What are the five taboo matters of table etiquette

China is a state of etiquette, people attach importance to etiquette, courtesy, eating manners and etiquette in our country has experienced 5000 years of cultural civilization heritage. Eat we have to do every day, the subject of which the University of how much do you know? Here is my knowledge of table manners for you to organize, I hope to be able to help you Oh!

Table manners five taboos

1. food does not speak bed does not speak

Remember not to speak with others when the meal is still in the mouth without swallowing, this is very taboo and impolite. If the other party is very anxious to get the answer, you must use your hand to cover the mouth is chewing, on the other hand, if you see other people are chewing food, do not go to talk to others, see other people in the clip when the food is not to toast.

2. Learn to be courteous and quiet

Many children always want to eat what they want to eat, will like to eat things naturally dragged in front of their own, the adults also let the children pick their favorite food. Children running around the table making a lot of noise, which is very rude behavior. Chinese food etiquette , is to teach children to? know how to be polite? An important step.

3. Sitting with a sitting face

The magical tutor, Vivian Gu, appreciates the phrase "sitting with a sitting face". Nowadays, many young people are hunched over, and her mentor, international fashion etiquette expert Ms. Zhou Simin, reminds her all the time that she must sit up straight.

During the many years of studying with Ms. Zhou Simin, her back was straight, whether she was in the limelight, in front of the screen, or in the usual chatting situations. So at the dinner table, you must also pay attention to grooming, not only to make a good impression, but also to avoid the stomach hoarding food lead to physical discomfort.

Speaking of Ms. Zhou Simin, mentor Vivian Gu shared a secret she uses to stay in good shape? Eat in small bites and stop after eating for a while. This is a slower and less frequent way to eat, and chewing and swallowing slowly while eating not only improves your temperament, but is also a healthier way for your body.

4. About the clip

In the glass carousel on the Chinese dining table, the clip should be turned clockwise. This on the one hand signifies the smooth will go smoothly, on the other hand is also according to the human body's movement direction customary regulations. When everyone is clockwise rotation of the turntable, if you turn counterclockwise will appear to be very abrupt, and it should be noted that in the dishes should be turned to the guest of honor or honored first in front.

In the old rules of eating at home, there are also many differences between the main seat, the second seat and so on. While modern people generally don't care about that anymore, the fashionable etiquette we're studying is very scientific etiquette. Regardless of the kind of etiquette, it is a matter of mind? Only when you can consider others and notice their inconvenience, you can become a truly polite and courteous person from the inside.

5. The books one has read, the roads one has traveled, the people one has met, including the food one has eaten, are all things that are enough to hold up Ta's distinctive temperament. Different geographical landscapes, different dining cultures, and different races in different parts of the motherland are all reasons that lead us to live with very different character traits. If a person wants to become more confident in etiquette, he must learn more and go out more to make his horizons broad.

How to maintain elegance and self-confidence, all the details of the beauty of the show in the outsiders, are the usual exercise. Here, we hope that everyone can spread the fashion etiquette, so that the flower of fashion etiquette civilization bloomed in the north and south of the Yangtze River, so that all of us become a part of the knowledge of etiquette and etiquette.

Table manners common sense

First, the etiquette of seating. The first guests are invited to sit on the seat, and then invited to sit next to the guests in order to be seated, from the left side of the chair to enter. Do not move chopsticks after being seated, and do not make any noise, and do not get up and walk around. If there is something to greet the host (facing the door for the upper seat, generally based on the status of the other party to arrange).

Second, when eating, first ask the guests in the elderly to move chopsticks. Fewer dishes at a time, far from their own dishes to eat less, do not make a sound when eating, do not make a sound when drinking soup, drinking soup with a spoon in a small mouth, should not be brought to the mouth of the bowl to drink, the soup is too hot when cooled before drinking, do not blow while drinking. Some people like to eat hard to chew crunchy food, make a very clear sound, this practice is not etiquette requirements, especially when eating with the crowd, we should try to prevent this phenomenon.

