【正文】 roasting meat are deserved with three side dishes which are potato and two different color are considered to be a set of side are a lot of cases we can example, it is a set of side dish that French fries is arranged with boiling pea and carrot in olive shape as well as roasting potato arranged with cauliflower with butter and tomato in , the characteristic dishes usually choose one kind of side dish made with potato to keep the special aroma, such as the the side, the dishes with much soup are used to provide with the rice or it is rare in Italian A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts dish, such as curry chicken with butter rice and Italian beef with Manners Good manners mean good behavior in social person with good manners is always agreeable of table manners, every country has its own China, table manners in people’s life occupy a very important think that repast is not only for our basic physiological needs, but also for our social it do the same for the Between Chinese and Western Table Manners The main difference on the Chinese dinner table is chopsticks instead of knife and fork, but that39。s only , in decent restaurants, you can always ask for a pair of knife and fork, if you find the chopsticks not helpful real difference is that in the West, you have your own plate of food, while in China the dishes are placed on the table and everyone you are being treated to a formal dinner and particularly if the host thinks you39。re in the country for the first time, he will do the best to give you a taste of many different types of meal usually begins with a set of at least four cold dishes, to be followed by the main courses of hot meat and vegetable then will be served(unless in Guangdong style restaurants)to be followed by staple food ranging from rice, noodles to you wish to have your rice to go with other dishes, you should say so in good time, for most of the Chinese choose to have the staple food at last or have none of them at one of the things that surprise a Western visitor most is that some of the Chinese hosts like to put food into the plates of their formal dinners, there are always “public” chopsticks and spoons for this purpose, but some hosts may use their own is a sign of genuine friendship and is always polite to eat the you do not eat it, just leave the food in the in China tend to overorder food, for they will find it embarrassing if all the food is you have had enough, just say you will always overeat! of Table MannersThe dining table is one of the most important places where good manners are A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts arching it will help people to learn the language culture and improve the ability of munication in crossculture of Table Manners in China Chinese table manners of families have no intrinsic quality even there are different region and matter three meals a day or guest’s arrival, always bowls with chopsticks, food with is no rule for how to put the people care about more is not the gorgeous tableware but the sumptuous food? People’s dining position reflects the most obvious etiquette of Chinese table ancient society, men are supreme, and women are not allowed to sit with men on the same this is modern society, this kind of ancient etiquette still in China, the phenomenon that men sit on the table before women can be found master of a family usually sits on the firstclass firstclass seat is usually near the interior of a room facing to the there is a guest, the master will offer the firstclass seat to the guest it is an ordinary meal of family, families should start after the there is a guest, the master offer the food to the guest is essential from the beginning to the the tradition of urging others to drink is also a special of Table Manners in the West The biggest difference in table manners between Chinese and western is the details of table manners can be as clear as the specifications what can exactly give people correct manners to refer are several typical manners what can illustrate the rigor of Westernstyle food：①The westernstyle food official drinks the soup posture request to enter in advanced the soup with the ladle to oneself far that one side, then to leaves the direction which oneself goes far away to delimit lightly abundantly.②When dines in the process, if you need to put down the knife, the edge faces oneself assumes in the plate as 10 o’clock tool bit is the hand of a clock, the hilt is the minute hand)。the jaw buckles in the edge of a sword, the jaw direction 2 o’ knife and fork assumes but actually V V glyph knife and fork places the tray lower part(to depend on your direction).③The knife with forks parallel places in the plate 5 o39。clock positions when dines the knife or forks the total length 1/3 handle department dew in tray edge fork downward buckle on the plate, the knife’s edge faces to Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts ④When eats the bread, must tear down the bread may by an entrance butter should in before you put in the not wipe beforehand the entire bread the full There are distinct differences in dietary concept, dietary object, dietary kitchen ware and dietary tableware between Chinese and westerners and they have their own course, the differences between Chinese and westerners have relativity in dietary study of differences in dietary culture needs the mutual understanding and appreciation between different facing two kinds of dietary culture, we should learn from others’ strong point to offset our weakness rather than blind pursue the enjoyment of the increasing fast globalization, the dietary culture between Chinese and westerners will integrate in the collision and plement in the fusion under the background which is collided and fused by economy, culture and information c