【正文】 is because the diet has a special status in the Chinese culture. And it is also different between China and West. Chinese people’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 religious 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 cooking’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 Westerner’s eyes can bee the food rich in the appearance, the fragrance and taste under the Chinese chef’s careful cooking. Second, Chinese recipes are widespread, and everything that can be eaten will be full used. The West botanists think 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. Characteristics of Western Food Culture In the Western diet, meat always has a high proportion because the diet was initially based 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 3 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 American 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. The manufacturing method was simple than that of China, but they also paid great attention to the taste. Ⅱ . Analysis of Cultural Differences between Chinese and Western Dietary 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 eight areas: differences in concepts, differences in targets, differences in the dietary patterns, differences in the nature, differences in the etiquette, differences in the cooking methods, differences in the tableware, differences in the daily diet. . Differences in Concepts First, the Chinese and western diet has 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 entire 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。 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 likewise simple and clear. The Chinese diet is a sense of beauty diet. When people sample dishes, they often say this dish is “delicious”, or that dish is “not delicious”. But if you ask what is meant by “delicious”, why tasty and what are the aspects of “delicious”, I am afraid that it will be difficult to answer. This shows that which Chinese people hanker on a diet is just the “mood” that is difficult for one to say anything. Even using the color, flavor, shape and implement which people often said to make the realm reification, I am afraid it is still difficult to crown all. The beauty pursuit of Chinese cuisine is distinctly over