中国饮食礼仪（Chinese dietary etiquette）
Every nation has its own characteristic diet, customs and customs, and the degree of its development is also different. Chinese people's diet etiquette is relatively developed, but also relatively complete, but also from top to bottom in order to link up the characteristics. "The book of rites? Li Yun" said: "Cardiff ceremony at the beginning of the beginning of the diet". In China, according to literature can be learned, at least Zhou Dai, diet etiquette has become a quite perfect system. These manners have been constantly improved in the later social practice, played an important role in ancient society, and still have an impact on modern society, and become an important code of conduct in the era of civilization.
A banquet, the ceremony
There is the main object of the feast, is a kind of social activity. In order to make the social activities orderly and orderly, and to achieve the purpose of reservation, there must be some etiquette norms to guide and restrain. Each nation has its own set of standardized dietary rituals in the long run, as a code of conduct for every member of society.
Uygur hospitality, guests sat on the seats, put Nang, cakes, candy, summer plus fruit, for the guests to pour the tea or tea. Eat meals to catch, put a pot of water for the guests hands. Total disk cannot be pilaf,
she put the plate in rice. After dinner, to master my build, guests can leave. Mongolian Kumiss holy drink, use it to entertain guests. Very particular about the banquet etiquette, eat mutton, sheep will pipagu with meat with the four long ribs to guests. The guest is the most solemn
feast for the whole sheep, each part of lamb wok cooked dinner when the lamb chunks poured into the market, the tail outward. The host asked the guest to cut sheep sacrum, or the knife by the elderly, the same meal.
As in the ancient feast of traditional etiquette, the general procedure is to master fold in Cambodia, due to welcoming guest to the door; and to greet, extending into the living room to sit, to guide guests with refreshments; sit down to the left, is the chief. I will, to the left for the first and two relatively, first under for three, two under for four. The guests were seated, toast for dishes from the owner, the guest politely xie. After the banquet, guide guests into the living room to sit, it came to tea. Banquet serving wine, also have certain rules. The modern standard procedures: Zhenjiu, guests from the right to the guest, after the owner; first ladies, after the gentlemen. Pour eight cents on the wine. Serve cold heat, all the guest should be opposite seats left; single or dishes at Maple and snack first bin; on the whole chicken, duck, whole fish gold plastic dishes, not to the head and tail toward the bits.
Two, avoid the feast
"Wu Tuan rice." A mass of roll rice can not eat, to Dakoutaikou eating, so there is a dispute too full.
No rice." The imported food can not be put back into the rice bowl, others will feel unsanitary.
"Do not drink flow." Not long drink munching, let a person feel
to eat eat, though not enough.
Don't eat it." Don't let the tongue make noise in the mouth when chewing, the master will feel that you are not satisfied with the performance of his meals.
No bone." Don't focus on to chew bones, so easy to make unpleasant sound,
A feeling of disrespect or disrespect.
No fish." Never let go of the fish you have eaten. You should eat it later.
"Don't throw the dog with the bone."." Guests do not gnaw bones themselves, nor can they throw bones to dogs.
No gains without fixed ends." Don't love to eat a certain table alone for the blind, or to go to eat, are to
o greedy.
No rice." Not to eat faster, with rice to disperse heat up food.
"No rice millet with chopsticks." Don't use chopsticks to eat millet, but not directly with the hand advocate. I have a spoon. Chopsticks are used exclusively in the soup, and there is no mixing.
"The vegetable soup with Jia, without going without food Jia." Jia is chopsticks. There are vegetables in the soup and feed on them. If you don't have chopsticks, you can't use them. Just drink them straight.
"No Ta soup." Drinking broth, not too fast, not out loud. Dishes must be taken with chopsticks and not directly absorbed from the mouth.
imported foodNo soup." Guests can't reconcile the soup with their own hands, or they will give the impression of self-expression, as if they are more adept at cooking.
Don't prick your teeth." When eating, do not arbitrarily, without covering large teeth, such as tooth plug, must wait until after the meal tick.
"Do not drink minced meat." Don't drink it straight from the sauce. Minced meat is relatively salty, used for seasoning, not directly for drinking.
"But the meat definitely never dried meat by." Wet and soft pork stew, can be directly cut, do not have to use the hand to break; and the dried meat is not directly with the teeth to bite, must use the knife dagger.
"Do not suck the sunburn." Roast and kebabs, don't bite, so full of oral, not eating, wolf, bad manners.
"When food does not sigh."." Don't heave great sighs meal, "only eat Lotus", not lament.
A similar ceremony was also as many family motto be handed down from age to age. Let us or to Zhang boxing "raising" compilation volume three cited "Tu Xiying boy Li" as an example, the
following words or by the "book of Rites" on the deduction of:
All food and drink need to be kept away from the case. Give way to calm Zhu, trading, not caused by rapid, vegetable dishes will be upset. Do not make chewing sound, nor the unbridled hobby, lust for more food. When all Zhu placed the bowl, plus care, not make
Contemporary Chinese and young people, consciously and unconsciously, have inherited the tradition of ancient ritual more or less. We have many modern dining etiquette habits, can be said to be rooted in the "book of Rites", is rooted in our ancient traditional diet.
Three, eating ceremony
Eating activities themselves, because the participants are independent individuals, so show more individual characteristics, each person may have their own long-term life in the formation of different habits. However, the diet activity also showed strong group consciousness, it is often conducted in certain groups within the scope within the family, or in a particular social group, so have to use social recognition etiquette to constraint each individual, so that each individual behavior are incorporated into the track.
Eating etiquette, according to "the book of Rites Ceremony" of the song?,
The pre Qin has very strict requirements, the suggestions are as follows: