【正文】 rent Table Manners III. Underlying Causes IV. Significances to the Hotel Catering Departments Based on the Study 第 V 頁 共 18 頁 V. Conclusion 首都師范大學(xué) Capital Normal University 第 1 頁 共 18 頁 An Analysis to the Differences between Chinese and Western Food Culture The differences between Chinese and Western food culture are derived from the differences in their different ways of thinking and Philosophies of life: Chinese people pay attention to the harmony and unite between Heaven and Man。 while Westerners focus on peopleorientation。 Chinese sitology uses food to express feeling and message and the meaning is too deep and hard to describe. However, the Western interpretation of food is that it has to be kickshaw, and has its own style. Ever since the ancient times, Chinese and Western food culture?s collision and exchange have largely promoted the progress and development of human society to some degree, making the food culture bee an important part of world culture. I. Introduction of Food Culture Food culture refers to the technical, scientific and artistic aspects in the process of the food production and food consumption, the development and utilization of food ingredients in specific social groups , as well as the dietbased customs, traditions, ideology and philosophy, in a word, the sum of all the food things of a bination of the way, process, function of food production and consumption（張亞紅 , 2020） .The study on food culture is extremely rich in content. Generally, it can be chosen from two aspects: the first is, the whole analysis and research aiming at specific groups of food culture phenomenon and the second is the specific analysis and research on a 第 2 頁 共 18 頁 certain area of the food culture phenomenon. A. Characteristics of Chinese Food Culture The diet is actually the content of our daily life, but why do we say that it contains specific culture? This is because the diet has a special status in the Chinese culture. And it is also different between China and the West. Chinese people39。s diet starts as early as in the Qin Dynasty. At that time, the typical diet primarily consists of the miscellaneous grains, in addition to some supplementary food such as vegetables and meat. Certainly this kind of diet relates to our Chinese first religion Buddhism a lot which advocates vegetarian diet. And the rice is the staple food, but the vegetable is to get food down. The rice is not delicious, so people must eat the vegetable which is more delicious than rice to get the rice down. And this urges Chinese cooking to make the unsavory food to bee the delicious food, which gradually bees the most important goal of cooking. Moreover the technology of diet processing in Chinese cooking is firstclass, thus manifesting the characteristics of Chinese culture. The Chinese cooking39。s diet process technology is firstclass in the world, thus it has manifested the Chinese culture characteristic. All these enable the Chinese diet culture to have the following characteristics. First, the Chinese cooking technology has developed a lot and many things which do not look like eatable food in the Westerners? eyes can bee the food rich in the appearance, the fragrance and the taste under the Chinese chef39。s careful cooking. Second, Chinese recipes are widespread, and everything that can be eaten will be full 第 3 頁 共 18 頁 used. and everything that can be eaten will be fully used. The West botanist, the Chinese eat more than six times types of vegetables than the Westerners. Third, For the Chinese people, the pursuit of eating is just to pursue best happiness of life, food being the first requirement. B. Characteristics of the Western Food Culture In the Western diet, meat always has a high proportion because the diet was initially base mainly on animal husbandry. In the modern times, although the proportion of crop cultivation has been increasing, the proportion of meat in the diet is still much higher than that of China. As the natural delicious taste of meat, for the Westerners there is no need of too much decoration for food, limiting the development of cooking. Europeans mostly use tools to show their affluence, for instance, the number of kinds and luxury bee the content to care about. Moreover, they will not make the pursuit of eating which is easy to satisfy to be the pursuit of the best happiness. We take Europe and America as a representative for the West, for its culture similarly has a wellestablished and long history. To the middle ages, the European culture had grown up, and during that time the old West?s diet culture had already formed. Its main feature was: the bread flour was the staple food, raw material was also very rich, their manufacturing method was simpler than that of China, but they also paid great attention to the taste. 第 4 頁 共 18 頁 II. Analysis of Cultural Differences between Chinese and Western Food There are distinctive food cultures in different nations and countries, with strong national character and diversity of features. Food Product, due to the geographical features, the climate of the environment and the customs and so on, will appear great difference in the raw materials, taste, cooking methods and eating habits. The parison of the differences between Chinese and Western food culture will be from the following five areas: different cooking criteria, different cultural characteristics, different food objects, differe