【正文】 of materials The Chinese dietary culture mainly originates from farming culture, which decides the Chinese dietary structure that takes crops as the principal thing and meat as the auxiliary ’s more, there is a plenty of production and a lot of species in grain crop because of the vast fields, fertile soil and superior technology in the contrary, animal breeding is rare in China so much so that it is very mon for people to eat the dietary structure is based on vegetable food, including grain, bean, greens, fruit as well as fact, in the Chinese dishes, vegetarian dishes are the most mon food。tea and wine are the main drinking in their is known for vast fields and various geographical environments with a long history and an abundant production as well as species of plants and animals, which offer the sufficient resources of products to the formation of Chinese dietary staple food is based on rice and the side, millet, corn, buckwheat, potato and sweet potato are also the main food people usual eat so they take a tiny place in the dietary for the rice noodles, there are still kinds of food can be supplied for people to make their life more colorful, including the other kinds of pasta, steamed bun, deepfired dough sticks, various porridge, cookie and everchanging the Chinese long history, the distribution of “south rice and north wheat” has formed this situation that the main raw materials are rice and wheat in Chinese staple Chinese people prefer to take vegetarian diet as the principle to a study of western botanist, there are more than 600 species of vegetables in is six times more than the fact, in the Chinese dishes, vegetarian dishes are considered as the mon food, and only in holidays or at the higher living standards, the meat can be a part of the usual western dietary culture mainly originates from rear livestock culture, which decides the western dietary structure that takes meat and dairy products as the principal things and vegetarian dishes as the auxiliary to the weather, it is not suitable for western countries to plant the crop so that they give priority to animal husbandry and give second place to addition, another factor to give first place to animal is that the technology is quite high in the animal a result, there are a lot of kinds of animals and a huge production of meat in western main agriculture products are wheat, corn, and grape and so the western dietary structure, the meat also takes up the excessive place in the are mainly beef, chicken, pork, mutton as well as is obvious that what they usually eat is provided with a “threehigh” characteristic that is high protein, high fat and high , meat has occupied and will always occupy the remarkable high proportion in western the proportion of planting has increased in recent years, the proportion of meat in dietary structure is always higher in the western than in , when westerners prepare the diet，you can see most dishes are meat and a few are ’s more, bread and meat are the principle food。and seafood or aquatic product is with brandy or white wine to is known to all, when it es to the topic of wine, the most characteristic and the most distinguished wine is a kind of wine which is used to be named grape that takes grape as the material to make wine and we know, the western countries mostly give first place to rear livestock or business and give second place to is not suitable for most grain to grow up because of the weather and the contrary, it is extraordinarily moderate for grape to grow up under that addition, the quality and production of grape are the first of all in the a result, people can make a considerable quantity of wine with excellent quality(蕭, 2007:230).Chapter Three Table Manners The Differences between Chinese and Western Table Manners Of course, the main difference on the Chinese dinner table is chopsticks instead of knife and fork, but that39。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! The characteristic of Table Manners The characteristic 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 aguest, 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 th