When entertaining guests at the dinner table in the order of seats, be sure to judge the correct position of the upper and lower positions. The seats below are all upper seats: the window seat, the seat inside, and the seat overlooking the beautiful scenery. When arranging seats, please sit down first; When you sit at the same table with your boss, ask him to sit in the seat next to you. You should stand on the left side of the chair and pull it away with your right hand without making any noise. Also, when booking the venue, tell the store to book the location, not next to the toilet or in the uneven corner. Chinese food in table manners generally adopts a round table with a circular turntable in the middle to place dishes. When eating, you can put your favorite dishes on the small plate in front of you. Table manners in Chinese food are basically simple, comfortable and the most unconstrained. Just pay attention to the following. 1. Host and guest are preferred. Don't eat before the host and guest move chopsticks; Each dish should be served by the host and guest first, and then others will start work in turn. 2. Don't turn the turntable on the table when someone is picking vegetables; When someone turns the turntable, pay attention to whether there are tableware or plates on the table. You can't monopolize your favorite food. 4. Avoid using too many tableware. The spirit of Chinese food is to talk while eating, and everyone can have fun together. As long as you obey the basic etiquette, you can talk as much as you want. If the topic on the table is just to eat at the table, the atmosphere must be very stiff. What do you want to talk to customers with different backgrounds, ages, personalities and hobbies? 1. Weather and climate. This is a British habit. They met people in the same car on the train, and the topic must have started with the weather. 2. hobbies. Hobbies divided by country or group are the best topics for communication. 3. News reports. Although every day is different, there are almost tens of thousands of people who read the special news. 4. hometown, born in school. It is possible to find a fellow villager and narrow the distance between them. The following topics can also be used as appropriate: family members, place of residence, favorite wine names, favorite food, cars, leisure travel, etc. In a banquet, the number of tables and seats is an issue that cannot be ignored. According to custom, the number of tables depends on the distance from the main table. Right high and left low. When the number of tables is large, table cards should be set. You can use a round table or a long table for the banquet. For banquets with more than one table, the distance between tables should be moderate, and the distance between seats should be equal. In a group banquet, the front or middle table is usually the main table. The specific placement of the dining table also depends on the terrain conditions of the banquet hall. All kinds of banquet tables and seating arrangements should be neat and unified, chairs should be vertical and horizontal, and tablecloths should be folded in one direction, giving people an overall aesthetic feeling. Protocol order is the main basis for arranging seats. In China, people are used to arranging guests according to their positions, so as to facilitate conversation. If the ladies are present, they are usually arranged together, that is, the guest sits on the upper right of the host and his wife sits on the upper right of the hostess. For banquets with more than two tables, the position of the first host of other tables is generally the same as that of the host's main table, or the position directly opposite to the main table is the main position. Other factors should also be considered when arranging seats in detail. For example, if the relationship between the two sides is tense, try to avoid being arranged together, with roughly the same identity, or those with the same major can be arranged together. The general family holds a banquet, because the main room faces south, so the north side of the square table is the location of the guests. Now, it is the first time that the left side of the door is the top and the right side is the bottom. Both sides, left or above, right is below. The host sat with his back to the door. Proper arrangement of tables and seats will show your status and show your respect, which will add an elegance of a state of etiquette to your meetings and banquets and achieve concrete results. The square table used to be square, but now the wine table is round. It can be said that no rules can make Fiona Fang. In my opinion, there are two kinds of formal banquets. There is a famous saying by Liang Shiqiu that if a person has no peace for a day, you can cure him. In the past, guests usually stayed at home and had to work all day long. Ordering, shopping, cooking, holding a banquet, seeing off guests and washing dishes are mostly manual labor, but drawing up a guest list and arranging seats is a headache. If two or three guests are equally divided, the host family will scratch their heads. If the guest who should be sitting in the seat is arranged to sit on one side of the seat, but someone with a certain status asks him to "toast the last seat", it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no situation of "one person walking into the corner and raising a seat for him". I don't think you can invite that party. It's much simpler now. Especially the highest-ranking guest, in most cases, he will say in a very modest and casual tone, comrades, sit casually, where come so much attention! But the more leaders say so, the more they dodge and dare not sit down. One thing we all know is that the seat facing the door is the theme. As for the rest, it is not clear. So after a moment of humility, the leader who told everyone to sit casually was pushed, pulled and even framed by everyone, and finally sat helplessly on the theme. Others, wait. Generally, it is declined at both ends according to the size of your position, like a group photo. No! All wrong! Let's not talk about this rule. If anything, it should be sorted according to serious etiquette rules. Whenever I am present and everyone is modest, I will speak, and I am not shy about boasting. First of all, I will say "listen to me, everyone", and then I will add "I edited and published a book" Chinese and Western Etiquette "myself. This sentence is generally very useful. Everyone suddenly stopped bowing and looked at me. The next priority is to determine who will sit in the theme. This door-oriented theme is not determined by position or fame, but by who is the host, that is, who will entertain you today. After the theme was decided, I immediately indicated that the person with the highest position or the most famous person was sitting on the right side of the host, and explained that "this is the first guest seat". On the host's left, there is the "second guest seat". After the three protagonists are determined, the rest of us don't