Introduction of Chinese traditional food culture is from the evolution, Chinese food culture stretches for tens of thousands of years (Hunan pottery and the discovery of rice seed), is divided into four stages of development: raw food, cooked food, natural cooking and scientific cooking, and introduces more than 60,000 kinds of traditional dishes, more than 20,000 kinds of industrial food, colorful feasts and colorful flavor genres.

From the connotation, China's food culture involves the development and utilization of food sources, the use and innovation of food utensils, the production and consumption of food, catering services and hospitality, catering and food industry operation and management, as well as the relationship between food and national security, food and literature and art, and diet and the realm of life, which is profound and wide-ranging.

Characteristics of Traditional Chinese Cuisine Culture

From the outlook, Chinese food culture can be categorized from a variety of perspectives, such as era and technique, region and economy, ethnicity and religion, food and eating utensils, consumption and level, folklore and function, etc., demonstrating different cultural tastes, embodying different values of use, and being exotically colorful.

From the point of view of qualities, the Chinese food culture highlights the theory of Yingwei (vegetarianism, emphasis on medicinal diets and tonic), and pays attention to the "color, aroma and taste" are all complete. Five flavors and the realm of harmony said (distinctive flavor, the mouth is precious, there is a "tongue dish" reputation), odd and positive changes in the cooking method (kitchen rules for this, flexible and adaptable), free of God's pleasure of the food view (literacy, education in the food) and other four major attributes.

Has a different food culture from overseas countries innate beauty. Chinese food culture in addition to pay attention to the color of the dishes to be bright as a picture, but also with the atmosphere of the meal to produce a kind of interest, it is the personality of the Chinese people and traditions, but also the Chinese people's traditional etiquette of the way to highlight.