中西文化比较（英文版）.PPT

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(舔) the spoon over and over again. 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 way that looks like the Chinese word “八”. 刀是用来切割食物,叉用来携带食物进嘴。晚餐期间,你应该把它们放在两边的碟上。刀和叉的摆放应看起来像中文的“八”。 you can also use them in a way that handle knife in your right hand and fork in the left hand. Soup spoon is always put on the outermost right side, together with the knife. Dessert spoon is put together with dessert knife and fork. 你可以用左手拿叉右手拿刀这种方式来用它们。汤匙总是与刀一起放在右边。甜点匙与甜点刀具和叉子放在一起。 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. 吵闹和安静是中西方餐桌气氛最主要的不同之处。中国的餐桌气氛总是吵闹的，而且最热闹越好。而西方的餐桌文化总是安静的。 Table manner is an important part of cross-cultural communication. Chinese and Western people have been deeply influenced by different social cultures, historical cultures and various social backgrounds, so two different cultures between China and Western countries generate, and then table culture arises so fast at the historic moment. 1.Introduction 2.Main Contents Seats Arrangement The Use of Tableware Atmosphere on table Seats Arrangement  In China, people used to use the number of the tables to define the size of banquet（宴会）. In small banquets which have two tables, the table on the left or farther to the portal（大门） is the top