What are the Chinese table manners?

With the deepening and development of Sino-Western exchanges, table manners have gradually become an important influence on international exchanges, table manners can reflect a person's behavioral qualities, especially for international business meals, to maintain good business table manners can leave a better impression on the other side, China's table manners which are foreigners can not think of?

1, the location of the seat

Chinese table manners is the guest Qi after the guest guide into the seat, to the left as the upper, as the chief, relative to the first seat for the two seats, the first seat under the three seats, two seats under the four seats. Crooked people attending a Chinese banquet for the first time may be very confused, not knowing where they should be? Moreover, this will cause the crooked people to be very nervous because they are not used to it!

For Westerners, generally speaking, the seat facing the door furthest away from the door is the hostess's, and the seat opposite to it is the host's. The seat to the right of the hostess is the first seat. The seat to the right of the hostess is the first guest of honor, usually a gentleman; the seat to the right of the hostess is the second guest of honor, usually the wife of the guest of honor. The seat to the left of the hostess is the third guest of honor, and the seat to the left of the host is the fourth guest of honor.

2, the atmosphere of the table on the difference?

Chinese people are usually quiet,? When they sit down at the table, they are very talkative. They are very talkative, and they are very good at talking to each other. They will give each other food, and they will also give each other a lot of food. The Chinese are not the only ones who have a lot to say, but they are the only ones who are not. If you don't persuade, then you're the host is too impolite! Not to persuade you to drink down is not finished, this point on the crooked country people are very disgusted, do not drink feel embarrassed, drink too much on their own, this is the result of their into the local customs, but also they are difficult to understand the part!

3, different behavior at the table

In today's China,? many people both smoke and drink,? There is a social oddity that seems to be that no smoking and no drinking equals no socializing. Social activities must swallow clouds and fog, otherwise, reflecting the spirit of boldness, reflecting the manhood! So, some Europeans and Americans arrive in China and dine together thinking this is just horrible, why should it be like this? Many Westerners today,? especially Americans, do not like to smoke or drink,? and many don't like people smoking around them either.

4. Differences in cutlery

Chinese people stop eating for a while during a feast and put their chopsticks straight down on a plate or spoon. If the chopsticks are placed horizontally on the plate, it is a sign of drunkenness and no more meals. Sometimes, when a crooked person arrives at the table, he suddenly realizes that there are no more knives and forks, but only chopsticks, what kind of weapon is this? What kind of weapon is this? Seeing that the Chinese around the use of very skillful, feel that they also have no problem, so directly out of the foreign!

The difference between Chinese and Western table culture boils down to the difference between sensibility and rationality. Culture promotes the formation of diet, and diet reflects the culture of each country. However, this difference seems to be blurring with the development of science and world exchanges. Chinese and western table cultures influence each other and combine with each other, making both more perfect and scientific. In the banquet arrangement of business activities, maintaining good business table manners can leave a better impression on the other party and can promote the agreement.