What are the table manners of China people?

There are many manners that should be paid attention to at the table, which are often overlooked.

(1) Seating and leaving

1. You should wait for the elderly to sit down before you can sit down.

2. If there is a lady at the table, you should wait until the lady is seated. If the lady's seat is next door, she should be paged.

3. After eating, the other guests can only leave after the hostess and the man leave.

4. Sit upright and keep a proper distance from the dining table.

5. When dining in a restaurant, the waiter should show you to the table.

6. When leaving the seat, you should help the elderly or women in the next seat to drag the seat.

(2) Use of scented towels

1. Napkins are mainly used to prevent clothes from getting dirty, and also to wipe oil stains on the mouth and hands.

2. You must wait until everyone is seated before using napkins.

3. The napkin should be spread out and placed on the thighs at the upper ends of knees. Do not tie a belt or hang it on the collar of a suit.

4. Never wipe the tableware with a napkin.

(3) General etiquette at the dining table

1. After sitting down, stand upright, keep your feet under your seat, do not straighten out at will, do not lean your elbows against the edge of the table, or put your hands on the back of the chair next to you.

2. When eating, be gentle and elegant, calm and quiet, and don't be impatient.

3. You should not only care about yourself at the dinner table, but also care about others, especially the female guests on both sides.

4. Avoid talking with food in your mouth.

5. Tableware for personal use should not be inserted into the common plate to pick up dishes.

6. You must eat with a small mouth, and don't stuff it with a big mouth. You can't stuff it in your mouth until the food is swallowed.

7. When fetching vegetables and scooping soup, you should use public chopsticks and spoons.

8. Eat imported food, and don't spit it out. If it is hot food, you can drink water or take a shower with fruit juice.

9. When delivering food to the entrance, the elbows should lean inward, not open to the sides, and touch the neighbor.

1. When you hold a knife fork in your hand or others chew food, you should avoid talking or toasting.

11. Good eating is to eat the food, not the food. Food should be brought with a meter, so you can't send it to your mouth in a hurry, otherwise the soup will drip on the tablecloth, which is extremely indecent.

12. Never pull out your teeth with your fingers, use toothpicks and cover them with your hands or handkerchiefs.

13. Avoid coughing, sneezing and vomiting at the dinner table. If you can't help it, you should say "I'm sorry"

14. Drink at will, toast with courtesy until the end, and avoid persuasion, guessing and shouting.

15. If the tableware falls, please ask the waiter to pick it up.

16. In case of accident, if you accidentally spill wine, water and soup on other people's clothes, just apologize, instead of panicking and making amends, it will embarrass the other person.

17. If you want to take the condiments placed in front of other guests at the same table, you should ask the guests next to you to help you pass them. You should not reach across and drive for them.

18. If the host cooks the food himself, don't forget to praise him.

19. If you eat unclean or smelly food, you should not swallow it. You should take out the imported food lightly with your thumb and forefinger and put it on the plate. If you find that there are insects and gravel in the dishes that have not been eaten yet, don't make a fuss. Wait for the waiter to approach and tell him to change them softly.

2. After eating, the tableware must be put in order, not in disorder. Napkins should also be folded and put on the table.

21. It is not advisable to smoke while the staple food is in progress. If you want to smoke, you must first obtain the consent of your neighbor.

22. When eating in a restaurant, you should not rush to pay the bill and push and pull for it, which is extremely indecent. If you are a guest, you can't rob to pay the bill. You should not pay the bill for your friend without his consent.

23. The speed of eating should be synchronized with the host and hostess, neither too fast nor too slow.

24. Don't talk about sorrow at the dinner table, otherwise it will spoil the happy atmosphere.