When in Rome, do as the Romas Thurs say, an English idiom, it says: Who dwells in a foreign country should adapt to its environment. Countries do not differ only in language, currency and climate, but also the customs and traditions are often different.
What we mean by manners and customs?
Habits are behaviors that are common in a country. They are socially demanded and expected.
In contrast to the practices that a habit of an individual, for example, clothing habits, or habits of a social community within my. To the cultural traditions also include behaviors such as eating habits.

Chinese table manners
The first was said, many Chinese like to smoke and eat. And not just before or after, but certainly also in between. To a European it may seem strange if a Chinese man in his right hand and chopsticks in the left holding a smoking cigarette, it can be tasted. The Chinese philosophy of eating is to let it go well located

Which are in accordance with the table manners and table manners in China also less restrictive than the European. Some rules should be observed!

Never insert the chopsticks into the rice so that they remain standing. A rod is inserted only at a funeral in the rice, and is a symbol for the dead. To do this while eating more so than would be inappropriate, and (what is much worse) represent an evil cousins. The chopsticks should always be placed next to the plate, so that the handle side rests on the table, and the mouth side on one of the dish or the bone plate. Often there are also extra chopsticks for a small porcelain-bench, on the side of the mouth can be placed.

Never blow your nose at the table to look at the "yield" and the used handkerchief again cram into his pants. You should blow his nose at all at the table nose. You go to China to clean nose to the toilet.

Never get out his own cigarette, take a cigarette, and then make the box disappear back into the bag without having any other offer on the table a cigarette.

What Chinese table manners while eating permit

Chinese like to eat and let it go well like eating. It sees and hears when one is sitting next to. As
Europeans like a so-maches behavior seem strange to strange. However, one should keep in mind that our European table manners in the land so nothing more than arbitrary gewachsende list of dos and don'ts. Ultimately, that is all a matter of habit.

Most famous is the fact that the Chinese do not respect eating particularly on the noise. One should not interfere with a clear lip smacking or slurping like this but it is in China to the food. That does not mean you understand sheer "slurping" his own word, no more, but only that gelegendliche noise is nothing to be ashamed of themselves, or that would violate good manners and table manners.

Just as it is allowed to talk with your mouth full or right to smoke while eating (like sometimes simultaneously). If you want to clean the teeth with a toothpick, then one should keep a hand over her mouth as a screen, while the other removed the toothpick with the teeth of food particles.

Food and beverages in China

Instead, there is usually only one drink green tea for dinner. In addition, a soup, which is known in
China as a drink, and not as food (in the Chinese language "drink" is a soup, it "eats" it is not).

The food is then applied all together and placed in the middle of the round table on a rotating disk.
This has the advantage that, by turning the plate, can easily reach all the applied food, and everything can taste what looks interesting (and if you are brave, even that which does not look quite so interesting!). One assumes, therefore, with the chopsticks always something in the middle. Some places to get a second pair of chopsticks that is only meant to take food from the center to store it on their own dish.
With a second pair of chopsticks is then carried the food to the mouth. Common is that they get only a single pair of chopsticks that is used for both.

Chinese like to eat and extensively. After the meal is often served fruit - that's the sign of the outbreak.
You stand up from the table, eating together, thus ending what may seem a bit abrupt sometimes
Europeans.