{"id":429,"date":"2025-05-26T22:08:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T22:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/?p=429"},"modified":"2025-05-18T23:09:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T23:09:41","slug":"what-you-should-never-do-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/what-you-should-never-do-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"What you should never do in China."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/chopsticks_in_rice.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"484\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/chopsticks_in_rice.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/chopsticks_in_rice-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/chopsticks_in_rice-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/chopsticks_in_rice-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/chopsticks_in_rice-53x53.webp 53w, https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/chopsticks_in_rice-24x24.webp 24w, https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/chopsticks_in_rice-36x36.webp 36w, https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/chopsticks_in_rice-48x48.webp 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chopsticks sticking upright in rice is considered taboo in many East Asian cultures, especially in Japan and China, because it resembles incense sticks offered to the dead during funerary rites. It&#8217;s associated with death and is seen as disrespectful when done at the dining table.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese are forgiving. But show that you respect their culture and never ever do this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Can you afford not to be in China? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/contact-us\/\">Talk to us<\/a>, we&#8217;ll help you succeed in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chopsticks sticking upright in rice is considered taboo in many East Asian cultures, especially in Japan and China, because it resembles incense sticks offered to the dead during funerary rites. It&#8217;s associated with death and is seen as disrespectful when done at the dining table. Chinese are forgiving. But show that you respect their culture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brics","category-china","category-international-expansion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}