中西方饮食文化差异 英语.pptVIP

* Between China and West A Comparison of Food Culture In the development of human civilization, food occupies an important position and at the same time grows with the development of history. The world’s most diversified culture - food culture formed due to geographical distribution and location around the world, and the different climate. Understanding and revealing the differences between China and West food culture can help you to understand the culture better. Culture is a floorboard of the life style that condensed by people in the long-time social life. When a nation formed a fixed diet, diet tips and diet, but once, they constitute a sub-culture. There are four significant differences between Chinese and Anglo-American and other western countries about the views and attitudes on diet, diet content and features. 1. Idea, taste and features of food. West is the concept of a rational diet, regardless of food color, smell, taste, shape, and strive to taste light and balanced diet, nutrition must be assured. Westerners in the intake of food is basically from a nutritional point of view to understand the diet, eating is only a mean to enjoy, in the diet did not occupy an important position and therefore they will not be too much in pursuit of taste. However, the Chinese people are a kind of emotional eating. Chinese people attach great importance to “eat”, “Hunger breeds discontent”. People play an extremely function of eating, not only survive, but also use it to maintain healthy. 2 .The choices of cooking materials Westerners think the dishes are to fill their stomach, so they eat large pieces of meat, chicken and other block. China’s cuisine is “Taste”, so when cooking, showing a great arbitrariness in the selected materials: many things that thrown away by westerners may seem as an excellent raw material to Chinese people. Western raw materials are mainly animal and marine fish, supplemented with plant; while Chinese are mainly plat