1. When receiving guests, whether walking or talking, always give priority to the guests or elders, use honorifics, and avoid calling them by their first names.
2. When greeting or seeing off guests, you should bow down and smile.
3. When sitting indoors, sit cross-legged, do not straighten your legs, put the soles of your feet facing people, and do not look around.
4. When accepting gifts, you should receive them with both hands. When giving gifts, you should bow down and raise your hands above your head.
5. When offering tea, wine or cigarettes, you should offer them with both hands and do not put your fingers into the mouth of the bowl.
6. Tibetans are absolutely prohibited from eating donkey, horse and dog meat. In some areas, they also do not eat fish.
7. When toasting, the guest must first dip a little wine into the air with his ring finger and flick it into the air three times in a row to show his respect to heaven, earth and ancestors. Then he takes a sip and the host will refill it in time. He will refill it with another sip and drink three sips in a row. , when it is refilled for the fourth time, it must be drank in one gulp.
8. When eating, be sure to keep your mouth full, bite and drink without making any sound.
9. When drinking butter tea, the host pours the tea, and the guests can only take it and drink it when the host holds it in front of them with both hands.
10. It is taboo to spit on other people’s backs or clap your hands.
11. When you encounter religious facilities such as temples, Mani piles, pagodas, etc. on the road, you must go around from left to right.
12. Do not cross the ritual objects or braziers. Prayer tubes and prayer wheels cannot be reversed. It is taboo for others to touch the top of your head with their hands.
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