The general characteristics of the Hong Kong people's social customs can be summed up in a few words: the Hong Kong compatriots are talking about friendship, attitude and good manners;The tradition is particularly auspicious, and everyone is lucky.The number "8" and "6" are very agreeable.Do not want others to ask for personal information, taboo "harmony" contains evil meaning;Hometown mostly guangdong, fujian, living customs like ancestral home.

The details of life have the following characteristics

Hong Kong people like to tap on the table with a couple of fingers while they are pouring or pouring their tea.The word "3" is very popular in Hong Kong, because the word "3" and "sheng" are the homonym for Hong Kong people. "sheng" means "rise"."8" and "6" are also fashionable in Hong Kong.In cantonese, "8" is the homophony of "hair" and "fa" means "to be rich"."6" and "lu", also have the meaning of "6. 6."Hong Kong people often wish each other "gong xi fa CAI" during the festival.

etiquette

Hong Kong people usually shake hands when they meet with guests in social situations.When they meet, they also use hugs and cheek kisses.When they express their gratitude to their guests, they often use the finger (that is, they bend their fingers and tap them lightly on the table to express their gratitude).It is said that the tapping of the finger comes from the kowtowing, which means kowtow.

General etiquette

Hong Kong people are reserved and reserved almost everywhere.It is important to avoid all the conflicts that might cause Chinese to lose face.Blue and white are the colors that Chinese people say they mourn and should be avoided.Prepare a lot of business CARDS and you'll often use them.

Address and greeting

Usually shake hands when you meet and say goodbye.After the initial handshake, hand over the business card.

Date and time

It's still polite to "go in and out" for 30 minutes after the appointment, but business people usually follow The Times.

Hospitality and gifts

Guests are invited to take fruit, candy or pastries as gifts and deliver them to their hostess with both hands.Don't send the clock. It's a symbol of death.Do not send scissors or other sharp objects. They symbolize disconnection.Don't start drinking and eating before your master.Chinese New Year is about between mid-january and February, when gifts are exchanged.

conversation

Thank the host for the gift, said the odor -jay (" thank you "), and thank the others for your service. (" I don't want to, ").The Chinese are willing to listen to the west and speak their language. If you can speak one or two cantonese words, you will be greatly appreciated, but you must be sure of your pronunciation.It is considered polite to occasionally ask about health or business in a conversation.

Belief taboo

Hong Kong students are taboo about asking for their home addresses, according to Hong Kong experts.Because they don't welcome other people to visit his home, they are generally happy to go to tea houses or public places.They are afraid to ask about their personal income, age, etc. They don't need to be asked about their personal matters.They are reluctant to accept "happy holidays".Because "happy" and "quick fall" homophonic, is very unlucky.They taboo the word "4".Because the word "4" sounds like the word "death", it is generally said that "4" is not auspicious.Give gifts and other things to avoid the number of "4", which is not to say, usually "two pairs" or "two two" instead.In Hong Kong, the most taboo word for the first customer is to choose "Fried rice," which means "to fire" in Hong Kong.The sound of stir-frying is considered unlucky.

Eating habits

Hong Kong people can be comfortable with western food, but have a special preference for Chinese food.They are more fond of their hometown, and if they visit the mainland, they would like to taste the local famous delicacies.Most of them use chopsticks, and other people use them as well.

Hong Kong people have the following characteristics in their eating habits

1) pay attention to.Exquisite dish fresh, tender, cool, bone, the attention to the food nutrition ingredients.

(2).General taste is light, preferring sweetness.

(3) staple food.Rice is the staple food and also likes to eat noodles.

(4) side.Love fish, shrimp, crab and other seafood and chicken, duck, egg, pork, beef, mutton, etc.Prefer fresh vegetables such as bamboo shoot, rape, tomato, cucumber, bell pepper, etc.We use pepper, sichuan peppercorn, rice wine, onion, ginger, sugar, MSG,.

(5).All kinds of cooking techniques are suitable for cooking dishes such as frying, braised, braised and Fried.

6. Chinese food.I am familiar with all kinds of domestic cuisines, and I like cantonese cuisine and fujian cuisine.

All landowners recipes.Appreciate to offer them assorted platter, white gourd, crispy chicken, roast Suckling pig, oyster sauce, beef, pork bellies, illustrating, colorful crumb on the dinghu, fo jump a wall, snow chicken, light worse Fried fresh bamboo, such as orange juice and auspicious fish flavor dishes.

End liquor.I like cocktail, beer and fruit wine, drink water, cola, cocoa, coffee, etc., also like oolong tea, longjing tea, etc.

Pet-name ruby fruit.Love to eat banana, pineapple, watermelon, citrus, peach, litchi, longan, etc. Fruit, dried fruit likes to eat cashews.