【正文】 firstly, you should cut them into segments. You shouldn?t get food for others with your fork. When you have dinner, you should avoid putting your arm on the desk. Besides, you should keep silent, never making your legs trembling, and kicking feet. And you can?t put on makeup or b the hair. You shouldn?t take off your clothes, and you should avoid talking to someone with water and food in your mouth. Yawn is never weled on the desk. The knives and forks 9 people have used shouldn?t be put on the desk. The wasted food and bones are not allowed to be abandoned on the desk, and they should be put on the plate. It is a taboo that you pick dishes for others with your own table wares. The etiquettes of “no talking” on dinner table The etiquettes of “no talking “in China The dinner in China is noisy, people like to talk. However, you should remember politeness, knowledge, upbringing and so on. You shouldn?t talk about something that others are not interested. The etiquettes of “no talking “in western countries The dinners in western countries tend to be quiet. The time they start to chat is after the meal. Many people are talking to others while they are eating dessert. Don?t talk with others around you, and you can?t interrupt when others are talking. During the dinner, most people, as usual, will make their telephone closed. If they have very significant thing, they must make their ring lowest, and they want to pick the phone, they must say “sorry” to others, then go out to pick it. After all, you speak as little as possible, and you will be excellent in others? opinion. 5. The etiquettes of leaving seat after the dinner The etiquettes of leaving seat in China After the dinner, if you would like to end the meal in the banquet, you can put the chopsticks or spoon straightly on plate. If crossing the chopsticks on the plate, you mean you have had a wonderful meal. The host and main guests can end the banquet. The host should wish a good trip for the guest, and the guests should give thanks to the hosts, or the guests can invite the host to their home showing respect to them. If one person should leave during the dinner, he can greet and nod to others. The etiquettes of leaving seat in western countries After the dinner in western countries, the guests can take the napkin on the leg away, and then put the napkin on the left of dinner table. They can leave before the hosts leave. The guests can give a call to show their thanks. 10 III. The Reasons for the Differences of Chinese and Western Table Manners 1. The different cultural connotation between China and western countries The China?s traditional culture for thousands of years has embodied in Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. The Confucian thought “benevolence, propriety, wisdom”。 the thing you picked shouldn?t be enjoyed or put into mouth again. After picking teeth, you shouldn?t hold the toothpick in your mouth for a long time. The display and use of Western table wares The principles of displaying and fetching table wares The table wares in western countries are served by the hosts or servants before the dinner, you can follow the rule from outside to inside. You should make your knife far from plate avoiding embarrassed sound. The tray should be placed in middle, fork on the left and knife on the right, the point of knife should be up, the blade of knife should be inside, the staple food is left, and the table wares are right. The number of wine glass is equal to the kind of the wine, and the order is from left to right. Usually, you can never carry the bowl dish. 7 The ways of using table wares The principles of knife and fork When you have dinner with fork and knife, the knife is for cutting food and the fork is for eating food. When having dinner, the knife should be on your right hand, and the fork should be on your left hand. The left hand is to fix food with fork, at the same time。 if you have something, greeting to your master. In the past, Chinese advocated south, east and the left. With the time39。因此 ， 了解更多的文化差異可以減少更多的誤解，即通過了解更多的文化之間的差異人們可 以得到更好的交流。眾所周知， 用餐不單是滿足基本生理需要 , 也是頭等重要的社交經(jīng)驗。 you should go left from the chair. You don39。 don?t insert them into the food. If you want