大学选修中西饮食文化差异01946.ppt

“Food is the heaven to the people Since the human being cook with fire for the first time and come to a civilian age ,the food we eat has begun to be of cultural property . China has a long history of 5000 years, while the west has one of about six hundred years .China has a food culture that is colorful, profound and excellent, while the west has its own special culture. Now we’d like to talk about the differences between these two cultures from the following aspects. 1、The difference of idea about food （饮食观念） 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。So they value the unity of different tastes and they always try to harmonize food of different natural properties into one. Since the westerners form a special idea about the food science. The very idea is that balanced nutrient. In their opinion, one should choose his food only according to his need as an independent individual and the balanced requirement of all kinds of nutrients for each part of his body. They consider it is important to make the proper match of food by the criterion of variety and quantity. In Chinas cookery, achieves the the delicacy to the most. The actions during cooking may destroy the nutrition constituent . As a result of a nutrition problem, in fact touched on the Chinese culinary culture to the greatest weakness 2、 The Diet Structure （饮食结构） Chinese traditional eating customs is vegetable foodstuffs ,main staple food is Five Cereals, food supplement is vegetables, plus a small amount of meat. As a matter of fact ,in Chinese diet ,vegetables is a rather common food .Only in festivals or in the time when life condition is improved do they eat more meat . According to Wests plant scholars investigation, the vegetables which the Chinese eats has 600 many kinds, are more than six times the West. The westerners are different, they are d