中西饮食文化比较英语ppt

中国式请客吃饭
围坐在圆桌边，佳肴在桌中间以供分享 和品尝。
中国式请客吃饭
为美好愿望举杯，互相敬酒
❖ People toast each other and share the vegetables, which reflects the mutual respect between people in the face of the good things, also show the virtues of comity. 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 the impact on future generations. It is helpful to facilitate the collective emotional exchanges and consequently difficult to reform.
2.Different opinions on diet
China
❖ Chinese diet is a sense of beauty diet and pays attention to the “color, flavor, taste ” (色香味俱全）regardless of the nutrition .
Differences
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Tableware(餐具) Dishes Table Sitting
tableware/dishes/table sitting
❖ in China
As a representative of eastern culture, China mainly uses chopsticks and spoon to eat.Chopsticks are just two small sticks but people can use it to eat almost all kinds of food.
1.Characteristics of diet culture
❖China is one of the most ancient countries in the world, and created innumerable splendid civilization. In this culture, it makes China contain more expansive and profound diet. It has experienced several thousand years of history development, and has become one of the most important Chinese traditional cultures of department.
The golden and silver chopsticks only used by the rich people.
tableware/dishes/table sitting
❖ In western countries
In western countries, the main table wares are knives, forks and spoons. Usually people use knife to cut the meat and then they use the fork to eat.Therefore, knife and fork are always used together.
Chinese people hanker for a diet which is just the “mood” that is difficult for one to say anything. (追求感性饮食）
Now Chinese people pay more attention to Medicated diet and Diet Theropy.(药膳和食疗）
❖ China The customs come from the Seasons(岁时节令），
desiring for health and happiness.
❖ West The customs come from the religion, in honor of god.
❖ China
❖ They pay more attention to animal protein(蛋白质） and fat intake.In the structure of diet, it is mainly dishes, beef, chicken, pork, mutton and fish. So the meat diet has been in very big proportion. In modern times, planting proportion is increasing, but the proportion of meat still bigger than that in China.
tableware/dishes/table sitting
Our ancestors broke the branches or bamboos off the trees to pick up food.
In the Dynasties of Qin
Han Wei, ivory chopsticks and jake chopsticks (象牙 筷子和玉筷子)had already come into being
❖ Lantern festival
Glue pudding-family unity and happiness
❖ Dragon Boat festival
Dumpling-in honor of Quyuan
❖ Mid-autumn festival
Moon Cake-worship the moon-god,symbol of reunion.
❖West has the culture
descent of nomads and sailing nationality(游牧和航 海民族）, they hunting, breeding, aided by acquisition and planting, they eat more meet. The eating, wearing and using are taken from animals, even the western medicine are made from animals.
❖ In West ,buffet dinner(自助餐） is popular.
This shows western personality and self-respect.
But the buffet has broken such pattern which shows harmony and unity.
West
❖ Christmas
Turkeycommemorate the birth of Jesus.
❖ Easter
Easter egg-Jesus’ resurrection,symbol of new life.
❖ Thanksgiving Day
Turkey/Maize/Cranberry Jam/Pumpkin and other vegetables-thank for god and the help of Indians.
In the West
The western-style banquets, although the food and wine are very important, but in fact they are just foil. The core of the Banquet is friendship, by the conversation with the guests who sitting next to achieve the purpose of recreation.
4.Diet customs in festivals
As the symbols of the culture,festivals show the national culture and national emotions. Diet customs in festivals are the very important part in festival activities.
❖ Because of the district difference in our land, it gradually formed eight major cuisines .Chinese food culture has become a pearl of the world food culture.
❖ As dishes, things will not be mixed up. The chicken is chicken; steak is steak, even in groups, which are also conducted in a shallow dish. Color is clear, but the tastes of the various materials are separated, not to reconcile, and the entire flavor is also simple and clear.
3.Diet patterns
❖In China, if there is a celebration, no matter what, there will be only one form, as sitting together, sharing one feast. Banquet uses round tables, which has created a unity of form, which is courtesy, comity atmosphere. Cate are in the center of the table. It is the objects for people to appreciate and taste, and it is also an intermediate of communication.
The comparison between Chinese and Western Catering Culture
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Differences
PART 1
1.Characteristics of diet culture 2.Different opinions on diet 3.Diet patterns 4.Diet customs in festivals
West
❖ Western diet is a rational concept, regardless of the color of food, flavor and shape, but nutrition must be important.
❖ In celebration, it stresses tableware, stresses the servings, and stresses the color and shape in the mix of materials. But no matter how luxurious the grade is; from Los Angeles to New York, only one taste of steak, it is no art to speak of.