Only when it comes to food, there is the biggest difference between China people and westerners. Westerners don't pay much attention to eating, the form and taste of Lai cuisine. The first thing to pay attention to is the nutritional collocation, followed by the taste. People's Congress pays attention to the form and taste of Laicai, paying attention to color, aroma and taste first, and then paying attention to nutritional collocation. China people's "food is the most important thing" puts food in the most important and highest position. Westerners, on the other hand, put sex first, which is contrary to China's concept of "full of warmth and desire for sex". Mr. Lin Yutang received a strict education in Chinese and Western cultures and made an incisive exposition on the convenience of western food:
The British don't take food seriously, but treat it as a casual thing ... There is no word cu 1s 1Ne (cooking) in English, they only cook; They don't have a proper word to call a chef, but simply call him a chef. They didn't call the menu originally, but called d 1shes. They don't have a word called gourmet, so they call it gluttonous intestines in nursery rhymes.
People in China have a wide range of interests in eating, and all kinds of foods are ingested. All animals, whether flying in the sky, running on the ground or swimming in the water, can be moved to the dining table. In the 1980s, Sichuan cracked a case of hunting giant pandas. When the police arrived at the suspect's house, he was stewing giant panda meat in a pot, which may be the most expensive meat in the world. It takes three days and three nights to enjoy the Manchu-Han banquet in China, which is like an Arab myth in the eyes of westerners. Even Chinese herbal medicines for treating diseases have been brought to the table in China, which is called medicated diet. Westerners lack the pioneering spirit of China people in diet, and they are cautious about every kind of food. According to legend, when tomatoes spread from Arabia to the west, no one dared to eat them. Later, a brave man took a risk and tried one. When others saw that he had eaten all day and all night, he began to accept it carefully. Western food varieties are monotonous, and the favorite ones are nothing more than beef, chicken and fish. They even seldom eat river fish. I guess they are afraid of thorns or to protect the ecological environment.
In Europe, people are rarely seen fishing in lakes and rivers. Most people who like fishing go fishing in the sea. West Renye Fang seldom eats pork. When you open the menu of western food, you seldom see pork dishes. Westerners don't eat the internal organs of animals. The European body made it clear more than ten years ago that any internal organs of animals can't be made into food and sold to people. French foie gras, a dish that makes gourmets salivate, may be an exception. Westerners generally don't eat animal skins. They think that animal skins contain high cholesterol. While exporting frozen chicken abroad, China is also importing chicken feet. Chicken feet are bones except skin. Westerners don't eat it, so they sell it to us at a low price. We call chicken feet chicken feet. Song Meiling lived to the age of 103 before his death. She likes chicken feet best.
Formally speaking, Chinese food is a combined meal system, while western food is a separate meal system. In terms of content, the raw materials of Chinese food are all-inclusive and make the best use of them; There are only a handful of raw materials in western food, so you can't eat enough. In terms of taste, Chinese food is greasy and salty. Western food is light and slightly sweet. Which is better or worse? It was a close call. Chinese food is based on several years of historical precipitation, while western food is based on perfect scientific theory. Now Chinese food has gradually entered the western food circle after improvement, and western food, as a pioneer, has brought its original flavor to China through culture. Chinese and western food cultures are complementing each other and infiltrating each other. Every country in the world has Chinese food, because every country in the world has China people. In most parts of China, people eat birthday cakes on birthdays and blow out candles with typical western food culture symbols, because western culture has already penetrated into every corner of us.
The dining system of western food can fully reflect people's personality and respect people's right to choose. What would you like to eat and drink? Take what you want and choose freely. The system of dividing meals for Chinese food is often decided by officers and elders. They order a large bottle of drinks according to their own preferences, and you have to eat it if you don't eat it. You rarely have your own choices, so you can only follow the crowd. China's paternalism and administrative consciousness are everywhere.
Although the types of Lai dishes in western food are simple, the tableware is very complicated. I ate a more formal western food, only the number of knives, forks and spoons was similar to the number of dishes. Unlike Chinese food, even a state banquet is just a pair of chopsticks and a spoon. The chopsticks of China people have replaced the knife and fork function of western tableware, which is more flexible and convenient. Dr Yang Zhenning said: The invention of chopsticks by China people is another great contribution to the world. Chopsticks are an extension of human fingers. Using chopsticks makes people's fingers nimble and their thinking agile.
Apart from ethnic and genetic factors, Fang people are tall, and another important reason is that they consume far more milk every day than China people. Darwin's theory of biological evolution has two important viewpoints: the first is heredity, and the second is variation. Heredity is innate, and variation can be carried out through the day after tomorrow.
In the past, the average height of Japanese people was much lower than that of China people. In the last century, they studied the western industrial civilization as well as the western life civilization, and started milk projects all over Japan, so that every Japanese child could increase the milk intake. This move has long been effective, and the average height of Japanese people is also increasing year by year. In Europe, the average height should be the highest in the Netherlands, and the Dutch drink the most milk. They almost drink milk as water because they have milk. Their country is rich in milk and tulips. China people's milk intake has been very low, which not only affects their height, but also makes many people hunched over and suffer from osteoporosis when they get old. As a result, many orthopedic hospitals and many pharmaceutical factories produce calcium tablets, thus forming a vicious circle of young people not drinking milk and old people eating calcium tablets. You can see that the calcium in the advertisement of calcium agent in Harbin No.6 Pharmaceutical Factory is so deeply rooted in people's hearts and is a household name.
In China's ethnic minority areas, mainly Tibetan, Uygur and Mongolian areas that graze a lot, they grow taller because of drinking more milk, with less hunchback, less osteoporosis, fewer fractures and fewer orthopedic surgeons. I chatted with a friend who came back from Australia the other day. He said there are only three orthopedic surgeons in Melbourne, Australia. I can't believe it's true. There is at least one medical staff engaged in orthopedics in Chengdu.
Chinese and western women's eating habits during pregnancy and postpartum are also very different. In the first two or three months of pregnancy, Chinese women often have symptoms such as nausea and vomiting due to special physiological reactions, so they eat less and even have anorexia. It is precisely these three months that are the critical period for the fetus to get sick and grow brains, so nutrition must be sufficient. In the next seven months, the brain will basically take shape, as long as you eat normally and pay attention to nutrition.
During this period, most women in China began to overeat because of their weakened physiological response, and all of them were like sumo. This is not good for fetal development, because your sumo wrestlers is breathless when he walks. How can you exercise? At this time, western women should insist on sports, even running and swimming. This is good for fetal development and delivery. Caesarean section is rare in the west, but the proportion of caesarean section is increasing in China. The reason is that we don't pay attention to the measurement of diet during pregnancy and seldom exercise, which also brings a lot of trouble to postpartum recovery.
Now some women begin to pay attention to this problem, especially movie stars pay more attention to their body shape. I saw photos of Faye Wong's pregnancy on the Internet the other day. If she is not pregnant, she really can't see the clue.
After confinement, women in China not only have to wrap their heads and wear socks under the quilt every day, but also can't read books, watch TV, wash their hair, take a bath or see the sun, or sit at home for 30 or even 40 days. They also have to eat too many fried eggs, stewed pig's feet and stewed chicken with cuttlefish. This has been a tradition and custom in China for several years, and no one wants to violate it. Western women don't talk about confinement, they will walk around in a few days, and they don't have to eat poached eggs and drink greasy chicken soup every day. None of them got sick during childbirth. This is a matter of physical quality. Or a habit?