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Acceptance of clinking varies by culture. For example, the habit of clinking glasses is a standard behavior in the Russian culture, [7] rejected in the Japanese one, [14] attitude toward clinking in most European cultures is cautious: [7] clinking glasses is considered to be difficult in large groups and might damage the glasses. [6]
Hip, Hip, Hurrah! by Danish painter P.S. Krøyer, 1888 According to various apocryphal stories, the custom of touching glasses evolved from concerns about poisoning. By one account, clinking glasses together would cause each drink to spill over into the others' (though there is no real evidence for such an origin). [2]
If alcohol is served with the meal, it is common practice that when alcohol is first served for the eldest/highest-ranked diner to make a toast and for diners to clink their glasses together before drinking. The clinking of glasses together is often done throughout the meal. A host should never serve alcohol to themselves.
Clinking Glasses. This is a surprising one! After a toast, you shouldn’t clink glasses. This is because your dinner host may be serving you in their best glassware. You don’t want to spill ...
Finish the baijiu in the small glass in one go after the Ganbei (干杯, 'Cheers') and clinking of glasses. Note that the host should initiate and invite for a cup, and the guest should reply with a cup.
Rhythmical cheering has been developed to its greatest extent in America in the college yells, which may be regarded as a development of the primitive war-cry; this custom has no real analogue at English schools and universities, but the New Zealand rugby team in 1907 familiarized English crowds at their matches with the haka, a similar sort of war-cry adopted from the Māoris.
Ching/Qing/etc is not a toast heard in Mandarin, and the cultural separation of Western Europe and China would have made this a recent trend. The history of anti-Semitism in Western Europe would have discouraged the Hebrew adoption, whereas the sound of glasses clinking together in the act of toasting is uniform across borders and languages.
Cheers is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, for 11 seasons and 275 episodes. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television and was created by the team of James Burrows and Glen and Les Charles.