Taboos — Five Tips for Using Chopsticks
When using chopsticks to eat, people need to pay attention to some taboos and common conventions:
1. Don't point your chopsticks (or index finger) at others. This is seen as a sign of disrespect. Likewise, don't wave your chopsticks around in the air or play with them while eating.
2. Don't knock on tableware with chopsticks: this is seen as a sign of begging.
3. Don't stir food with your chopsticks to find what you want. This is very rude (and unhygienic).
4. Don't invert your chopsticks, i.e. use them the wrong way round (to avoid losing face).
5. Never stick chopsticks into your food, especially not into rice. Only at funerals are chopsticks stuck into rice on an altar, where they look like joss sticks, also burnt on the altar for the dead.
Taboos — Five Tips for Using ChopsticksWhen using chopsticks to eat, people need to pay attention to some taboos and common conventions:1. Don't point your chopsticks (or index finger) at others. This is seen as a sign of disrespect. Likewise, don't wave your chopsticks around in the air or play with them while eating.2. Don't knock on tableware with chopsticks: this is seen as a sign of begging.3. Don't stir food with your chopsticks to find what you want. This is very rude (and unhygienic).4. Don't invert your chopsticks, i.e. use them the wrong way round (to avoid losing face).5. Never stick chopsticks into your food, especially not into rice. Only at funerals are chopsticks stuck into rice on an altar, where they look like joss sticks, also burnt on the altar for the dead.
การแปล กรุณารอสักครู่..
