Some details of etiquette in everyday life

When you are invited to your friend’s home, the host will always serve you a cup of tea. He or she will only pour the tea to 7/10 of the cup’s capacity. A whole cup of tea doesn’t show respect but indicate that you‘d better leave now. And at your friend’s house you will be given tea automatically. If your friend asks you if you want tea, that probably means that they don’t want to serve you tea, but they want to seem hospitable. You should know what to do.
When you leave your friend’s house, they will “see you off”, meaning that they will accompany you to your car, or elevator. When you get to know your friend very well, all formalities change, and they will say “ I wont be seeing you off “ and in turn you must quickly say ‘ That never crossed my mind!”.
In addition, accept gifts offered to you until you refuse it twice before. Chinese do not want to give the appearance that they are greedy. Generally speaking, Chinese people will not open the present in front of the giver immediately.