Birthday Banquet Etiquette

Birthday Banquet Etiquette

In terms of food and drink, for the tenth and twentieth birthdays, it is enough to eat only cut noodles.

He birthday is generally celebrated, mostly with longevity peaches, longevity noodles as a gift, the family also added sugar, clouds. Peach is seen as a peach, noodles to take its long, are expressed congratulations on longevity. At the same time, they also send longevity couplets, which are used to write auspicious phrases. Grand also set up a birthday hall, set birthday candles, lights and colors.

Shouweng sitting in the front seat, to accept the congratulations of friends and relatives and juniors. The birthday ceremony has a presiding officer shouted gift seniority different, worship also has a difference. Generation is just a bow, son and nephew for the honor of the eldest to celebrate the four worship, some also use the birthday plate with four cooked eggs, or a bowl of jujube soup dedicated to the birthday. Congratulations on the completion of the ceremony, *** eat birthday feast, birthday wine.

The life noodles are also sent to the neighbors to thank the congratulations.

Before attending the banquet, for the host's invitation, according to the requirements marked on the invitation, timely feedback, which is the first polite answer to the host's invitation. Attend the banquet, neatly dressed (if required, according to the regulations to wear a dress) and arrive on time, not late, not leave early, all show respect for the host, but also very important etiquette. If there are special circumstances, you should inform your host in time and apologize at the same time. To go to the banquet time should not be too far in advance, in general, the status of the high, it is appropriate to be at the right time or a little late l?2 minutes, other people should be at the right time or about 5 minutes in advance to arrive.

Participants in the banquet, after arriving at the lounge should first sit, see the host should take the initiative to the master of the welcoming place, greetings to the host, but also discretionary to give the hostess a small amount of flowers. If it is a celebratory banquet, you can also send a flower basket or bouquet to the banquet unit. If the guests enter the banquet hall directly, they should find the service staff in front of the banquet hall door and ask them to bring them to the seats, not to walk around in the banquet hall by themselves and go to the tables to find their own name signboards.

After finding a seat, generally the chief of the table is seated, we sit down, when the neighboring seat is an older man or woman, you should take the initiative to assist them to sit down first, and then their own seat. After being seated, the posture should be upright, do not put your elbows on the table, not hands on the cheeks or hands crossed on the back of the head; both feet naturally placed vertically under my seat, do not extend their feet to other people's seats, do not keep shaking their legs; do not play with the tableware and tableware, do not use a napkin or paper towel to wipe the tableware, because this action is to tell others tableware is not clean, it will make the host embarrassed. For the hot (or wet) towel sent up by the waiter, you can only wipe your mouth and hands, not sweat.

Before the start of the meal, you should open the napkin spread to the lap, after the meal roughly folded up on the right side of the plate, not thrown on the chair, not folded square, to give people to ? It should not be left on the chair or folded squarely, giving people the impression that it has not been used. This gives people the wrong impression that they have not used the napkin. The napkin is only for wiping your mouth, not for wiping sweat.

Dining, eating should be elegant, not a lot of things in the mouth, cheeks bulging; to close the mouth to chew, do not slurp soup, eat without making a sound; if the soup or dish is too hot, to wait for the cooler before eating, do not blow with your mouth, not to mention the hot mouth and open your mouth to the outside of the haze; mouth of the bones, fish spikes and so on, do not spit on the table, to be placed on the side of the plate; when eating, use chopsticks When eating, use chopsticks or spoons to bring the food to your mouth, do not stretch your neck, probe forward or even stick out your tongue to the food. Don't talk with something in your mouth. Picking your teeth is an elegant gesture. When you must pick your teeth, cover your mouth with a napkin and do not pick your teeth while walking away from the table with a toothpick. When you are eating food, if you don't like it and the waiter or the host lets you eat it, you can't use hand gestures or say ? Don't? I don't like it. I don't like it.

If you don't like the food and the waiter or host lets you have it, you can put it on your plate and eat less or not eat it.

If you don't drink a lot of alcohol or can't drink for some reason, you should tell the host and take a drink instead of alcohol to complete the etiquette of the banquet. As the host, on the other hand, should not disregard the guest's situation and forcefully ? pouring alcohol? , which can be substituted with low-grade wine, sweet wine or drinks instead of strong alcohol. At the banquet, the guests and hosts should control their own alcohol consumption, and should never be greedy and lose their temper.

Banquet began, generally toast, toast clink glasses, the host and the guest of honor first clink glasses, others can raise their glasses at the same time, not necessarily each must touch, clink glasses do not? Do not cross the glasses when clinking. When the host and the guest of honor make a toast, they should stop eating, stop talking, pay attention to listening, and do not smoke. When the host or other people come to a table to make a toast, the people at that table should stand up and look squarely at each other when clinking glasses with each other? eye-nose triangle? When toasting each other, even if you can't drink, raise your glass to your lips to signal ? Drink a little. , generally speaking, at the end of the banquet, the wine poured into the cup should be finished, to show respect for the host.

At the end of the banquet, some hosts will give each guest a small souvenir or a flower, this time to say one or two words to praise the souvenir, and will take the souvenir away, do not say too many words of thanks. What's more, you shouldn't take? Do not look at this thing? attitude and leave the gift on the table. At the banquet, except for the host's special gesture of souvenirs, do not take anything else, including sweets and cigarettes.

When leaving a banquet, wait for the chief to stand up first before others can stand up, and let the elderly and ladies leave first. After attending a private party, thank the hostess first, but in a way that is appropriate for the occasion.