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Do you polish your shoes? Yes! People do. Can you polish? Maybe. You must not polish your shoes with your home curtain. Then what if in hotel?

Do you sneeze? Yes! People do! Can you sneeze? Maybe. You must not sneeze before your sleeping husband or wife. Then what if in office or during meeting?

Do you spit? Yes! People do. Can you spit? Maybe. You must not spit at home upon your walls or ground. Then what if in public?

At the questions above, I firmly believe everyone has his own answers within his heart while with different opinions and actions towards them in different occasions. The question is “can you do it right?”

Do you have this kind of experience that the perfection image of a handsome man or a pretty lady in your mind was totally collapsed just for his or her spitting? Yes, I do.

When I was young, i was once a cross talk, or comic dialogue or Xiang Sheng performer saying “A small mouth of spitting, / With millions of bacterium, / Just to spit out rather than to swallow. / Where to spit? / Better into a spittoon. / Or handkerchief. / Which should be washed timely and shined in the sun.” I wondered whether the young of today have been teaching something like this or not. If yes, how many people are still spitting except the uneducated ones?

We Chinese say “Spitting drowns” while there is one phrase in English as “spitting distance”. You see, spitting is not the patent of our Chinese. Then why do people spit? In my opinion spitting is a perfect outlet both physically and psychologically, and expectoration, the thing that is spit out, might be mainly slobber, phlegm or mixture of both. The slobbers, or salivary secretions help in the digestion of food, while the phlegm from lungs is a way to expel the intruding contaminants entering the lungs.

I do not think it is necessary to spit slobbers out while most spitters do so mainly for habits or other purposes of releasing mood. Say, I spat if the water went into my mouth during taking a bathe; soccer players spat on playground, for they are so thirsty to spit or are not satisfied with judge’s judge; sometimes we dare not show our attitudes to our bosses or superiors while we have to at least pretend obeying, then we might spit upon their turning; I heard that many visitors have been spitting upon the statue of Mr. Qin Hui, a conspirator to slay Mr. Yue Fei, a loyalist in our history, in some scenic spots in different places in China; some little boys might compete who could spit further, etc..

Comparing with the above more psychological one, this kind of spitting, more physically, should be encouraged, otherwise which might be bad to one’s health, for you know, bacteria could be thrown out of body through phlegm. Besides encouragement, we should lead them how to spit right. Many smokers and environment polluters contribute a lot to most spitters, some of whom spat randomly, polluting the environment again and having the possibility of transmission to others, which forms a vicious circle.

I do not think it is fair to blame the spitters. Say, it is forbidden to relieve one bowels anywhere, but if you do not provide adequate and convenient toilets in town, there must be some places for citizens to do so, what’s the use of just calling for the rules? The same to spitting. Do you provide some spittoons in some public occasions? Do you educate people how to spit and where to spit right, professionally and elegantly? NO! Nothing but no spitting or spitting not allow or spitting forbidden! We only focused on the result but seldom cared the process.

Well fed, well bred. For those who are still underfed, who could say that they should behave in a good manner or with etiquettes? Nonsense!

Speaking of spitting in public, it is an expression of missing of social morality. Within the past thirty years, China does have been achieving a lot due to our right reform and opening-up policy in such a short time, which some other countries might need more. At the same time, many problems have been arising. Just as a weight loser, a too fast speed might lead to a thinner figure at the cost of her health. So our government and relevant parties should take possible necessary measures to eliminate the existing bad or wrong byproducts of our past policies and to prevent to repeat history in new decision-making and policy-issuing.

The Olympic Games in Beijing is a good chance for many countries, especially for China, to share the experiences and lessons from home and abroad, past and present, good and bad. Even if without the sports bash, don’t we offer our seats to elders, stop spitting, abandon bad habits or corruptive customs deeply rooted into our hearts and culture? If so, a healthy, wealthy, happy China shall come soon.

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Background：http://blog.myspace.cn/1304866289/archive/2008/03/01/400436860.aspx 

Shanghai Daily today published an article by Xinhua news agency on spitting. What do you think? I will publish the best of your comments. Thanks!

Kate and Leo did it on the Titanic, so why shouldn't Chinese? After all, the habit goes back five millennia.

Because it's Olympics year, that's why. And the capital city, which will host the games, is planning its first "No Spitting Day" this year with the goal of eradicating a top etiquette no-no. But the pronouncement by the city's public health authority on Thursday drew decidedly mixed reactions from local residents.

"The latest hygienic drive aims to eradicate the bad habit of spitting and promote a more civilized life style," said Liu Ying , a Beijing Municipal Bureau of Health official.

She said spitting was a major cause of the spread of respiratory diseases, especially in spring, echoing a Chinese slogan: "Spitting kills even more than an atomic bomb."

Liu said the idea was inspired by the "Queuing Day" and "Seat Offering Day," two days newly designated by the Beijing municipal government each month to promote better manners.

Details of how the new day would work were still dribbling in. But it quickly drew reaction from Netizens. Some called it a "must" before the Olympic Games, while others said it was "needless and unfeasible".

"I think it's more healthy to spit rather than to swallow," said a Netizen who called himself Mop Paparazzi on the Mop.com.

Liu, however, said people didn't understand the purpose of the drive.

"We are calling for stopping the rampant spitting on the pavement, not urging everyone not to spit at all," she explained. "You can wrap your spit with a napkin and throw it into a trash bin," she added.

The Olympic host has taken a series of measures to curb spitting, such as the distribution of spit sacks and a 50-yuan (US$7) fine for spitters.

Many Chinese take the practice for granted.

Some Netizens tried to justify the habit by quoting 5,000-year-old proverbs.

"Even foreigners like spitting," he said, basing his argument on the scene in "Titanic" where Leonardo DiCaprio taught Kate Winslet how to spit.

(Xinhua news agency)

"We used to say that China is so large a country that one spit from every Chinese may drown all people in a small country, which shows we have a long tradition of spitting," said Netizen Songbce in the forum of Sina.com, one of China's largest portal sites.