Social Customs
Belief Taboos
Dietary Characteristics
Clothing
Critters
Etiquette
Kissing
Marriage Customs
Eating Customs
1.Social Customs
The emphasis is placed on the splendor of clothing and the updating of styles. Women regard make-up and beauty treatments as a necessity of life. They have a strong sense of time, plan their work well and follow the principle of "ladies first". Customary handshake, have a certain social status of people to kiss the hand salute. Young girls often curtsy. Between men and women, women and men, and the habit of kissing on the cheek. Do not want others to ask about personal matters in socializing. They resent the giving of perfume to women and the giving of gifts at the first meeting.
2. Faith taboos
Catholicism, Islam, Buddhism...and so on.
3. Dietary characteristics
The French will eat, but also pay attention to food. French food is popular all over the world. The French like to eat snails and frog legs, and the most famous dish is foie gras. Like to drink wine. French food is characterized by freshness and tenderness. French people also like Chinese food very much.
4. Clothing
French fashion in the world enjoys a good reputation, the selection of rich materials, excellent, bold design, production technology, so that the French fashion has been to lead the world fashion trends. In Paris, there are 2,000 fashion stores, the owners of the slogan is: "fashion does not sell the second". And in the street, almost can not see two women wearing exactly the same clothing. Currently the most famous haute couture are: "Jilaijie", "Barangay Shaka", "Jiwangxi", "Chanel ", "Dior", "Cardin" and St. Laurent". In recent years, especially notable is the Parisian women's dresses, its style. The newness of the styles is difficult to see in other countries. The French are the smallest part of their income to wear the European countries, the French are generally very attentive to the appreciation of clothing, but also accept the cheaper and less elaborate imitations.
5. Small animals
Today's French families, the small animals are doubly favored, at the expense of huge sums of money to buy feed. More than half of the families keep a variety of small animals, the total number of heads of more than 30 million. 1/3 of the families keep dogs, the number of dogs has nearly 40,000. Various dog hospitals and dog clothing stores are commonplace. Animals not only bring fun to the French people, but also cause certain disasters. More than 500,000 incidents of dog injuries occur in France every year.
6. Manners
France is a civilized and polite country. Being modest and polite to women is a proud French tradition. The French meet and greet each other, the most common way is to shake hands. However, when shaking hands, one is to hold time should not be too long, and secondly, there is no need to hold people's hands vigorously shaking. Generally, women extend their hands to men first, and older people extend their hands to younger people first. Superiors to subordinates to reach out first.
7. Kiss
France was the first country to recognize a kiss as a sign of affection. French kisses have strict boundaries: they see a long time to meet friends, relatives, coworkers, is to paste the face or cheeks, elders to the younger generation is to kiss the forehead, only between lovers and lovers, only kissing or kissing the mouth.
8. Wedding customs
Before the wedding, the engagement, the ceremony is simple, usually by the woman's parents invited the man's parents and siblings, but also can be invited at the same time other relatives, and even one or two friends to attend. Weddings have been gradually simplified, but they are still the grandest of family festivals, with a solemn and sacred color. Weddings are celebrated by the mayor or one of his deputies, customarily on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. The wedding is celebrated by the mayor or one of his deputies. After the wedding feast. In some places in rural France, a property marriage contract is signed and notarized before the wedding. The marriage contract should be written in all the property of the fiancé and the couple, the fiancée's dowry and the fiancé's estate. Marriage age commemoration has become a festive custom in folklore. A woman may remarry after 300 days of widowhood or after 300 days of declared separation from her husband, while there is no time limit for men.
9. Dining habits
The French people regard cooking as an art, French cuisine is indeed the world. Three meals a day in France are usually organized in this way. Breakfast: bread, coffee, hot chocolate; Lunch: Lunch is the most important meal of the French, usually around 1:00 p.m., dinner after nine o'clock. The French social meal generally lasts more than two hours, the beginning of the first appetizer, then fish or spaghetti, and then the main course, the main course is accompanied by a lot of lettuce, salads, cheeses, fruits, and sometimes sweet snacks, after-dinner coffee is also essential.