【正文】 On Differences Between Chinese and Western Dietary Cultures 論中西飲食文化差異 Abstract Diet is absolutely necessary in the life of mankind, and even in the existence or development. Because of the differences between Chinese and western cultural traditions, the Chinese and western dietary cultures are different in concept, target, pattern, attribution and nature. We study these differences and then find out the points that can be digested, in order to facilitate the munication about cultures between China and the west. Taiwan Professor Zhang Qijun said, ―The old saying, 39。Eat, drink, man, woman who wishes greatly39。. For such a standard fair, western culture (in particular, modern American culture) can be said to be male and female culture. But the Chinese culture can be said to be a dietary culture. As the reason of the cultural traditions, the western lives tend to men and women, but because of the narrow gender relations, Chinese people are dumping guidance on life in the restaurants. Thus the diet is rich in culture. Food culture in the west is not developed enough, but this underdevelopment itself is the result of the development of a culture, so it is still significant to study the dietary cultures of Chinese and Western diet. By the analysis of the differences between Chinese and western dietary cultures, we can prehend the respective cultural traditions of China and the west. And we can also improve and create the culture of China. Key Words dietary culture。 cultural tradition。 differences 摘 要 飲食是人類生 活、生存與發(fā)展的必需，可是由于中西方文化傳統(tǒng)的差異，導(dǎo)致了中西方飲食文化在觀念、對象、方式、歸屬與性質(zhì)方面產(chǎn)生了差異，研究這些差異，找出可以融會貫通的地方，促進中西文化交流。臺灣張起鈞教授說過 ―古語說 ?飲食男女人之大欲存焉 ‘。就這樣的標準而論，西方文化（特別是近代美國式的文化）可說是男女文化，而中國可說是一種飲食文化。 ‖由于文化傳統(tǒng)的緣故，西方人的人生傾向男女關(guān)系，而中國人由于對男女關(guān)系的褊狹，把人生精力傾泄導(dǎo)向于飲食。由此賦予飲食以豐富的文化內(nèi)涵，雖然飲食文化在西方不夠發(fā)達，但這種不發(fā)達本身也是一種文化發(fā) 展的結(jié)果，所以對中西飲食文化的比較仍有意義。通過對中西飲食文化差異的分析，我們可以了解中西方各自的文化傳統(tǒng)；同時能對中國文化進行改善與創(chuàng)新。 關(guān)鍵詞 飲食文化 。文化傳統(tǒng) 。差異 Introduction Once there is a saying that Food is eating welldeserved for human life‖, so food is an indispensable condition for the survival and development of human beings. There are two desires in life: one is feasting them to survive。 and another is the lust of men and women, which can help the mankind to carry on the family line. Facing the two desires, China pays more attention to the former, while the west tends to the latter. Such phenomenon affects the cultural trend. Diet is actually the contents of our daily lives, but why we call it culture? That is because the diet has special status in the Chinese culture, and it also has a great distinction between China and the west. As one of the world ancient nations, China‘s diet has a history almost as long as that of Chinese civilization. But in western countries, ancient thinkers devoted less attention to the food problem than the Chinese philosophers did, and there is even not aware of it to the heaven degree. With the opposite, they recognized and interpreted the world in the perspective of the lust or love of men and women more. Whether the awareness of original sin of Christianity, Adam and Eve legend, or ancient Greek philosophy (such as Plato39。s dialogue) who considered the personal relationships ―love‖ as the love of ontology of beauty, and regarded it as a reality thinking of philosophy, all these ideas bee the basis of western philosophers‘ cultural thoughts. All these had potential effects on the development of western culture and westerners‘ characters. Receiving the influence of respective cultural tradition, the Chinese and western dietary culture has had different characteristic. The differences in concepts, targets, patterns, attribution and nature had reflected the different dietary culture in the different state characteristic。 such characteristic has enriched the research value of dietary culture. Studying these cultural differences, we can find out a joint enhancing the munication between China and the west through a prehensive study of the subject. It may be a great help to the munication of the Chinese and western cultures. I. Differences in Concepts First, the Chinese and western diet have the differences that cannot be ignored in concepts. Nobody will deny that the Western diet is a rational concept, regardless of the color of food, incense, flavor and shape, but nutrition must be assured. It cares about the intake of calories, vitamins, protein and so on during a day. Comparing with the Chinese diet, western diet tastes stereotyped, as simple as chewing the candle, but the sense tells them: We must eat them all because of the nutrition. And then they put it bluntly, just like refueling machine. The concept of western diet is patible with the whole western philosophy. Metaphysics is the main feature of western philosophy. Such kind of philosophy brings vitality to western culture, so the natural sciences, psychology and methodology achieve a rapid development. In some other aspects, such philosophy proposition is a significantly obstacle, such as the dietary culture, which is the inevitable thing to drop behind, and just the metaphysics of methodology marks everywhere. In celebration, it stresses tableware, stresses the staple, stresses the servings, and stresses the color and shape mix of raw materials. But no matter how luxurious the grade is。 from Los Angeles to New York, only one taste of steak, it is no art to speak of. And as dishes, the chicken is chicken。 steak is steak, even in groups, which are also conducted in a shallow dish. In a dish of French Muttonchops, one side is potato mud, and muttonchops sits next to it, another side is allocation of cooking beans, and plus a few tablets of tomato. Color is on clear, but the tastes of the various materials are separated, not to reconcile, and the entire flavor is also simple and clear. Chinese diet is a sense of b