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of time by cup and cup. The host should always make sure the guests’ drinks are sufficiently full. When people wish to clink drinks together in the form of a cheer, it is important to observe that younger members should clink the edge of their drink below the edge of an elder to show respect. Different from the Chinese table manner, western countries do not like the noisy ambiance. They advocate freedom and think that having dinning with noise is very rude and impolite and quiet dinning environment is the wellliking habit. They will 6 respect the guests’ own idea. They will ask you to help yourselves and just ask you to eat this food。 if you refuse they will not ask you another time. On the table, they protest quiet、 enjoyable and peaceful dinning environment. They think even you are having meal you should keep image. In China, the host will ask you to eat the food all the way. In our mind, maybe someone is shy to eat much, if the host asks the customer to eat。 it will show their hospitality. D、 Seat arrangement Chinese and the Western dinner table etiquette have the slight difference. As we use different type of tables, we have different seat arrangements. As China generally use round table and the regular arrangement is: the seats which affronts to the door are the most important seats. So the oldest or the guest of honor or the high state guest will sit at the dooraffront seats. The host and the hostess will sit at the lesser seats along with the ordinarily guests. Nearby the important seats39。 right hand seat is the first head seat, generally it sits gentleman。 Right side the male master39。s seat is the second head seat, generally is madam. Left side of mostly people39。s seat is the third head table。 the male master39。s left side seat is the fourth head seat. In western countries, they usually use long table, while China use round table. In western, the host and hostess sit at the both sides, and then bases on the importance to arrange the seats. Near the host and the hostess is more important while farther is less important, the rest will be deduced by this analogy. E、 Customary action on table In China, usually we cannot stand up to nip food and it is not so polite. Men will hand round cigarettes to each other during the meal, especially the host. In western, they obey many rules, too. Take the different usage of facility for example: Chinese use chopsticks to eat, while western people use knife as their tool. Different table utensils make different customs when they want to have a rest during the meal. In China, Chopsticks can be rested horizontally on one39。s plate or bowl to keep