【正文】 Buddhist is advocating “natural and clean。 however, it is improper to have dinner in public place. When you happen to eat fishbone, bone and so on, you?d better not spit it, let alone throwing it away. It is polite to pick it into your plate, or put it near the desk close to you, and you can put it on the napkins you have prepared. When eating, you don39。 the other is dessert spoon, the size is small, after cutting food, bing the food with jam stuff, you can eat it. The spoon should get food from inside to outside. After eating soup, the soup spoon should be put one side of dish plate. And the spoon should be put in the bowl. Usually, the handle of the spoon should be on right of bowl, and the sunken part of the spoon must be upward. You should pay attention to the detail that the soup spoon shouldn?t be get food directly. The principles of wine glass During the dinner in western countries, different dishes should match with different wine, and various glasses should hold different wine. 3. The etiquettes of dish order between China and western countries: The dish order in China The order of dishes in China is like this: cold dish, beverage, wine and hot dish, then the staple food, finally, the dessert and fruit is served. If there are many desks, the same dish of each table should be at the same time. The dish order in western countries The order of dish in western countries is like this: vegetable, bread and butter, 8 cold dish, soup, seafood, staple food, dessert, coffee and fruit. The cold dish can be used as appetizer, a first starter. 4. The etiquettes’ differences during the dinner: The etiquettes of fetching and eating food The etiquettes of fetching and eating food in China The food should be got firstly by the main guest, don?t get too much once, the male should fetch food for the lady near him. When eating soup, you shouldn?t make sounds. If you make noises, you should say “sorry” to others. You should get the elder to start the meal. You should fetch less food, which is far from you. Don39。 the plate should be different according to different sizes and shapes of food. The smaller plate is used for food plate。 the close table is higher than the far one. The middle table is higher than the one place aside. The etiquettes of dinner table in western countries During the dinner in western countries, people prefer to the long table. On an informal dinner, the order of seat is as follows: The female and male hosts sit at the side of the table, and the guests sit at the bilateral of table. In an informal banquet, the rule “l(fā)ady first” should be followed. If there are only two person (one man and one lady) having a meal, the man should invite the lady to sit on his right, and he should avoid allowing the lady to sit on the side of passageway crowed with people. If there are two couples having a dinner, the wives should take the seat closer to the wall, and the husbands should sit right in front of their wives. If there are two men and one lady having a meal, the lady should take a seat between two men. If there are two people with same sex having a meal, the position closer to the wall should be the elders. Besides, the man should remove the seat for the lady. If there are no place cards, the hostess will tell guests where she would like them to sit. Guests39。t make any noise, and you don39。既然 餐桌 儀的重要性家喻戶曉，我們對之應(yīng)該加以注意。餐桌禮儀對你我都非常重要，它在中國人的生活秩序中占有一個非常重要的地位。 Table of contents Abstract 1 摘 要 1 I. Introduction 3 II. The Differences of Table Manners in China and Western Countries 3 1. The etiquettes of seat arrangement 3 2. The etiquettes of tableware use 5 3. The etiquettes of dish order between China and western countries7 4. The etiquettes differences during the dinner8 5. The etiquettes of leaving