Dietary culture refers to all phenomena created by human beings in food production and consumption, including both material and spiritual forms.
China's food culture involves the development and utilization of food sources, the use and innovation of tableware, the production and consumption of food, the service and reception of catering, the operation and management of catering and food industry, and the relationship between catering and national security, catering and literature and art, and catering and life realm. Food culture is one of the important cultural characteristics and symbols of a city. China ancient cooking and catering culture has its own excellent tradition from ancient times to the present, which contains rich philosophy and exquisite science.
from the extension, China's food culture can be classified from the perspectives of times and techniques, region and economy, nationality and religion, food and tableware, consumption and level, folk customs and functions, showing different cultural tastes and reflecting different use values. China's diet not only pays attention to "color, fragrance and taste", but also has the characteristics of "nourishing, nourishing and supplementing". With the development of society, dishes are more and more abundant, and eating methods are more and more diverse. Eating is also an important part of people's relationship and social activities, and social communication and entertainment activities are mostly completed at the dinner table. As the saying goes, it is to fill the stomach, which is a word "eat". The form is relatively primitive, only solving people's most basic physiological needs.