Life is all about food and clothing, and very early on we know the saying. Although human beings are advanced animals, they still need the same thing as ordinary animals: "eating". Therefore, the total dazzling variety of food was also born, from ancient times to the present day, has never ceased to thrive. The food industry has also become three hundred and sixty lines of permanent exhibition long new line of work, and the food industry has also formed its own unique culture, to say more directly is a "food" culture.
China has a long history of 5000 years, China has a splendid and rich, profound food culture; Chinese people pay attention to the "unity of man and nature", Chinese food to food ideology, the characteristics of the material sentiments. So it also makes the traditional Chinese food cuisine are "food out of the door" such as the founder of the theory of Chinese food culture? Confucius's "Analects" on the diet of "two do not get tired of, three moderation, ten do not eat," the discussion. Until today, two thousand years later, still has a very high theoretical guidance. The originator of the Chinese Tea Ceremony? Lu Yu that the status of tea in the Chinese food culture is almost equal to the wine, he has visited the famous tea producing areas to recommend the evaluation of the quality of the first, but also to study the spring water, the second grade. The saint of Chinese food culture? Yuan Mei's "with the garden food list" after fifty years to write, become the history of Chinese food light before and after the work, also has the Chinese food culture "food scripture" reputation. There is also a minister who ruled the country with flavor. Yi Yin will be the diet of "color, aroma, taste, shape" and the integration of governance, so there is a "cooking the country as a small food" said.
From this, this formed our traditional diet has "four" characteristics:
1, heavy food: the ancients have: "people eat for heaven" said, often asked to meet "eaten? " See the status of food culture.
2, heavy nutrients: to "grains" to support "six organs", the diet attaches importance to human health care.
3, heavy flavor: Chinese diet is the most attention to the taste of food, pay attention to "color, aroma, taste, type". Various flavor differences form the basis of various cuisines.
4, emphasis on reason: pay attention to a variety of food with the matching, to the symbiosis, complement each other, such as yin and yang and the rational understanding of the guidance of cooking.
It is because the Chinese diet pay attention to the material, work, food and so on the fine, rich and profound, national characteristics distinctive, both compatible and special, from ancient to modern, the generations have been passed on to the next generation and innovation.
Different eating habits create different food cultures. Chinese people big and full of consistent style, eating is naturally seven plates, eight bowls, one is a show of affluence, the second is to set up a full row; near and around than eating, the national competition, and ultimately formed the eight cuisine, that is, eating eight different "masters"; although some vulgar, but still very capable of conveying the meaning of the word.
Therefore, the Chinese food culture on its deeper connotation, can be simply summarized into eight words: exquisite, pleasing to the eye, falling love, etiquette. These eight words reflect the unique cultural connotations of food quality, aesthetic experience, emotional activities, social functions and other food activities, as well as the close connection between food culture and Chinese traditional culture.
Delicate; we like to order a few exquisite dishes in pubs and restaurants when we are pleased, or make a few exquisite dishes to treat ourselves and our relatives and friends, and then we need to eat an atmosphere, taste and even culture. Diet as a culture, a "food" culture, fine consciousness as a cultural spirit, but more and more widely, more and more in-depth penetration, carried out in the entire process of food activities. Selection of ingredients, cooking, preparation and even the dietary environment, all reflecting the "exquisite". Especially now pay great attention to personal health care of the modern society, but also requires our diet to refine the development of food into the culture, so that the diet into the culture, through the culture, so that "eat" out of the culture to avoid and abandon that "over the slaughter door and chewing" indecent behavior and The bad habits that are detrimental to health.
Pleasing to the eye; this is the culture of "eating" and the connotation of the sublimation of the advanced stage, reflecting the aesthetic characteristics of food culture. The reason why Chinese food can conquer the world, one of the important reasons, lies in its beauty, it makes the eater have "three months do not know the taste of meat" at the same time, more people beat and pleasing to the eye. This pleasing to the eye refers to the perfect unity of form and content of Chinese food activities, refers to the aesthetic pleasure and spiritual enjoyment it brings to people, first of all, the taste is beautiful. Mr. Sun Yat-sen said that "discernment of taste is not refined, the art of cooking is not good", the "taste" of the aesthetic as the first importance of cooking.
As a basic connotation of food culture, it is the charm of the Chinese diet, which is pleasing to the eye in every aspect of the process of dietary activities.
Falling in love; this is a generalization of the psychosocial function of Chinese food culture. Because the cuisine and diet contains a variety of feelings in it. Doing people pay effort and true love to do, and eaters are more taste to their favorite diet is holding a kind of gratitude and appreciation. Eat and drink, can not be simple to see, it is actually a medium of emotional exchange between people, is a unique social activities. While eating, while chatting, you can do business, exchange of information, interviews. Friends clutch, send and welcome, people are accustomed to the table to express farewell or welcome mood, emotional storms, people also tend to borrow wine and food to calm down. This is the dietary activities for the social psychology of the regulatory function. In the past, the teahouse, we sat down to drink tea, listening to books, swinging the dragon door or venting dissatisfaction with the court, is really an excellent psychological massage.
The reason why the Chinese diet has a "lyrical" function is because of the philosophical idea of "drinking virtue, food and happiness of all nations" and the emergence of the national characteristics of the diet. There is a problem of guiding and upgrading the taste of the emotional culture in the dietary activities. We want to promote a healthy and beautiful, upward cultural mood, the pursuit of a noble sentiment.
Manners; refers to the ceremonial nature of dietary activities. China is a state of etiquette, and this etiquette and etiquette also permeate the diet. Diet pay attention to "etiquette", which has a lot to do with our traditional culture. Birth, old age, sickness and death, sending and receiving, and offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors are all rituals. The Book of Rites? Rites of Passage" says: "The first of the rites of passage begins with food and drink. The "rituals" are also concerned with a kind of order and norms, such as the direction of the important occasions, the arrangement of art spoons, the order of food, some of the symbols of the dish, the origin, and so on are reflected in the "rituals".
When we talk about "etiquette", we should understand it as a spirit, an inner ethical spirit, which runs through the process of dietary activities and constitutes the logical starting point of Chinese dietary civilization.
The delicacy, pleasure, love, and propriety of food summarize the basic connotation of Chinese food culture from different perspectives, in other words, these four aspects organically constitute the overall concept of Chinese food culture. However, they do not exist in isolation, but are interdependent and mutually causal. The four aspects are intertwined and perfectly unified, forming the highest state of Chinese food culture. The Chinese diet is also the Chinese people from ancient times with the mouth "eat" out of a culture, a strong Chinese food culture, this culture has been able to continue to carry forward, has affected our own and around us, affecting the world's food industry.