1. dietotherapy theory: China has a long tradition of dietotherapy. Different foods have different effects and can cure different diseases. For example, clearing away heat and toxic materials, nourishing liver and kidney. The traditional eating habits and dish collocation in China's food culture are also deeply influenced by dietotherapy, and pay attention to the effects of food tonic, warm tonic and cold tonic.
2. Food nutrition theory: Food nutrition theory is another important basic theory in China's food culture. China's ancient medical book Huangdi Neijing records that food is rich in nutrients, such as protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals.
3. TCM theory: TCM theory is another core theory of China's food culture. People in China believe that medicine and food are homologous, and medicine has three kinds of toxicity, namely, dosage and method are extremely important. When people boil Chinese herbal medicine into decoction, they often use it with food to get better therapeutic effect. Therefore, Chinese medicine theory links food, Chinese herbal medicine and human health, and then forms a systematic theoretical system.
4. Dietary structure theory: Dietary structure theory is another important basic theory in China's dietetic culture, which stresses diet structure and balance of five flavors. China's diet culture holds that the balance of five flavors can maintain normal physiological activities of human body, and at the same time, it also reflects people's taboos and aesthetic concepts in diet. The core of dietary structure theory is "less salt, less oil, less sauce and less sugar", which emphasizes the reasonable collocation of salt, fat and sugar in food and the control of food intake, which conforms to the development trend of food and health.
Introduction of Food Culture in China
China's food culture is profound and has a long history in China. Influenced by the philosophy of Yin-Yang and Five Elements, Confucian ethics and traditional Chinese medicine nutrition theory, as well as cultural and artistic achievements, food aesthetic fashion and national personality characteristics in China's traditional cultural education, China's cooking skills were created in history, and a profound China food culture was formed.