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1、DifferencesbetweenChineseandAmericanfoodcultureDifferences between Chinese and American food culture Abstract: Food is a basic necessity in our life. Every culture has different habits or customs related to it. Usually, such difference is related to peoples tastes, the availability of foods, weather
2、 and geographical conditions. Now, in this text, well take the different food culture between China and America for example. Key words: difference, food culture 1. A definition of food culture: Every country has its own special and unique culture. Culture is the total range of activities and ideas o
3、f a group of people with shared traditions, which are transmitted and reinforced by members of the group. So the food culture is the total range of ideas about eating habits. 2. The history of food culture in China and America: The histories, boundaries, population, religions, politics, folks, econo
4、my of America and China are not the same, so the food culture of the two countries are not the same. 1) The Chinese food culture: Chinese culture starts from 1,700,000 years ago. When someone says something about Chinese food culture, they must praise the color, taste, smell, shape of the Chinese di
5、sh and the types of the dish. Most of people in China are used to have rice and wheat as their daily main food resource. Meat is not the major food for us. Chinese people always believe that rice, wheat, vegetable, fruit are the best for our health. In contrast, meat would give more troubles to our
6、health, for example, heart attack, high blood pressure, and etc. It is because the population pressure, we should have the rice and wheat for the main food, we do not have enough meat to eat. We eat vegetable to help pharynx the main food, for the main food is not delicious, the function of vegetabl
7、e in china is like salt. Chinese cook should decorate the food, so the food which is not delicious becomes more delicious and wonderful. Because of handicraft industry in china is develop, the technology of processing the food is the second to none in the world. These are the characters of Chinese f
8、ood culture. The technology of processing the food in China is very develop, a lot of food that the foreigner thought is unable to eat can be made when you see it, your appetite will develop at once. We eat every thing if possible. We do not have any taboo. The writings about aid the famine are a lo
9、t, so we can know which potherb can be eaten when the famine comes. Dining is the first require in China, we thought eating food is a happy thing. We can not eat full and dress warm in the past years, so eating has the special position in Chinese lives. 2) The American food culture: American people
10、mostly have meat as their food resource. The most important is that they mostly have beef, chicken, shrimp, turkey, instead of pork and lamb. The food style gives American people much more energy than we have. They are much stronger than us. That is the fact! For meat is delicious in nature, America
11、n do not need to decorate their food, it limits the development of the cook. When they are rich, they use the dining tools to represent their rich. They do not purse eat because it is easy content for them, they purse love instead. Americans do not daintily the details of the food, it is not excessi
12、ve too, it is in a popular style, it is voluntary the whole day. In restaurants, you can easily find hamburger, steak, ribs with a little rice and a piece of bread, because their live style are so fast. 3. Some differences in eating style: The styles that Chinese and Americans eat are very different
13、 too. We can see it through the following aspects. 1) Having dinner: In China, any dinner party has a form that everyone sits around the table. We use round table in the banquet, it means solidify, manner and having the common habits. The delicious dinner is placed in middle of the table. People toa
14、st for each other and take vegetables to others. It shows the respects and comity among people in front of the fantastic thing. Although this kind of eat method has obvious shortages in sanitation, it matches the common thought “reunion” of our race. In American dinners, though the food and wine are
15、 important, actually that is a setoff. The purpose of the party is making friends. They make friends by chat with their neighbor. It also represents Americans personality and respect. When Americans have meals, they do not allow people make a noise, they do not allow take vegetables for others, do n
16、ot allow smoking, do not allow compelling others drinking wine, do not allow take off clothes in public, do not allow discuss sickening. If you have finished food in a restaurant, you should leave a ten per cent tip for lunch, fifteen per cent for dinner. The tip should be calculated on the basis of
17、 the total before the addition of tax. 2) Drinking: The method we drink tea is the quintessence of our country, it has a long standing. When we drink tea, we emphasize clear and elegant. We daintily the matching of the tea and tea cups. There are many kinds of tea cups in China. Chinese rarely hold
18、on tea party, if there are some, the hosts themselves pour tea for the guests. Chinese like drinking tea instead of drinking coffee. But Americans like drinking coffee, they also drink tea, they hold tea parties sometimes. The conversation is the core of the party. The tea party is a place where can
19、 train the diplomat. 3) Dining tools: The dining tools between the two countries are different. Chinese use chopsticks. The thin and long chopsticks cannot be used to cut food, so we usually use our teeth to act as knives. We hold our food, meat or vegetable, with the chopsticks, send them to the mo
20、uths, bite off a part of it and remain the other part on the chopsticks. Thats the usual way we eat. We are also used to hold up our bowls when having rice or soup. The etiquette in the America requests that when eating, bowls and plates cannot leave the tables. Food should be cut by knives to fit i
21、nto the mouths. Of course your mouth cannot touch the plates or bowls. So the regular process is like this. You cut your steak on the plate with fork and knife, send the meat cube into the mouth with fork and nothing will be returned back but the fork alone. 4) Some special foods for festivals: In C
22、hina, on the Mid-Autumn Festival, people will eat moon cakes. They are round as the Moon, and taste sweet. On the Lantern Festival, every family member eats yuanxiao, a kind of rice ball filled with sugar and different types of ingredients. Thats a symbol of family reunion and happiness. On the Drag
23、on Boat Festival, people will follow the custom of racing boats, and eating zongzi, a pyramid- shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves. But in America, people often celebrate on Thanksgiving Day, they will eat turkey, filled with many other things, like meat, eggs, vegetables and cheese. 4. Conclusion: To sum up, well, which food culture is better? Its hard to answer, because there should never be such a question. As we all know, each culture has its own advantage and is adapt to the people and the history. So, its important for us to choose what we like.
