Research on Banquet Etiquette of China and America
With China’s development with other countries, no matter inland or on board, it is usual for the Chinese to appear in a banquet. When people take part in a banquet, the decent etiquette can establish people’s confidence; what is more, it also can help man
- PDF / 202,577 Bytes
- 6 Pages / 439.37 x 666.142 pts Page_size
- 62 Downloads / 198 Views
Research on Banquet Etiquette of China and America Shanshan Hu, Yan Zhang, Bingshen Gao and Zhenkai Xie Abstract With China’s development with other countries, no matter inland or on board, it is usual for the Chinese to appear in a banquet. When people take part in a banquet, the decent etiquette can establish people’s confidence; what is more, it also can help many friends. Decent etiquette can cultivate people’s attainment in work and daily life, especially to ladies, if they project themselves decently, then it may make them look more charming. It is known that the banquet etiquette of modern society assimilates and accede the fruit of the ancient. Some are enacted by people through the social action, and the others are behaviors that come from the history. Both of them have been approbated by people. To comply with the etiquette is a kind of respect to others as well as to people themselves. This paper will stress on introducing and analyzing the differences between China and America in banquet etiquette. After writing this essay, the author has improved the refinement, and also understands that how important the decent etiquette is to a Chinese. Besides, this paper can also offer help to those who plan to take a job concerning foreign affairs. Keywords Banquet • Etiquette • Comparison • Differences
6.1 Introduction Since the policy of reformation and opening has been brought into effect in China, this country has more chances to contact with other countries in the area of politics and finance, especially with the western countries. Because of the diversity of S. Hu (*) · Y. Zhang Department of Fundamental Courses, Xuzhou AirForce College, XuZhou 221000, China e-mail: [email protected] B. Gao China People’s Liberation Army Corps of Engineers Command College, XuZhou 221000, China Z. Xie Department of AirForce Finance, Xuzhou AirForce College, XuZhou 221000, China
Z. Zhong (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Engineering and Applications (IEA) 2012, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 220, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-4844-9_6, © Springer-Verlag London 2013
37
38
S. Hu et al.
background and history, there are a lot of differences among countries, especially between China and America. As a state of ceremonies, China has the fine tradition which is to treat others politely. China has joined the WTO for several years, and it has a more close relationship with other countries. More often than not, this kind of relationship is shown in a banquet. A banquet plays an important role in the social association, and then the etiquette and behaviors in the banquet become crucial. Since all the countries have different history and culture, they often behave differently when communicating with others. If people do not understand this point, it is easy to make mistakes and become the laughingstock of other countries. For example, in the late Qing dynasty, China closed the country to international intercourse, and it knew little about the west. In a western banquette, a Chinese diplo
Data Loading...
