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毋抟饭，Do not roll the rice into a ball;
毋放饭， do not bolt down the various dishes;
毋流歠， do not swill down (the soup).
毋吒食， Do not make a noise in eating;
毋啮骨， do not crunch the bones with the teeth;
毋反鱼肉， do not put back fish you have been eating;
毋投与狗骨。 do not throw the bones to the dogs;
毋固获， do not snatch (at what you want).
毋扬饭。 Do not spread out the rice (to cool);
饭黍毋以箸。 do not use chopsticks in eating millet.
毋嚃羹， Do not (try to) gulp down soup with vegetables in it,
毋絮羹， nor add condiments to it;
毋刺齿， do not keep picking the-teeth,
毋歠醢。 nor swill down the sauces.
客絮羹， If a guest add condiments,
主人辞不能亨。 the host will apologise for not having had the soup prepared better.
客歠醢， If he swill down the sauces,
主人辞以窭。 the host will apologise for his poverty.
濡肉齿决， Meat that is wet (and soft) may be divided with the teeth,
乾肉不齿决。 but dried flesh cannot be so dealt with.
毋嘬炙。 Do not bolt roast meat in large pieces.
卒食， When they have done eating,
客自前跪， the guests will kneel in front (of the mat),
彻饭齐以授相者， and (begin to) remove the (dishes) of rice and sauces to give them to the attendants.
主人兴辞于客， The host will then rise and decline this service from the guests,
然后客坐。 who will resume their seats.

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