福建省光泽第一中学高中英语教师论文 从跨文化(4)

manufacturing of utensils, equipment and food always displays the most advanced technologies in the according period. In this sense, it is also the most dynamic culture.

3) It is a systematic culture. Catering culture covers many fields of material culture and spiritual culture with its unique network and style. It is closely relat ed to the

expand food sources, cooks to create well-known cuisine, food therapists to employ medicine in food, as well as writers and artists to praise the delicate cuisine and labor in their literary or artistic works

1.2 Diet conception

China is a time-honored country with a long history as well as a brilliant civilization. Chinese food, likewise, has a long history as well. The preparation and appreciation of food has been highly developed in china. The art of Chinese cooking has been developed and refined over many centuries .China focus more on the color, aroma and taste while the western countries focus more on the nutrition of the food.

According to Chinese tradition and culture, cuisine is a special kind of art, reflecting a sense of beauty and harmony in aesthetics. As a result, every detail of Chinese cuisine, including the dishes themselves and other accessories, must be finely made and designed to give customers not only good taste, but a visual enjoyment to arouse their appetite. For this reason, Chinese dishes are always known for their combination of scrumptious taste and aroma with pleasa nt color and form in harmony plus elegant tableware.

As for the west, they all place a heavy emphasis on three major characteristics, they are nutrition, freshness, and easiness to prepare particularly with varying degree in comparison with Chinese cuisine. These factors have a close connection with the national characters and dispositions of western nations. Nutrition is the fundamental and primary concern of any Western cuisine. Freshness, to a large extent, ensures good nutrition. Of course, balance of food structure is also an important factor contributing to good nutrition, and it is also reflected in Western cuisine. Easy preparation expressly demonstrates the practical nature of Western nations compared to that of the Chinese. Compared with the features of Chinese cuisine that pays more attention to fine details, Western cuisine seems to heed more certain simple and practical values of making food, which are consistent with the independent, individualistic and pragmatic characters of Western nations.

1.3 Diet composition

Chinese cuisine holds grain as its staple diet, including specifically rice, wheat, millet, etc. and their products such as noodle and ric e noodle. Meat and