英语专业综英2Chinese food.ppt

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Suggested reading
• History of Asian American immigration • Chinese emigration • Overseas Chinese • Immigration to the United States
Occupation and bad wages
# 1 2 3 4 5 6 Occupation Miners Laborers (not specified) Domestic servants Launderers Agricultural laborers Cigar-makers Population 17 069 9 436 5 420 3 653 1 766 1 727 676 % 36.9 20.4 11.7 7.9 3.8 3.7 1.5
Being oppressed
Being humiliated
• By the 1880s Chinese immigrants were being viewed not only as an inferior and undesirable population, but also as an actual threat to American culture, and American government .(yellow peril ) • In 1882 the United States Congress eventually passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which prohibited immigration from China for the next ten years .
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Text analysis
The passage can be divided into three parts
Part One: (Para.1-4) Discuss the difference in Chinese and Western attitudes toward food. Part Two :(Para.5-6) Deal with the reasons of the international success of Chinese food Part Three:( Para.7-9) Elaborate the nature of Chinese food.
• Duck Ducks represent fidelity in Chinese culture.
• A procession to know the world • A traditional culture to heritage • Enhance relationship among families and friends • Moral excellence (show respect to the guests)
to decorate; to hang ornaments or decorations on
e.g. He led us into a room bedecked with tinsel. 4. part and parcel: an essential part that must not be ignored e.g. It’s best to accept that some inconveniences are part and parcel of travel. 5.piquant: having a pleasant sharp or strong taste e.g. With that piquant tomato sauce, the dish tastes much better.
Language point
1.His company helps employees attend to their elderly relatives. 2.ecstasy: sudden intense feeling or excitement They went into ecstasies over the view. 3. bedeck:
苹果保持身体健康
Biblioteka Baidu
• Chinese migrated to America in 19 century (Para6)
• Chinese food culture • Taoism (Para9)
The reason and goal
Because of the economic and political troubles in China, most people intended to work hard and make a lot of money. In 1849,there appeared the Gold Rush in California. Therefore, a number of Chinese went to America to seek fortunes.
Part III Analysis
1. How does the writer explain that the traditional high-quality Chinese meal is a serious matter? 2. Why is a Chinese meal compared to a religious ceremony?
• Chicken In Chinese culture, chicken forms part of the symbolism of the dragon and phoenix . The whole bird emphasizes family unity. • fish In China, a fish served whole is a symbol of prosperity . the Chinese word for fish, yu, sounds like the word for riches or abundance .（年年有余）
Sayings
1. A piece of cake 2. Hot potato 3. Put all eggs in one basket 4. Bread and butter 5. Apple of one’s eyes 6. One apple a day keeps the doctors away. 小菜一碟 烫手的山芋 风险大 谋生的手段 掌上明珠
Discrimination
• Being criticized for : Having a different religion, Speaking a different language, Wearing different clothes and styles, Eating different foods, Celebrating different holidays, and so forth.
Rhetorical Device
Alliteration: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. It can help to convey a sort of melodious quality, thus making those words sound more pleasing and impressive.
Dinner culture
• A rule: the more respectable the guests are , the more formal the meal is.
• There are normally eight cold dishes and at least eight hot dishes on the table when formally inviting guests
Example
• Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickles Peter Piper picked If Peter Piper picked a peck of picked peppers, How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
6. no less...than... 和......一样 He is no less active than he used to be. no less than 不亚于...，竟达...之多。 The audience was no less than five thousand. not less than 不比......差，至少。 I will stay there here not less than 3 days.
Part II Analysis
• Answer the following two question: 1.Why does the writer mention ”from Hong Kong, to Honolulu to Hoboken to Huddersfield ”? 2.What had helped the spread of Chinese food to the rest of the world?
Part I Analysis • Answer the following question:
1. How does Lo make his point clear? 2. Why, accordingly to the write, do the Westerners find it difficult to answer Lo’s questions? 3.What does “to eat with capital E “ mean?
• Eggs Eggs symbolize fertility . After a baby is born, parents may hold a "red egg and ginger party”. They pass out hard boiled eggs to announce the birth .
Eight cuisines
• • • • • • • • Anhui Cuisine(徽菜) Canton Cuisine(粤菜) Fujian Cuisine(闽菜) Hunan Cuisine(湘菜) Jiangsu Cuisine(苏菜) Shandong Cuisine(鲁菜) Sichuan Cuisine(川菜) Zhejiang Cuisine(浙菜).
Origin
Tao or Dao is a concept originating with Laozi that gave rise to a religion (TaoChiao / Daojiao) and philosophy (Tao chia / Daojia) .
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• It can be roughly thought of as the flow of the universe, or as some essence or pattern behind the natural world that keeps the universe balanced and ordered. • Much of Daoist philosophy centers on the cyclical continuity of the natural world, and its contrast to the linear, goal-oriented actions of human beings.