Essay for Monday, please help me to have a check “China is considered to be a collectivist country”, as Liza and Scott (2012) states, some scholars have argued that Chinese people are integrated with their family and friends, which determines the way of eating. In the history, people separated the limited food with others because they thought they are a whole group, increasing feelings between people through eating (Chinese people eating culture, 2017). Until now, Mingan(2001, p3) summarized that having meals still means both being full and gathering in China, and people love the lively atmosphere and close feeling when they eat together and share dishes with others. To be convenient for customers to pick up for eating and easy to share, chefs cut the ingredients into small pieces (K.C, 1977), so that customers could use chopsticks to have food straightly.