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1、Chinese and western food cultureOutline： 1. Introduction 2. Comparison between Chinese and Western food culture 2. 1. Similarities 2. 2 Differences3. Cultural connotation of Chinese and Western food culture 3. 1 Cultural connotation of Chinese food culture 3. 1 Cultural connotation of western food c
2、ulture 4. Conclusion Works citedChinese and Western food culture1. IntroductionPeople are always interested in western culture, since China have convinced the policy of open the door to the other country in the world in 1978, when China was charged by chairman Deng Xiaoping, which inspired millions
3、of Chinese to go to abroad with many purposes. But in order to getting adapt to life abroad, they have to make many preparations before they went abroad, especially food.As a verb going “Food is mother of human being”, this stressed the importance of food to being. And once there is a saying that “F
4、ood is well-deserved for human life “, so food is an indispensable condition and development of human beings. There are two desires in life: one is feasting them to survive; and another is the lust of men and woman, which can help the mankind to carry on the family line. Faced with the two desires,
5、China pays more attention to the former, while the western tends to the latter. Such phenomenon affects the culture trend. Diet is actually the contents of our daily lives, but why we call it culture? That is because the diet has special status in the Chinese culture, and it also has a great distinc
6、tion between China and the west.As one of the world ancient nations, Chinas diet has a history almost as long as that of Chinese civilization. But in western countries, ancient thinkers devoted less attention to the food problem than the Chinese philosophers did, and there is even not aware of it in
7、 the perspective of the lust or man and women more. Whether the awareness of original sin if Christianity. Adam and Eve legend, or ancient Greek philosophy who considered the personal relationship ”love” as the love of ontology of beauty, and regarded it as a reality thinking of philosophy, all thes
8、e ideas become the basis of western philosophers cultural thoughts. All these had potential effect on the development of western culture and westerners character.Receiving the influence of respective cultural tradition, the Chinese and western dietary culture has had different characteristic. The di
9、fference in concept, targets, patterns, attribution and nature had reflected the difference dietary culture in the different state characteristic. Such characteristic has enriched the search value of dietary. Studying these cultural differences, we can find out a joint enhancing the communication be
10、tween China and the west through a comprehensive study of the subject. It may be a great help to the communication of the Chinese and western culture.Before I writing this paper, I read a lot of books about food culture in the library, plus what I had known before, I will show you all I know, and ma
11、ke you know what is about western food and its resource, if you did learn a lot from my chapter, I would be very successful.Difference in conceptsOne of the biggest differences between Chinese and Western diet is concepts on food. Nobody will deny that the Western diet is a rational concept, regardl
12、ess of the color of food, eyesence, flavor and shape, but nutrition must be assured. It cares its contents, for every kind, like vitamin, protein and so on. Western diet tastes stereotyped, as simple as chewing the candle, but it may tells them that, we must eat all of them on the base of nutrition.
