How to place traditional chopsticks in China?

After eating, put chopsticks on the table behind the bowl, and the center of the bowl, chopsticks and dining table will become a straight line. This arrangement means that you are full. Is the best way of etiquette.

It is unlucky to put chopsticks on the table for different lengths before or during meals. Usually we call it "three long and two short", which means "death".

Don't put chopsticks in the rice when eating, because it is traditionally done when offering incense to the dead. It is absolutely impossible to put chopsticks in a bowl. It is despised to use chopsticks upside down when eating. As the saying goes, people are so hungry that they don't care about their faces. It's no good to pour chopsticks.

It is wrong to cross chopsticks casually on the table when eating. Some people think that crossing at the dinner table is a total denial of others at the same table, just like the nature that students write wrong homework and teachers cross books, which is unacceptable to others. In addition, this practice is also disrespectful to yourself, because in the past, when I was in court, I only crossed my confession, which is undoubtedly denying myself, which is also unacceptable.

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Etiquette for using chopsticks:

1, don't put the food back after you pick it up.

2. You can't use chopsticks to point at people or point fingers with chopsticks when eating.

Don't insert chopsticks into a bowl of rice or rice.

4. Don't compete with other people's chopsticks.

5. Don't move chopsticks in front of the host when going to dinner (the same is true for spoons). In some countries, we will wait for the guests (or the oldest person present) to start eating.

6. In the process of eating, you raised your chopsticks, but you didn't know which dish to eat. At this time, you can't move chopsticks back and forth in each dish or swim in the air, and turn around on the dish without picking it up.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-chopsticks