sit in a group, but start from the second guest seat and decrease clockwise until the seat next to the first guest is called the "last seat". The so-called "last place" and "last place" refers to this seat. Etiquette has such a great charm. Once you sit down according to the rules, the host's face will be full, and the two sides will have light on their faces, and everyone will feel at ease. Have you noticed that whenever a state banquet is held, on the host's right, the foreign head of state must be seated as the first guest of honor, while on the host's left, it is the wife of the head of state. A well-trained waiter at a state banquet or hotel, whether pouring wine, taking soup, serving food or taking sweets, starts with the first guest on the host's right, then goes to the host and the second guest, and then goes to the last seat in clockwise order. Unfortunately, more than 70% hotels and restaurants in China don't speak (understand) this rule. Whether the waiter pours wine or makes soup, he is either nearby or arranges flowers indiscriminately. In this case, the waiters should not be blamed. Most of them are managers and know nothing about these rules. Of course, an ordinary banquet is enough. If you are entertaining senior businessmen or important foreign guests, you are so careless and casual, which is likely to let some opportunities slip through your fingers. According to the order of serving, there are six aspects of attention. First of all, there are several cold dishes for guests to help themselves to avoid ice. If you have hungry guests, you can pad your stomach first. The second is about the order of soup. In the south, it is customary to serve soup first and advocate a good appetite first. There is also a saying that "it is better to prescribe medicine than to drink soup first". Northerners, on the other hand, are more pragmatic, thinking that if you fill your stomach with soup first, you should eat less. Do as Romans do in Rome. Third, before hot dishes are served, the cups must be filled. Sometimes two or three hot dishes are served, but there is still a lack of wine. The host wants to say a few words He is holding an empty cup. How can he talk? By the time the waiter slowly opened the bottle and sifted the wine, the hot dish was half cold. Whenever hot dishes are served, we should pay special attention to eating them while they are hot. The hot dishes turn cold, the attractive hot steam disappears, and the oily water color is glued because of the solidification of oil, even the skills of senior chefs are greatly reduced. Fourth, stir-fry hot dishes now, with a certain interval between the two plates. After eating more than half of a dish, I continued to serve the second course. The same dish, the correct way of serving, the guest's appetite will be better, will leave a deeper impression. Some hotels have gone to two extremes in this respect. When one dish is finished, the second dish can't be served for a long time, and the food is finished. Without reinforcements, the guests will feel "I left my rice stick and cup, I can't eat or drink, I pulled out his sword and found his heart at a loss". Is it because the guests are not prepared at least psychologically? A gust of wind filled the table and said, "Sir, your order is all here. Please enjoy it!" Guests face a table full of dishes, chopsticks move around, just like walking in a hundred flowers garden, and after several rounds, they are full of ambition. Fifth, the specialty dishes of restaurants, especially the delicate handmade dishes and fatty things such as braised pork and braised pork, should generally not be served too late. At that time, the guests had burped, and bringing these good things up can only give people the feeling of giving umbrellas after rain and fur in summer. Sixth, and finally, from the perspective of salt taste, the dishes are weaker than each other. This truth was told by writer Lu through the mouth of Mr. Zhu, a gourmet in his works. What is the greatest knowledge of cooking? Two words, salt. As the saying goes, salt can adjust all tastes, and the umami, sweetness and fragrance in dishes are all mobilized by salt. As the saying goes, salt is a gentleman. After salt brings out all kinds of good flavors in food, it retreats to the background. If a dish, who wants to eat the taste of salt, then this dish will fail-this is called salt to suppress a hundred flavors. The human tongue, like other senses, will be numb after a long time. Therefore, serving food should be lighter than serving. If it's the opposite, it's a complete disaster. Zhu said that once he went to a banquet, the master forgot to put salt in the last soup, and when it was served, everyone drank it, and almost shouted a word in unison: "Fresh!" = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Chinese food has a long history. In this country, which has been a country of etiquette since ancient times and pays attention to food for the people, food etiquette has naturally become an important part of food culture. China's dining etiquette is said to have started from the Duke of Zhou. After thousands of years of evolution, it has finally formed a set of catering etiquette that is generally accepted by everyone today. It is the inheritance and development of the ancient food etiquette system. Dietary etiquette varies according to the nature and purpose of the banquet; Different regions are also very different. Ancient food etiquette is divided into levels: court, government, guild, folk and so on. Modern food etiquette is simplified as: host (host) and guest. As a guest, you should pay attention to your appearance when you go to dinner, and decide whether to bring small gifts or good wine according to your relationship. Punctuality in eating. When you arrive, you should first obey the host's arrangement according to whether you know him or not, or be introduced by the host, and then sit down: this "seating arrangement" is the most important part of China's food etiquette. Since ancient times, because of the evolution of table furniture, the arrangement of seats has also changed. Generally speaking, the seating order is "Zuo Zun Dong" and "Zun Men". The person in charge of the family banquet is the elder with the highest seniority, and the last seat is the lowest. During the wine tour, I respect the first order. If it is a round table, the host and guest facing the gate are 2, 4, 6 on the left hand side and 3, 5, 7 on the right hand side until they meet. If it is a square table, if there is a seat facing the gate, the seat on the right side of the gate is the host and guest. If it is not facing the gate, the right seat on the east side is the chief. Then the Sheikh sat on his left, 2, 4, 6 and 8, and on his right, 3, 5 and 7. If it is a big banquet, the arrangement between tables should pay attention to the chief, with 2, 4 and 6 seats on the left and 3, 5 and 7 seats on the right. According to the identity and status of the host and guests, relatives and friends should sit separately.