用英语写出的日本的餐桌礼仪

Don't 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 a person at the table!
It is polite to make noise when you have a meal,especially when you eat noodles.

或者Tables and sitting

In Japan, some restaurants and private houses are equipped with low Japanese style tables and cushions on the floor, rather than with Western style chairs and tables. Please visit our information page about sitting techniques and rules for more information.

A restaurant with traditional low tables
Itadakimasu and Gochisosama

In Japan, you say "itadakimasu" ("I gratefully receive") before starting to eat, and "gochisosama (deshita)&qu