【正文】 the difference in diet concept, differences in dietary patterns, the different utensils and etiquette, and differences in diet this paper discusses the main characteristics the differences between Chinese and western food culture and the reasons for the that the paper has given the table manners of American as a example, such as bread plates are to the left of the main plate, beverage glasses are to the right。salad fork, knife and soup spoon are further from the main plate than the main course knife, fork and spoon。difference。unicationII摘 要隨著經(jīng)濟(jì)全球化進(jìn)一步發(fā)展，中西方聯(lián)系越來越頻繁。其意義在于既能有助于深刻理解中西方文化中的不同之處，跨越文化交流障礙，又能培養(yǎng)人們在跨文化交際時的適應(yīng)能力，有效地避免交際雙方由于文化差異而產(chǎn)生的誤會。此外，它有助于指導(dǎo)我們的實踐。文化是人們在長期的社會生活中生活方式凝聚起來的總稱，其中生活方式又包括思維方式和行為方式，雖然文化具有普遍性特征，但它最根本的特點是以血緣和地緣關(guān)系為基礎(chǔ)，以名族為單位形成的整體。這也與中國和西方的不同地理和歷史條件息息相關(guān)，畢竟不同的文化反映不同的生活方式。而本文不僅探討了中西方飲食文化上的差異，更簡要分析了造成這一差異的原因。一般吃東西的時候嘴巴緊閉；不要在餐桌上咳嗽、打噴嚏或在餐桌上吹鼻子等或者過分大聲說話。它不僅在于了解這一事實本身，更重要的是用它來知道我們的實踐活動，在提高認(rèn)識的基礎(chǔ)上，改善食品結(jié)構(gòu)，革除餐飲弊端，提高餐飲質(zhì)量，保證人們的生活需要，弘揚中華文化的餐飲文化。salad fork, knife and soup spoon are further from the main plate than the main course knife, fork and spoon。and the other is the lust of men and women, which can help the mankind to carry on the family the two desires, China pays more attention to the former, while the west tends to the phenomenon affects the cultural is actually the contents of our daily lives, but why we call it culture? That is because the diet has special status in Chinese culture, and it also has a great distinction between China and the one of the world ancient nations, China?s diet has a history almost as long as that of Chinese in western countries, ancient thinkers devoted less attention to the food problem than the Chinese philosophers did, and there is even not aware of it to the “heaven” the opposite, they recognized and interpreted the world in the perspective of the lust or love of men and women the awareness of original sin of Christianity, Adam and Eve legend, or ancient Greek philosophy(such as Plato?s dialogue)who considered the personal relationships “l(fā)ove” as the love of ontology of beauty, and regarded it as a reality thinking of philosophy, all these ideas bee the basis of western philosophers? cultural these had potential effects on the development of western culture and westerners? the influence of respective cultural tradition, the Chinese and western dietary culture has had different differences in concepts, targets, patterns, attribution and nature had reflected the different dietary culture in the different state characteristic。it has inextricably linked with the advocacy of deem animals as “people” and plants have “no soul.” So, they advocate do not seem to have such a good uphold a cultural origin of nomadic, seafaring mainly by fishing and hunting, collection and planting are just the are more meat dishes in their , clothing, and using are taken from the animals, and even Western medicine is derived from the westerners introduce the diet characteristics of their countries, they always feel that their diet is more reasonable on the mix of nutrition than food industry is more developed, such as cans, fast food, although the taste is monotonous, but it saves time, and it also has good , in their countries: people are generally healthier and taller than Chinese, and the people have strong shoulders and developed muscles。but the Chinese people only like to live to American expert on folklore Ruth?s opinions on the “cultural pattern” theory, Chinese culture is quite similar to the classical world Apollotype character and Westerners? is similar to the modern world , the Westerners such as Americans in the development of the west, they put the whole family on the truck, and go out of the city in amid rumbling with the Chinese people are always thinking about “home” and “roots”, despite the promotion that young people should take the world as after a few decades, the overseas Chinese will e back to the mainland with crutch to seek their concept of return and such human spirit that can only be said to cooperate with the accumulation in the it brings cohesiveness to the Chinese nation and then makes the human folk full of think the food can make them feel , eats large piece of meat。from Los Angeles to New York, only one taste of steak, it is no art to speak as dishes, the chicken is chicken。But no matter how luxurious upscale, from Los Angeles to New York, the beefsteak only then one kind of flavor, does not have art to be possible to the cooked food, the chicken is the chicken, the beefsteak is a beefsteak, even if has matching, that is also carries on the plate, “the Buddhist ritual procedures mutton chop”, puts the mashed potatoes at the same time, side relies on the mutton chop, in addition matches at the same time boils the green beans, adds several piece of tomato then to the color contrasts distinctively, but each raw material is mutually irrelevant in the taste, is well distributed, each is each taste, simple Chinese is takes seriously “to eat” very much, “the food is what matters to the people” this proverb showed that we eat look equally and the day are our nationality for several thousand years are in the low productive forces level, the people always cannot eat to the full, therefore only will then have one kind uniquely to eat can regard in all diet culture, I thought that this will be probably stems from one kind of survival to one culture eats regards as the most important matter, will then present two kind of phenomena: On the one hand will eat this kind the function will display the acme, not only maintenance survival, also will use its health maintenance, this will also be” uses medicines to build up one?s health was inferior the food will make up”cultural base。However if further asked that anything calls “delicious”, why “delicious”, “delicious” in where, was not perhaps easy to talk indicated that what Chinese to diet pursue is one kind explains “the ideal condition” with difficulty, even if is usually call