Gentleman bowing method

Methods are as follows:

1. Face the guest when bowing, keep your feet together, and drop your line of sight from the other person's face to 1.5 meters in front of your own feet (15-degree salute) or 1 meter in front of your feet (30-degree salute) or 0.4 meters in front of your feet (60-degree salute). Men place their hands at the sides of their bodies and women place their hands together in front of their bodies.

2. When bowing, you must straighten your back, keep your heels close together, separate your feet slightly at the tips, and look at each other. Then straighten your back and bend your upper body forward from the waist.

3, bowing, bending at a moderate speed, and then raise your head and straighten your back, the action can be done slowly, so that people feel very comfortable.

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Notes:

1, bowing should pay attention to such as when wearing a hat, the hat should be removed, because wearing a hat bowing is not polite, but also easy to slip, so that they are in an embarrassing situation.

2, bowing eyes should look down, showing a humble attitude, do not bow on one side, one side trying to roll up the eyes to see each other.

Bowing is a traditional and commonly used etiquette in China, Japan, South Korea and North Korea. Bowing mainly means "bending over to show respect". Nowadays in Japan, bowing is the most important etiquette. So we need to know this etiquette when dealing with Japanese people.

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