According to literature records, as early as the Zhou Dynasty in China, eating etiquette has formed a very sound system. Such as the Han Chinese traditional feast ritual procedure is: send invitations to the guest host, then the owner greeted at the door. Also attended by guests greeted each other, to open before the first guests sit in the living room, eat refreshments.Taboo in the Chinese table manners: with China's traditional family dinner, be sure to respect their customs, do not violate their taboos, because the Chinese people generally believe that diet and people's fate, if you committed a taboo in the meal will bring bad luck. For example, eat fish, when the finished side of the fish, you need to use chopsticks to flip to the other side, usually the person driving is not Dongkuaizi look through the. They think: if you turn the fish, then the driving time will be overturned.
Western dinner table as a family known to classroom practices. From the child table on the first day, parents training them table manners. In the West, in the year-old children generally eat when they learned all the etiquette. Year-old children are happy to do some fasting gracefully all the cutlery, tableware and other meal clean up what is possible. In addition, they also attach great importance to environmental education, let the children know what is renewable "green tableware", which is non-renewable "permanent garbage." Teach children to minimize the use of cans and other ready-made food, and pay attention to saving water and electricity. Because they know how to "abuse of resources, which means the violation of environmental protection."