AS we all know,different countries have different eating habites and customes,Today I will tell you the difference about China and western countries. andI will list China and two western countries (America and France).
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Table manners
CHINA I n China, It’s very necessary to learn table manners in China. The main difference between Chinese and western eating habits is that unlike the West, where everyone has their own plate of food, in China the dishes are placed on the table and everybody shares. If you are being treated by a Chinese host, be prepared for a ton of food. Chinese are very proud of their culture of cuisine and will do their best to show their hospitality. And sometimes the 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 the 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. ◆ Eating
Don't stick your chopsticks upright in the rice
bowl.Instead,lay them on your dish. The reason for this is that when somebody dies,the shrine to them contains a bowl of sand or rice with two sticks of incense stuck upright in it. So if
you stick
your c hopsticks in the rice bowl, it looks like this shrine and is equivalent to wishing death upon a person at the table! Don't tap on your bowl with your chopsticks.Beggars tap on their bowls, so this is not polite.Also, when the food is coming too slow in a restarant, people will tap their bowls. If you are in someone's home,it is like insulting the cook. Drinking
Gan Bei! (Cheers! “Gan Bei” literally means “dry [the] glass”) Besides beer, the official Chinese alcoholic beverage is Bai Jiu,high-proof Chinese liquor made from assorted grains. There are varying degrees of Bai Jiu. The Beijing favorite is called Er Guo Tou, which is a whopping 56% alcohol. More expensive are Maotai and Wuliangye
AMERICA
Americans do not use silverware for eating bread. They hold it in their fingers, usually breaking it first. Other things that Americans eat with their fingers are corn on the cob, celery, radishes, and olives. In America a person does not eat lettuce that way, nor pick up a soup bowl to drink what remains at he bottom . If for any reason a guest has to leave the table during a meal, he or she should ask the hostess,"Would you please excuse me for a minute?" When the meal is finished, the guests
put their napkins on the table and rise. Guests do not fold their napkins in the original folds unless they are house guests and intend to stay for more than one meal.
Following dinner, guests usually stay for two or three hous, but the thoughtful person is careful not to overstay his or her welcome. The houst and hostess may urge a guest to stay longer in order to be polite, but most dinner parties break up at about 11 o'clock. As the guests leave, it is the custom to thank the hostess for a very pleasant evening. One may say anything that expresses appreciation. Common expressions are:"Good-bye. It was so nice of you to have me," or "Good-bye. Its been a thoroughly enjoyable evening," or "Thank you. I've had a very nice time." For larger favors than a dinner party, such as an overnight or weekend visit, it is customary to send a thank-you
note.
FRANCE
(Table manners France bogey seven)
1, the most basic principles of the tableware used by outside to inside, the completion of a post-serve dishes close to the tableware, as necessary, or will make up another knife and fork.
2, when the Meat (such as steak) should start cutting corners, finished a further cut off a piece. Do not eat or encountered some of the side dishes, it just moved to the side dish. 3, if there is something to spit out his mouth, lips Didao should take a fork or your fingers out, and then moved to the edge of the plate. The whole process should not be cited as much as possible to pay attention to other people, after the meal can be naturally.
4, encountered a class of beans or rice for garnish, you can fork left hand of horizontal ones on the disc, up a sharp fork, knife and then to the rice or beans into fork Qingbo that we can. For seasoning, but also not be able to obtain hand, may require you to the other side, do not go to stand up and take down.
5, to clean hands after eating Mozui avoid rubbing vigorously with napkins, napkin with attention to the deportment of the iceberg and India to gently on the lips or fingers can be greasy. 6, even if the stool more comfortable sitting should maintain integrity and not to rely on back above. Eating when the body can be a little forward on, the arms should be close to the body so as not to hit next door.
7, each finished Diecai,
such as knife and fork to release four sides, or to fight cross-leave around, very ugly. The right way is to discharge the plate and knife and fork, the fork up teeth.
