A,
Look from the seats arrangement difference between Chinese and
western table manners
Chinese table manners are:
First ask a guest to sit down on the mat, then please elder sit
beside the guest.
Table when
From the left side of the chair. The owner must pay attention to
the point that must not let guests sat in the seat near the serving
And this is a big fear. If it is round table on the door it was the
Lord. Modern popular Chinese feast
Drinking etiquette,
The seating the west to the law of right to borrow,
The first guest sitting on the right of the owner,
The second guest sit
On the right of the owner or to the left of the first guest.
In the western table manners,
The hostess announced after dinner is ready,
Male host guests seated in turn,
General seating arrangement in space and take the principle of men
and women,
The male guest sit,
Its position on the right side of the hostess,
While the Japanese guests on the right side of the male guest,
other couples sit in diagonal manner.
Second,
Comparison between Chinese and western table manners differences
from tableware use
(a)
In the
Meal by place and method of use
1
, chopsticks
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Chopsticks are the tableware of Chinese food is the most important.
In the use of
,
Chopsticks must be neatly rice bowl before dinner
On the right side
,
After a meal must be neatly the vertical in the center of the bowl.
Whether or not the chopsticks remnants of food
,
Don't go to lick
;
When you are talking with people
,
To temporarily put down his chopsticks
;
Don't put the chopsticks vertically inserted in food
;
Teeth, scratching, or can't use chopsticks were used for picking up
things outside food.
2
,
The spoon
The spoon is mainly used to drink soup
,
Sometimes can also be used to take shape small dishes.
When using a spoon to get food
,
Don't be too full
,
Lest overflow to table or soiled their clothes.
After get food with a spoon
,
To eat or immediately
On his plate
,
If taking food is too hot
,
Can in their own bowl be eaten cold
,
Don't use mouth to blow
,
Don't put a spoon in his mouth
,
Or suck again and again.
3
,
The plate
The dishes are mainly used for food
,
Depending on how much food storage containers and of different
shape and size of shapes.
A little
A little dish to eat dish
,
On the left side of the bowl
,
Is used to temporarily put cooking pan from the public to enjoy
With the dishes.
When using a food dish
,
Don't take too much food at a time
,
Don't put together a variety of dishes
,
In case of
They are changing each other. Don't eat the scraps,
Bone,
Should be put in the front of the plate
,
When can't directly from the mouth
To spit in the food on a plate
,
To add on the plate with chopsticks.
(2) western food by place and method of use
Tableware and access principle.
Tableware put the tray in the middle
,
Left fork right knife
,
The tip up
,
Blade to
Within the
,
Pre-market cross spoon
,
Staples on the left
,
The table on the right
,
Discretionary is put in the rest of the appliance.
The number of the glass with wine
Class is equal
,
Method from left to right
,
In turn put strong glass
,
Wine glass
,
Champagne glass
,
Beer stein.
In the west
Dinner napkin on the plate
,
If the guest has not yet been settled before need to put something
into the plate
,
meal
Towel on the side.
Use a knife and fork when eating
,
Knives are used to cut food
,
The fork is used to send food entrance.
When using a knife
,
The blade is not
But to the outside.
And not to one end of the knife and fork on the plate
,
On the other side on the table
;
Dine in need of short duration
When put down the knife and fork
,
Should be put into
#
eight
∃
font
,
Place the edge of plate, respectively
,
The blade towards their
,
said
Continue to eat
;
After the meal
,
Will the back of the fork upward
,
The blade inward and forks together
,
Put down
On the plate
,
Said the dinner.
Talk with body language or dishes
,
A knife and fork should be put down
,
Don't
Waving in the air with a knife and fork. After using the knife and
fork
,
Should be placed horizontally on a plate
,
Rather than the rim or table
on
;
Towards your placement for incision
,
Fork in the left
,
In order to take the security of walking.
usually
,
Spoon can be divided into two kinds
,
One is a spoon
,
Have a larger size
,
The most outside was put on the right side
- 3 -
end
,
With a knife and put together
;
One is a dessert spoon
,
The relatively small size
,
Of knives and forks are used by the cross on the dessert
Upper part.
When combined with a spoon sauce
,
The spoon to his right hand
,
Fork in the left hand.
