Comparison of Chinese and Western food culture
(中西饮食文化的对比)
We know that each country has its own culture, of course, food culture is no exception. Today, the world's civilization continues to progress, the increasingly close ties between countries, even the earth are called global village. In this case, in order to strengthen the exchange between Western countries, we must understand the cultural aspects and learn, the only way to demonstrate mutual respect, to promote harmony and communication between countries.the Chinese people pay attention to diet, supplements, dietary, attention to diet regimen to keep fit, but the cooking technique is ignorant in pursuit of beauty as the first requirement, resulting in the loss of many nutrients in processing.Western cooking pay attention to nutrition but their ignored the taste 2, differences in cooking methods.Although living standards have greatly improved, but generally speaking, Chinese people mainly vegetarian, Chinese people have 600 kinds of vegetables to eat, six times more than in the West. Westerners like meat or fish, adhering to the nomadic, seafaring people's cultural origin, fishing and hunting, breeding mainly to collect, grow, giving the meat or fish more food, clothing are taken from the animals, and even medicine is extracted from the intake of animals made of. The dishes are mainly Chinese people chopsticks, supplemented by key, and a variety of shapes of cups, plates, bowls, plates. Westerners with a metal knife and fork, and a variety of cups, plates, cup, dish.Chopsticks and knife and fork as the East and West, the two most representative dishes, side effect of something different lifestyle, represent two different kinds of wisdom.In China, any banquet, no matter what purpose, there will be only a form, that is, we were sitting round, sharing one seat; feast use the round table, which created a unity in form, courtesy of the atmosphere of interest Western pursue Dining System. The first is the point of the dish, what to eat something, which also showed the Western respect for individuality. Up after the meal, people eat each one of their own, feel free to add their own spices, a second course dish eaten before eating, before and after the two never mixed vegetables to eat. References:
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Comparison of Chinese and Western food culture
