1. The Differences of Table Manners between Chinese and West
姓名：罗晓琪
专业：公卫食品1班
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2. CONTENTS Background Arrangement of seat Table wares
CHAPTER 01
CHAPTER 02
Arrangement of seat
Table wares
CHAPTER 03
Different atmospheres
CHAPTER 04
The way to finish eating
CHAPTER 05
Conclusion
CHAPTER 06

3. CHAPTER 01
Background

4. PART ONE
Background
Background
With the development of global economy, cross-culture communication has become more and more frequen, and the differences between Chinese and Western culture have become more obvious, especially the differences of tablemanners.

5. CHAPTER 02
Arrangement of seat

6. PART TWO
Arrangement of seat
Chinese way
West way

7. Arrangement of seat in Chinese way
PART TWO
Arrangement of seat
Arrangement of seat
in Chinese way
In China, people used to use the number of the tables to define the size of banquet.
In small banquets which have two tables, the table on the left or farther to the portal is the top table.
At bigger banquest that have three or more tabes, the rules are much more complicated.

8. Arrangement of seat in Chinese way
PART TWO
Arrangement of seat
Arrangement of seat
in Chinese way
Seats at one table also have different meanings. In Chinese table manner, the seat opposite to the door is the honor seat, which is foe chief guests or elders; the seats beside are the second honor seat which are for other guests; the seats that opposite to the honor seat are the inferior seat. Infeor seats are for the host and hostess.

9. Arrangement of seat in Chinese way
PART TWO
Arrangement of seat
Arrangement of seat
in Chinese way
So before the banquet, hosts should first invite the chief guest or elders to the honor seat, and then invite other guests to the second honor seat. Hosts sit down on the inferior seats after all the guest sit down.

10. Arrangement of seat in West way
PART TWO
Arrangement of seat
Arrangement of seat
in West way
Western people prefer long table to round table when entertang friends. The host and the hostess seat at both end of the table, while guests seat ay other seats. The chief guest sits at the upper right side of the hostess, and the wife of the chief guest seats at the upper right side of the host.

11. Arrangement of seat in West way
PART TWO
Arrangement of seat
Arrangement of seat
in West way
In China, left is honor and right is secondary. While in western, right is honor and left is secondary. The proper way to take the seat in western is to sit by the left hand. It is better not to walk out before the banquet is finished.

12. CHAPTER 03
Table wares

13. Chinese West PART THREE Table wares
Chinese table wares involve chopsticks, small dish, bowl and glass.
Chopsticks and spoon are always put together on the right hand of the plate.Toothpick and ashtray are also necessary.
In western meals, they use so much table wares with different kinds and sizes, the use of table wares also shows different food culture in different countries, the main table wares in weastern are knives, forks, spoons, glass and napkin.

14. Table wares in Chinese way
PART THREE
Table wares
in Chinese way
Table wares
Chopsticks are the main table wares in Chinese food culture. It is impolite to use chopsticks to clean tooth, or pick other things that aren't food. It is also bad manner to talk with chopsticks in hand.
The right way to use spoon is:
scoop the food, and wait for seconds to make sure that the soup will not splash out, and then move the spoon back. It is impolite to put the spoon in to mouth, or lick the spoon over and over again.

15. PART THREE
Table wares
in West way
Table wares
Knife is used to cut food and fork is used to carry food into mouth, during the dinner, you should put them on both sides of the plate, and knife and fork should be put in the wat looks like the Chinese word “八”
You can also use them in a way that handle kinfe in your right hand and fork in the left hand. Soup spoon is always put on the outermost right side, together with the knife. Dessery spoon is put together with dessert knife and fork.

16. Different atmospheres
CHAPTER 04
Different atmospheres

17. PART FOUR
Different atmospheres
People begin to talk at the time they sit down, and they would keep talking durningthe whole dinner. Everybody at the table talking, drinking, eating, and enjoying the pulsating atmosphere. Noisy atmosphere can reflect the guests' happiness from their heats.
In China

18. PART FOUR
Different atmospheres
Noisy and quiet is the main different of table atmosphere between Chinese and western. Chinese table atmosphere always noisy and always the noisier the better. While western table atmosphere is quiet.
In western

19. The way to finish eating
CHAPTER 05
The way to finish eating

20. At Chinese dinner table
PART FIVE
The way to finish eating
At Chinese dinner table
The ways to finish eating is to put the knife and fork together on the plate parallel, with the fork's back side up and the knife's adge inside.
After eating, thopsticks should put orderly at the right side of the bowl, and leave after the host signals to leave. Hosts should signal after all the guests put down their chopsticks. 1 4
At western dinner table

21. CHAPTER 06
Conclusion

22. PART SIX Conclusion two
Every culture in the world is equal. We should avoid using our own culture, morallty and value to judge forelgn culture. We should treat foreign culture objectively.
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Through comparing the table manners of Chinese and Western countries and keeping pace with the changing world can be more meaningful to all people.

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姓名：罗晓琪
专业：公卫食品1班
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