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Chinese and Western table manners Thesis statement： This paper is intended to make a comparison between Chinese and Western table manners to see their differences and ask Chinese to adjust their mistaken view on table manners of either Chinese or Western. Outline： 1. Introduction 2. Differences 3.Conclusion Works cited Chinese and Western table manners Introduction : Once there is a saying that ‘Food is eating well-deserved for human life ’, so food is an indispensable condition for the survival and development of human beings. There are two desires in life: one is feasting them to survive; and the other is the lust of men and women ,which can help the mankind to carry on the family line. Facing the two desires , china pays more attention to the former, while the west tends to the latter. Such phenomenon affects the cultural trend. Diet is actually the contents of our daily lifves, but why we call it culture? That is because the diet plays an important role in Chinese culture .and it also has a great distinction china and the west. As one of the world ancient nations, china’s diet has a history almost as long as that of Chinese civilization. But in western countries ,ancient thinkers devoted less attention to the food problem than the Chinese philosophers did, and there is even no awareness of it to the ‘heaven’ degree. On the contrary, they recognized and interpreted the world in the perspective of the lust or love of men and women more. Whether the awareness of original sin of Christianity, Adam and Eve legend, or ancient Greek philosophers ,such as Plato who considered the personal relationships ‘love’ as the love of ontology of beauty , and regarded it as a reality thinking of philosophy, all these ideas become the basis of western philosophers’ cultural thoughts. All these had potential effects on the development of western culture and westerners’ characters. Receiving the influence of respective cultural tradition, the Chinese and