中西方饮食文化的差异 英文论文

on chinese food culture

As been well known,China is a huge country with a very long history .Of course ,Chinese food is famous and unique

around the world .What are the differences between Chinese and Western food culture? I deem that this is a valuable
topic.So I will focus on a few talk about this issue.

China has 5000 years history. Chinese saying goes,Hunger breeds discontent.So Chinese people attach great importance to

food.

For one thing, Chinese and Westerners are different concepts in the diet.chinese people are focus on the taste.they

pursue all the Color, flavor and taste.but Western concept of rational diet.they pursue mutrition and they absorb

Calorie and protein .Chinese people choice food very carefully. They only use fresh material in order to make delicious

food.Western country like English or American, they don’t have fresh food because they buy their food from supermarket

which only sells stored materials Chinese have a lot of ideas and techniques for cooking.For example, We can cook a

chicken in over ten ways and people can taste all them with relish.Western people do not have many skills for cooking,

mostly they only boil, steam and bake the food.

For another thing,chinese and westerners are different habbits in the diet.Terms of diet, consumption of vegetables

every day in China much more than Westerners .Chinese like coarse grains, while Westerners prefer refined grains.In

fact, whole grains contain more nutrients than refined grains;Chinese people love to eat vegetable oil, while Westerners

like to use cooking animal fat with high cholesterol, in addition to a daily intake is also a lot of butter.

both urban and rural residents in China like soy milk, tofu, bean sprouts and other soy products, while Westerners are

often "stay away";No wonder Americans are particularly high rate of cardiovascular disease.

Western people would also prefer fast food like burgers and chips. They are unhealthy to human body. . By the way,

western people are very good at making desert and chocolate. They can make very good cake and chocolate. They are very

sweet but it’s sort of food which make people become fat quickly.


What's more ,chinese and westerners are different ways and etiquette in the diet.As well as I'm concerned,there is also

a huge difference between Chinese and Western people,I think. Chinese people use chopsticks and western people use fork

andknife.Chinese just use chopstickto pick things and pass it into their mouse . But western people who use fork and

knife will use fork to hold the meat and cut it by knife and use fork to help to get that piece of meat into mouse.

apart of this,Chinese people only have three meals during a day. But western people will have more, they have afternoon

tea. Usually they would have fruits, homemade cake, tea and cheese.



Cultural differences in the Western diet is obvious, but have

their own strengths .With economic globalization and the

accelerated flow of information changes, Chinese and Western food culture will be continued integration in the

collision, complement each other in the fusion.

Chinese food has now begun to focus on food, nutrition, health, science and cooking;Western also began to Chinese food

color, smell, taste, meaning and form the realm of development.

Chinese and Western food culture in exchange for common development.