My birthday is coming soon. How should I propose a toast to my elders? What should I say?

Toast to the elders. Clink the wine glasses but your own glass should be lower than the elder's glass to show respect for the elders. Drink it by yourself and then ask the elders to do whatever they want, indicating that the elders can finish the drink or take a sip without finishing the drink.

Toasting can be done at any time during the drinking process. If a formal toast is given, it should be given at a specific time and should not affect the guests' meal. The toast is suitable to start after the guests and hosts are seated and before the meal. It can also be done after the main course and before dessert is served.

When drinking, especially toasting, someone needs to take the lead in making a toast. It can be the host, the guest of honor, or someone present. When proposing a toast, you should stand up and hold the wine glass with your right hand, or after picking up the wine glass with your right hand, hold the bottom of the glass with your left hand, smile, look at other toast recipients, especially yourself, and say blessings at the same time. .

Someone suggested that after toasting, you should stand up with a wine glass in hand. Even if you don't drink alcohol, you still have to pick up a glass and show off. Raise the wine glass to eye level, and after saying "cheers", drink the wine in one gulp or drink an appropriate amount. Then, you have to hold the wine glass and look at the proposer, and the process is over.

In Chinese food, before toasting, you can symbolically clink your glasses with the other person; when clinking glasses, you should make your own glass lower than the other person's glass to show your respect for the other person. Gently touching the table with the bottom of the wine glass can also mean clinking glasses with the other person. When you are far away from the other party, you can completely use this method to do it for you. If the host makes a toast in person, ask him to return the toast and drink another drink with him.

Under normal circumstances, toasts should be given in order of age, position, and status of guest and host. The order of toasting must be fully considered and the priority should be clearly defined. Even if you are drinking with someone you are not familiar with, you should first inquire about his identity or pay attention to the names he is given by others to avoid embarrassment or hurt feelings. Even if you want something from a guest at the table, you should be more respectful to him. However, if there are people of higher status or older people present, toast to the elders first, otherwise it will make everyone embarrassed.

If you are not suitable for drinking due to living habits or health reasons, you can also entrust relatives, friends, subordinates, juniors to drink on your behalf, or use drinks or tea instead. As a toaster, you should be fully considerate of the other party. When the other party asks someone to drink instead of drinking or using a drink instead, you should not insist on letting the other party drink, nor should you curiously "break the casserole and ask the truth." You know, if someone doesn't take the initiative to explain the reason, it means that the other person thinks this is his privacy.

In Western food, only champagne is used for toasts, and you cannot cross the people around you and toast with others