第七章餐桌礼仪

The way dishes are set on the table
As for the way dishes are set on the table, there are also rules. The newly served dishes are always put near the most honorable guest; when whole fish, whole chicken is served, the dish is normally put in such a way that the head is towards the most honorable guest. This is a way to show respect to the most honorable guest.
In the north, the two seats facing the door were the most important, the host sat on the right and the most honorable guest on the left; opposite these two seats sat two specially invited guests who were supposed to help entertain the main guests; the other people, guests or specially invited guests, were arranged, according to their age, to sit on the other two sides of the table. The two seats closer to the host and most honorable guest were considered more important than the other two seats.
For meat and vegetable are cold dishes and Normally cold dishes are hot ones, dry dishes are soup.
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As we all known, China is famous for the “land of ceremony and propriety”. So there is no doubt that there are great manners that should be observed at banquets or formal dinners especially in seat
As we all know, in Chinese classics
A Dream of Red Mansions(The Story of the Stone) ,When Ling Daiyu came
into Lady Wang’s room, She saw Lady Wang sit in the west of the room, and Ling Daiyu also noticed that the seat in the east belonged to Jia Zheng. So she just sit near Lady Wang in the west.
Serving dishes
Chinese are also particular in the order of serving dishes. In the ancient ages, grain food was served before wine, while today wine and meat and vegetable dishes are served before grain food.
Hot dishes are the main course. usually there are even numbers of hot dishes. Soup is usually the last dish. In some places, however, fish is the last dish, which symbolizes that there will always be a surplus of food for people to eat.
People severed cold dishes first just wanted to let the guest feel relaxed and feel at home, and also, maybe someone who was hungry could eat something at once.
Although Chinese all have certain seating order around table, it still has a little difference between different areas.
In the south, the seat order around the table is similar to the seat order in the west. while in the north…
In general, it was recorded that the most honorable guest sat facing the east, the next important guest sat facing the south, next facing the north and the last facing the west.
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Seat order
Chinese People pay much attention to the seating order in table manners. Just as what we can see today, the table manners can date back to ancient times. In the ancient times, at a banquet, people sat in a circle on the ground.
In order to show their respect and hospitality, Chinese hosts often help the guests to the dishes. For hygiene’s sake, when doing this, they usually use an extra pair of chopsticks or spoon put on the table.