Third, do not burp during meals, do not appear other sounds, if there is a sneeze, intestinal chirping and other involuntary sounds, we must say a? I'm really sorry? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. and "I'm sorry". Please forgive me. and so on, in order to apologize.

Fourth, if you want to give the guests or elders cloth food, it is best to use the public chopsticks, you can also away from the guests or elders far from the dishes sent to them in front. According to our Chinese custom, the dishes are one by one to the end, if there are leaders at the same table, the elderly, the guests, whenever a new dish on the first chopsticks, or take turns to ask them to move their chopsticks first, to show the importance of them.

Fifth, eat to the fish head, fish spines, bones and other things, do not spit outside, do not throw to the ground, slowly with their hands to get their own plate, or put on the side of the table next to their own or put on the paper prepared in advance.

Six, to take the time to chat with the right and left a few funny words to harmonize the atmosphere, do not eat bareheaded, regardless of others, and do not devour a big meal, and do not want to be greedy.

Seven, it is best not to pick teeth at the table. If you have to pick your teeth, use a napkin or hand to block your mouth.

Eight, to clarify the main task of the meal. To be clear to talk business-oriented, or to contact the main feelings, or to eat the main. If the former, in the arrangement of seating should pay attention to, the main negotiators seat close to each other to facilitate conversation or dredge emotions. If the latter, just need to pay attention to common sense etiquette on the line, focus on the appreciation of the dishes.

IX, finally left the table, you must express gratitude to the host, or on this occasion to invite the host to their own home in the future, in return.

x. You should wait for the elders to be seated before you can sit down.

xi. If there is a lady on the table, you should wait for the lady to be seated before you take your seat.

xii. Sit upright and keep a proper distance from the table.

xiii. When you leave the table, you should help the elders or women in the next seat to pull the seat.

xiv. Drinking soup with a spoon, never with a bowl.

xv. The way to drink soup is to scoop the soup spoon from the side to the outside, and to drink it from the inside to the outside direction.

XVI. When you drink soup, the first time you ladle the soup should be less, test the temperature first, and taste the soup superficially. Don't make a sound when you drink soup.

Seventeen, when drinking soup, do not arbitrarily stir the hot soup and blow cool with the mouth.

xviii. The soup should be ladled up and not divided into several mouthfuls at a time.

xix. After drinking soup, the spoon should be placed on the soup plate or the saucer of the soup cup.

XX, the bread should be torn into small slices to eat, eat a piece of tear a piece. You can't bite it with your mouth.

XXI, if you want to apply butter, not the whole piece first coated, in the tear down to eat, it is appropriate to tear off a small piece, and then coated in a small piece, sent to the mouth to eat.

Twenty-two, tear the bread, crumbs should be saucers, do not dirty the table.

Twenty-three, after the meal, must wait for the host and hostess to leave the table, other guests can leave.

Twenty-four, bread cut with a knife.

Twenty-five, such as the bread is baked hot, can be the whole piece of butter, and then torn into small pieces to eat.

XXVI, soup will be the bottom, you can use the left thumb and forefinger of the soup plate, to the center of the table, that is, tilted outward, in order to take the soup.

Twenty-seven, dining in the restaurant, should be led by the waiter to sit.

Twenty-eight, the main napkin to prevent dirty clothes, and do wipe the mouth and hands of oil stains.

Twenty-nine, you must wait until everyone is seated before you can use the napkin.

Thirty, napkins spread out, placed on the upper thighs of the knees, do not tie into the belt, or hanging in the lapel of the suit.

Thirty-one, do not use the napkin to wipe the tableware.

Thirty-two, after the meal, it is appropriate to fold the napkin, placed on the table and then leave the table.

Thirty-three, juicy fruits such as watermelon, grapefruit, etc., should be taken with a spoon.

Thirty-four, granular fruits such as grapes, can be eaten by hand.

