How to understand the etiquette culture in China?

Chinese etiquette actually exists in the daily life of China people.

When eating, wait for the elder to take the first bite before the younger generation moves chopsticks; When eating, it is considered impolite to smack your lips with "eat without talking"; Don't interrupt when others are talking; When you sleep, you should follow the principle of "sleeping without talking". During thousands of years' missionary career, China's etiquette has actually been deeply integrated into the daily life of China people.

China is known as "the state of etiquette", known as "the summer with etiquette", the ritual of China. Zhou is the most important etiquette in China, which was widely practiced in ancient China.

In ancient China, there were five rituals: auspicious ceremony, wedding ceremony, guest ceremony, military ceremony and funeral ceremony. According to folklore, etiquette includes four kinds of life etiquette: birth, coronation, wedding and funeral. Actually, etiquette can be divided into politics and life. Politics includes offering sacrifices to heaven, land, ancestral temples, teachers, kings and sages; Rural drinking, meeting ceremony, military ceremony, etc. Life includes five sacrifices, high sacrifices, Nuo ceremony, birth ceremony, crown ceremony, food etiquette, gift etiquette and so on.

China ancestors used body movements to convey the language of "two-way equivalence" and "orderly position". These actions are called rituals. Etiquette movements passed down carry the words passed down from ancestors to future generations.

These etiquette movements originated in ancient times, when there was no language for human beings. It is sign language and hieroglyphics that everyone can understand, and it is "Putonghua" passed down from generation to generation.

There are ten etiquette movements and two routine etiquette movements. Carry the principle of two-way reciprocity, orderly position, indispensable, suitable for both sides, and the principle of being a man.

Ten etiquette movements are: bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow.

Two routine etiquette actions are: meeting for the first time, greeting parents and bowing to friends, classmates and colleagues.

It should be noted that anyone who salutes with his fist must make a fist with his right hand and hold his left hand outside his right hand, regardless of gender. Bowing down is divided into nine worships, kowtowing is the heaviest and nodding is the second. The so-called ceremony, but bow down nine times, no more.

reference data

Qing Liu. Chinese etiquette culture. No.2 Manjujijia, Haidian District, Beijing: Current Affairs Press, 2009,65438+February.