13、The concept of western diet is compatible with the whole western philosophy. Metaphysics is the main feature of western philosophy. Such kind of philosophy brings vitality to western culture, so the natural science, psychology and methodology achieve a rapid development. In some other aspect, such p
14、hilosophy proposition is a significantly obstacle, such as the dictionary culture, which is inevitable thing to drop behind, and just the metaphysics of methodology marks everywhere. In celebration, it stresses tableware, stress the staple, stress the servings, and stress the color and shape mix of
15、raw materials, but no matter how luxurious the grade is, only one taste of steak, there is no art to speak of. And as dishes, the chicken is chicken, steak is steak, all in group everywhere. Color is on clear, but the tastes of the various are separated, not to reconcile, and the entire flavor is al
16、so simple and clear.Chinese diet is a sense of beauty diet. When people sample dishes, they often say this dish is delicious, and that dish is not delicious. Nut if you ask what it meant by delicious, why tasty and what are the aspect of delicious. I am afraid that it will be difficult to answer, th
17、is show that which Chinese people on a diet is just the mood that difficult for one to say anything. Even using the “color, flavor, shape and implement” which people often said to make the “real reification”. I am afraid it is still difficult to crown all.The pursuit of beauty in Chinese food is cle
18、arly overriding the rational pursuit. This concept of diet is also coinciding with the rational Chinese philosophy. Chinese philosophy as a representative of oriental philosophy, its distinguishing feature is the macro, visual, vague, and evasive. Chinese cooking method is to reconcile, and the ulti
19、mate goal is to reconcile out of a beautiful taste. The main stress is measure and the overall co-ordination. It contain s a wealth of diaccitics of Chinese philosophy. And all these depend on the degree of the wonderful flavor and harmony of dish. The ever-changing within degree decides the changea
20、ble of Chinese food, and it also decides the characteristics of Chinese food as well as the characteristics on each of the chefs.Difference in targetsVegetable is one of the main material of cooking, the word dish is for the sound in china. And it always has something to go with the plants. Accordin
21、g to a survey of western plants scholar, there are 600 varieties of vegetables, six times more than in the west. In fact, the Chinese dishes, vegetable dish is usual food. Meat dishes entered the normal diet on holidays or higher living standards, so since ancient time, and there was a saying of “fr
22、esh vegetable”. Fresh vegetable .are mainly to the dominant position in the normal structure.Chinese people consider the vegetable as the main dish; it has inextricably linked with the advocacy of Buddhists. They deem animals as people and plants have no soul, so, they prefer vegetable.Westerners do
23、 not seem to have good habit. They holdup a cultural origin of nomadic, seafaring notion. Living mainly by fishing and hunting, collection and planting are just the complement. There are more meat dishes in their lives. When the westerners introduce the diet characteristics of their country, they al
24、ways feel that their diet is more reasonable on the mix of nutrition than China. Which fasten its can food industry. Which has enough nutrition, in their country people are healthier and taller than Chinese. And the people have strong shoulders and developed muscles, but Chinese look short, their sh
25、oulder narrow and legs thin, their skin yellow and their body weak. The difference between Chinese and western food for Westerners to judge the merits of the two diet is not justified.According to the characteristics of the significant difference between Chinese and western diet targets. the Chinese
26、 character is called the plant character. While the westerners is animal character. In respond to culture behaviors. Westerners love adventure, exploration, conflict; but Chinese people only like to live banally. According to American experts on folklore Ruth s opinions on the “cultural pattern” the
27、ory. Chinese culture is quite similar to the classical world Apollo-type character and Westerners is similar to the modern world Faust-type. Indeed, the westerners such as Americans in the development of the west, they put the whole family on the rtruck, and go out of the city in amid rumbling with
28、the supply. The Chinese are always thinking about “home” and “roots”, despite the promotion the young man should take the world as home. But after a few decades, the over seas Chinese will come back to the mainland with crutch to seek their roots, this concept of return and such human spirit can onl
29、y be said to cooperate with the accumulation in the diet, then it will bring cohesiveness to the Chinese nation and then makes the human folk full of energyDifferent diet patternThe Chinese and western dietary patterns can be very different, and these difference affect the national character. In Chi
30、na, a celebration, no matter what, there will be only one form. as sitting together, sharing one feast. Banquet uses round table, which has created a unity of form, which is courtesy, comity atmosphere. People toast each other and share the vegetables, which reflect the mutual respect between people
31、 in the face of the good things, also show the virtues of comity. Although from the health point of view, this approach has obvious deficiencies, but it is in our national happy mentality, it reflects the classical Chinese philosophy area of and impact for future generations. It is helpful to facili
32、tate the collective emotional exchanges and consequently difficult to reform.In western countries, people are just foil. The core of Banquet is friendship, by the conversation with the guests who sitting next to achieve the purpose of recreation. If making an analogous compare between the recreation
33、 of the banquets and dancing, it may be said that the Chinese banquet is like group dance, and the western banquet is like men and women dancing. This shows that communication purpose of Chinese banquet and western banquet are very obvious. Only the Chinese banquet is more popular in the communion,
34、but western banquet shows guests reflected in the friendship between neighbors. The more obvious differences between Chinese and western dietary patterns is buffet dinner which is popular in the West. This method is to display all food, and everybody is picking not fixed in his or her places to eat.
