In traditional banquets such as birthday, wedding, Jincheng, Shengshi, seasonal, poultry, fish and crab banquets, napkins are essential. Napkins can not only be folded into various patterns according to the requirements of different banquets, for example, they can be folded into "Happy Birds Climbing Plums", "Yuanyang Playing in Water" and "Millennium Lily". On the birthday of the elderly, you can superimpose "Nanshan pine and cypress", "Yaochi Shoutao" and "good luck". Children can fold Giraffe, Bird Singing and Panda Hope for their birthdays. As a sanitary product, napkin works can also decorate and beautify the surface of the banquet, which plays a role in rendering the atmosphere of the banquet and gives people a strong artistic appeal. The origin of napkins can be traced back to ancient times. In England from 15 to 16 century, men all wore beards because razors had not been invented. At that time, before the invention of knives, it was easy for men to get greasy with their hands, but they had to pull up their skirts and wipe them on their mouths. When the housewife saw this unsanitary and unsightly action, she thought of a way-hanging a cloth towel under the man's neck, which was the original napkin. Because this large napkin is too heavy to use, a tailor in London, England, came up with a new idea to cut the napkin into small squares, which is quite convenient to use, thus gradually forming the napkin used for banquets now. There were primitive napkins in ancient China. "Zhou Li. Celestial officer Power man "includes: power man" holds power in it ",which means covering food with towel. The Book of Rites, Tianguan, Burial and Slaughter also contains "the person in charge", that is, the official in charge of the daily towel rights of the royal family. At that time, a "power man" led more than 30 people, including "election" (castrated male slave) 1 and "women's rights" (sanctioned female slave with towel right) 10. They are all in charge of guarding food and supplying napkins in the palace. Visible, more than two thousand years ago, China covered food with a towel, which is the oldest napkin in the world. The napkin used by the emperors of the Qing Dynasty when eating was called "Huailan". This napkin embroidered with rust and auspicious patterns of longevity is embroidered with bright yellow (the color used by the emperor) and has a button in one corner, which is convenient to buckle when eating. This kind of napkin with China characteristics is much more luxurious than ordinary western-style napkins, and it is also very convenient to use. May the napkins and artistic flowers at the banquet shine with rich China cooking and enjoy people's gourmet life.