is ready, the host leads the guests to take their seats, and the general seating arrangement is based on the principle that men and women are segregated, with the male guest of honor seated first, to the right of the hostess, and the female guest of honor to the right of the male guest of honor, while the other couples are seated in a diagonal manner.

2, the order of serving: Chinese food is usually served with cold dishes, drinks or wine, then hot dishes, main dishes and soups, and finally fruits and desserts. And the western serving program is usually: cold dishes, seafood, main dishes, desserts, coffee and fruit. Cold dishes, also called hors d'oeuvres, are served as the first course, usually alongside an aperitif.

3, tableware: Chinese tableware mainly includes chopsticks, plates, bowls and spoons. In formal banquets, the water cup is usually placed on the upper left of the dish, the wine glass is placed on the upper right of the dish. The tableware of western food mainly has knives, forks, bowls, plates, saucers and so on.

4, napkin: Chinese food in the formal dining before the waiter will be handed a -9- hot towel for each person, it can only be used to wipe their hands, after wiping their hands, it should be put back to the original plate, taken away by the waiter, before the end of the banquet, there will be another piece of wet towel used to wipe their mouths, can not be used to wipe the sweat, wipe the face. Western food, napkins on the plate, either on the side of the plate.

5, stop the food method: at the end of Chinese food, chopsticks should be neatly placed on the table to the right of the bowl, and should wait for the guests to put down their chopsticks after the host signaled to leave the table before you can leave, can not eat by themselves to put down their chopsticks to go, this is very rude performance. And at the end of the Western food, to the bottom of the fork upward, the knife blade side inward and the fork side by side, parallel to the plate, and to put the handle on the plate in order to facilitate the waiter to clean up.