What are the details of dinner etiquette?

1. After sitting down, your posture should be upright. Put your feet under your seat and do not straighten them at will. Do not lean your elbows on the edge of the table or put your hands on the back of the seat next to you.

2. When dining, you must be gentle and elegant, calm and quiet, and not impatient.

3. At the dinner table, you should not only care about yourself, but also care about others, especially the female guests on both sides.

4. Avoid talking when there is food in your mouth.

5. Personal tableware is not allowed to reach into the public dining plate to pick up dishes.

6. You must eat in small mouths and do not stuff it in big mouths. The food must not be stuffed into the mouth until it is swallowed.

7. When taking vegetables and ladling soup, you should use public chopsticks and public spoons.

8. Do not spit out imported food. If it is hot food, you can drink water or juice to take a shower.

9. When bringing food to the entrance, the elbows should be leaned inward and not spread straight to the sides to touch the neighbor.

10. You should avoid talking to others or toasting while you are holding a knife and fork in your hand, or when others are chewing food.

Extended information:

Chopstick etiquette:

1. Avoid knocking chopsticks

That is, when waiting for a meal, do not sit at the edge of the meal , take a chopstick in one hand and hit it at will, or use the chopstick to hit a bowl or teacup.

2. Avoid throwing chopsticks

When handing out chopsticks before a meal, straighten them out in pairs and then place them gently in front of everyone’s table; , you can ask someone to pass it over, but you can't just throw it on the table.

3. Avoid cross-shaped chopsticks

Chopsticks cannot be placed crosswise, one horizontally and one vertically, with one with a large end and the other with a small end. Chopsticks should be placed next to the bowl, not on the bowl.

4. Avoid inserting chopsticks

When you need to leave temporarily for some reason during the meal, you should place the chopsticks gently on the table or beside the plate, and do not insert them in the rice bowl.

5. Avoid waving chopsticks

When picking up food, do not wave your chopsticks around in the dish or flip it up and down. When others come to pick up food, you must Avoid "chopstick fights" intentionally.

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