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1、中西饮食文化差异,文专通1041,“food is the heaven to the people“,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 which the human being conquers the natu
2、re, 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 .,China has a long history of 5000 years, while the
3、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 special culture. Now wed like to talk about the differences between these two cultures from the following aspects.,the difference of idea about food,What Chinese peo
4、ple care about is the deliciousness of food .They emphasize the idea of using some cooking skills to unite and harmonize the tastes of foods which have different natural properties, Chinese people value the similarity of different things.,According to their traditional idea, they tend to seek the re
5、lationship between two different objects, and make them change to each other. So they value the unity of different tastes and they always try to harmonize food of different natural properties into one.,Since the westerners believe in separation of the universe and human in their cultural spirit and
6、thinking model, emphasize the form and structure and value the clearness, they form a special idea about the food science. The very idea is that ecological belief in separation of the universe and human world, proper idea of balanced nutrient. In their opinion, one should choose his food only accord
7、ing to his need as an independent individual and the balanced requirement of all kinds of nutrients for each part of his body. They consider it is important to make the proper match of food by the criterion of variety and quantity.,The differences of cooking skill,The so-called Chinese meditation of
8、 five flavors refers to the original taste of the food after heated and cooked, and the flavors of ingredients and condiments mix together and melt into each other and complement each other. Chinese people more often than not add two or more condiments into the food and by this realize the perfect h
9、armony of the taste of the arterial and condiments. The ultimate end of meditation is to cook delicious food. Therefore, Chinese people will surely add two or more kinds of ingredients and condiments to almost every dish they cook, even some common home-made dishes, such as sliced meat, stir-fried w
10、ith garlic bolts.,while the same material and ingredients are cooked in western way, the chef would probably slice the beef and tomatoes separately and put them in a plate with two potatoes and four vegetable leaves without mixing with each other and thus affecting the taste of each other. The weste
11、rners emphasize nutrition and balanced in their diet, so they prepare their food according to scientific instructions strictly without any exception. The taste of the steak doesnt differ from New York to LosAngelsand its other ingredients ,without any doubt are tomatoes, potatoes, and vegetable leav
12、es .Moreover ,normalized cooking requires that the condiments should be added precisely by gram ,and the length of time needs to be calculated by seconds .,We can enjoy the food culture , of which the premise condition is the food ,without food, we are not able to cook and eat and exsit.chinese dish
13、es are connected tightly to vegetables .Chinese people eat various vegetables which are up to 600 kinds in number, 6 times as many as the westerners do .As a matter of fact ,in Chinese diet ,vegetables is a rather common food .Only in festivals or in the time when life condition is improved do they
14、eat more meat .Due to this vegetarian characteristics in diet structure , Chinese people are sometimes regarded to be of plant character, when this character is reflected in the culture , we can see that Chinese people value reunion and they are attached to their hometown and are not willing to leav
15、e.,the difference of the food people food,The westerners are different, they are descendant of nomadic tribes and navigation peoples in their cultural origin .their ancestor lived mainly by fishing, hunting and feeding domestic animals and sometimes also by collecting and cultivation. So they ate mo
16、re meat in their diet. Due to this, the westerners are considered by some people to be of animal character. As a result, the westerners like to peruse individuality and like adventure and exploration. In the history of America .during the period of westward movement, Americans packed their furniture
17、 and load them on the truck and then move away from their ling places to a new place without any hesitation.,However, Chinese people miss their hometown all the time when they are abroad. Although its advocated that the young should be able to settle down in any place, those Chinese people who live overseas for several decades at the end come back to their motherland .This ideology and spirit of returning to the birthplace dose definitely have something to do with the essence of the Chinese food culture. It also strengthens the cohesive force of Chinese people.,