● Typicalfood for certain festivals and religious customs
CHINA
✧ Spring Festival
The Spring Festival is known as the most important Festival in China. During the holiday, people go back to hometown from everywhere no matter how far the distance is. They prepare various delicious food and presents for the Spring Festival Eve. Chinese will have a happy family union in the Spring Festival Eve, they believe that’s the end day of last year and they will stay up for good luck until the first day of next year. In China, the most traditional and popular Spring Festival food is dumpling, which looks like the moon with vegetables and meat mixed in it. The Chinese name of dumpling is “JIAO ZI”, ”JIAO” means ”cross”, ”ZI” is Chinese traditional time represents “24:00”, so the Chinese word “JIAO ZI” means “cross 24:00”, just the dividing point of last year and next year. So when it comes to 24:00, every family begins eating dumplings. ✧ The Lantern Festival（元宵节）
The Lantern Festival is January 15 on the lunar calendar. The lunar January is the first month of a year and 15th is the first day of full moon.
The traditional food for Lantern Festival is rice glue ball. Rice glue ball is a flavor ball with filling in it, for example, peanut filling, sesame filling and jam filling…,the rice glue ball’s shape is just like the full moon appears in the sky. This kind of dessert is especially welcomed by children.
✧ Mid-Autumn Day（中秋节）
Mid-autumn Day is August 15th on lunar calendar. According to history records, Chinese emperor has tradition that worship the Sun in spring and worship the Moon in autumn. As august 15th is exactly the middle of autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn Day.
The traditional food of Mid-Autumn Day is Moon cake, a round baked cake with fillings in it. The round shape of moon cake represents family reunion. In the night of Mid-Autumn Day, every family has moon cake and
watches the moon.
Western countries
✧ Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day is a unique American fesitval, which started in 1621, and in1863, President Lincoln to his position of national holiday and made each year the fourth Thurday of the November in the U.S. is the Thanksgiving Day! Thanksgiving should always be traced back to the origin of the history of the United States of the originator
On every Thanksgiving day, the United States crowded nation,
according to the customs to the church to do Thanksgiving prayer, urban and rural towns everywhere make-up demonstrations, theatrical performances or sporting events, and so on. To separate the pro-people a year will be far apart from the return, the family lost the round, and taste delicious Thanksgiving turkey. Thanksgiving's traditional foods rich features. One of the most attractive dishes is roast turkey and pumpkin pie!
✧ . Easter
The meaning of many different customs observed during Easter Sunday have been buried with time. Their origins lie in pre-Christian religions and Christianity. All in some way or another are a "salute to spring," marking re-birth. The white Easter lily has come to capture the glory of the holiday. The word "Easter" is named after Eastre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring. A festival was held in her honor every year at the vernal equinox . In England, Germany and some other countries, children rolled eggs down hills on Easter morning, a game which has been connected to the rolling away of the rock from Jesus Christ's tomb when he was resurrected. British settlers brought this custom to the New World.
✧ Merry Christmas
Christmas Eve（Silent Night）, December 24, is the night before Christmas DayChristmas is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 .It commemorates the birth of Jesus. The date of commemoration is not
known to be Jesus' actual birthday. The hanging of stockings by the fireplace before bedtime, to receive the presents from Father Christmas, is a much-loved tradition that is still practiced by many children and adults although stockings might now be replaced with hung in different locations such as by the child's bed. When small children go to bed on Christmas Eve , they hang a stocking at the behin of their beds . Their parents warn them not to try to look at Father Christmas , or their parents will not leave them anything . When they wake up , they find their stockings filled with presents . As a result，children are very excited on Christmas morning and always wake up early.
