中西方食品文化.doc

The Comparison between Chinese and Western Food culture May 2014 The Comparison between Chinese and Western Food Abstract: Food culture is one of the most important component in national culture.It is also the essential carrier of a nation’s folk culture.The food culture of every nation is consists of the nation’s diet habits that in some degree can reflect the living history and environment of the nation.Food products have the salient features of territoriality under the impact of the elements such as weather,environment,customs and regional characteristics that lead to the differences between Chinese and Western food culture.There are different mode of thinking and philosophy of life between Western nations and China .For instance,Chinese emphasis the harmony between men and nature while Westerners lay stress on the idea of “people oriented”.I will talk about it in the following aspects. Key words:comparison,Chinese,Western,diet culture The differences of Chinese and Western diet culture are obvious and both of them have their own advantages.Chinese emphasis the harmony between men and nature while Westerners lay stress on the idea of “people oriented”.I will talk about it in the following aspects. 1. The comparison of diet contents China is a leading agriculture nation since ancient times.Chinese people tend to eat more grains and less meat.According to the survey done by some Western plant scholars,there are more than 600 hundred kinds of vegetables in Chinese people’s diet,which is 7times the number of West counties.So we can see that vegetables occupy the leading position in Chinese food,although with the fast development of living condition,Chinese people also pay attention to the amount of meat . Meanwhile,Westerners prefer to eat meat,such as beef,pork,mutton,fish and chicken.They pay more attention to the ingestion of animal protein and fat.Besides,Westerners also eat vegetables,but they prefer to eat them raw.Not only cucumbers and tomatoes but