中国餐桌文化 禁忌taboos 英文.ppt

taboos xxxxxxx Catalog: 1、eat with chopsticks 2、topics，tea pot and so on 3、related to food 1、chopsticks 1. Chopsticks are not used to move bowls or plates. Immortal Guiding (Chinese: 仙人指路)： “Immortal Guiding” means that one uses the thumb, middle finger, ring finger and little finger to hold the chopsticks, but points the index finger to the others. Because the index finger is the finger for meal, using this finger to point to the others stands for censure.Even worse is to use the four fingers except middle finger to hold the chopsticks and to use the middle finger to point. 2. Chopsticks are not used to toy with ones food or with dishes in common. 3. Treat chopsticks as extension of your fingers. It is impolite to use them to point at other people or to wave chopsticks around. 1.Thumb大拇指 2.Index finger 食指 3.Middle finger 中指 4.Ring finger 无名指 5.Little finger 小指 6. censure[sen??] vi. 谴责，责备 1、 chopsticks 1. Do not impale food with chopsticks. 2. Do not 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 chopsticks in the rice bowl, it looks like this shrine and is equivalent to wishing death upon person at the table! 1.. grave [ɡreiv] n. 墓穴，坟墓 2.. shrine [?rain] n. 圣地；神殿；神龛 3.impale [impeil] vt. 刺穿；钉住 3. One should not dig or search through ones food for something in particular. This is sometimes known as digging ones grave or grave-digging and is extremely poor manners. 1、chopsticks 1. Three Long Two Short (Chinese: 三长两短) Chopsticks should always be the same length. There should never be chopsticks for use that are different in length on the table. This is because, in the old times, the bottom part of a coffin was made with two short boards for the head and three long boards for the bottom and sides. This type was called