Differences between Chinese and western food cultures. A brief introduction to the saying of China people: One side of the soil and water will nourish one side. The mountains and castles in Europe look like oil paintings, thick, accurate and magnificent. The water and pavilions in the south of China are like an ink painting, floating like a dream. The definition of "what is culture" says that culture is the sum of all material and spiritual products. I said that culture is everything you see, everything you say and everything you do. "People eat for the sky." Food culture is close to our life. Understanding the connotation of food culture is actually reading the first page of Life. 2. Study on Chinese and Western Dietary Cultures The characteristics of China's dietetic culture: The source of China's dietetic culture is the ancient oriental theory of Yin and Yang, which is a romantic philosophy and still affects our dietetic life. China people's dietary pursuit is "delicious enjoyment and dietary health preservation", putting the taste feeling of diet in the first place and paying attention to the artistic enjoyment of dietary aesthetics. China's traditional concept of diet has no concept of nutrition, and only pays attention to health. Diet regimen includes "dialectical diet" and "moderate diet". The principle is the coexistence of yin and yang and five elements. China people regard diet as an art and pursue the spiritual enjoyment of diet with a romantic attitude. Cultural characteristics of western food: modern western scientific civilization has a great influence on the formation of western food customs. For developed western science, it is just a piece of cake to analyze the composition and content of food and master the specific nutritional needs. Westerners treat food, first of all, what nutrition it has and how much energy it can produce, and taste is secondary. If cooking is heated, it will cause nutrient loss, so it will be eaten half-baked or even crisp. Westerners regard diet as a science and pay attention to its function with a realistic attitude. The comparative nutrition of Chinese and western food culture is the basic condition for human survival, and it is also the main index to reflect a country's economic level and people's quality of life. Westerners give priority to staple food and put grain above all other foods, which not only ensures that grain and other foods can complement each other in nutrition, but also ensures that the proportion of rice and vegetables is appropriate. Chinese food tastes a little salty, but it has been greatly improved after being diluted by bland staple food. If we want to use an abstract adjective to describe the differences between eastern and western food cultures, we can roughly say that the east is "hot" and the west is "cold". From the point of view that water is the source of life, everyone cannot live without water every day. However, Asians like drinking hot water, while Europeans and Americans like drinking cold water and ice water. Whether it's winter or summer, making a pot of hot tea is the hospitality of the orientals. Similarly, whether in summer or winter, cold water, ice water and lemon water are the eternal preferences of westerners. The water you drink when eating western food is usually lemonade, which is cold. Most western countries have good water quality. When you visit their home, you usually turn on the tap and pour the water into the cup. Of course, it is cold. The most amazing thing for orientals is that they can drink a glass of water with ice in winter. Does drinking water also reflect culture? Of course. Orientals always like to warm people up and sit together for a cup of hot tea, just like a family, while westerners always pay attention to personal privacy and the distance between people. We can chat and you can be a guest, but you are you, I am me, and we are not a family, so we don't have to be as intimate as a family. Let's drink some cold water, not too hot. Supplement: judging from the three meals to be eaten every day, breakfast is the first. Oriental characteristics, at least Chinese breakfast has porridge, steamed bread, fried dough sticks, steamed buns, big cakes, pot stickers and so on, all of which are hot. The breakfast stall is a unique landscape, steaming and selling, and this joyful scene permeates every corner of the block. Breakfast in the west is usually bread, orange juice, coffee, milk, and of course there are hot things, but there will be no steaming feeling. Why? One is that there are not many hot things, and the other is that they will not have the habit of buying breakfast at street stalls. Going out for breakfast means going to a small curry restaurant for breakfast and reading the newspaper alone. This difference is not only based on tradition or habit, but also based on cultural differences. We like the feeling of "everyone", while westerners like the elegant time enjoyed by one person alone. Supplement: Then, talk about the most important and obvious difference of dinner. Oriental cuisine pays attention to cooking, frying and frying are only the simplest cooking methods that do not reflect the standard, and there are a series of cooking methods that show their skill, such as stewing, boiling, steaming and frying, so food is often very tasty and will have thousands of different flavors. Westerners pay attention to ingredients, which must be fresh, so there are lettuce salad, medium-rare steak and even raw beef. What we eat is taste, and what they eat is fresh. Westerners don't know what cooking is because most of what they eat is raw and cold, which is easy to understand. Everything that is cold and raw is fresh. Even if you want to eat it cooked, you can just scald it, fry it and bake it. This kind of cooking will not taste, but it will certainly retain the original flavor of the food. They like to add all kinds of condiments to food, such as salad dressing in salad, vanilla cream dressing in salmon and black pepper dressing in steak, but we don't need it because the taste is already in the food. The relationship between this and the "cold" in the west and the "hot" in the east is also obvious. Our kitchen is going all out. If you move this to a westerner's house, I'm afraid the smoke alarm will go off, which has reached the point where there is a fire. Orientals like "everyone", intimacy and all kinds of warm feelings, so the food is delicious. Seasoning and food have been integrated through exquisite cooking, while westerners can communicate but not blend, and can touch but not be intimate, so the feeling of pouring sauce is just touching. Supplement: finally, talk about the way of eating. The difference between East and West is not obvious. We like to eat at the table, so the table is usually a round table, while the west is a square table. Is this circle and square just a simple form? In fact, it is not difficult to find that the feeling of sitting together is different from that of sitting at a square table. We put all the dishes on the round table, which looks very lively, and the round table is more convenient when eating. No one will be too far away from a dish to reach, because our chopsticks can reach this dish or that dish without scruple. We are "hot", we sit at the same table, the food on the round table is steaming hot, and we can make a scene during the dinner. However, when westerners eat, they eat their own food, which is called "sharing food". Everyone has their own dishes. Of course, it doesn't matter if they have a round table for eating. It's not as good as the square table. It's more suitable. Eating together is not too intimate. Even eating turkey on Thanksgiving Day is a dish that everyone needs to enjoy, but the host or waiter will definitely divide it first, walk to your side and divide it on your plate, thus avoiding the inconvenience caused by taking the food off the table. Another feature of western food is that you don't put all the dishes on the table, but eat one and then another, which is of course "cold" compared with the popularity of oriental dining tables. There is cold and hot here, but there is no difference between good and bad. It is precisely because of cultural differences that a colorful world has been created.