Abstract: Chinese Dietary Etiquette, a monograph recently published by Mr. Zhao Rongguang, systematically sorts out the human social axioms, history of the Chinese dinner etiquette culture and dietary beliefs and customs, makes a clear expression of the reconstruction of dietary etiquette, clarifies many concepts of dietary etiquette, demonstrates the importance of dietary etiquette, elaborates on the inheritance of dietary etiquette, lists the versatility of dietary etiquette, and reconstructs the modernity of dietary etiquette. It could be a better publication were it better organized in structure and more extensive in content.

Key words: Chinese Dietary Etiquette, ZHAO Rongguang, table manner