After been cut
,
In the plate
General food scoop up with sauce to eat
;
After drinking the soup
,
Spoon on the plate should be the opposite side.
Pay attention to the spoon is absolutely cannot be directly used to
dip any staple food or dishes
,
Have begun to use the spoon
Can replace it.
In the western food
,
Eat different food need to match different wine
,
Usually different glasses used to drink
Wine.
The top of the knife on the right side each diner
,
Will a SanSiZhi wine glass.
Can one from outside to inside
use
,
General white wine glass and champagne glass, red wine cup, cup is
indispensable.
Three,
From the point of view of repast atmosphere difference between
Chinese and western table manners
Chinese people dining, figure is a lively, while westerners good
quiet. China has a saying "people for food
Day ", the Chinese food as the ZhiLe of life, the scene of the
grand, often busy so amazing.
People dining together, often mutual vomiting-inducing toasts,
building-would, in ancient times are ok drinkers' wager game, this can show
master
Enthusiasm and sincerity.
This is also shows the Chinese family harmony, neighborhood unity
of cultural atmosphere.
Westerners sit
At the dinner table, quietly open their own dishes, drink soup
can't make a sound. If the soup is too hot,
Also don't
Can use the mouth to blow, can only stay cool for some soup to
drink. This shows the westerners also good static characteristics.
Chinese dinner at the dinner table, the table of dishes varied and
multifarious. If it is a feast, Lord
Food will be more and more rich, more expensive in order to show
the host's hospitality and guest's identity.
And at the end of the banquet
, the host will often say "nothing good dishes to entertain
everyone today", "food is not good, please inclusion",
"Who snubbed you"
And so on. While western feast usually only four or five dishes,
To just finish eating or slightly
Has a surplus for the best. If in the home, after all of the
world's best food, the hostess will be very happy, think this
Sample is you like her cooking, a recognition of her cooking
skills. In the face of a splendid dinner,
The host will say
Has devoted her all to entertain everyone.
For western master's words,
It is not difficult to draw,
The Chinese people to follow
"To demote people respect"
The principle of
Westerners emphasize efficiency and pragmatism values,
Pays attention to the need of the own face in communication.
For example,
Westerners at the banquet gentle words commonly used to replace the
disgusting thing.
The toilet in which meeting said
"
The Where
can
I wash to myhand?
",
"
I wonder if I can go somewhere?
"In addition, Chinese people meet
Say "hello" often ask "did you eat?" But in the western countries,
such easy to misleading, to
To please the other party for you to have a meal, especially for
unmarried men and women, they will think you are interested in dating.
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Four,
Look from the leaves of Chinese and western table manners
differences
Chinese food at the end of the party
,
Only by the owner to sign for the banquet;
After the host and guest leave seat
,
The other guests to the end of a banquet; Master should be to see
the guests off at the gate; The guest should be thanked his master;
If the way,
Don't simply and master nods to say hello or about to guests.
Western food at the end of the party
,
First of all to
Napkin picked up on his leg
,
Casually folded
,
Then put the napkin on the left side of the table
,
And then getting up.
After a meal
,
Shall be such as men,
The hostess after leaving
,
Other guests before leaving.
leaving
,
Ms should help every elderly or drag
Pull the seat
,
Goodbye to thank master
,
More careful when
,
Still can again by phone or thank you thank you.
Through the comparison of Chinese and western table manners
,
Found that people in dining manners can cause some degree of others
The psychological impact. Our country is facing unprecedented
challenges
,
In both the material and spiritual and cultural aspects
,
Are urgent need a set of complete and reasonable values for unity
,
Only by understanding the Chinese and western etiquette culture
different
,
The reasonable organic integration
,
To establish suitable for China's contemporary social etiquette
culture system and elimination
Unless due to the cultural barriers in intercultural communication
and misunderstanding
,
The development of civilization in China and abroad
With some help.
As the world fusion between unceasing deepening,
The etiquette between people more and more be taken seriously,
especially
The importance of table manners more emerges.
The author studies of table manners,
Trying to deeper understanding and
Interpretation use of table manners between Chinese and western
differences in etiquette.
Through the table manners finally can see
, the ritual is ideological content, the meter is form. Cultural
connotation of different angles, thinking and values
The different is the main reason for the differences between
Chinese and western table manners.
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