Addendum to the Culture Note: It's more common in China today for it to be rude to accept a gift immediately. So you have to do this whole show when given a gift where you act like you can't possibly accept the gift, it's too much, etc, and the person insists, and then you refuse again, and they insist again, and then *finally* you "reluctantly" accept it. Yes, having to do this charade every time someone gives you something is exactly as tiresome as it sounds.