Taboo of using teapot in Chinese table manners

This is the same as not pointing at people with your fingers. It is disrespectful to those who point at them. At the same time, it also means that the owner does not welcome the accused person.

When holding a teapot in your right hand, press the lid of the teapot with your left hand to show respect for others and self-stability. The immortal's guide means holding chopsticks with your thumb, middle finger, ring finger and little finger, and sticking out your index finger. The literal meaning of the index finger is the finger used when eating. This finger pointing at people generally means accusing others.

Of course, if someone holds chopsticks with four fingers and sticks out his middle finger, he will be beaten anyway. Only when beggars attract people's attention do they tap the chopsticks. Therefore, knocking on bowls and chopsticks will be regarded as cheap.

ancient people were afraid of witchcraft. In witchcraft, a harmful method is to put all kinds of poisonous insects in the same closed container and let them devour each other. The king of all poisons survives to the end. So knocking on the bowl chopsticks will be thought that you intentionally let the poisonous insect climb out of the bowl. This practice is unacceptable. Because our ancestors were buried underground, dropping chopsticks in the ground was tantamount to alarming our ancestors, which was a great unfilial act.

The old Beijingers' way of dealing with "falling to the ground" is:

Draw a direction sign on the ground, and the north and the south rush at themselves, and the east and the west are perpendicular to the north and the south, which means that they are not things. While picking up chopsticks, he said he deserved to die. In some southern dialects, "Luo" is homophonic with "Le", and people in some southern areas say that chopsticks fall when they fall underground (homophonic with "Happy"). In some areas in the north, people don't agree with the idea of "being shocked by landing". When a guest accidentally drops his chopsticks on the ground, the host will say humorously, "The chopsticks are dropped, which means that the guests are not here, and there will be guests coming" to resolve the embarrassment of the guests, and take away the chopsticks that have landed and replace them with a clean pair. You can't play with chopsticks (or toothpicks), because playing with chopsticks is a bit like gossip. People will think that you are unlucky to hang others.

You can't walk with one end of chopsticks in your mouth. It's dangerous. If you wrestle, you will die. So this practice is also prohibited.

you can't use chopsticks as toothpicks.

don't lick chopsticks before picking up food for others.

never take food from other people's bowls.