Don't leave your chopsticks sticking up in rice. |
Don't lick the tips of the chopsticks. |
Don't cross the chopsticks on the table. |
Don't point at anyone or food with chopsticks. |
Don't use chopsticks as drumsticks or wave them in the air. |
A. Don't play with your chopsticks. If you use the chopsticks to beat your bowls or wave your chopsticks around in the air, you are thought to be a beggar because in the past, only beggars beat their bowls to beg for more rice and money. B. Avoid pointing at others with your chopsticks. If you do that, you will be thought to be very impolite. If you do so by accident, you must say sorry in time. C. Don't stick your chopsticks into the rice. You should make them lie on the bowl. This is because placing the chopsticks vertically is a symbol of death in China. D. Don't make any noise when having the food. Pick up the bowl of rice and lift the rice into your mouth with the chopsticks quietly. E. Crossing chopsticks at the dinner table is wrong. First, it's a denial of all the others at the table, as the red crosses marked by a teacher on mistakes in homework. At the same time, it is disrespectful to yourself, because in ancient times, people only marked a red cross when killing criminals. F. Licking the end of a chopstick is very impolite. This means that you are too hungry to pay attention to table manners and you will be looked down upon. |