Nowadays ,Christmas is celebrated by most of people by exchanging gifts and Christmas cards, preparing holiday foods, and decorating homes and workplaces with colored lights, Christmas trees and ornaments. Chinese rare animal protection attitude Ours is a country which has the largest varieties of wild animals in the world ， accounting for over 10% of the world's total number of varieties of wild animals. Among these wild animals are giant panda， golden monkey， Taiwan monkey， takin ， Cervus albirostris， Muntiacus crinifrons， Chinese river dolphin （Lipotes vexillifer）， Chinese alligator， Acipenser sinensis ， Chinese paddlefish， Crossoptilon mantchuricum， jacana ， and black-necked crane， and others —— a total of more than 100 species of
precious and rare wild animals， well known to the world and found exclusively in our country. Besides those mentioned above， there are some wild animals， such as red-crowned crane， white crane， red ibis， Ciconianigra ， swan ， yellow-ventraled horned jacana， green-tailed jacana ， white-crowned long-tailed pheasant， gibbon ， black-leaf monkey ， tufted deer， snow leopard， and wild camel， which are species of precious and rare wild animals on the brink of extinction. Wild animals are valuable natural resources of our country， but for a long time， owing to various reasons， these natural resources have been faced with the danger of being exhausted. The protection and rational utilization of these natural resources are of great significance in maintaining ecological
balance ， carrying on scientific research， developing national economy， and promoting the development of culture， education ， medicine ， and public health. In the past few years， cases of hunting precious and rare wild animals， seriously destroying the habitats of these wild animals， and the illegal acts of exporting these animals and products made from them， have been frequently reported in various places. This circular decree is hereby issued in order to check resolutely the aforesaid illegal acts， and strengthen the protection of and the administration concerning the precious and rare wild animals
Summary
A holiday of a nation represents a glorious culture and concentrated
customs of a nation.
There is a great difference in culture between China and Western countries , the truth of which is self-evident, for example, language, education, festival, and so on. No one can deny it. Therefore, I choose this topic to study. “A holiday of a nation represents a glorious culture and concentrated customs of a nation.”There are many festival in the world, but a lot of people don’t know any festivals of them, and in the same country, different festivals have different meanings and even the same festival in different countries is celebrated in their own ways. Through contrastive analysis of Chinese and Western festivals, it is interesting to understand the unique charm and the cultural implication of their holiday culture.
AS we all know,different countries have different eating habites and customes,Today I will tell you the difference about China and western countries. andI will list China and two western countries (America and France).
●
Table manners
CHINA I n China, It’s very necessary to learn table manners in China. The main difference between Chinese and western eating habits is that unlike the West, where everyone has their own plate of food, in China the dishes are placed on the table and everybody shares. If you are being treated by a Chinese host, be prepared for a ton of food. Chinese are very proud of their culture of cuisine and will do their best to show their hospitality. And sometimes the 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 the 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. ◆ Eating
Don't stick your chopsticks upright in the rice
bowl.Instead,lay them on your dish. The reason for this is that when somebody dies,the shrine to them contains a bowl of sand or rice with two sticks of incense stuck upright in it. So if
you stick
your c hopsticks in the rice bowl, it looks like this shrine and is equivalent to wishing death upon a person at the table! Don't tap on your bowl with your chopsticks.Beggars tap on their bowls, so this is not polite.Also, when the food is coming too slow in a restarant, people will tap their bowls. If you are in someone's home,it is like insulting the cook. Drinking
Gan Bei! (Cheers! “Gan Bei” literally means “dry [the] glass”) Besides beer, the official Chinese alcoholic beverage is Bai Jiu,high-proof Chinese liquor made from assorted grains. There are varying degrees of Bai Jiu. The Beijing favorite is called Er Guo Tou, which is a whopping 56% alcohol. More expensive are Maotai and Wuliangye
AMERICA
Americans do not use silverware for eating bread. They hold it in their fingers, usually breaking it first. Other things that Americans eat with their fingers are corn on the cob, celery, radishes, and olives. In America a person does not eat lettuce that way, nor pick up a soup bowl to drink what remains at he bottom . If for any reason a guest has to leave the table during a meal, he or she should ask the hostess,"Would you please excuse me for a minute?" When the meal is finished, the guests
put their napkins on the table and rise. Guests do not fold their napkins in the original folds unless they are house guests and intend to stay for more than one meal.
