【正文】 then press the same order to the men serving. When the hostess and other women pick up the napkin, knife, and fork to start eating after the man began. After the meal, the hostess gets up to leave, and other persons can leave, and women are given the priority. Differences in Dietary Habits Differences in Tableware Chopsticks, knife and fork are the most representative tableware in China and the West. Their lifestyles represent two different kinds of lives in China and the West. Some professors say that people in the east and the west use different tableware to eat due to the different environment. Chopsticks are related to bamboo. There is a lot of bamboo in China, so ancestors obtain materials from local sources. Bamboo bees the most primitive material of 9 chopsticks. The Nobel Price winner Dr. Tsung Dao Lee, a famous Chinese American physicist, said” Such a simple pair of sticks shows a marvelous utilization of the lever principle. Chopsticks are extensions of the fingers, which are able to do anything fingers do. They can use in heat and freezing cold. They are wonderful”. The emergence of knife and fork is much later than chopsticks. According to the study of a professor, the origination of knife and fork is related to the ancient nomadic habits in Europe. People carried knives at any times. They cooked the meat and ate the meat which cut into pieces with knife. About 15th centuries, people settled down in city. They need not carry knife and fork all the time. In order to improve the way of eating, Europeans used the tableware to eat. Chopsticks, knife and fork not only bring about differences in eating habits, but also affect the Chinese people and the Western people’s concepts in life. Knife and fork will inevitable bring about individual eating system, but chopsticks are related to sharing a meat with family members who are sitting around the table. Because of the individual eating system, westerners pay attention to the independence very much. They think that children who have grown up can struggle for the wonderful life by themse。 it means a big pot in terms of food. Any sophisticated cooking of a dish can only be cooked in a pot at two most, and it is not able to cook the dish for dozens of people. So it will not be delicious, never talking of the taste. Under such circumstances, it is clear that the use of buffet dinner will deny Chinese culinary arts. The Chinese people are drinking around the table to show harmony and unity, but the buffet has broken such pattern. It raises the personal independence and selfmentioned at the first place. This is the opposite of the scale of the great unity of all Chinese traditional culture. Differences in the Nature Differences in the nature of the Chinese and western diet are inosculated with the respective lifestyle and the pace of life. In the west, people do the duplication of pipeline operations, and implement piecewage system, so the paces of their lives are so fast. People fall under the mechanical method either intentionally or unintentionally, and believe that “Work is work, and game is game.” Mechanical lives led to oneness of diet or a single blind about diet, and eat beefsteak and potatoes every day. Monotonous diet is the same as work, for which the purposes is to fulfill the “incident”, naturally with no interests, and all these have no word in terms of taste. But China is not, “The game is work, and the work is of a game”. Such life manner is also emerged in diet. A baker sells bread in the street, he likes using the rolling pole to beat the chopping board rhythmically when they knead flour. When the cooks fry a dish, even beating scoop, they also care the sense of rhythm during cooking. These would not work for any conveniences, but it increases the interests of workers. Only in such an atmosphere work will be meaningful, and it will have more creativity and artistry of Chinese cuisine. There still exist various differences between Chinese and western dietary cultures. But with the development of cultural munication between China and the west, along with the strengthening of munication between China and the west, China has imported various kinds of western food, known as the “KFC” “DICOS”, “McDonald”. This marks a new western dietary culture exchanges and infiltration. We believe that with the development of society, the cultural differences between Chinese and western dietary will no longer be the difference. 8 Differences in the Etiquette In China, any banquet, no matter what purpose, there will be only a form, that is, we are sitting round, sharing one seat。 but the Chinese people only like to live banally. According to American expert on folklore Ruth’s opinions on the cultural pattern theory, Chinese culture is quite similar to the classical world Apollotype character and Westerners’ is similar to the modern world Fausttype. Indeed, the Westerners such as Americans in the development of the west, they put the whole family on the 6 truck, and go out of the city in amid rumbling with the supplies. The Chinese people are always thinking about “home” and “roots”, despite the promotion that young people should take the world as home. But after a few decades, the overseas Chinese will e back to the mainland with crutch to seek their roots. This concept of return and such human spirit that can only be said to cooperate with the accumulation in the diet. Then it brings cohesiveness to the Chinese nation and then makes the human folk full of energy. Differences in the Dietary Patterns The Chinese and Western dietary patterns can be very different, and these differences affect the national character. In China, a celebration, no matter what, there will be only one form, as sitting together, sharing one feast. Banquet uses round table, which has created a unity