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  1. The Chinese food culture has a long history. China has been known as the state of etiquette since ancient times, and diet etiquette has naturally become an important part of food culture. Below I have compiled the knowledge of the ancient noble diet etiquette, I hope it is useful to everyone.
    Ancient aristocratic diet etiquette: Banquet etiquette
    The banquet activities with guests and guests are a social activity. In order to enable this social activity to be carried out in an orderly manner and achieve predetermined purpose, there must be certain etiquette specifications to guide and restraint. Each nation has its own standardized dietary etiquette in long -term practice as a code of conduct as a member of each society.
    The traditional Chinese banquet etiquette is divided by class: court, government, gang, folk, etc. The general procedure is that the owner is invited to invite each other to welcome the guests outside the door; the guest is, to the question, and the interview, the sitting in the living room, paying the refreshment; the guide to the seat, the left as the chief. In the middle of the seat, the first seat is the first seat, the opposite is two, the first seat is three, and the second seat is four. The guests are settled, and the owner will be toasting and letting the vegetables. The guests thanks to each other. After the banquet, the guide entered the sitting room, and went to tea until you said goodbye. There are certain procedures for pouring wine and cooking during the table.
    I. As a guest, go to the banquet to pay attention to the appearance, and decide whether to carry a small gift or good wine based on the relationship. When you go to the banquet, you will keep the contract; after arriving, you will first report it according to the knowledge or not, or introduce the introduction by the host, and obey the host arrangement. Then take a seat.
    The "heroic seating" is the most important one in the entire Chinese food gift. From ancient times to the present, because of the evolution of the tableware, the row method of the seat has also changed accordingly.
    In general, the seats are "Shangzuo Zun East", "facing the gate as the respect". The chief of the family banquet is the elder with the highest generations, and the lowest seat is the lowest; family banquet, the chief is the most honored guest, and invite the host to the last seat.
    The chief can not seat without sitting. The chief has not done it. What's more, if someone comes to report, no matter whether you respect the inferiority, the people who are full should welcome.
    If the round table, the door is the main guest. The left hand side is 2,4,6, and the right hand side is 3,5, 7 until the convergence. If it is the Eight Immortal table, if there is a seat that is facing the gate, the right position of the side of the gate is the main guest. If the door is not opposite, the right seat of the side of the face is the chief. Then the head side of the chief sitting is 2, 4, 6, 8 (opposite), and the right hand side is 3, 5, 7 (7 in front of it).
    If a big feast, the arrangement of the table and the table pays attention to the chief forward center, with 2,4,6 seats on the left, 3, 5, and 7 seats on the right. According to the status of the master and guest, sitting up and separated.
    The formation of such feasts has a relatively long historical process. In the early Qing Dynasty, these programs have been available. For example, the "Society's Beiping Guide": The chief of the banquet, or the initial handling, or the group must be visited at the large restaurant at the large restaurant. If you are a confidant friend, you will be eclectic. At that time, the owner will first go to welcome guests, guests to Fengcha, and accompany the seat. The guest seats are on the left as the top, the right is the second, the friends of the upper seat are three, and the right of the second seat is four. The following speed is pushed. The owner is opposite to the first seat. Then sit, eat and drink. The dishes are cold first, then the hot leather, followed by the most expensive dishes. Each food. The owner must toast and persuade, raise the mold. With tea slightly, he thanked the owner.
    Ancient aristocratic diet etiquette: Ancient food instruments
    It in ancient China, there were strict regulations in the consumption of rice and vegetables, and the difference between the grade is reflected by diet etiquette. For example, the nobles of the princes pay attention to "Niu Yijiu, Yang Yiyi, like straight, dogs should be beams, goose straight wheat, fish should rise, and all gentlemen eat constant letters." The daily meals of the poor are mainly bean rice. There are more than 20 dishes. "Fan Wang's feedback, eat six hundred, meals with six animals, drink six Qing Dynasty, use twenty products as shame, and use eight objects, and sauces with twenty crickets." The diet of the king must be in line with certain etiquette. "Book of Rites · Rites" says: "There are more than those who are as expensive, there are six beans of the emperor, six are ten, the princes are ten, the doctors are eight, and the doctors are six." And the civilians of the civilians. The gift of diet is "the gift of drinking alcohol, sixty beans, seventy, four beans, 80 beans, ninety beans and six beans, so the pension is also". Township drinking is the gift of drinking together at time. At this celebration, the most respected elderly.