35、 They walk freely. This approach would provide the emotional interaction between individuals; they never need to put every word on the table. This also shows a western personality and self-respect. However, all the eating without jamming lacks the real affective tone like the Chinese people. Some pe
36、ople want to put the buffet in the Chinese food, but I think it is not feasible.Wine on dinnerChina is a big country and has a long history on drinking wine. In many Chinese novels you will find many heroes drinking wine to show their great passion and respect. So Chinese have the custom of drinking
37、 out a bow of wine in a breathe. People prefer to get more close to them. They are generally thought to be great beings. Do you remember the heroes in the novel , they are heroes who drink and eat mouthly, their act show that they are inner heroes of the public, in many novels except shuifuzhuan, yo
38、u can see the chapters which describe their bold spirit. Chinese people are deeply effected by ancient culture. So everywhere a party was hold in China, you can see people have a bold passion on drinking, just to show their respect to others.Traditional Chinese wine is spirit, which with high densit
39、y, and it make people easy to get drunk. Passionate Chinese people never let others go without getting drunk. In China, people show respect to people, not the wine.While in western countries are not. People drink wine on a party, but they do not drink all of them at once. As everyone know, Europe is
40、 famous for its red wine which is made from grape, a bottle of red wine can be stood for many years, and the longer, the better. So people like to enjoying the moment of share it, so they take only a sip one time to show its precious quality, so you can see why people in western country take only a
41、sip. French do it best, you will feel it a feast watching French drinking and having meal, their elegant act is famous all over the world.Two different culture, different eating tools Everyone know that western people eat with pork and knife, while Chinese use chopsticks, I don t know why this phonm
42、ina occur, maybe its relevant to their food, we know steak in American are not fully cooked, it cant be eaten with big piece, so they need knife to cut them into tiny piece, and use pork to eat to show their civilization.Chinese use chopsticks for our reason, China is a country of noodle, in order t
43、o eat noodle, people invented chopsticks, and latter people find its extra use, as the time going by, we can use chopsticks freely now.Conclusion By the text from this thesis, we can easily find that there still exist various differences between Chinese and western dietary cultures. But with the dev
44、elopment of cultural communication between China and the west, along with the strengthening of communication between China and the west, China has imported various kinds of western food, known as the KFC DICOS, McDonald. These mark a new western food culture exchanges. The impact brought about by ec
45、onomic globalization is stronger and deeper than the internationalization. Economic globalization brings the vitality of economic growth, and the culture communication. So in the face of the dietary cultural exchange problems between China and the West, we should find each others advantages and draw
46、 the mutual advantages, as China can learn from the point that western diet stresses nutrition match, and make the Chinese cuisine more outstanding. China is the country of a long history with an ancient culture, and enriching in cultural traditions. She feeds the 1.3 billion Chinese people, and Chi
47、nese culture is very inclusive; in the course of development it absorbs a lot of different cultures. Moreover, now China does more efforts to draw all the outstanding achievements in the World. Chinas reform and opening up policy create the conditions on international relations and cultural exchange
48、s. We need to use such an opportunity to absorb the excellent cultures from other countries, to develop and create Chinas new culture. This work can make the world to know China better and let China go to the world and become the leader of the world. If we do, all is ours. 参考文献中外商务礼仪礼仪有学问中外美食参考欧洲自助游中美文化差异（百度百科）水浒传西餐礼仪出国点菜不求人中华名族酒文化西方饮食文化中国饮食文化烹饪原理