Table manners

The Chinese table seating is "ShangZhouZunDong", "face to the door is honored". If it is a round table, is facing the door of the host guest, the host guest left and right hand side of the position, the distance from the host guest, the closer to the host guest position the more honored, the same distance from the left side of the right side of the honored. If the Baxian table, if there is a seat facing the door, the right side of the door is the main guest. If not facing the door, the right seat of the side facing east is the chief.

If the feast, the arrangement of the table and the table between the chief of the front center, the left side of the order of 2, 4, 6 seats, the right side of the 3, 5, 7 seats, according to the identity of the host and the guest, the status of the affinity of sitting.

If you are the host, you should arrive early, and then wait by the door position, and for the guests to lead the seat. If you are an invitee, then you should follow the host's arrangement to be seated.

Two, ordering etiquette:

If time permits, you should wait until most of the guests have arrived, then circulate the menu for the guests and ask them to order. Generally speaking, if you come to pay the bill, the guests are not too good to order, will let you make the decision.

If you're the one going to the party, you shouldn't take too much initiative in ordering, but let the host do the ordering. If the other side of the generous request, you can point to a less expensive, and not taboo dishes. Remember to ask for the opinions of the people at the table, especially "Is there anything you don't eat?" or "What do you like better? or "What do you like better?" This will make everyone feel that they have been taken care of. After ordering, you can ask "I ordered food, I do not know if it is suitable for the taste of a few people", "Do you want to come back to the other what" and so on.

When ordering food, be sure to have a good idea. When ordering, according to the following three rules:

1. Look at the composition of the staff. Generally speaking, per capita a dish is a more general rule. If it is a more men's meal will be appropriate to increase the amount.

2. Look at the combination of dishes. Generally speaking, a table dish is best meat and vegetarian, cold and hot, try to achieve a comprehensive. If there are more men on the table, you can order more meat, if there are more women, you can order more light vegetables.

3. Look at the importance of the feast. If the object of this feast is more key people, then it is necessary to point on a few enough portion of the dishes.

Another point to note is that when ordering food, you should not ask the waiter the price of dishes, or bargaining, which will make you look a little small in front of the customer, and the guests will also feel uncomfortable.

Three, eating dishes etiquette:

Chinese people are generally very concerned about eating, but also very concerned about eating. As workplace etiquette is becoming more and more emphasized, eating at the dinner table and eating looks are also more elaborate.

Pay attention to civilized manners when dining. The guests should not repeatedly persuade the dishes, you can introduce to each other the characteristics of the dishes, eat or not by him. Some people like to persuade others to eat, and even for each other to eat. Some guests do not have this habit, if you repeatedly polite, it is possible that people will resent: "said not to eat, you have to force me to do?" By analogy, to participate in the banquet held by others, do not expect the host will repeatedly give you dishes.

After the guests are seated, do not immediately move to take food. And should wait for the host to greet, by the host to raise the cup to signal the beginning of the guests can start; guests can not grab in front of the host. Clip to be civilized, should wait for the dishes to their own front, and then move chopsticks, do not grab in front of the neighbor, a clip should not be too much food. To chew and swallow slowly, which is not only conducive to digestion, but also the requirements of table manners. Never stuff large pieces into your mouth and wolf down your food, as this will give people the impression that you are greedy. Don't be picky, don't just focus on your favorite lei to eat, or rush to pile up your favorite dishes on your plate.

Dining behavior should be elegant, don't touch your neighbor when you are eating, don't put the dishes on the table, and don't spill the soup. Don't make unnecessary noises, such as drinking soup, "gurgling", eating vegetables, "bla bla" in the mouth, which is a vulgar expression. Don't eat while chatting with others. Don't spit out bones or fish splinters from your mouth on the table; cover your mouth with a napkin and use chopsticks to remove them and put them on a plate. Don't eat dishes that have been dropped on the table. Don't play with the chopsticks or use the chopsticks to point them straight at others during the meal. Don't pick at your mouth with your hands. Cover your mouth with your hand or a napkin when picking your teeth with a toothpick. Don't let the dishes make any noise.

At the end of the meal, you can wipe your mouth with a napkin, napkin or a small towel from the waiter, but not your head, neck or chest; do not burp or belch uncontrollably after the meal; and the guests should not leave the table before the host signals the end of the meal.

Four, drinking etiquette:

As the saying goes, the wine is the more you drink the thicker, but there is also a lot of learning to pay attention to the table, the following some of the table you have to pay attention to the small details:

1. Leaders drink with each other before it is their turn to toast. Toast must stand up, hands raised.

2. Can be more than one person to honor a person, never a person to honor more than one person, unless you are the leader.

