【正文】 ditional virtue. (Hu Wenzhong, 1988) So in terms of food culture, Chinese eating etiquette has very strict requirements. For Americans who pays more attention to the parties’ environment, good dining etiquette is a basic condition of the environment to ensure the high quality banquet. However, due to historical culture, religious traditions and many other effects, two nations have different modes of thinking in spiritual culture, which results in differences on dining etiquette. In ancient China, there is a set of customs. When lots of people ate together, each individual should not merely care of himself. People did not put extra food back into the pot or occupy only one course. Some of the etiquette is essential in modern manners. In United States banquets, the host put food on the plates of their guests only once. People do not urge each other to drink. It is impolite to make any noise, when eating and drink. But guests should appreciate food prepared by the host. In addition to these minutiae of dining etiquette with increasingly frequent crosscultural munication, the most serious collision of dining etiquette of two nations are the arrangement of seats and dining orders. . Arrangement of SeatsIn a formal banquet, the arrangement of seats should be paid much attention. People’s concept of position is not inherited but achieve from cultural environment for growth. Therefore, under different spiritual culture backgrounds, people’s need to position, municating rules about position as well as value embodied in position are different. Seats arranging in Chinese banquets, seats facing southern side are considered as the most honorable seats, and seats towards north are relatively humble. It is closely linked with Chinese traditional culture. In Chinese history, originally, emperors utilized the theory of Divine right of kings to dominate people’s thought in order to administer state affairs well and ensure national security. Afterwards, Confucianism enters the stage of history freshly. Confucian ethics of fortified hierarchy was adopted by emperors to rule the people. In ancient Chinese dynasty, when the emperor deliberated over politics affairs with ministers, the emperor should sit towards south and ministers stand facing north. As a result, people regarded south as the honorable direction and the north as the humble. Gradually, this southhonored thought spread out of the Forbidden City and was accepted by populace. As time passed, when people consider the seats arrangement, facing south was the best option. Obviously, it also works in the seat arrangement in Chinese banquets. Differing from southhonored thought in China, people in the United States adhere to the rightrespected principle in seat arrangement. In American banquets, honorable guests are always arranged in the host’s right seats. Most American early immigrants were Puritans from western countries. They believed in Jesus Christ and were deeply influenced by Christian culture. Bible as the Christian classic masterpiece was significant way to do missionary work. It is said in Bible that Jesus resurrected on the third day after his death. He sited on the right of the God. (Davis, 2001) Theological significance of the right is a winner’s place. In the course of the Christian missionary work, the rightrespected idea rooted in each follower’s heart and ultimately became the principle which Americans relied on to arrange seats in banquets. Because of different faith, Chinese and American are different in banquet seats’ arrangement. Bound by the feudal Confucian ethical code, Chinese ply with southhonored thought。 Americans who believe in Christianity show special preference to right side.. Dining OrdersWhat is the most impacted by the spiritual culture is the discrepancy on dining orders. China has a long history of feudal society. By the restriction of feudal ethics, in the maledominated society, Chinese women burden the oppression of “san cong si de”. (It is an excessive requirement to morality, behavior and cultivation in the women’s entire life, which originated from Confucianism.) An ideology that man is superior to woman had rooted in Chinese heart. In Chinese banquets, the female are often arranged sitting together. The male host should be the first to eat. Meanwhile, respecting eldership is the essence of Chinese morality. Since ancient time, Chinese emperors depended on filial piety to govern country. Therefore, if there is an elder attending a banquet, it should start with dining behavior of the elder. In the ., the principle of lady first is people’s traditional concept and significant behavioral pattern. The origin of this principle can be traced to western main religion, Christianity. It spread into the . following the step of British colonizing 13 states of American continent. In Christianity, Vrigin Mary, the mother of Jesus, holds in esteem and high respect. Christian thinks that the view and action of respecting women is a noble virtue. In the United States, the men take ladyfirst as a principle to be a gentleman. A banquet should begin with the female host’s dining and end up with her leaving the table. The formation of Chinese manfirst and American ladyfirst attributes to their different faiths. Acted on eating conventions, it results in their distinct dining orders in banquets. In sum, discrepancies in the two important aspects in etiquette formed by the influence of faith. One is the faith to culture and the other is the faith to religion. No matter what faith is about, they all belong to spiritual culture and instruct Chinese and American actions. . Dinnerware: Chinese Chopsticks vs. American Knife and FolkDinnerware consists of containers and tools used for distributing and getting food. For a variety of factors, dinnerware used by countries all over the world is different. Among them, chopsticks culture represented by China and knifeandfolk culture rep