【正文】 s habit of urging somebody to drink and zugreifen frequently. It is not allowed to make a noise while eating the food, but the guests should pay attention to appreciate the meals that the owners prepared (張亞紅 ,2020). If you want to talk with people, you can only talk with the ones beside you but not the distant ones. 第 13 頁 共 18 頁 III. Underlying Causes The differences in social development, traditional culture and thought, and life customs create differences between Chinese and Western food culture. There are two major characteristics of Chinese culture. The first one is the pursuit of applicable things without all nonuseful things. Historically, all of the practical technologies were very advanced, such as agricultural science and technology and medicine, while the nonpractical things can not be welldeveloped. The second one is that Chinese culture shows unique characteristics of love. The core of Confucian thought “Hell?s Angel has farreaching impact on China39。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, different eating habits and different table manners. A. Different Cooking Criteria: ‘Norms’ and ‘Casual’ 1. Norm and Exactness in Western Cooking Westerners emphasize science and nutrition, so the whole process of cooking is in strict accordance with the scientific norm. The use of recipes is an excellent proof to this. In the Western recipes the measurement is calculated by grams and in the surface the recipe seems to be scientific. Westerners are always holding recipes to go to buy food and make dishes, but pared to Chinese cooking, it is a very mechanical thing, so in front of plex circumstances it is often powerless. And this consistency has led to a drawback of Western foodthe lack of features. When people are in different places, when you want to taste the local cuisine, definitely no one would choose foods like Kentucky Fried Chicken, 第 5 頁 共 18 頁 because Fried Chicken requires not only the ingredients according to recipes, but also the temperature of the oil, fried chicken, and the time. The process must be strict in accordance with specifications, so the world39。本文分為五個部分來介紹。 關鍵詞： 飲食文化；中西；差異 第 II 頁 共 18 頁 Abstract This paper aims to understand the plicated aspects of food culture and to guide the catering things in restaurants and so on. In order to achieve this goal, this paper makes an analysis in detail to the differences of food culture between the Chinese and Western as well as the mutual supplementation and patibleness of the two food cultures under the globalization. In the basis of improving our ability of realization, we should enhance the strong points and avoids weaknesses, improving diet structure, advancing the diet quality and ensuring everyone to have healthy diet in their daily life. The study conducted of the differences of food culture in the macroscopic field of crosscultural munication also can promote the mutual understanding between the people of the East and West. It could promote the exchange and make people enjoy the different feelings through the different diet. In order to make out a more scientific study conclusion which has a strong persuasive power, this paper makes a thorough analysis with the contrasting method to the differences of the two different food cultures. And this is carried out in the following five aspects: cook