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1、On the differences between Chinese and western food culture摘要：饮食是人类生活中必不可少的部分，是人类从事一切社会活动的前提，中西 饮食文化的差异越来越受到人们的关注。本文首先介绍了饮食的重要性，即饮食在社会生活中所扮演的重要角色和了解中西 方文化差异的必要性。本文讨论了饮食文化的相关定义，中西饮食文化的主要不同点，即 饮食观念，烹饪技术，饮食对象，进餐方式，进餐工具五个方面的区别，说明中西方文化 的不同在饮食方面的反映。最后，本文提出怎样正确的认识中西方饮食文化的差异，不管 怎样说，我们认识中西方饮食文化的差异，最终的目的就是去粗取
2、精，使中西方饮食文化 在交流中发展，在融合中进步。关键词：饮食文化，文化差异，交流，融合Abstract Food is the necessities in peoples daily life. It is the premise when people deal with all the social activities. More and more attention is attached to the differences between Chinese and western food culture, as a important part for communicatin
3、g with western world.First, the thesis introduces the importance of diet. Food ranks the first in all our needs. Since food culture is a category of culture, it is necessary for us to know the differences between Chinese and western food culture. Then, the thesis discusses the definition of food cul
4、ture. That is, food culture is the sum of material and spirit treasure which created by people in a long period of food production and consume. Then the thesis introduces the 5 differences between Chinese and western food culture. The differences of idea of food, cooking skills ect. Finally, the the
5、sis suggests how to properly view the differences. No matter how to say, the aim of knowing the differences is to absorb the quintessence and promote the communication between china and the west. I believe that with the development of society, different culture will learn from each other and underst
6、and each other. Our life will become better and better.Chaptr1 Introduction Food is the most important material in maintaining our life and improving the quality of our bodies, and is basic for the development as well. An old saying goes like this “food is the heaven to the people”, which means that
7、 food ranks the first in all our needs .we should eat and drink before we engage ourselves in the course of politics, science, art, and religion acts all producing activities of human, especially food production become a basic condition of the whole history .Food is so fundamental to our life so tha
8、t all the other aspects of our living are determined by it, built on it, and limited by it. Since the human being cook with fire for the first time and come to a civilian age ,the food we eat has begun to be of cultural property .It is not a history of sub-human eating and drinking ,but a history in
9、 which the human being conquers the nature, change the nature, and get adapted to nature to exist and develop .And in this historic process, the human gradually formed its food culture .Food as a category of culture, helps us to understand every area of the oriental and occidental world .With Chines
10、e entry to the world ,plenty of things which are fresh to us ,at once flock to our country .Among them, of course , food culture of other nations come into our too .Nowadays, many people out of curiosity ,taste difference sort of food of other countries .But few of them these people really grasp the
11、 essence of the food culture. While the food of one place can reflect its culture, so it is necessary for us to learn the differences between Chinese and western food culture.Chapter 2 Definition of food culture Food culture is an important part of human culture .It has two definitions in broad sens
12、e and narrow sense .In the broad sense, food culture has something in common with cooking culture, and it is considered as the counterpart of the latter. Generally speaking, cooking culture refers to the total amount of material and spirit treasure which is created and accumulated during the long pe
13、riod of food production and procession by the human being .It is about what food human makes, and how to make .It includes the food ingredient, cooking tool, cooking skill and so on. In the narrow sense, food culture refers to the sum-up of material and spirit treasure created and passed down in the
14、 long period of human eating the food product. It is about what human eat, and how to eat and why eat such food etc. It includes the variety of food, the tool uses in eating, the customs of eating, and the service of eating act. In a word, cooking culture come to birth in the course of food producti
15、on and procession. It is a production culture, while food culture in the narrow sense is a kind of consuming culture, which come to birth in the course of food consuming .The production and the consuming is tightly connected to each other. If there is no cooking culture, they will be no food culture
16、 .The first one is the premise of the latter. The latter is derived from the first one .Thus, we usually define food culture in broad sense that is the sum-up of cooking culture and eating culture.Chapter 3 The differences between Chinese and western food cultureChina has a long history of 5000 years, while the west has one of about six hundred years .China has a food culture that is colorful, profound and excellent, while the west has its own
