中西方饮食文化的差别.ppt

The differences between Chinese and western food culture China has a long history of 5000 years, while the west has one of about six hundred years the difference 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 traditional 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. The westerners believe in separation of the universe and human in their cultural spirit and thinking model, emphasize the form and structure, and value the clearness. The differences of cooking skill Chinese people more often than not add two or more condiments into the food and by this realize the perfect harmony of the taste of the arterial and condiments. 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. 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 westerners emphasize nutrition and balanced in their diet. Chinese dishes are connected tightly to vegetables .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 leave. The westerners are different, they are descendant of nomadic tribes and navigation peoples in their