Chinese and Western Food Culture

Chinese and Western Food Culture

15122107 王昌榕For a period of 4 weeks class teaching by foreign language teacher is over, we harvest a lot of a lot of knowledge. Foreign teacher told us the four aspects of knowledge, food, travel, art and philosophy. The time spent with a foreign teacher is really unforgettable memories, she told about food knowledge makes me feel very interesting. As is known to all, Chinese and western food culture has great difference.

In the long history of culture, Chinese and western different way of thinking and philosophy makes Chinese and western culture differences, so as to make the difference between Chinese and western food culture. Food products due to geographical characteristics, climate environment, customs and other factors, will appear in raw material, taste, cooking method, eating habits. On the different degree of difference. Because of these differences, food and beverage products with a strong regional.

The Chinese food to feed an ideographic, to love, its profound and unpredictable. Western diet exquisitely designed dimension, Sui generis. China and the west diet culture differences from Chinese and western different way of thinking and philosophy. In China, cooking is an art. In the west, cooking is a kind of labor.

Western diet concept

Chinese people eat taste, westerners eat nutrition. Contrast notice "flavor" Chinese food, western is a rational diet idea. No matter the food color, fragrance, taste, shape how to, and nutritional must be guaranteed, pay attention to a day to absorb how many quantity of heat, vitamin, protein and so on. Even taste machine-made, also must continue to eat -- because nutritious. On the banquet, can pay attention to tableware, pay attention to the materials, pay attention to service, in the form of exquisite dishes of raw materials, color collocation; But no matter how luxury, from Los Angeles to New York, the steak is only a kind of taste, no art to speak of. As dishes, chicken is chicken, steak is steak, even if have a match, it is in the plate, a plate of "French lamb chops," to put mashed potatoes, lean on lamb chops, on the other side with boiled green beans, add a few slices tomatoes into. Comparative and bright color, but with irrelevant, all kinds of raw materials on a taste, is our different flavor, simple and clear.

The Chinese diet concept

Chinese are very seriously "eat", folk have a saying: "the food to taste first". This proverb means that we eat is as important as day.

The Chinese diet has its unique charm, the key lies in its taste. And delicious, is to reconcile, to keep the food flavor, after heating cooked taste, together with the taste of the ingredients and materials and condiment flavor of harmonic, coordinate combine together, make it supplement each other, mutual penetration, together seamlessly, sometimes-complex mix-and-match I have you in. Unfortunately, when we put the pursuit of delicious as the first requirement, we neglected the nutritional value of food is the most fundamental, a lot of our traditional foods are

through hot Fried and a long time of fire stew, make the nutrition ingredient of the dish, many nutrients are loss in the machining process. So when it comes to nutrition problem, in fact, just touch the biggest weakness of the Chinese diet culture.

Through the analysis above, this paper shows that the symbolic meanings of color words between English and Chinese cultures have divergences; both of them have some common features in some aspects. The symbolic meanings of color words are affected by traditional culture, so different nations have formed their own unique color view in precipitated long-term history. The cultural connotations of color words differ greatly because of different cultural issues, traditions and cultural psychology. In Chinese cultures, the symbolic meanings of color words are related to the feudal past, feudal superstition, primitive sciences and education. So the symbolic meanings of color words have strong inclination of politicizing and mystifying. In Western culture the symbolic meanings of color words are affected by the Western nationality openness, science, education degree. The symbolic meanings are a few mysteries. The symbolic meanings of color words are very direct; especially the education plays an important role in the color culture. And the colorwords are deep-rooted in the social culture. Actually, every kind of color words has different culture feature in different nation. Every nation shows its own culture and value in different way. In a word, it is very important for us to comprehend and grasp the symbolic meanings ofcolor words in both English and Chinese.