【正文】 But the western people hold the opposite opinion. They think nothing is more than the nutrition of the food when they have their dinning. They pay great attention to the nutrition of the food rather than its color、 flavor、 shape and mean. Their diet mainly focus on health, as if they don’t care about the enjoyment of it is tastes. C、 The atmosphere on table While having dinner, Chinese always like sit around the table together eat and drink, speak and laugh loudly to build liveliness and warmth table atmosphere. Chinese people are always very enthusiastic on the table. At the beginning of the dinner, the host will hand around smoke, including formal party. And even the food is delicious enough, the host also will say: this isn’t very much please help yourselves, five me and so on. During the dinning, sometimes Chinese host use their chopsticks to put food in your bowl or plate. This is a sign of politeness. The appropriate thing to do would be to eat the whateveritis and say how yummy it is. If you feel unfortable with this, you can just say a polite thank you and leave the food there. In China wine is an essential thing on the dinning table, whatever the kind of the banquet is, wine is the necessity thing. Sometimes for meaning the respect toward the party, people will drink all of time by cup and cup. The host should always make sure the guests’ drinks are sufficiently full. When people wish to clink drinks together in the form of a cheer, it is important to observe that younger members should clink the edge of their drink below the edge of an elder to show respect. Different from the Chinese table manner, western countries do not like the noisy ambiance. They advocate freedom and think that having dinning with noise is very rude and impolite and quiet dinning environment is the wellliking habit. They will 6 respect the guests’ own idea. They will ask you to help yourselves and just ask you to eat this food。 it will show their hospitality. D、 Seat arrangement Chinese and the Western dinner table etiquette have the slight difference. As we use different type of tables, we have different seat arrangements. As China generally use round table and the regular arrangement is: the seats which affronts to the door are the most important seats. So the oldest or the guest of honor or the high state guest will sit at the dooraffront seats. The host and the hostess will sit at the lesser seats along with the ordinarily guests. Nearby the important seats39。 Right side the male master39。s seat is the third head table。s left side seat is the fourth head seat. In western countries, they usually us