中西方饮食文化差异全英ppt

1、中西方饮食文化差异全英pptfood is the heaven to the people Since the human being cook with fire forthe first time and come to a civilian age the food we eat has begun to be of culturalproperty It is not a history of sub-human eating and drinking but a historyin which the human being conquers the nature change t

2、he nature and get adaptedto nature to exist and develop .And in this historic process the human graduallyformed its food culture Food as a category of culture helps us to understandevery area of the oriental and occidental world 1. Greeting and Parting In ChinaWhen people meet acquaintances or frien

3、ds we always say Have you eaten yetnWhatare you going to donIn western people often employ the following expressions togreet each other Good morning/evening/afternoon. Fine day isn tit How is everything goingMetc .Western and Chinese cultures have diversewaysto deal with leave-takings Western people

4、 always try to make their leavingsound reluctant byfinding somereasons and apologize for it to make the leavingacceptable for bothparties Theyoften signal several times before leaving 2Addressing Chinese useutitle In west Although they are surnamevto address theirdifferent in age and status superior

5、 or elders rather they can call the other thancall them surnames directly namely their while the superior or elders names evenfirst call the addressers their names They demonstrate names otherwise thethe sense of intimacy and addresser may be the conception of considered as illmannered Everyone is c

6、reated equalnill educated or rude 3. Thedifferences of cooking skill The so-called Chinese meditation of five flavorsrefers to the original taste of the food after heated and cooked and the flavorsof ingredients and condiments mix together and melt into each other and complementeach other Chinese pe

7、ople more often than not add two or more condiments intothe food and by this realize the perfect harmony of the taste of the arterial andcondiments The ultimate end of meditation is to cook delicious food ThereforeChinese people will surely add two or more kinds of ingredients and condimentsto almos

8、t every dish they cook even some common home-made dishes such as slicedmeat stir-fried with garlic bolts while the same material and ingredients arecooked in western way the chef would probably slice the beef and tomatoesseparately and put them in a plate with two potatoes and four vegetable leavesw

9、ithout mixing with each other and thus affecting the taste of each other Thewesterners emphasize nutrition and balanced in their diet so they prepare theirfood according to scientific instructions strictly without any exception. Thetaste of the steak doesn t differ from New York to LosAngelsand its

10、otheringredients without any doubt are tomatoes potatoes and vegetable leaves Moreover normalized cooking requires that the condiments should be added preciselyby gram and the length of time needs to be calculated by seconds .4. Complimentsand Response A Chinese hostess will apologize for giving you

11、uNothingn She willsay T just made some dishes casually and they are not very tasty ” An westernhostess is likely to saynOh I am so glad that you liked it. I cook it especiallyfor you. 5 Thanks and Responses In ChinauThank you” is notuThank you iswidely used in Englishto show gratitude in such cases

12、as frequently usedbetweenbeing intimate friends and familyinvited helped given a gift etc membersbecause it may imply a certain distance between the addresser and the addressee6 the difference of drink Tea Wherever Chinese go the custom of drinking teafollows Tea was first discovered by the Chinese

13、Tea is an indispensable partof the life of a Chinese A Chinese saying identifies the seven basic dailynecessities as fuel rice oil salt soy sauce vinegar and tea The custom of drinkingtea has been ingrained in the Chinese for over a thousand years During themid-Tang Dynasty 618一907 A. D. a man named

14、 Lu Yu created the firstcompendium in the world on tea the Tea Classic This work helped to popularizethe art of tea drinking all across China .This is the western diet culture ofwine7.The difference of tableware Chopsticks and knives are the two most typical tablewares of the East and the West repre

15、senting two kinds of different wisdom. Chinesetable wares are quite simple and are often used for several purposes Chinesepeople use fewer types of table wares which is also perhaps influenced by theiridea of harmony and unification. Chopsticks are usually made from bamboo holda pair of chopsticks o

16、n hand and enjoy the dishes it s not only economical butalso convenient Chopsticks can do almost what our hands can do so chopsticksare often considered as stretched part of hands In the west people often useseveral typed of table wares for one purpose which may also probably result fromthe influenc

17、e of the idea of individualism. Among the tableware knives and forksare two kinds of table wares with very long history in the west They play thesame role dinning and they are always used together One hand holds the knifeon the other hand hold the fork cut the food with knife and then put the foodinto the