What are the similarities between China and Japanese cultural customs?

Japanese people love to drink, often like China. But Japanese toast is different from China's. People in China clink glasses with each other, and the toast should be made first. Japanese are different. The toasting party took the bottle and kept filling it for the other party, but he didn't drink it. Moreover, in order to show sincerity, we often kneel in front of people we admire and bow our heads to show our respect until they are drunk by him.

Japanese like tea as much as China. But when they drink tea, they never put it directly in the teacup, but in a small teapot with a filter. When pouring tea, you don't fill it all at once, like China did. You take half a cup as a respect and generally don't renew your tea. This often makes it difficult for China people who are used to drinking big bowls of tea to quench their thirst.

In Japanese, the pronunciation of "comb" is homophonic with "bitter death", so Japanese people are afraid to give "comb", and in more luxurious hotel rooms, there are few combs for guests to use. If the Japanese don't take the initiative, you must never lend him the comb casually.

Japanese people are very particular about the orientation of sleeping, and they are most afraid of sleeping with their heads facing north, because when the dead are dead, their heads are facing north. Therefore, when you live in a Japanese house and make your bed in the morning, you must not put your pillow in the north. "North pillow" means death.

Japanese always smoke separately, unlike smokers in China who like to respect each other. Because the Japanese think that everyone likes different brands and tastes of cigarettes, there is no need to force others to smoke their favorite cigarettes.

Japanese people like China's calligraphy seal cutting, so China people often give some simple seal cutting seals as gifts to Japanese friends. But remember, in their custom, an incomplete seal is unlucky.

The Japanese also say "auspicious day on the ecliptic", and Japanese calendars often print the words "Daan", "Ewing", "Victory first", "Akasaka", "Inheritance first" and "Buddha extinction" next to the dates to indicate auspicious days, which is called six obscenities. Among them, "Daan" is the auspicious day of the zodiac, and the Japanese choose this day for entrance examinations, marriage and travel. But "Friends Leading" is a day for the crematorium to rest, because on this day, the dead will "lead" their friends to the underworld. "Winning first" means winning first, so on this day, people speed up everything. On the contrary, "first negative" is the opposite. On this day, we try to do everything slowly. Japanese people often joke with slow-moving people: "Your calendar is negative today." On the day of "Chikou", it is bad in the morning, bad at night, and good from 9 am to 3 pm. "Buddha's extinction" is the day of great disaster. In Japan, if there is nothing particularly urgent, generally do not choose the "Buddha's Light Day" to deal with important things.