通过这些英语作文，我们可以了解到中西方在餐桌礼仪方面的极大不同。下面是小编带来餐桌礼仪英语作文，欢迎大家阅读!
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Dietary Change and Health Care
A i hown in the graph, China' food ditribution ha taken great
change from 1960' to 1990' According to thi tatitic of cereal,
vegetable, meat, and fruit, the number of thoe who eat rice, flour or
vegetable ha greatly decreaed in the pat four decade.
In contrat of thi
the number of thoe who eat oil or meat ha harply increaed.
From uch
dietary change, we can perceive the rapid improvement of our people' living
tandard.
Why doe thi improvement occur? The direct reaon i the fact that the
Chinee people have attached much importance to their health care.
Nationally, China' economic growth i booming, and more people are getting
richer.
Inpidually, everyone' conumption of food i increaingly varied.
In
particular, mot of people are reluctant to eat much vegetable, but much meat and oil in their diet.
In my view, the change of China' dietary ditribution eem to be both
poitive and negative.
The poitive apect i that China' economical growthWWw.hAOZUowEn.com
ha given rie to the higher level of dietary tandard, with mot of people living
rich and happy.
But the negative apect i that, I'm afraid, le eating
vegetable will lead to poorer health, uch a lacking vitamin nutrient in one'
body.
Therefore, we think it neceary for the Chinee to be aware of the
balanced diet: Lot of vegetable and meat, which may gain u healthier
bodie in the new century.
【2】
Chinee table manner of familie have no intrinic quality even there are different region and poition.
No matter three meal a day or guet arrival, alway bowl with choptick, food with oup.
There i no rule for how to put the tableware.
What people care about more are not the gorgeou tableware but the umptuou food.
People dining poition reflect the mot obviou etiquette of Chinee table manner.
In ancient ociety, men are upreme, and women are not allowed to it with men on the ame table.
Although thi i modern ociety, thi kind of ancient etiquette till remain.
Today in China, the phenomenon that men it on the table before women can be found everywhere.
The mater of a family uually it on the firt-cla eat.
The firt-cla eat i uually near the interior of a room facing to the door.
Once there i a guet, the mater will offer the firt-cla eat to the guet politely.
If it i an ordinary meal of family, familie hould tart after the elder.
If there i a guet, the mater offer the food to the guet i eential from the beginning to the end.
And the tradition of urging other to drink i alo a pecial phenomenon.
【3】
Table Manner
The main difference between Chinee and wetern eating habit i that unlike the Wet, where everyone ha their own plate of food, in China the dihe are placed on the table and everybody hare.
If you are being treated by a Chinee hot, be prepared for a ton of food.
Chinee are very proud of their culture of cuiine and will do their bet to how their hopitality.
And ometime the Chinee hot ue their choptick to put food in your bowl or plate.
Thi i a ign of politene.
The appropriate thing to do would be to eat the whatever-it-i and ay how yummy it i.
If you feel uncomfortable with thi, you can jut ay a polite thank you and leave the food there.
Eating No-no'
Don't tick your choptick upright in the rice bowl.
Intead,lay them on your dih.
The reaon for thi i that when omebody die,the hrine to them contain a bowl of and or rice with two tick of incene tuck upright in it.
So if you tick your choptick in the rice bowl, it look like thi hrine and i equivalent to wihing death upon a peron at the table!
Make ure the pout of the teapot i not facing anyone.
It i impolite to et the teapot down where the pout i facing toward omebody.
The pout hould alway be directed to where nobody i itting, uually jut outward from the table.
Don't tap on your bowl with your choptick.
Beggar tap on their bowl, o thi i not polite.
Alo, when the food i coming too low in a retarant, people will tap their bowl.
If you are in omeone' home,it i like inulting the cook.
Drinking
Gan Bei! (Cheer! “Gan Bei” literally mean “dry [the] gla”) Beide beer, the official Chinee alcoholic beverage i Bai Jiu,high-proof Chinee liquor made fromaorted grain.
There are varying degree of Bai Jiu.
The Beijing favorite i called Er Guo Tou, which i a whopping 56% alcohol.
More expenive are Maotai and Wuliangye.
Of coure, the main difference on the Chinee dinner table i choptick intead of knife and fork, but that only uperficial.
Beide, in decent retaurant, you can alway ak for a pair of knife and fork, if you find the choptick not helpful enough.
The real difference i that in the Wet, you have your own plate of food, while in China the dihe are placed on the table and everyone hare.
If you are being treated to a formal dinner and particularly if the hot think youre in the country for the firt time, he will do the bet to give you a tate of many different type of dihe.
The meal uually begin with a et of at leat four cold dihe, to be followed by the main coure of hot meat and vegetable dihe.
Soup then will be erved (unle in Guangdong tyle retaurant) to be followed by taple food ranging from rice, noodle to dumpling.
If you wih to have your rice to go with other dihe, you hould ay o in good time, for mot of the Chinee chooe to have the taple food at lat or have none of them at all.
Perhap one of the thing that urprie a Wetern viitor mot i that ome of the Chinee hot like to put food into the plate of their guet.
In formal dinner, there are alway “public” choptick and poon for thi purpoe, but ome hot may ue their own choptick.
Thi i a ign of genuine friendhip and politene.
It i alway polite to eat the food.
If you do not eat it, jut leave the food in the plate.
People in China tend to over - order food, for they will find it embarraing if all the food i conumed.
When you have had enough, jut ay o.
Or you will alway overeat!
Difference of table etiquette between eatern and wetern culture
There are difference and imilaritie between the etiquette at table between the eatern and wetern culture.
To raie a few example, we could talk about the difference of both culture.
Weterner would ue ilverware uch a fork, knive and oup poon, which are made of tainle teel.
Eaterner would ue choptick and oup poon.
In certain part of Southern Aia, people eat with their hand.
Dinner table and table eating arrangement are different between the two cutom.
The dinner table for the wet i motly rectangle while the eat i round.
In addition, there are difference in the way food are erved between the two culture, the weterner erve dinner by coure and one coure, or plate, i erved after another.
Each peron ha hi own choice or portion of hi food erved eparately.
However, the eatern culture, or the Chinee culture, ha the food erved very much at the ame time and they are not erved eparately to each inpidually.
Therefore, in a Chinee meal, the food are hared among the people at the table.
It i conidered bad manner for a peron to ue hi choptick turning food in a plate upide down to pick what he like.
A for the imilaritie, both culture would conider impolite for a peron to put hi elbow on the table or to talk with food in hi mouth.