Following dinner, guests usually stay for two or three hous, but the thoughtful person is careful not to overstay his or her welcome. The houst and hostess may urge a guest to stay longer in order to be polite, but most dinner parties break up at about 11 o'clock. As the guests leave, it is the custom to thank the hostess for a very pleasant evening. One may say anything that expresses appreciation. Common expressions are:"Good-bye. It was so nice of you to have me," or "Good-bye. Its been a thoroughly enjoyable evening," or "Thank you. I've had a very nice time." For larger favors than a dinner party, such as an overnight or weekend visit, it is customary to send a thank-you
note.
FRANCE
(Table manners France bogey seven)
1, the most basic principles of the tableware used by outside to inside, the completion of a post-serve dishes close to the tableware, as necessary, or will make up another knife and fork.
2, when the Meat (such as steak) should start cutting corners, finished a further cut off a piece. Do not eat or encountered some of the side dishes, it just moved to the side dish. 3, if there is something to spit out his mouth, lips Didao should take a fork or your fingers out, and then moved to the edge of the plate. The whole process should not be cited as much as possible to pay attention to other people, after the meal can be naturally.
4, encountered a class of beans or rice for garnish, you can fork left hand of horizontal ones on the disc, up a sharp fork, knife and then to the rice or beans into fork Qingbo that we can. For seasoning, but also not be able to obtain hand, may require you to the other side, do not go to stand up and take down.
5, to clean hands after eating Mozui avoid rubbing vigorously with napkins, napkin with attention to the deportment of the iceberg and India to gently on the lips or fingers can be greasy. 6, even if the stool more comfortable sitting should maintain integrity and not to rely on back above. Eating when the body can be a little forward on, the arms should be close to the body so as not to hit next door.
7, each finished Diecai,
such as knife and fork to release four sides, or to fight cross-leave around, very ugly. The right way is to discharge the plate and knife and fork, the fork up teeth.
● Typicalfood for certain festivals and religious customs
CHINA
✧ Spring Festival
The Spring Festival is known as the most important Festival in China. During the holiday, people go back to hometown from everywhere no matter how far the distance is. They prepare various delicious food and presents for the Spring Festival Eve. Chinese will have a happy family union in the Spring Festival Eve, they believe that’s the end day of last year and they will stay up for good luck until the first day of next year. In China, the most traditional and popular Spring Festival food is dumpling, which looks like the moon with vegetables and meat mixed in it. The Chinese name of dumpling is “JIAO ZI”, ”JIAO” means ”cross”, ”ZI” is Chinese traditional time represents “24:00”, so the Chinese word “JIAO ZI” means “cross 24:00”, just the dividing point of last year and next year. So when it comes to 24:00, every family begins eating dumplings. ✧ The Lantern Festival（元宵节）
The Lantern Festival is January 15 on the lunar calendar. The lunar January is the first month of a year and 15th is the first day of full moon.
The traditional food for Lantern Festival is rice glue ball. Rice glue ball is a flavor ball with filling in it, for example, peanut filling, sesame filling and jam filling…,the rice glue ball’s shape is just like the full moon appears in the sky. This kind of dessert is especially welcomed by children.
✧ Mid-Autumn Day（中秋节）
Mid-autumn Day is August 15th on lunar calendar. According to history records, Chinese emperor has tradition that worship the Sun in spring and worship the Moon in autumn. As august 15th is exactly the middle of autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn Day.
The traditional food of Mid-Autumn Day is Moon cake, a round baked cake with fillings in it. The round shape of moon cake represents family reunion. In the night of Mid-Autumn Day, every family has moon cake and
watches the moon.
