【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 ir guests. The different arrangement require different types of table seating。 In the traditional Chinese banquets, people use the square table. The square table is also called a traditional Chinese table for eight. As its name shows, square table is square shape and can provide four sides for seating. Each side can have two seats and eight seats in all. The seats facing the door are considered as the honored seats 10 and the other seats are for ordinary guests. In the banquet, the guests of honor sit on the honored seats and the host and the hostess sit on the seats opposite to them. The other guests take the rest seats in order. In the Chinese tradition, the south is usually considered as the position of honor while the north is less favored. As a Chinese saying goes, “ the seat of the king faces the south.” So in the Chinese feast, the seats facing the south are usually saved for the important guests or the elderly. Before the Chinese people get into the seating they always decline modestly about the seats facing the south. The use of western main tableware Knife and fork The fork is held in your left hand and the knife is held in your right. You should hold your knife with the handle in your first you hold down the food with a fork, then cut it into small pieces with a knife, and then fork it into your mouth. American use the fork in your left hand while cutting, and then switch to right hand to pick up and eat a piece while europeans not change hands. The fork is used to convey any solid food to the mouth. The knife blade should be placed on the edge of your plate when not in use. The blade should always face 11 inward. If there are a number of knives or forks, then you should start from the outside set as each course is served. Spoon With the righ hand held the spoon and the finger must be maintained at the end of spoon handle. In addition,please use the spoon to get the soup and do not use it to get other food. When you have finished eating soup, the spoon should be placed to the side of the saucer, not left in the bowl or put on the shared dish. When eating soup, you should hold your spoon in your right hand and tip the bowl away from you, scooping the soup in movements away from yourself. Napkin. During dinner large naplcins can be folded outward and covered steadily on the lap, but small napkin can be stretched in the legs directy. Please be careful not hung it on the chest and clean you face or use the inside of napkin to wipe mouth if you make a mess rather than outside. Never blow your nose on your napkin. Your napkin should never be screwed up. When finished, fold it neatly and leave it to the left of your plate. Western countries seats arrangement 12 The western banquets are used to using the long table . In normal situation which both the host and the hostess attend, the host and the hostess sit on the two ends of the table. The guest of honor sits on the right side of the hostess while the wife of the honored guest sits on the right side of the host. The other guests sit according to their status and one man should sit next to one woman. But the western traditional table seating pays more attention to the positions of left and right. The right is more favorable than the left. That is because the western people think that the sun rises from the east which is just the right side to them. So right means motivave in their eyes. The honored guests are normally sitting at the right side of the hosts and all guests sit in a clockwise order according to their importance. There is a rule that each person seated, or leave his seat, should be left out from the seat. The difference dinning manners between western and Chinese Chinese food dinning manners Please keep a excellent gusture during dinner so you should maintain your body straight and keep your feet on the ground without dinner your have many options about how to place your can put your wrist at the bottom edge 13 of the table or put hands on the knees. But the most important things is that your hands must r