Differences between Chinese and Western diets

Chinese and Western cultures have always been the two major factions of the world culture, and the diet of the two Sin have occupied a very important position. Differences between Chinese and Western cultures and thus the differences between Chinese and Western food culture, in the context of two different cultures, the party dietary practices, whether in their concepts, nature, or in their ways, on many aspects, the differences that exist are very distinct. According to the author since ten years of experience in the Western-style catering, the following points of view, for... Chinese and Western dietary concepts leopard differences

Wan history, China is one of the world's oldest countries, there are 5,000 years

long and heavy history, creating countless brilliant civilization, in this culture

Proverbs, so that China's diet is more extensive and profound. With the passage of time

The geographical differences of the vast country, the four big Lai system gradually formed, the four big Lai system

System, each with its own characteristics, but **** the same point is the use of complex materials, production methods

, tastes, dishes a variety of marvelous.

The West, represented by Europe and the United States, also has a long history of culture. By the Middle Ages,

European culture had been perfected, and during this period, the food culture of the Old West had been

formed. The main features were: the staple food was based on flour, and the ingredients were also more abundant,

the preparation method was simpler than in China, but at the same time there was also a great emphasis on taste.

Because of the difference in philosophical thinking between China and the West, Westerners emphasize science in their diet.

Scientific

Scientific means nutrition. Therefore, the Western diet to nutrition for the highest; Troi then, eating is like

for a biological machine to add fuel, especially for the nutritional composition of food, egg

white matter, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and various types of inorganic element content is

whether the mix is appropriate, the supply of calories is just right, and whether these nutrients

whether the food can be fully absorbed, with or without other side effects. whether these nutrients are fully absorbed by the eater and whether there are any other side effects. These issues are

the big questions in cooking, while the color, aroma and taste of the food is a secondary

requirement. Even in the West's premier dietary power - France, its dietary

food culture, although in many ways similar to ours, but when it comes to nutritional

problems, the two sides have pulled away from each other.

China's five-flavor harmony cooking technique aims to pursue deliciousness, and its processing

hot oil frying and long time of the fire attack, will make the dish's nutrient content is

broken. French cooking is also the pursuit of delicious, but at the same time, always remember the "nutrition" this big

premise, a nutritional and seek delicious is what they do not take. In particular, the 20th

Century 60's emergence of modern cooking ideas, especially emphasize health, weight loss, from

and the pursuit of light oil, emphasizing the use of fresh raw materials, emphasizing the cooking process to maintain

keep the original nutrients and the original flavor, so vegetables are basically raw

eat. So the Western diet is universal in its emphasis on nutrition.

We can compare them in the following table.

Comparison of Chinese and Western Cooking Methods

Items by Western

Raw materials A wide variety of meats, vegetables, flour, dairy products

Many different products

Methods of preparation Elegant, frying, steaming, boiling, simmering and so on Easier to deep-fry, bake, boil in water

Multiple methods Cooking is the most important

Nutrition Nutrition is less concentrated and less comprehensive, containing high calories Comprehensive, high calorie content

Focus Taste Nutrition, convenience

2. Difference between Chinese and Western food objects

Westerners believe that the dishes are hungry, so they eat large pieces of meat, whole chicken and other

"hard vegetables"; while Chinese dishes are "" taste "

Chinese people have a lot to eat. Eat flavor". So Chinese cooking in the material

also showed a great deal of arbitrariness: many Westerners regarded as a rejection of things in

China are excellent raw materials, foreign chefs can not deal with things, to the hands of the Chinese

national chef, you can be transformed into a miracle. See Chinese food in the material

the arbitrariness of the wide range.

According to a survey by a Western botanist, Chinese people eat more than 600 kinds of vegetables,

six times more than in the West. In fact, in the Chinese cuisine, vegetarian food is the usual food

products, meat only on holidays or a higher standard of living, only into the usual

dietary structure, so since ancient times there has been a "vegetable food", vegetable food in the usual diet

structure of the predominant position. The Chinese use of plants as the main dish is inextricably linked to the advocacy of the Buddhists. Buddhists view animals as "living beings" and plants as "spiritless," and therefore advocate vegetarianism.

