The ancients in China said that food is the most important thing for the people, while Confucius and Mencius advocated that food is not tired of essence, which made China pay more attention to the quality and hygiene of diet in ancient times and provided conditions for the development of China's cooking skills. There has always been a saying in China that the southern rice is northern, and the tastes are divided into sweet in the south, salty in the north, sour in the east and spicy in the west, mainly including Bashu, Qilu, Huaiyang, Guangdong and Fujian.
China's ancient agriculture was developed, and the farming civilization was constantly developed and matured, which determined the diet structure of China with five grains as its staple food. Grains refer to five kinds of food crops: rice, wheat, millet, millet and rice. In ancient China, people also emphasized the coordination and synchronization between eating and cosmic rhythm. Confucius may eat sometimes, which has two meanings. One is to eat regularly, and the other is not to eat out-of-season food. Winter is mellow and summer is cool, and winter is stewed and summer is frozen.
Symbol of food culture:
Creative eating is based on eating strokes. Wherein the radical of the word "mouth" of the word "eat" is formed by the shape of a bowl; The "skimming" of the word "eating" consists of the shape of a spoon; "Horizontal" and "horizontal hook" are formed by the shape of chopsticks; The "hook" in the "cross hook" is composed of the shape of a "mouth".
The word "eat", which is composed of the shapes of "bowl, spoon, chopsticks and mouth", will leave a deep impression on people in an instant, stimulate people's appetite, become the iconic pattern of food industry, catering industry and related industries, and be widely used in "LOGO, VI and advertisement" of enterprises. Let people all over the world vividly see China's food culture.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Diet.