【正文】 ys of thinking and Philosophies of life: Chinese people pay attention to the harmony and unite between Heaven and Man。 關(guān)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: cooking criteria, cultural characteristics, food objects, eating habits and table manners. From this, I summarize their respective characteristics, the good and bad points and the different historical origins as well as finally initiate a dining approach to unify them together. This article is divided into five parts. Key Words: Food cultures。為了使研究得出科學(xué)的結(jié)論，具有更強(qiáng)的說服力，本文作者主要用對比的方法對兩種不同飲食文化的差異進(jìn)行深入的分析，包括烹調(diào)準(zhǔn)則、文化特征、飲食對象、用餐方式和用餐禮儀五個(gè)方面，總結(jié)出各自的特點(diǎn)、優(yōu)缺點(diǎn)以及不同的歷史淵源，最后倡導(dǎo)中餐西用把兩者結(jié)合起來。 An Analysis to the Differences between Chinese and Western Food Culture by XXX Class 1,Grade 09 Tutor: 第 I 頁 共 18 頁 摘要 本文旨在通過分析中西方飲食文化的差異以及在全球化的影響下兩種飲食文化的相互互補(bǔ)和兼容來了解飲食文化的方方面面以及通過它來指導(dǎo)我們的餐飲實(shí)踐活動(dòng)，在提高認(rèn)識(shí)的基礎(chǔ)上揚(yáng)長避短，改善飲食結(jié)構(gòu)，提高飲食質(zhì)量。對跨文化交際中的飲食文化差異進(jìn)行研究也能增進(jìn)中西方人民的 相互了解，促進(jìn)交流，享受不同的飲食帶來的不一樣的感受。本文分為五個(gè)部分來介紹。 The Chinese and Western。 while Westerners focus on peopleorientation。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 religion 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 cooking39。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