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westerners and Chinese have the different view on time concepts. The westerners always bine time and money view together, thus there is a famous saying: time is money, which has bee deeply ingrained in their mind. So they value their time very much. In their daily lives, they always arrange and plan their time carefully. They are often filled with a sense of urgency of time. They have a good hobby that they go to the party on time. If they have to go somewhere to have dinner with others, they must arrive on time. Usually, when they want to go to someone’s home for dinner, they always get at about five minutes earlier. It isn’t very polite for you get much earlier, maybe the hostess is busying doing preparation and so it is not suitable for you to reach at that time. But in China, we don’t pay more attention on the time。 we don’t have certain standards about arrival time. Arrive earlier, on time or a 5 little late are all allowed. B. Concept of dishes The Chinese think much of their image in their friends’ mind and they think the richness of the food represents one’s hospitality. They emphasize on the meal itself when they treats friends, so the food and wine at the banquet should be rich and colorful. If it can achieve, it must be delicious and expensive. Otherwise, Chinese people will not consider it as a treat. But the western people hold the opposite opinion. They think nothing is more than the nutrition of the food when they have their dinning. They pay great attention to the nutrition of the food rather than its color、 flavor、 shape and mean. Their diet mainly focus on health, as if they don’t care about the enjoyment of it is tastes. C、 The atmosphere on table While having dinner, Chinese always like sit around the table together eat and drink, speak and laugh loudly to build liveliness and warmth table atmosphere. Chinese people are always very enthusiastic on the table. At the beginning of the dinner, the host will hand around smoke, including formal party. And even the food is delicious enough, the host also will say: this isn’t very much please help yourselves, five me and so on. During the dinning, sometimes 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 whateveritis and say how yummy it is. If you feel unfortable with this, you can just say a polite thank you and leave the food there. In China wine is an essential thing on the dinning table, whatever the kind of the banquet is, wine is the necessity thing. Sometimes for meaning the respect toward the party, people will drink all