(A) Chinese food culture
Chinese food culture has a long history, is an important part of the cultural treasury of the Chinese nation, with France, Turkish cuisine and known as the world's three major culinary systems, but also our Chinese children proud and proud of the place. Chinese food culture has colorful cultural connotations and strong and solid technical basis, to taste as the core, in order to nourish for the purpose of culture, science and art of the crystallization of different geographic locations, different ethnic groups, with different styles but the same is unparalleled catering culture. There are many varieties of local delicacies with unique flavors, which are fragrant and popular all over the world, attracting countless overseas enthusiasts. It can also be said that food and drink is also a kind of learning, a kind of special highlights, a way of communication.
Culture
Chinese food culture has always been concerned about the color, aroma, taste, pay attention to the form of catering, can be summed up in the "essence", "beauty", "love". . These words, reflecting the process of dietary activities in the quality of food, aesthetic experience, emotional activities, social functions contained in the unique cultural heritage, but also reflects the close connection between food culture and Chinese traditional culture.
Fine, is a generalization of the intrinsic qualities of Chinese food culture, this fine consciousness as a cultural spirit, penetration, implementation of the whole process of food activities. Selection of ingredients, cooking, preparation and even the dietary environment, are reflected in a "fine" word.
Beauty, reflecting the aesthetic characteristics of food culture. Chinese food can conquer the world, one of the important reasons, lies in its beauty. This beauty, refers to the perfect unity of the form and content of Chinese food activities, refers to the aesthetic pleasure and spiritual enjoyment it brings to the people. The beauty of Chinese food is not only expressed in the taste, but also in the form, color, utensils, and even in the costumes of the waiters, all of which are permeated with beauty, so that people feel the impact of beauty and enjoyment at all times. It can be seen, beauty as a basic connotation of food culture, is the charm of Chinese food, throughout the process of food activities in every link.
Sentiment, Chinese culture has always been sentiment as a link, the same, Chinese food "sentiment" as an important function. In China, eating is actually a medium of emotional exchange between people, is a unique social activities. While eating, chatting, talking business, exchanging information, interviewing. Throughout the ages, Chinese people are used to express their feelings of farewell or welcome at the dinner table, and emotional turmoil is often calmed down by wine and food. With the accelerated pace of life in society, the social regulation function of food and drink activities and the role of psychological massage more and more people's attention.
Precision, beauty, love, etiquette, respectively, from a different perspective summarizes the basic connotation of Chinese food culture, in other words, these four aspects of the organic composition of the overall concept of Chinese food culture. Refinement and beauty focus on the image and quality of food, while sentiment and etiquette focus on the mentality, customs and social functions of food. However, they do not exist in isolation, but are interdependent and causal. Only the "essence" can have the complete "beauty"; only the "beauty" can stimulate the "feelings"; only the "feelings" can be realized. "love", in order to be in line with the times and fashion of the "ritual". The four are interlinked, perfect unity, forming the highest level of Chinese food culture. Only by accurately grasping the "essence, beauty, love, etiquette", we can y understand the Chinese food culture, in order to better inherit and promote the Chinese food culture.
Formal culture
Chinese food often focuses on the ingredients of fine and sophisticated, ever-changing, a variety of skills. From the point of view of the knife, it requires the eye, knife, heart consistent cooperation, in order to achieve a certain state. In the process of cooking, it is also necessary to grasp the heat and flavor, the depth of Chinese culture can be seen. Out of the plate is a round plate support, a group of harmony, and can reflect the Chinese people's gathering gas and life, round-based, calm and Confucian connotation, often everyone **** to enjoy, eating with chopsticks, dexterity and good thinking, rational and intellectual image of the Chinese people in the diet was expressed in the fullest. Combined meal culture
Chinese food generally take the form of round table **** meal, this is an important form of expression of the Chinese food culture, often able to create a harmonious and cordial atmosphere. Catering culture is a country or nation in the long-term historical conditions formed and preserved a habit of life and cultural traditions (Chinese dining form of dining that reflects some of the characteristics of the Chinese dining culture tradition), the people of the country have long been accustomed to this way of dining.
(2) Western food culture
Western culture and Chinese culture is very different, Western culture is based on traditional Western culture, through the continuous improvement of modern industrial culture and the formation of which invariably permeated with some aspects of Western cultural traditions, such as, "equality", "freedom", "hygiene", "privacy" and other cultural connotations.
Leisure Culture
The largest number of fast-food restaurants in the United States is still fast-food restaurants, and the fast-food culture in the United States embodies the leisure culture. French fries, fried chicken, drinks and so on are the most common in Western recipes, it is these ordinary things in Chinese food does not seem to be on the big stage made the world's big companies, such as McDonald's, KFC and so on. This may have something to do with the American concept of time and lifestyle. The United States is a country that emphasizes efficiency, and is also the most unpretentious. The boom of fast food culture in the United States is probably also related to this nature. The hygiene, efficiency, time-saving and casual romance of fast food is the cultural basis for the development and growth of fast food in the West.
Equality and freedom culture
In Chinese food, the arrangement of seats, tableware, eating rules and behavior at the table are subject to traditional cultural conventions, not to mention the status of the guests, seniority, interests and other factors that limit the form of the meal. In Western cuisine, however, the diet of the moment is a manifestation of equality and freedom of all people, each person independently decide the type of food, the amount of food, share meals applicable to the abundance of their own frugality, on most occasions the implementation of the "AA" system. Eating is your own business, and you are free to sit down together and enjoy your food as you wish.
Split-meal culture
Western meals are customarily served at long tables, and the split-meal system is practiced, in which each person orders his or her own food, and each person takes a portion. The most common plate service is the meal in the kitchen to each plate, by the waiter from the kitchen out, and then quickly and politely to each guest. Western food form from the surface seems to be less lively, more polite and independent, but the essence of the most important is to reflect the hygiene. Separate meal system can also reflect the concept of moderate thrift, reasonable diet, to overcome the Chinese food to pay the feast, wasteful shortcomings. Meal portioning system can reduce waste as the dishes and staple foods are rationed by each person. Whether it is a pre-dinner snack or main meal, the ingredients are linked to the amount of food eaters, the number of dishes as small as possible, but to ensure that each meal is eaten. Meal portioning system allows each guest to have a clear quantitative concept of the number of individual meals, in order to reduce waste and at the same time beneficial to health. Our current buffets and cold dinners reflect this philosophy.