Which seat is the right seat at the banquet

Ancient banquet etiquette in the guest's seat "to the left as the upper, as the chief". The seating order was "left to honor the east" and "face to the front door is honored".

If it is a round table, it is facing the door of the host guest, the host guest left and right hand side of the position, the distance from the host guest, the closer the location of the host guest, the more honored, the same distance from the left side of the right side of the honored.

If the Eight Immortals Table, if there is a seat facing the door, the right side of the door is facing the main guest. If not facing the door, the right seat on the side facing east is the chief.

At the dinner party, generally sitting in the north of the south is honored, is the top of the table; sitting in the east of the west of the second; sitting in the west of the east of the second; sitting in the south of the north is the bottom of the head. Seating, the guest of honor at the top, the host at the bottom. In the traditional courtyard house, the north room for the main, east and west for the compartment. The left hand of the main house, that is, the east side of the north house is the upper head, the west side is the lower head.

Expanded:

Chinese table culture is unique to China. The history is almost as old as the people, and long before the Chinese characters matured, the Chinese had already mastered the technology of brewing wine. Many canonical books contain records about wine and drinking culture, and the culture of wine penetrates deep into the bloodline of the Chinese people, with far-reaching influence.

There are more than 20 references to wine in the Classic of Poetry, where wine is given meanings of etiquette, socializing, and leisure, reflecting a specific patriarchal order and human relationships. There are also many canonical books devoted to wine, such as the Western Zhou's "Wine Grant", the Western Han's "Wine Fugue", "Wine Proverbs", the Eastern Jin's "Wine Commandments", and the Early Tang's "Wine Scriptures", "Wine Spectrum", etc. It can be seen that wine has long been a part of China's culture. It can be seen that wine has become an important element of Chinese culture from a very early stage.

As old as Chinese table culture is the culture of persuading people to drink. Dining in ancient China carried an extremely important social function, so it was delayed for a longer period of time. Tang Dynasty banquets generally began in the morning and lasted until dusk, counting no less than seven or eight hours. Qing Dynasty period, many public bill banquet even lasted three or five days,

These are both social and political activities. Running through the banquets, in addition to the silk and bamboo songs and dances, was the wine. In early China, the culture of persuading people to drink alcohol originated from various banquets that lasted for a long time. A meal to eat so long, the topic is bound to dry, dry drink is not interesting, so they invented a variety of persuasive techniques.

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