The Banquet "Etiquette Culture" Comparative Of China And France

Feast, it is a cultural heritage. Banquet etiquette as the core of culture, is not only a kindof be immobilized and mode of the system, it is the sign of social civilization, it is theembodiment of material civilization and spiritual civilization double attribute. China andFrance as the diet culture is the most representative countries, in the long process of historicaldevelopment, eating not only broke the color, fragrance, taste, shape and other physicalenjoyment, it also derived from the above the level of material culture and spiritual culturemodality, formed its own unique including manners, seating arrangements, tablewareequipment, work order, party dress, content of the set of complete and orderly banquetetiquette culture. Banquet culture is in long-term social practice to develop a kind of culturalbehavior, is also a kind of special cultural etiquette.The main part of this paper into three chapters, through two banquet etiquettecharacterization of the development and the inheritance to the excavation of two nationalcultural differences and relevance. The first chapter, pay attention to carding banquetetiquette in China and France’s history and development, in the analysis of the banquetetiquette origin and evolution, the ancient feast activities and related liturgical basis, theauthor thinks, Chinese eating culture has a rigid hierarchy, respect for seniority and humilitycomity etc., their statute allows orderly, harmonious atmosphere, while France has showyfeast luxurious and grand, the pursuit of fashion and novelty divergent features. The secondchapter, analysis the banquet etiquette cultural characteristics and summarizes two banquetetiquette culture in common,the author thinks, Banquet etiquette mainly has three functions—the effect of Distinguishdifferent maintenance order，the effect of Enlightenment promotethe progress of civilization，the effect of affinity promote social harmony. The third chapterfocuses on the analysis result of the banquet etiquette different cultural factors. Confucianismpay attention to class and French pursuit of equality and culture difference resulting in a "high and low order " and " ladies first " the banquet etiquette culture differences, Collectivismand individualism and the different cultural orientation cause banquet etiquette culturedifferences of "harmony " and " leave ", collectivism and individualism and the differentcultural orientation led to " Harmony but not Sameness " and "Same but Different " thebanquet etiquette culture differences of China and France.China and France are diet civilization represents, the banquet etiquette in continuousmode, immobilization and canonization process embodiment and witness to the human dietcivilization development. With the advance of globalization and the world exchanges, on thebanquet etiquette comparison study not only can make us know more about local culturedevelopments and achievements, even reflected more by comparing the differences betweenthe different national culture, promote progress of cultural recognition and acceptance, so asto promote the progress of human civilization and development.