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1 min readHow to Place Chopsticks
The truth of using chopsticks is holding one chopstick in place while pivoting the other one to pick up a morsel.How to position the chopsticks is the course you have to learn.First，place the first chopstick so that thicker part rests at the base of your thumb and the thinner part rests on the lower side of your middle firmly trapped in place.At least two or three inches of chopstick of the thinner end should extend beyond your fingertip.Next，position the other chopstick so that it is held against the side of your index finger and by the end of your thumb.Check whether the ends of the chopsticks are even.If not，then tap the thinner parts on the plate to make them even.
The Order of Dishes
For meat and vegetable dishes，there are cold dishes and hot dishes.Normally cold dishes are served before hot ones，dry dishes are served before soup.Hot dishesare the main course；usually there are even numbers of hot dishes，4，6 or 8.Sometimes there could be 16 or 32 dishes.The most sumptuous feast-Man Han Feast，has as many as 108 dishes.Soup is usually the last dish.In some places，however，fish（the Chinese word for fish is yu，which is a homonym of surplus）is the last dish，which symbolizes that there will always be a surplus of food for people to eat.
