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Chinese Table Manners 酒店管理1班 周云霞 Importance Table manners are very important in Chinese people’s life. They show whether you are well educated. Chinese people treat dinners as one of the most important social interactions. ( Business will be talked and set while having dinner.) Before Dinner 1. Prefer round tables, which enable people to sit face to face. Through this way, people feel close to each other. 2. The most important guest( the oldest, the most respectful, etc.) will sit facing the door. 3. After the most important guest sit down, others take their seats. 4. Guests will not order unless the host ask them to do so. Sometimes, host asks the most important figure to order dishes in order to show the host’s respect( to the important figure). 5. If you have something that you do not like or can not eat, tell the host secretly. He will take into consideration when he is ordering. 6. Put the napkin on your legs. 7. The dinner will not begin until everybody arrive, even if someone is not on time. 8. While the host is ordering dishes, others usually chat with each other and drink tea to kill time. 9. The restaurant always serve some sneaks, like peanuts, cucumbers, and chicken feet. 4. Do not stick chopsticks vertically in your bowl of rice, because this makes the chopsticks look like the incenses we burn when we are worshiping the dead or praying the god. So it is like you are worshiping people sitting the other side, which suggests that he is dead. Therefore, this action is viewed unlucky and impolite. 5. Usually, you pick up some food, like a piece of meat, placing it in your bowl first, and then eat it. This makes you look less eager and more elegant. 6. Before you pick up something from the plate, you need to decide which one you are going to pick. Once your chopsticks touch the food, you can do nothing other than picking it up and put it in your bowl. Don’t ever try to rummage the one you like in the plate. It is impolite. 7. If there are public chopsti