Western countries
✧ Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day is a unique American fesitval, which started in 1621, and in1863, President Lincoln to his position of national holiday and made each year the fourth Thurday of the November in the U.S. is the Thanksgiving Day! Thanksgiving should always be traced back to the origin of the history of the United States of the originator
On every Thanksgiving day, the United States crowded nation,
according to the customs to the church to do Thanksgiving prayer, urban and rural towns everywhere make-up demonstrations, theatrical performances or sporting events, and so on. To separate the pro-people a year will be far apart from the return, the family lost the round, and taste delicious Thanksgiving turkey. Thanksgiving's traditional foods rich features. One of the most attractive dishes is roast turkey and pumpkin pie!
✧ . Easter
The meaning of many different customs observed during Easter Sunday have been buried with time. Their origins lie in pre-Christian religions and Christianity. All in some way or another are a "salute to spring," marking re-birth. The white Easter lily has come to capture the glory of the holiday. The word "Easter" is named after Eastre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring. A festival was held in her honor every year at the vernal equinox . In England, Germany and some other countries, children rolled eggs down hills on Easter morning, a game which has been connected to the rolling away of the rock from Jesus Christ's tomb when he was resurrected. British settlers brought this custom to the New World.
✧ Merry Christmas
Christmas Eve（Silent Night）, December 24, is the night before Christmas DayChristmas is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 .It commemorates the birth of Jesus. The date of commemoration is not
known to be Jesus' actual birthday. The hanging of stockings by the fireplace before bedtime, to receive the presents from Father Christmas, is a much-loved tradition that is still practiced by many children and adults although stockings might now be replaced with hung in different locations such as by the child's bed. When small children go to bed on Christmas Eve , they hang a stocking at the behin of their beds . Their parents warn them not to try to look at Father Christmas , or their parents will not leave them anything . When they wake up , they find their stockings filled with presents . As a result，children are very excited on Christmas morning and always wake up early.
Nowadays ,Christmas is celebrated by most of people by exchanging gifts and Christmas cards, preparing holiday foods, and decorating homes and workplaces with colored lights, Christmas trees and ornaments. Chinese rare animal protection attitude Ours is a country which has the largest varieties of wild animals in the world ， accounting for over 10% of the world's total number of varieties of wild animals. Among these wild animals are giant panda， golden monkey， Taiwan monkey， takin ， Cervus albirostris， Muntiacus crinifrons， Chinese river dolphin （Lipotes vexillifer）， Chinese alligator， Acipenser sinensis ， Chinese paddlefish， Crossoptilon mantchuricum， jacana ， and black-necked crane， and others —— a total of more than 100 species of
precious and rare wild animals， well known to the world and found exclusively in our country. Besides those mentioned above， there are some wild animals， such as red-crowned crane， white crane， red ibis， Ciconianigra ， swan ， yellow-ventraled horned jacana， green-tailed jacana ， white-crowned long-tailed pheasant， gibbon ， black-leaf monkey ， tufted deer， snow leopard， and wild camel， which are species of precious and rare wild animals on the brink of extinction. Wild animals are valuable natural resources of our country， but for a long time， owing to various reasons， these natural resources have been faced with the danger of being exhausted. The protection and rational utilization of these natural resources are of great significance in maintaining ecological
balance ， carrying on scientific research， developing national economy， and promoting the development of culture， education ， medicine ， and public health. In the past few years， cases of hunting precious and rare wild animals， seriously destroying the habitats of these wild animals， and the illegal acts of exporting these animals and products made from them， have been frequently reported in various places. This circular decree is hereby issued in order to check resolutely the aforesaid illegal acts， and strengthen the protection of and the administration concerning the precious and rare wild animals
Summary
A holiday of a nation represents a glorious culture and concentrated
customs of a nation.
There is a great difference in culture between China and Western countries , the truth of which is self-evident, for example, language, education, festival, and so on. No one can deny it. Therefore, I choose this topic to study. “A holiday of a nation represents a glorious culture and concentrated customs of a nation.”There are many festival in the world, but a lot of people don’t know any festivals of them, and in the same country, different festivals have different meanings and even the same festival in different countries is celebrated in their own ways. Through contrastive analysis of Chinese and Western festivals, it is interesting to understand the unique charm and the cultural implication of their holiday culture.