中西方餐桌礼仪差异论文

中西方餐桌礼仪差异

摘要：餐桌礼仪在交际中占着重要的地位。学习和运用正确的餐桌礼仪，已不仅仅是自身形象的需要，更是提高双效益、提升竞争力的需要，因此笔者认为很有必要学习其深层次的原因，并采取一定的措施来培养跨文化交际的能力，避免文化冲突。

关键词：中西方餐桌礼仪差异原因

ⅰ. introduction

entering the 21st century, intercultural communication has become an indispensable content of people’s life. due to the regional differences, different nationalities and countries has formed there own culture. the table manners are an important part of intercultural communication. understand the differences between chinese and occidental table etiquette and its origin, for foreign language learners, not only increase the understanding of the target language culture, but also can improve the success rate of intercultural communication, avoid misunderstandings and communication barriers by inappropriate behavior.

ⅱ.the differences between china and occidental table etiquette

2.1 brief introduction of china table etiquette

it is documented that china’s food etiquette has formed a

relatively complete system, which can be traced back to the zhou dynasty. and this traditional etiquette still is reserved in most areas of china, such as shandong, hong kong and taiwan, as well as in many films and tv programs. under the influence of western food, western etiquette was introduced to the qing dynasty. during this time, culture communications between two countries become more and more conspicuous.

2.2 brief introduction of occidental table etiquette

the western family knew “take the table as a class” as tradition. from the first day of the children at the table, parents began the “dine education” to help their children build good table etiquette. generally speaking, children in western began to study meal etiquette system when they were 2 or 3 years old, and they can use these etiquette when 4 years old. about five years old children are ready to do something in themselves power. such as pre-dinner set tableware, postprandial clean up the table, etc.

ⅲ. the comparison of difference between china and occidental table etiquette

tableware, dining way and a series of table etiquette reflects the different nationality’s life style and cultural

orientation. modern social etiquette exist everywhere, meals is not only satisfy basic physiological needs, also is very important social intercourse. there are many dissimilarity requirements in china and occidental table etiquette, understand the difference in they two; can help us avoid disrespect in communication with others.

3.1 general comparison

while having dinner, chinese always like sit around 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 pleasing help yourselves, forgive me and so on. during the dining, 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 whatever it is and say how yummy it is. if you feel uncomfortable with this, you can just say a polite thank you and leave the food there. in china wine is an essential thing on the dining table, whatever the kind of the banquet is. sometimes for meaning the respect toward the party, people