中国饮食文化英文PPT

Hunan Cuisine (湘菜)

The land of fish and rice Famous for its crazy spicy food
Humid climate
food & personalities
People lived in Hunan form their own
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3. lirico Lirico is the generalization of social psychological function in the Chinese food culture.
4. Manners Manners relate to the ancient culture.
beef+broccoli+potato beef 、 broccoli 、 potato
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beef + broccoli + potato = beefbroccolipotato
Southwestern dish
Southeastern dish
people often eat in summer

in the western’s diet structures, their consumptions of meat are almost ten times than the Chinese’s while Chinese vegetable consumption are six times than the western's.
二、Influencing Factors

Natural Factors-Geography,
Climate, Property


Social Factors-Politics
Economy Dietary Technology
-Nationalities, beliefs,eating customs
Nutrition is most important
calorie fat suger protein(蛋白质） vitamin
Taste is most important
color aroma（香味） taste
Differences in food material


In China ,all diet cannot be done without vegetables. The word "dish" is for the sound, and it always has something to do with the plants . Westerners do not seem to have such a habit. The main ingredient is meat and plants are just the complement.
for western ,nutrition is the most important ,so what they care is :calarie, fat ,suger,vitamin, while Chinese think a good dish should has a good taste, we always prefer to taste rather than nutrition.
Differences in Concepts


Chinese diet tends to be art and sentimental ,which is expressed as the stress on the flavor,color,taste,shape. Western diet tends to be scientific and rational, which is in the development of nutrition .
poeple often eat in winter
Tofu looks like bear's pow
Beef shaped in a cow
Delicacy
Beauty
Cultural elements related to Chinese delicacies
淮扬菜
江 苏 菜
粤菜
湘菜
福 建 菜
Chinese dietary culture
Outline
Part 1
Features
Part 2
Differences
Part 3
Cultural & Chinese delicacies
Features
characteristics
on surface

connotation
Characteristics on surface
Differences in relationship between ingredients
In western dishes, these ingredients are separate , different parts have different taste. In Chinese dishes,they would be mixed.
Various flavors Different dishes in different seasons
The beauty of dishes Meaningful names for dishes
Have balance in different flavors
Chinese food culture connotation
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1.delicacy Delicacy for the Chinese food culture is the inner quality of generalizations. 2. Beauty Beauty embodies the aesthetic characteristics of the food culture.
Each diet cultural district can be understood as the occupied area with the same diet and cultural attributes Eight Cuisines Shandong Cuisine (鲁菜) Anhui Cuisine (徽菜) Huaiyang Cuisine (淮扬菜) Zhejiang Cuisine (浙菜) Fujian Cuisine (闽菜) Guangdong Cuisine（粤菜） Sichuan Cuisine (川菜) Hunan Cuisine (湘菜)
what’more, the western won't eat some parts of animals, such as organs（内脏）, feets（脚爪）, heads （头）. Instead, these parts are delicious for chinese. such as chiken toe(鸡爪）
10y meat 6x vegetable
x vegetable
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Differences in range of material

the main food of west are those, their recipes（食谱） are simple while Chinese recipes contain almost anything which can be cooked to dishes or not
beef , mutton , pork , fowl(家禽）
lettuce（生菜） , potato , carrot , tomato
bread , milk , macaroni （通心粉）
everything
for instance, various kinds of animals wound not be cooked absolutely in west world, such as cats, dogs, horses .while almost all animals can be cooked in China,

personalities because of their eating habit Pushing themselves to try enormous difficult challenges
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