The difference in diet between the north and the south, we may first think of the southern staple rice, northern staple flour. But the Northeast produces rice and has been famous for a long time, and it is quite interesting to note that the Northeasterners' own famous rice is mainly sold to other places, but they do not like to eat.
From the point of view of the cuisine, the southern cuisine has a clear advantage, there are Guangdong's Cantonese cuisine, Sichuan's Sichuan cuisine, Hunan's Hunan cuisine, Jiangsu and Zhejiang's Hang Gang cuisine and so on. In the north, there is almost no independent cuisine, of course, the northeast of the food is still quite distinctive. The overall characteristic is that the southern food is delicate, while the northern embodies the rough.
From the amount of food, most of the South is small and refined. The north is more and coarse, the south is rich in vegetables throughout the year, the north to the winter on the number of Chinese cabbage most, or greenhouse vegetables, but the variety is still relatively small. Especially in the countryside may be more difference.
From the point of view of the soup is very different from the north and south: the southerners drink soup as a dish on the table, more in the summer hot weather soup, Guangzhou, Fujian area before meals, drinking wine before drinking soup, especially the Guangzhou people Fort Soup is notorious. The northern people drink soup all year round, but soup is drunk after meals, usually not as a dish on the table, and mainly in the winter to drink soup, feel hot, warm.
From the point of view of drinking, the northern people are brash, the average amount of alcohol is greater than that of the southerners, especially in Shandong, Northeast and Inner Mongolia, the amount of alcohol is amazing. The south produces liquor, the famous Guizhou Maotai, Sichuan Wuliangye. Summer may be north and south have been beer-based, but in winter the northern people prefer to drink white wine, but in winter the south of Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas prefer to drink yellow wine, such as Shaoxing daughter of red, Shanghai and wine, Shikumen and so on. Northern people drink in big bowls, eat in big mouths and talk loudly. Southerners are relatively fine.
Southern rice and northern noodles in China's north and south have different eating habits. Southerners love rice, northerners like noodles, in fact, this is related to the different structure of agricultural production in the north and south. The climate in the south of China's high temperature and rainy, arable land is dominated by paddy fields, so local farmers planted in accordance with local conditions and growth habits like high temperature and rainy rice. And the north of China's less precipitation, lower temperatures, arable land is mostly dry land, suitable for the growth of dry and cold-resistant wheat. The so-called "plant what to eat", in the long run, they have developed a southern rice and northern food habits.