    It gifts are produced in diet, while also strictly restrained diet activities. Not only is the diet specifications, but even the dishes are decorated with rules. In the sparse sauce, the onion slices are right, and the right is right. The preserved and the left. "That is to say, all the dishes are placed on the left, and the cut pure meat is placed on the right. The dried food dishes are leaning on the left hand of the person, and the soup is placed on the right hand. The fine -cut meat is farther and the vinegar and sauce are near. Put the steamed onion and other materials, and the beverages and soups of wine pulp and soup are placed in the same direction. If you want to divide the dried meat, preserved beef, bending on the left and straight right. This set of rules is also recorded in detail in the Book of Rites. When serving, hold it with your right hand and hold it on your left hand; when you get the fish, if you are roasted fish, you can use the fishtail to the guests; in the winter, the fish bellys towards the guests to the right of the guests, and the spine to the right of the guests in the summer.
    During the meal, there is also a set of rituals. "Book of Rites · Qu Li" contains: "There is no full food, no hand, no fight, no meal, no song, no food, no bone. Do not get it, do n’t raise meals, do n’t catch the rice, do n’t catch it, do n’t stab, and the guest ’s crickets cannot be cooked. The guest apologize, the host’ s resignation. There is no burn. After the food, the guest kneels from the front, the dismissal of the meal is given to the meeting, and the owner will resign from the guest, and then the guest sitting. "The idea of ​​this passage is to say: when everyone eats together, do not just care about themselves. If you eat with others, check the cleansing of the hand. Don't rub the rice ball with your hands, don't put the extra rice in the pot, don't drink it full of mouth, don't eat it, don't bones, don't put the bite fish back into the dish bowl, don't put the meat, don’t put the meat, don’t put the meat, don’t put the meat. The bone is thrown to the dog. Don't pass food, don't bump the hot rice, eat steamed rice with your hands without having a cricket, don't drink soup with a big mouth, and don't blend the vegetable soup in front of the owner. Don't drink your teeth, and don't drink stain -stained meat sauce.
    If a guest is tuned for the vegetable soup, the owner will apologize and say that it is not good; if the guests drink sauce food, the owner will also apologize and say that the food is not enough. Wet meat can be bite with teeth, and dried meat must be eaten with your hands. To eat meat, you need to make a chew. After eating, the guests should get up and packed the discs that prevailed on the table to look at the owner next to the waiter. The owner followed up and asked the guests not to work, and then the guest sat down again.
    "No rice", do not eat a large group during meals, eat a large mouth, so it is suspected of full. "No rice", if you want to enter the meal, you can't put it back to the rice device, others will feel unhygienic. "No flowing", don't drink and chew long, it makes people feel that they want to eat more quickly, it seems not enough. "Don't eat it", do not let your tongue make a sound when chewing, the owner will feel that you are not satisfied with his food performance. "No bones", don't specifically go to bones, so it is easy to make an unintelligible sound, making people feel indecent and disrespectful. "No anti -fish", the fish that you have eaten yourself, don't put it back, you should finish eating. "Needless to do with the dog bone", the guests do not want to bones themselves, nor can they throw their bones to the dog. "No solidarity", don't like to eat a certain dish, you can take it alone, or fight for it, it is suspected of being greedy. "No meals", don't use the food to disperse the heat in order to eat it faster. "There is no tadpole", do not use chopsticks to eat rice, but it is not advocated to catch it directly. Eating rice must have a spoon. Chopsticks are dedicated to the dishes in food, do not mix. "Those who have vegetables are used for sacrifice, and those who have no vegetables do not need to be 梜." 梜 is chopsticks. There are vegetables in the soup, feeding with chopsticks. If there is no vegetable chopsticks, you can drink it. "Don't , ,", drink meat, not too fast, and not loud. If you have a dish, you must use chopsticks and do not use your mouth directly. "There is no wipest", guests cannot re -adjust the taste of the soup by themselves, otherwise they will leave a self -expression impression, as if they are more good at cooking. "No stabbing teeth", do not hide the teeth at will when eating, such as the plug, be sure to wait until the meal. "No 要", do not drink directly to the seasoning sauce.用 is relatively salty, used for seasoning, not directly drinking. "Pork teeth are decisive, dry meat is not decided." Wet roasted meat stewed meat can be bite directly with your teeth and do not have to use your hands to scoop it with your hands; Essence "Don't burn it", large pieces of barbecue and barbecue skewers, do not eat it in one bite, so stuffed with the mouth, no more chewing, gobbled, and poor manners. "Don't sigh when you eat", don't sigh when you eat, "Food forgot to worry", do not sigh.

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