3. Toast yourself to others, if you do not clink glasses, how much you drink depends on the situation, such as the other side of the amount of alcohol, the other side of the drinking attitude, do not drink less than the other side, we must know that they are toasting people.

4. If you are honoring someone else, if you clink your glasses, you can show your generosity by saying, "I'm done, you're free.

5. Remember to give more to the leadership or customers to add wine, do not blind to the leadership of the wine, is to be on behalf of, but also in the leadership or the customer really want to find someone on behalf of, but also pretend to be because they want to drink rather than in order to give the leadership on behalf of the wine and drink. For example, the leader of the A is not able to drink, you can be prepared to toast the leader of the A through the side of the people stopped.

6. Pick up a glass of wine (beer glass), the right hand to choke the glass, the left hand to pad the bottom of the cup, remember their cup is always lower than others. If you are a leader, don't put it too low.

7. If there is no special person present, the best clink of wine according to the clockwise order, do not favor one over the other.

8. Clink glasses, toast, have to say.

On the order of the toast at the table:

1. The host honors the guest of honor.

2. The accompanying guest toasts the guest of honor.

3, the guest of honor back.

4. The guests honor each other.

Remember: the guest must not be noisy and disorderly toast, that is very rude, but also very disrespectful to the host.

Five, pouring tea etiquette:

Tea culture in our country has a long history, of course, when drinking tea also pay attention to some of the necessary etiquette.

First, the tea utensils should be clean. After the guests enter the house, the first to sit, after the preparation of tea. Before brewing tea, be sure to wash the tea set, especially the tea set is not used for a long time, inevitably stained with dust, dirt, more carefully wash with water once. In the tea, pouring tea before the best use of boiling water to scald the teapot, tea cups. In this way, both hygienic and courteous. If no matter how clean the tea set is not clean, haphazardly pouring tea to the guests, this is not a polite performance. People see the teapot, tea cups on the stains on the stomach, how still willing to drink your tea?

Secondly, tea should be appropriate. First of all, the tea, generally to be appropriate. Tea should not be too much, should not be too little. Too much tea, tea flavor is too thick; tea is too little, the punch out of the tea did not have much flavor. If the guests take the initiative to introduce themselves to like to drink strong tea or light tea habits, then in accordance with the guest's appetite to tea. Pouring tea, both large and small cups, should not be poured too full, too full is easy to overflow, the table, stools, floor wet. Careless, but also scalding their own hands and feet or guests, so that the guests and hosts are very embarrassed. Of course, should not pour too little. If the tea only cover the bottom of the cup to the guests, it will make people feel that it is in a show, not sincere.

Again, the end of the tea to be appropriate. According to the traditional habits of our people, as long as the two hands are not disabled, are using both hands to the guests of the tea. However, now some young people do not know the rules, with one hand to the guests of the tea. Tea with both hands should also pay attention to the ear of the cup, usually with one hand to grasp the ear of the cup, the other hand to hold the bottom of the cup, the tea to the guests. There is no cup ear of the tea cup after pouring full of tea around the hot, hands are not good to close, some comrades regardless of three or seven, with five fingers pinch the edge of the mouth of the cup to the guests in front of the send. This tea method can prevent scalding accidents, but it is not elegant, and not enough hygiene.

Add tea. If the guest's cup needs to be added to the tea, you are obliged to do. You can signal the waiter to add tea, or let the waiter to leave the teapot on the table, by yourself to add the better, this is not know what to say when the best way to cover up. Of course, when you add tea, you should first add tea to the guests, and then add it to yourself at the end.

Sixth, leave the table etiquette:

General cocktail party and tea party time is very long, about there are in more than two hours. Maybe after a few rounds, you soon want to leave. At this time, the midway to leave the table need some skills.

Commonly, a banquet is carried out when the enthusiasm, because some people want to leave, and cause the results of the crowd dispersed, so that the organizers are anxious to really jump feet. To avoid the consequences of such a scene, when you want to leave in the middle, do not talk to everyone in the circle to say goodbye, as long as quietly and around two or three people to say hello, and then leave can be.

Leave the reception in the middle of the scene, be sure to invite you to the host to explain, apologize, not a smoke will disappear. The first thing that you should do is to say hello to the host and leave right away, and not drag the host to the front door for a long chat. Because the other side of the day to do a lot of things, there are many guests waiting for him (her) to greet, you take up too much of the master's time, will cause him (her) in front of other guests rude.

Some people participate in the wine party, tea party, when halfway ready to leave, will one by one ask her to recognize each person want to go a piece. As a result, the original lively scene, by her so a drum, all of a sudden will be early dispersed. This kind of trouble things, the most difficult to be banquet host understanding, a person with manners, can never make this clock error.