Westerners, when describing the characteristics of their own country's diet, feel more

than China

attaches more importance to the rational mix of nutrition, and there is a more developed food industry, such as canned food, fast

meals, etc., although the taste of the same, but save time, and good nutrition. Therefore, they

country people are generally more robust than the Chinese: tall, long legs, broad shoulders,

developed muscles; while the Chinese people appear to be small, narrow shoulders, short legs, yellow color

weak. Some people based on the obvious difference between Chinese and Western dietary objects of this feature, the Chinese

Chinese people called the plant character, Westerners called animal character.

3. Differences between Chinese and Western nine ways of eating, tableware and etiquette

The way of eating in China and the West is very different, and this difference has an effect on the national character

as well. In China, any banquet, no matter what the purpose, will only

have one form, that is, everyone sits in a circle and *** enjoys a seat. Feast to use round

catering culture

table, which formally creates a unity, polite, *** interesting gas wife

flavored delicacies placed in the center of a table, which is both a table of people to appreciate, tasting love

elephant, but also a table of people's feelings to communicate the medium of objects. People toast each other

Let dishes, persuade dishes, in front of the beautiful things, reflecting the virtues between people

heavy, courtesy. Although from the point of view of health, this kind of food party j

obvious shortcomings, but it is in line with our national "reunion" of the universal

reflects the classical Chinese philosophy of "and" this category of future generations of thought

easy collective emotional exchange, and thus

easy to understand the meaning of the word "reunion".

Reflecting the universal category of "harmony" in classical Chinese philosophy, which facilitates the exchange of collective emotions, it has been difficult to reform.

The differences are even more pronounced when it comes to tableware. As we all know, China

Some yellow countries in Asia, the use of chopsticks, spoons, eating t

Sheng; and Westerners, it is a plate to hold food, with a knife and fork that is cut to eat

There is a special spoon. Chopsticks and knife and fork as the most representative of the East and West ten

kinds of tableware, chopsticks and knife and fork has influenced the East and West different ways of life

with different two wisdom. Dr. Li Zhengdao, the famous physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics;

, in an interview with a Japanese reporter, also had an

incisive statement: "The Chinese nation is an excellent nation, and the Chinese used chopsticks as early as the

country period. Such simple two things, but

Lundy used the principle of leverage in physics. Chopsticks are the human hand

stretching, fingers can do what it can do almost everything, and not afraid of heat and cold:

is brilliant!

In terms of etiquette, the Chinese and Western sides are even more

different. In ancient China, there was

a set of red tape when it came to dining. In the Book of Rites - Qu Ji:

"*** food is not full, *** rice is not to choose hands, do not put the rice,

No solid gain, not to raise the rice,? At the end of the meal, the guest kneels since

the front, spreads the rice Qi in order to grant it to the phantom, the master resigns from the

guest, and then the guest sits down." The main idea of this passage is that when

everyone*** eats together, they must not just eat

their own rice. If you eat with others, you must check

that your hands are clean. Don't put extra rice back into the pot

, don't monopolize the food, and don't bump

the hot rice. After eating, the guest should get up and move forward

to gather the plates and dishes on the table and give them to the host, who follows

up and asks the guest to refrain from laboring, and then the guest

sits down again. Some of these etiquettes are also necessary

courtesy in modern times. In the western banquet, the host generally

only give the guest once clip dish, the rest by the guest independent

eating; if the guest does not want, it is not easy to hard to let people

eat again, and do not according to the Chinese habit of frequent to

guests to persuade the wine, clip dish. When you eat, you should not make loud noises, but the guests should appreciate the meal prepared by the host. If you talk to people, you should only talk to your neighbors

and not to those who are far away.

4. Differences in the nature of Chinese and Western diets

Differences in dietary concepts make Western diets inclined

toward science and rationality, while Chinese diets are inclined to art

art and sensibility. Cooking comes out of diet, and diet turns out

to be one designed to supply life-sustaining nutrition. The focus of Western

food customs is merely an extension of the original

dietary utility; whereas the preference for mai in Chinese food customs

pushes food into the realm of art

. From these two dietary views can be seen:

Western diet is increasingly standardized, China 's dietary casual

great.