Have Dinner in China
1 min readHow to Sit at Dinner
The host and chief guest sit on opposite sides of the table，facing each other，The chief guest is seated at the head of the room，facing the door；the host with hisor her back to the door.In most restaurant arrangements，the host is also closest to the door thus in a better position to give orders to the waiters as they come and 0ther guests are seated to the left and right of the chief guest in descending order of rank or importance.This means that the two lowest traning members in the party may end up seated to the immediate right and left of the host.This arrangement is just opposite of what Westerners might expect.
Attention of Using Chopsticks
Never stick your chopsticks upright in the rice bowl，lay them on your dish instead.Otherwise，it is deemed extremely impolite to the host and seniors present. 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 chopsticks in the rice bowl，it looks like the shrine and is equivalent to wishing death upon a person at the table.
