【正文】 式 ， 不同的價值觀， 中西方餐桌禮儀存在著較大的差異。該論文主要論 述了中西方餐桌禮儀的一些 差異 , 并且論 述了造成這些差異的一些原因。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。因此 ， 了解更多的文化差異可以減少更多的誤解，即通過了解更多的文化之間的差異人們可 以得到更好的交流。既然 餐桌 儀的重要性家喻戶曉，我們對之應(yīng)該加以注意。ade fixing a position”, and it should consider the distance from the main table. Usually, the closer it is from the main table, the higher the position is. Where a guest is seated depends on his age, social status and so on. Taking the left for upper, it is the traditional custom in China. It means the left seat is higher than the right one. The guest of honor should be arranged on the left of the host .As you go to the seat。t make any noise, and you don39。 if you have something, greeting to your master. In the past, Chinese advocated south, east and the left. With the time39。 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。 Chopsticks are the most important table wares in Chinese meal. Before the dinner, the chopsticks must be put on the right side of the bowl in a good order. After the dinner, the chopsticks must be put in middle of the bowl in a vertical row. No matter whether there are remain food on the chopsticks, never lick it. When talking with a person, you should put them down。 the plate should be different according to different sizes and shapes of food. The smaller plate is used for food plate。 the thing you picked shouldn?t be enjoyed or put into mouth again. After picking teeth, you shouldn?t hold the toothpick in your mouth for a long time. The display and use of Western table wares The principles of displaying and fetching table wares The table wares in western countries are served by the hosts or servants before the dinner, you can follow the rule from outside to inside. You should make your knife far from plate avoiding embarrassed sound. The tray should be placed in middle, fork on the left and knife on the right, the point of knife should be up, the blade of knife should be inside, the staple food is left, and the table wares are right. The number of wine glass is equal to the kind of the wine, and the order is from left to right. Usually, you can never carry the bowl dish. 7 The ways of using table wares The principles of knife and fork When you have dinner with fork and knife, the knife is for cutting food and the fork is for eating food. When having dinner, the knife should be on your right hand, and the fork should be on your left hand. The left hand is to fix food with fork, at the same time。 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 ord