Contents
Abstract (English)……………………………………………………………………i Abstract (Chinese)…………………………………………………………………...ii Introduction………………………………………………………………………….1 Chapter One Chinese and Western Food Dietetic Culture……………………........3 1.1 Characteristics of Chinese food dietetic culture………………………………3 1.2 Characteristics of the Western food dietetic culture……………………..........3 Chapter Two Differences in the performance of Chinese and Western Food……...5 2.1 Differences between Chinese and Western diet concept……………………...5 2.2 Differences between Chinese and Western diet objects………………………6 2.3 Differences between Chinese and Western diet manner, tableware and etiquette…………………………………………………………………….....7 2.3.1 Diet manner………………………………………………………………..7 2.3.2 Diet tableware……………………………………………………………..8 2.3.3 Diet etiquette……………………………………………………………....9 2.4 Differences between Chinese and Western diet nature…………………….....9 Chapter Three Reasons for the differences between Chinese and Western food dietetic culture………………………………………………………………………11 3.1 The impact of the geographical environment………………………………...11 3.2 The impact of the economic system………………………………………….11 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………..14
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Bibliography………………………………………………………………………...15
Introduction
With the deepening of the international communication, in different countries or
cultural background, the communication of people are increasing all the time, and the communication between them is called intercultural communication. Intercultural communications gradually becomes an indispensable content of people's life. Due to the differences of regional, different nations and countries form different cultures. People with different cultural backgrounds behavior or habits is endless and same, they have their social statute or habits, reflected in the political economy, education religion, culture , art and so on. America famous newly chemical representative figure White is called ―father of cult urology‖, he put the culture as a kind of special and objective social phenomenon, and as a complete system (White, 1949). So specially,
what is culture? Chen Huawen once lists cases to illustrate the connotation and
importance of culture; he said ―culture is like air and water that permeates every corner of our lives, people are enjoying the culture achievements that were created by predecessors in every time, also, people are inventing new culture in every moment. Our progress is the result of the culture creation and developing.‖ (Chen Huawen, 2001:2) When people are communicating under the different culture background, the language and non-language factors which influence of message effect are make communication hen culture. If foreign language learners are lack of knowledge for its behavior and function, it will appear inappropriate behavior, resulting in the communication barriers, and it is difficult for effective cross-cultural communication,
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as a result causes of communication error.
The diet is the first need for human’s survival and development; also it is the one of the basic form of social life. However under the different cultural background, having different diet idea and diet custom, then finally form the different diet culture. Food culture is an important part in the intercultural communication. Understand the differences between Chinese and western diet culture and its origin, for foreign language learners, not only increase the understanding of the target language culture,
but also improve the success rate of intercultural communication, avoid the misunderstandings and communication barriers just because of the inappropriate way or behavior .In Sun Weixue’s book <
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Chapter One Chinese and Western Food Dietetic Culture
1.1 Characteristics of Chinese food dietetic culture
China is one of the most ancient countries on the world, it has the long history of 5000 years, 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.
Because of the district difference in our land, it gradually formed four major cuisines that is Sichuan cuisine, Guangdong cuisine, Shandong cuisine and Chaozhou cuisine. This four major cuisine have different features, but in common is with making complex fastidious, the product methods are very complex, and have a great diversity of taste and dishes, this is amazing. Because of our vast land, there are differences in climate, products and custom in every place. For a long time, on food was formed many flavor. Our country has been have the saying of ― south rice north noodles‖, in the taste, it has the differences that ―sour in east, hot in west, sweet in south and salty in north\Yuemin. ( Zou Guangwen, 1998) On the other hand, all the year round, according to season for eat is a feature in China’s cooking. Since ancient times, our country has been according to season changes to taste, and dishes. Winter taste strong, summer flavor cleaner; in the winter more braised stews, summer more cold.
In the long-term development, evolution and accumulation process, Chinese people gradually formed its own unique food folk from many aspects, such as diet
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