从分餐制和合餐制看中西方文化的差异.docVIP

从分餐制和合餐制看中西方文化的差异 　　There are many differences between westerneastern culturescivilizations because of diverse histories, geographies, nationalitiesso on. And the dish habit is an important part of the different civilizations. Both dining separately in western countriesdining together in China has long histories. It represents westerneastern people have different tastes of beauty, ideas about entertainments, peaceliberty etc. As China plays a moremore vital role in international society, it is important for us to research into the diet difference between westeast. To master the table manner is a significant way to coordinate the social relationship among people so that people will not cause the unhappinessembarrassment of communicative sides. Therefore, by analyzing different authors’ books, this paper tries to research deeply into the cultural differences hiding behind the differences of diet habits which will be conducive for us to do effective cross culture communication. 　　1, the origin of dining separatelydining together 　　Is the dining together just a Chinese tradition? The answer is no. According to Wang Xiangren, the author of “ancient flavor --- the history of Chinese diet cultureculture”, it is a pre-modern diet way. Before the Renaissance was started, the habit of dining together used to hold the reigning position around the universe, which is a common tradition in the pre-modern times in human history. At that time, the sense of individuality did not universally come into being, so they will not emphasize the importance of individuality while they had meals, they took sharing food for granted.(Wang, 1999) 　　Dining together is the straight way for people to share foodit is the most natural state of staying together. On the basis of relative books, the ancient Hebrew had dinners around a tablethey not only grasp the food with hands directly but also pass the food to their companions. It is obvious that you did not think too much about the personalities whi