【正文】 linary arts The Chinese people are drinking around the table to show harmony and unity but the buffet has broken such pattern 52 diffrence in Diet Attribution There are differences between Chinese and western diet attributionWestern diet tends to be scientific and rational but the Chinese diet tends to be art and sentimental During the underdevelopment era of diet these two trends have only one aim – to live and never be hungry53 Differences in Dietary PatternsThe Chinese and Western dietary patterns can be very different and these differences affect the national character In China a celebration no matter what there will be only one form as sitting together sharing one feast Banquet uses round table which has created a unity of form which is courtesy ity atmosphere It is the objects for people to appreciate and taste and it is also an intermediate of munication Although from the health point of view this approach has obvious deficiencies but it is in our national happy mentality it reflects the classical Chinese philosophy area of and impact for future generations It is helpful to facilitate the collective emotional exchanges and consequently difficult to reform The westernstyle banquets although the food and wine are very important but in fact they are just foil The core of Banquet is friendship by the conversation with the guests who sitting next to achieve the purpose of recreation This shows that munication purpose of Chinese banquet and western banquet are very obvious Only the Chinese banquet is more popular in the munion but western banquet shows guests reflected in the friendship between neighbors The more obvious differences between Chinese and western dietary patterns is buffet dinner which is popular in the West This method is to display all food and everybody is picking not fixed in his or her places to eat They walk freely This approach would provide the emotional interaction between individuals they never need to put every word on the table This also shows a western personality and selfrespectPartVI ConclusionHowever all the eating without jamming lacks the real affective tone like the Chinese people People want to put the buffet in the Chinese food but I think it is not feasible Zhang Qijun in the Principles of Cooking tells us the main reason First buffet is not like drinking tea In the course of development it absorbs a lot of different cultures Moreover now China does more efforts to draw all the outstanding achievements in the World Chinas reform and opening up policy create the conditions on international relations and cultural exchanges We need to use such an opportunity to absorb the excellent cultures from other countries to develop and create Chinas new cultureReferences 1 安靜解讀美國[M] 北京中國旅游出版社2007 2 陳潔得心應(yīng)手西餐禮儀[M]北京世界知識出版社 2005 3 金炳鎬民族理論通論[M]北京中央民族大學(xué)出版社1994 4 劉枋吃的藝術(shù)[M]山東山東畫報出版社2003 5 劉玫君陳加真出國點(diǎn)菜不求人別人不會告訴你的旅行智慧[M]北京中國旅游出版社2005 6 馬文哈里斯 美 好吃食物與文化之迷[M]山東山東畫報出版社2001 7 巴黎一席浮動的豪宴[M]北京書店20048 唐魯孫天下味[M]桂林廣西師范大學(xué)出版社2004 9 王曉昕李學(xué)友傳統(tǒng)文化與道德建設(shè)[M]貴陽貴州民族出版社2004 10 蕭家成升華的魅力中華民族酒文化[M]北京華齡出版社2007 11 徐先玲李祖狀西方飲食文化[M]北京中國戲劇出版社 200512 向世陵中國哲學(xué)智慧[M]北京中國人民大學(xué)出版社 200013 殷珍泉禮儀有學(xué)問[M]北京北京臺海出版社 2002 14 張茗陽食物改變你的一生[M]上海學(xué)林出版社 2003 15 張志偉歐陽謙西方哲學(xué)智慧[M]北京中國人民大學(xué)出版社 2000 16 張起鈞烹飪原理[M]北京 中國輕工業(yè)出版社2000 小組負(fù)責(zé)人簽字 系印章 年 月 日 2