Thirty-five: Grapes should be swallowed with their seeds, and if you want to spit them out, you should spit them out in your palm and then put them on a plate.

Thirty-six, less juicy brittle fruits such as apples, persimmons, pears, can be cut into four slices, and then peeled with a knife and fork to take food.

Thirty-seven, peaches and melons, peeled and sliced, and then eaten with a fork.

Thirty-eight, bananas can be cut from the middle of the knife, the skin to the sides of the peel, with a knife to eat a bite cut a bite.

Thirty-nine, Taiwan's citrus, after peeling the skin by hand, can be torn down by hand piece by piece to eat.

Forty, strawberries are mostly put on a small plate and eaten with a fork.

41, Western food in the fruit often on the hand washing bowl, the water, often sprinkled with flower petals a rose, for hand washing. But remember, only used to wash hands tip, do not put the whole hand into it.

Forty-two, just after eating fruit hands, should not use a napkin to wipe your hands, you should first wash your fingers, and then use a napkin to dry.

Forty-three, general cakes and pies, eat with a fork split, harder with a knife, cut with a fork after eating.

44. When you are seated, your posture should be upright, your feet should be under your seat, and you should not stretch your elbows out, lean on the edge of the table, or put your hands on the back of the neighboring chairs.

Forty-five, the meal must be gentle, calm and quiet, not impatient.

Forty-six, at the table can not only care about themselves, but also care about others, especially to greet the female guests on both sides.

Forty-seven, there is food in the mouth, you should avoid talking.

Forty-eight, self-use cutlery can not reach into the communal plate to clip the dishes.

Forty-nine, you must eat in small mouths, do not stuff a big mouth, the food is not swallowed, can not be stuffed into the mouth.

Fifty, take the dishes and scoop the soup, should use public chopsticks and public spoons.

51. You can't spit out what you've eaten, but if you've eaten hot food, you can drink water or juice to cool it down.

Fifty-two: When sending food into the mouth, the two elbows should be leaning inward, and should not be spread out to the sides, touching the neighboring seats.

Fifty-three: When you are holding a knife and fork in your hand, or when others are chewing food, you should avoid talking or toasting with others.

Fifty-four, good eating is food on the mouth, not the mouth on the food, food with juice, can not rush into the mouth, or soup drops on the tablecloth, extremely indecent.

Fifty-five, do not use your fingers to pull out the teeth, should be a toothpick, and hand or handkerchief to cover.

56, avoid coughing, sneezing, farting at the table. In case you can not help it, you should say ? Sorry?

Fifty-seven, drinking should be casual, toast to the gift to the end, do not persuade, guessing, yelling.

Fifty-eight, such as tableware falling to the ground, you can ask the waiter to pick up.

Fifty-nine, in the event of accidents, such as accidentally splashing wine, water, soup to other people's clothes, to apologize, do not have to panic to make amends, but make each other embarrassed.

60, if you want to take the other guests at the same table in front of the condiments, you should ask the neighboring guests to help pass, do not cross the body hand, long drive to take things.

61, such as the master personally cooked food, do not forget to give the master appreciation.

Sixty-two, after eating, the tableware must be placed neatly, not messy placement. The napkin should also be folded and placed on the table.

Sixty-three, staple food in the process, should not smoke, if you need to smoke, must first ask the neighbor's consent.

Sixty-four, dining in the restaurant, do not rush to pay the bill, pushing and pulling to pay, it is not elegant. If you are a guest, you can not rush to pay the bill, and it is not appropriate to pay the bill on behalf of friends without the consent of the friends.

Sixty-five, the speed of eating, it is appropriate to synchronize with the male and female hosts, not too fast, not too slow.

Sixty-six, the table can not talk about sad things, otherwise it will destroy the happy atmosphere.

67, when eating meat, lips together, do not make a sound. The food in the mouth is not swallowed, do not send into the mouth again.

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