#中西饮食文化差异的餐桌礼仪对比.docx

1、#中西饮食文化差异的餐桌礼仪对比On the differences between Chinese and western food cultureChaptr1Introduction 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

2、”, which means that 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

3、 to our life so that 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 drinkin

4、g ,but a history in 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

5、 world .With Chinese 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 peop

6、le really grasp the 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 defini

7、tions in broad sense 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

8、 during the long period 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

9、 passed down in the 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 cour

10、se of food production 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

11、 be no food culture .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 culture China has a long

12、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 special culture. Now wed like to talk about the differences between these two cultures from the following aspects.3.1 the difference

13、 of idea about food What Chinese people 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 tradit

14、ional idea, they tend to seek the relationship 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 .For example , in Shandong dishes , pork and soybean oil are in

15、terdependent and their combination can almost make all dishes be of fantastic smell of pork and color of soybean .It thus make food of different natures get unification. So we see, mediocrity is the theme of Chinese cooking culture. Since the westerners believe in separation of the universe and huma

16、n in their cultural spirit and 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 according to his need as an independent individual and the balanced requirement of all kinds of nutrients for each part of his body. The