【正文】 Reasons That Cause the Differences of TablewaresThe difference of chopsticks, knife and fork is the main difference of table manners between Chinese and western reasons that cause this difference is environment: nature environment and social are invented thousands years ago at the place where bamboo grew China, the north area yield wood while the south area yield Chinese ancestors used local materials to produce chopsticks and bamboo became the original material of and forks are invented much later than the study of Xiuling, knives and forks can relate to ancient European nomads’ habits and a nation of equestrian, the nomads carried knives wherever they always use knives to cut the cooked meat off, and then use the knives to send the meat into order to improve eating gesture, Europeans began to use forks after about the 15th。e, the knife and fork closest to the plate are salad knife and salad plate is on the left of the dinner knife and there is no salad plate, salad knife and fork will send together with are on the right hand of outmost one is soup spoon。staple food on the left。do not put it on the table you scoop the food, you should never put them ’s better to eat at once or put into your the food is too scalding to eat, never stir the food or blow by can put them into the blow and wait for a is impolite to put the spoon in to mouth, or lick the spoon over and over PlateThe plate of smaller size is small dish, which is used to put food, just like on the table should not move or pile main function of small dish is to store food that picked from the public plates using small dishes, you should not put too much food together at one is very impolite and might affect the tastes of dreg of food or bones should be put at the edge of the can not spit them from mouth directly to the plate or table or to the should use chopsticks to bring them to the the small dish is full, you can ask the waiter or waitress to shift GlassWater pumps are used to store soft drink like water, coke, soda water or fruit not use water pomp to drink wine or put the water pomp up side , you can not spit out the drink back to the is impolite and might make guests feel NapkinIn middlesize or bigsize restaurants in China, waiters will first offer a wet warm towel to every kind of towel is used to clean cleaning, you should put it back to the plate and the waiter will take it at big banquets, waiter would offer another from the first towel, the second one can only use to clean How to Use and Where to Put Western Table WareIn western culture, tablewares for food contain knife, fork, spoon, plate and rules of setting them in a polite way are more plicated than those of formal western banquets, the tablewares are always put in the same mon principles are: the service plate is in the middle。table culture With the development of global economy, the popularization of crosscultural munication is urging us to have a good mastery of the differences between china and western countries, especially the differences of table dinner is more than the basic necessity of , it is an important part of social formulae.“John Loke, a famous British philosopher once said, the purpose of playing a ceremonial role is to change the original stubborn to gentle, so that people’s temper can bee more moderate and let people learn to respect for others and get along with each others.”(Hofstede, 1980)There is no doubt that sometimes some strangers bee acquaintances, those acquaintances get a better understanding of the other even to the germination of table manner is so fantastic that it does us a favor on acquiring more information, opening up eyesight and expanding the circle of is obvious that table manners are quite important in people’s everyday are numberless differences between Chinese and western food cultures, and those differences cause the differences of table is one of the four earliest civilizations in the nation is the only inheritance millennium society went through the darkness of Middle Ages and then came to Renaissance, gave birth to capitalism and modern , with the economic globalization, international mercial activities have bee more and more frequent and crosscultural munication has e into every nation’s daily international mercial negotiations, Chinese representatives might have dinners with foreign counterparts, while in daily life we might be invited to dinners by foreign paper mainly talks about the differences of table manners between two cultures, to analyze the causes, aim to achieve a more successful crossculture of Table Manners“Social customs differ greatly from one country to is therefore impossible to give guidelines that are universally speaking, you should act naturally, always remaining friendly, courteous, and dignified.”(Qian, 2006)The core ideology of Chinese culture is collective consciousness while the western thought core is when western people are invited to dinner or party, they order their own food and drink their own wine, to avoid imposing their wills on other Chinese people would consider it as an unreasonable behavior because in Chinese culture, individual must obey collective people value harmonization, and there is an old saying that “Harmony is most precious.” So Chinese people like to dine and eat Arrangement of Seat Arrangement of Seat in Chinese WayChinese people always choose round tables when entertaining are lots of rules in China about where to set the round table and which seat takes precedence on the same China, people used to use the number of the tables to define the size of small banquets which have two tables, the table on the left or farther to the portal is the top bigger banquets that have three or more tables, the rules are much more top table is always on the right hand and farthest to the , the distance to the top table is also taken into , seats that closer to the top table take example, on the wedd