12 basic table manners

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. According to our Chinese custom, the dishes are one by one to the end, if there are leaders at the same table, the elderly, guests, whenever up a new dish, ask them to move chopsticks first, or take turns to ask them to move chopsticks first, in order to show the importance of them.

Fifth, eat to the fish head, fish spines, bones and other things, do not spit out, do not throw to the ground, slowly with their hands to get their own ` dish, or put close to their own table side or 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 just head down to eat, no matter what others, and do not wolf down 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.

Twelve, sit properly, and the distance from the table to keep appropriate.

12 basic table manners2

1, meal preparation

Before the meal, let the child to help set the dishes, dishes, etc., ready to let the child to invite the elders to eat, and remember to wash their hands before meals.

2. Invite the elders to take their seats first and let them eat first

Honoring the elderly is a traditional Chinese virtue, and the parents usually do a good job of demonstrating this by inviting the elders to take their seats first and giving them food first during the meal.

"University" cloud: "things have the end, things have the end, know the successive, then close to the road." Being a person should understand the order of precedence, before the elders have moved chopsticks, the younger generation should not eat up first. When the parents hand the bowl to the child, the child should take the bowl with both hands to show respect to the elders.

3. Encourage your children to help their family members and elders with their food (using the official chopsticks), and to serve their meals

After your child is finished, your parents can praise him or her, "Mom, I found that you are very good at taking care of other people".

4. Holding chopsticks correctly

It's a good idea to talk to your child about the origins of chopsticks and teach them to use them correctly. A single use of chopsticks can make a person look educated. Our old ancestors invented chopsticks, a prop that can be used for a variety of foods, and contains a deep traditional cultural essence of responding to change with no change and responding to complexity with simplicity, which is something we must pass on.

5, do not evaluate the food negatively

Do not complain that the meal that others have worked so hard to prepare for you is not to your liking, and do not say any rude comments. It is important to enjoy every meal we have with a grateful heart. This gratitude includes for the various seasons of nature that bring us a variety of delicious flavors in season, for the people who cultivate these foods, and for those foods that give us nutrients and energy.

6, standardized sitting

At the table, the child should sit upright and maintain a straight posture. This not only looks good, but is also good for children's digestion.

During meals, Chinese rice bowls should be lifted up, one hand put the bowl in one hand to hold cutlery, do not look down to pick up the rice, elbows should not be supported on the table, legs on the table below, feet as much as possible, can not stilt feet, and the distance from the table to facilitate the use of cutlery for the best.

Western food fork to the mouth, not for food and folding. Feet should be placed flat, take off shoes or legs are very rude; do not cross your legs, do not shake your feet.

7, do not knock dishes or loud noise

Knocking dishes and loud noise is a very uneducated behavior, disrespectful of others, will cause the table to eat people's disgust and disgust.

8, to avoid rummaging around in the plate

clip the vegetables should not be too much at a time to clip, to their own bowls and plates in the finished, and then go to take the dishes. Don't use a spoon or chopsticks to pick your favorite dishes and turn them over and over in the plate. Some people even remove all their favorite dishes from the plate and leave the unpalatable ones for others, which is a very rude behavior and seems to be more selfish.

9, eat as much as possible do not make a sound

Dining, chewing and swallowing slowly, the meal in the mouth do not speak; drink soup do not use the mouth to suck, in order to prevent the sound.

10, wipe your mouth

11, do not put the chopsticks in your mouth and lick the chopsticks

12, do not hold the chopsticks at the table looking for

1, seating borrowed from the Western banquet to the right as the top of the law, the first guest of honor seated on the right side of the host, the second guest of honor in the master's left side or the right side of the first guest of honor, adaptations.

2, pouring wine on the right side of the dishes by the guests, the first guest of honor, after the host, the first female guest, after the male guest. Wine poured eight points, not too full. The order of serving remains traditional, first cold and then hot. Hot dishes should be from the left side of the seat opposite the guest of honor; on a single dish or side dishes and snacks on the first guest after the host, on the whole chicken, duck, fish and other plastic dishes, can not be head and tail toward the main seat.

3, regardless of the occasion, are honored to sit on the seat, the humble sit down on the first; elders sit on the seat, the young sit down on the first; teachers sit on the seat, students sit down on the first. When sitting at a square table, the elder sits at the short side of the square table against the house, and the others are seated according to the seniority of the elders and the younger ones. When sitting at a round table, special attention should be paid to give the seat in the innermost part of the table to the senior, as a sign of respect. If you go to a restaurant to eat, the seat in the room should be given to the eldest.

4, can not put the length of the chopsticks on the table, licking chopsticks, sipping chopsticks, or "soler" chopsticks are quite rude, do not use chopsticks to hit the chopsticks.

5, can not put the teapot mouth to the person. This is the same reason why you can't point your finger at people, it's disrespectful to whoever you point it at. At the same time, it also indicates that the host is not welcome to the person being pointed at.