【正文】 y can the names of cuisine show the culture, but they can also reveal beautiful things. 5 2. Showing the Beauty China enjoys a large piece of territory which is a large cradle for all kinds of beautiful things. Chinese people always make their best efforts to keep those beautiful things they’ve saw. So the cook would keep those by giving their dishes beautiful names, and when people call the names, they can remember the beautiful moments or things. Here is an example: 水晶南瓜 Crystal Pumpkin Crystal is with a high status in the hearts of Chinese people. The transparency of crystal means pureness and holy to them. In ancient China, people always wear crystal, they thought it could show their beauty and status, and also protect them. Meanwhile, crystal is also gave to others as a gift by people to show their best wishes. With so many functions, crystal actually shows the efforts of people trying to pursue or to keep happiness and beauty. So there is no doubt that people give their dishes the name related to crystal, they want to maintain those great things and have a good luck. The beautiful things always contain the hopes of people, so we can also learn about how people express their hopes through the names of cuisine. 3. Expression of hope Chinese nation enjoys a history about 5,000 years, during which our ancestors had made a great achievement on literature, they always used some rhetorical devices, such as metaphor or simile, or they would use some color, such as red or golden to express their hopes. So the dishes being the most mon thing of course became the bridge to link their thought and reality. They gave the dishes beautiful names to express their hopes that they can’t speak out or can’t realize. Such as, 金錢雞塔 Bake Chicken Breast and Fat Pork in a Pan Talking about the golden color, what es to our mind is treasure, luxury, high status and other words related to wealth. In ancient China, the palace of emperors all used the golden color to show their power and high status. 6 In this dish, people fried the chicken and the meat of pig into golden color, then it looks like the color of the gold. Actually, in the ancient China, the gold was the most expensive currency. The gold in this dish do not only mean money, but the hope of being happy and stable. Application of Foreignization Dishes Characterizing in History and Culture The dishes of a nation are like a mirror showing out the peculiar history, culture and customs of the nation. China being at the Eastern is quite different from the west countries. Chinese culture concentrates on the Confucianism, and contains thought, word, language, then the Six Classics, handwriting, music, martial arts, festivals, and customs. Chinese people are emotional, they prefer to express their feeling by a veiled way, especially those poets, they always used the natural things to carry their thoughts. For example, they always use the willow to show their best wishes for their parting friends hoping them a safe journey. What’s more, Chinese people also regard the full moon as a symbol for union and the feeling of nostalgia. However, the western countries concentrate on the humanism, and the people are more rational than Chinese people. They prefer thinking straightly. Chinese dishes developing with our history, are colored with our traditional culture. So the rational Chinese people usually name the dishes after the names of some historical figures or some literary quotations to remember them. So these dishes are important for our Chinese people, because they not only carry down our tradition, culture, customs, but also inform us of our culture. As for the translation of this kind of dishes, we should keep their culture basics, and freignization is a best way to realize that. And in my paper, I would like to explain it in the aspect of Sichuan cuisine, the followings are some examples: 7 宮保雞丁 Gong Bao Diced Chicken 麻婆豆腐 MarBoh Tofu 東坡肉 Braised Dongpo Pork In the three examples, the names of those dishes all have a close relation with their founders. Gong bao Diced Chicken was named after the name of Ding Baozhen who was a Scholar during the Xianfeng period in Qing dynasty. He was once the governorgeneral of Si Chuan, and he liked eating he dishes cooked with chicken, pork and pepper. He then made a great contribution to the protection of border, so he got a title “Tai Zi Shao Bao”,which was an official position in Qing dynasty and people always called him as “ Ding Shao Bao”. Finally the dish he loved was called as Gong Bao Diced Chicken. MarBoh Tofu also has its history. It was created in Qing dynasty by the wife of the owner of a restaurant, whose name was Chen Chunfu. The tofu she cooked had the taste of a high degree of spicy, and was very popular at that time. So people named the tofu according to its taste, not because the cook was a freckled woman. The Braised Dongpo Pork was created by Su Dongpo who was a well known poet in Song dynasty. People at that time all thought highly of his poems, even in modern time, his poems are also enjoyed a great fame. Not only his poems were famous, but the writings and paintings of him were also regarded as a model for other scholars. What’s more, Su Dongpo is also a good cook, and he always cooked for his guests. Su Dongpo once helped local people fight the flood, which won him a great fame. In order to show their gratefulness, the local people sent him lots of pork. Then Su asked his servants to cook that pork according to his cooking method, and