中国的餐桌礼仪英语作文
通过这些英语作文，我们可以了解到中西方在餐桌礼仪方面的极大不同。下面是小编带来餐桌礼仪英语作文，欢迎大家阅读!
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Dietary Changes and Health Care
As is shown in the graph, China's food distribution has taken great
changes from 1960's to 1990's According to this statistics of cereals,
vegetable, meat, and fruits, the number of those who eat rice, flour or
vegetable has greatly decreased in the past four decades.
In contrast of this
the number of those who eat oil or meat has sharply increased.
From such
dietary changes, we can perceive the rapid improvement of our people' s living
standard.
Why does this improvement occur? The direct reason is the fact that the
Chinese people have attached much importance to their health care.
Nationally, China's economic growth is booming, and more people are getting
richer.
Individually, everyone's consumption of food is increasingly varied.
In
particular, most of people are reluctant to eat much vegetable, but much meat and oil in their diets.
In my view, the changes of China's dietary distribution seem to be both
positive and negative.
The positive aspect is that China' s economical growth
has given rise to the higher level of dietary standard, with most of people living
rich and happy.
But the negative aspect is that, I'm afraid, less eating
vegetable will lead to poorer health, such as lacking vitamin nutrients in one's
body.
Therefore, we think it necessary for the Chinese to be aware of the
balanced diets: Lots of vegetable and meat, which may gain us healthier
bodies in the new century.
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Chinese table manners of families have no intrinsic quality even there are different region and position.
No matter three meals a day or guest’s arrival, always bowls with chopsticks, food with soup.
There is no rule for how to put the tableware.
What people care about more are not the gorgeous tableware but the sumptuous food.
People’s dining position reflects the most obvious etiquette of Chinese table manners.
In ancient society, men are supreme, and women are not allowed to sit with men on the same table.
Although this is modern society, this kind of ancient etiquette still remains.
Today in China, the phenomenon that men sit on the table before women can be found everywhere.
The master of a family usually sits on the first-class seat.
The first-class seat is usually near the interior of a room facing to the door.
Once there is a guest, the master will offer the first-class seat to the guest politely.
If it is an ordinary meal of family, families should start after the elder.
If there is a guest, the master offer the food to the guest is essential from the beginning to the end.
And the tradition of urging others to drink is also a special phenomenon.
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Table Manners
The main difference between Chinese and western eating habits is that unlike the West, where everyone has their own plate of food, in China the dishes are placed on the table and everybody shares.
If you are being treated by a Chinese host, be prepared for a ton of food.
Chinese are very proud of their culture of cuisine and will do their best to show their hospitality.
And sometimes the Chinese host use their chopsticks to put food in your bowl or plate.
This is a sign of politeness.
The appropriate thing to do would be to eat the whatever-it-is and say how yummy it is.
If you feel uncomfortable with this, you can just say a polite thank you and leave the food there.
Eating No-no's
Don't stick your chopsticks upright in the rice bowl.
Instead,lay them on your dish.
The reason for this is that when somebody dies,the shrine to them contains a bowl of sand or rice with two sticks of incense stuck upright in it.
So if you stick your chopsticks in the rice bowl, it looks like this shrine and is equivalent to wishing death upon a person at the table!
Make sure the spout of the teapot is not facing anyone.
It is impolite to set the teapot down where the spout is facing towards somebody.
The spout should always be directed to where nobody is sitting, usually just outward from the table.
Don't tap on your bowl with your chopsticks.
Beggars tap on their bowls, so this is not polite.
Also, when the food is coming too slow in a restarant, people will tap their bowls.
If you are in someone's home,it is like insulting the cook.
Drinking
Gan Bei! (Cheers! “Gan Bei” literally means “dry [the] glass”) Besides beer, the official Chinese alcoholic beverage is Bai Jiu,high-proof Chinese liquor made fromassorted grains.
There are varying degrees of Bai Jiu.
The Beijing favorite is called Er Guo Tou, which is a whopping 56% alcohol.
More expensive are Maotai and Wuliangye.
Of course, the main difference on the Chinese dinner table is chopsticks instead of knife and fork, but that’s only superficial.
Besides, in decent restaurants, you can always ask for a pair of knife and fork, if you find the chopsticks not helpful enough.
The real difference is that in the West, you have your own plate of food, while in China the dishes are placed on the table and everyone shares.
If you are being treated to a formal dinner and particularly if the host thinks you’re in the country for the first time, he will do the best to give you a taste of many different types of dishes.
The meal usually begins with a set of at least four cold dishes, to be followed by the main courses of hot meat and vegetable dishes.
Soup then will be served (unless in Guangdong style restaurants) to be followed by staple food ranging from rice, noodles to dumplings.
If you wish to have your rice to go with other dishes, you should say so in good time, for most of the Chinese choose to have the staple food at last or have none of them at all.
Perhaps one of the things that surprises a Western visitor most is that some of the Chinese hosts like to put food into the plates of their guests.
In formal dinners, there are always “public” chopsticks and spoons for this purpose, but some hosts may use their own chopsticks.
This is a sign of genuine friendship and politeness.
It is always polite to eat the food.
If you do not eat it, just leave the food in the plate.
People in China tend to over - order food, for they will find it embarrassing if all the food is consumed.
When you have had enough, just say so.
Or you will always overeat!
Difference of table etiquette between eastern and western cultures
There are differences and similarities between the etiquette at table between the eastern and western cultures.
To raise a few examples, we could talk about the differences of both cultures.
Westerners would use silverware such as forks, knives and soup spoons, which are made of stainless steel.
Easterners would use chopsticks and soup spoons.
In certain part of Southern Asia, people eat with their hands.
Dinner table and table seating arrangements are different between the two customs.
The dinner table for the west is mostly rectangle while the east is round.
In addition, there are differences in the ways foods are served between the two cultures, the westerners serve dinner by courses and one course, or plate, is served after another.
Each person has his own choice or portion of his foods served separately.
However, the eastern culture, or the Chinese culture, has the foods served very much at the same time and they are not served separately to each individually.
Therefore, in a Chinese meal, the foods are shared among the people at the table.
It is considered bad manner for a person to use his chopsticks turning foods in a plate upside down to pick what he likes.
As for the similarities, both cultures would consider impolite for a person to put his elbows on the table or to talk with foods in his mouth.