【正文】 s plate or bowl to keep them off the table entirely． A chopstick rest can also be used to keep the points off the table. 7 Never stab chopsticks into a bowl of rice and leave them standing upwards. Any sticklike object facing upward resembles the incense sticks that some Asians use as offerings to deceased family members. This is considered the ultimate faux pas on the dining table. In western countries, when they want to leave the table while having the meal, they must ask the host or hostess to be excused before leaving the table. At the same time, they must put the dinner cloth on the middle of the chair and put the edge of knife towards oneself. Every having finished one course, hold the knife and fork together. If you want to talk to other you needn’t put down the knife, hold it is ok. When you have finished your meal, place your knife and fork side by side on the plate. This signals that you have finished eating. Ⅲ . The causes of different dining customs between the West and China There are variety reasons to cause the culture conflict between China and Western countries, as to it’s root, they have different cultures and different history backgrounds which causes different ideas and behaviors, even is conflict. Let’s look the following major causes in details A、 Different time concepts As there are different cultures and customs between china and western, our education is different, too. So, we accept the different views on the time concept. The westerners always bine time and money view together, they think time is important as the money. In their mind, time cannot waste for it is limited. They value their time very much. In their daily lives, they always arranged and planed their time carefully. They are often filled with a sense of urgency of time. They have a good hobby that they go to the party on time. Meanwhile, China accepts the freedom time rule. In our mind, sometimes we needn’t have to obey the timetable. We will not be like a western person generally so strict of carrying on according to the plan while the western person usually does not adapt to this B、 Different notion Culture will affect people’s view on things. Different country has its different 8 culture, so it is obviously that the thinking model between China and western are different. Western culture leans to logic and analyze, while the eastern culture pay more attention on one’s intuition. As to the traditional of the culture, Chinese people especially believe their own intuition. They insist the experience and feeling during the thing, this phenomenon also happens in the munication between west an