Chinese and Foreigners
We are group eight.My name is````our topic is ````As we all know that there are many differences between China and western,and I think the culture is the biggest one.The culture includes many things,such as music,wedding,festival,food,education and so on.NOW our group will introduce something about it.
First I want to share something with you from China daily.
Next, I will start my topic with a piece of entertainment news.(LI AND KATY PERRY)
问题1：身材特征
问题2 ：造成身材差异的原因
(地域差异) geographic difference
The research indicates that People in different areas are different in body size.
(审美差异)aesthetic difference：like our Chinese,we think the thinner the better,so we try to become thin.But the foreigners don’t think so.
（饮食文化）diet/food culture.
Food plays an irreplaceable role in the development of society and the progress of human civilization. It is an essential prerequisite for human existence. However, different nations have different food and food habits. That is because they have different culture, especially food culture. 饮食作为人类生存的必要前提在人类社会的发展和文明进步中起着无可替代的作用。然而不同民族的饮食或饮食习惯却各不相同。这是由于不同的民族有着不同的文化。只有在各自的文化中，人们才能更好地理解其饮食内容和饮食习惯。
问题3：What are the main aspects of the food culture differences between western and Chinese?
饮食结构：Five Cereals，cooked food
Western---They hold the rational diet idea.
The nutrition is the first.
They just pay attention to the quantity of heat,vitamin and protein。
Flavour is all in the same key .
China----We pay attention to the diet therapy (讲究食疗),食补,食养, Chinese seek delicious food, The actions during cooking may destroy the nutrition constituent (加工过程中会使菜肴的营养成分被破坏)。As a result of a nutrition problem, in fact touched on the Chinese culinary culture to the greatest weakness(因而说到营养问题，实际上就触及了中国饮食文化的最大弱点)。
Cooking way：
fry煎salt盐Medicinal cuisine药膳
boil煮soy source酱油herb草药
deep fry炸vinegar醋Chinese medicine中医
stew炖Cooking wine料酒food tonic 食补bake,roast烤sugar糖medicine tonic药补steam蒸starch淀粉unique flavor特殊风味stir-fry炒vitamin维生素herbal juice药汁braise红烧mineral矿物质regimen养生
grill烧烤fibrin纤维素balance nutrition均衡营养oil油fat脂肪Nutritional components营养成分
餐桌礼仪：
餐具The Tableware
From the video,we can see that,Chinese and other Asians use chopsticks （筷子）and soup spoons （汤匙）. We use the bowls as containers of rice.
The Western use plates as containers of food. They eat food as soon as they cut them. They also have special tbsp (table spoon).
In nowadays,more communication and interaction will arise between Chinese and western food cultures and they will develop together.
，中西饮食文化将不断的进行交流和互补，并会得到共同发展。
Food Product due to geographical features and climate of the environment, customs and other factors, will appear in the raw materials, taste, cooking methods, eating habits on the different degrees of difference. It is precisely because of these differences, food and beverage products have a strong regional. The difference between Chinese and Western culture has created differences between Chinese and Western food culture, but this difference in the West from a different way of thinking and philosophy. Chinese people focus on "Heaven and Man", Westerners focus on "people-oriented."
Here a brief talk from the following three aspects of Chinese and Western food culture differences. First, the concept of two different diet
Contrast to focus on "taste" of the Chinese diet, the West is a rational eating. Regardless of food color, smell, taste, shape how the nutrients must be guaranteed, pay attention to how many calories a day intake, vitamins, protein and so on. Even taste stereotyped, it must be or bad - because nutritious. The food concepts to the West as a whole philosophical system is compatible. Metaphysics is the main features of Western philosophy. The object of study of Western philosophy for the reason of things, often for the reason of things metaphysical science, metaphysics coherence arguments, they form a metaphysical philosophy. This philosophy has brought vitality to the Western culture,
So that in the natural sciences, the psychology and methodology to achieve a rapid development. But in other respects, this philosophy advocates have played a greatly inhibiting, such as the food culture. In the banquet, you can pay attention to tableware, pay attention to the use of materials, pay attention to service, pay attention to vegetables, raw materials, shape, color matching area; but no matter how luxurious high-end, from Los Angeles to New York steak is only one flavor, no art at all. As a dish, chicken is chicken, steak is the steak, even if there are matching, which are also carried out in the disk, a "French lamb chops," as he put mashed potatoes, next to the lean lamb chops, on the other side with boiled green beans, plus a few pieces tomato will do. Color
On the contrasts, but the taste of the kinds of raw materials unrelated to reconcile all that different in flavor, simple and clear.
Chinese people attach great importance to "eat", and "Hunger breeds discontent," This proverb speaks with the days we see as important as eating. As our nation for thousands of years are in the low level of productivity, people are always enough to eat, why we have a unique and above all else to eat the food culture, I think, it is probably out of a survival need bar. If a culture as the primary thing to eat, then there will be two kinds of phenomena: on the one hand to take that functionality to eat to maximize, not only survive, but also use it to maintain a healthy, which is "medicine supplement Sibu than "cultural foundation; the other hand,
Right to eat too much attention, will make people respected the pursuit of delicious.
In China, cookery, the right to pursue almost taste the ultimate, as well as Chinese people living overseas have to open a restaurant for the industry, has become fundamental to settle down, we are in the world! Unfortunately, when we put the pursuit of delicious as the first request, we have neglected the most fundamental nutritional value of food, many of our traditional food to go through the hot fried ravioli, and a long period of slow fire cooking, so that the nutritional content of dishes damaged, many nutrients are lost during processing of the. Speaking of nutrition, and thus a problem, actually goes to the biggest weakness of Chinese food culture. A folk saying goes: "Hunger breeds discontent,
Food with taste as the first. "It is this pursuit of delicious, down so that we ignore the true meaning of a meal.
Chinese people enjoy dishes, often will say that this dish "delicious", that dish "not tasty"; however, a further step to ask what "delicious," why "delicious," "delicious," Where, I am afraid that is not easy to clear. This shows that Chinese people's diet is a kind of hard to explain in words the pursuit of the "mood", that is used commonly referred to as "color, smell, taste, shape, device" to put this "state" specific, I am afraid that is still very difficult to cover individually.
The reason why Chinese cuisine has its own unique charm, the key lies in its taste. The delicious generation, is to reconcile, to make the taste of food, heating after the cooked flavor, plus ingredients and excipients to reconcile the taste and smell spices, mixed together with integration of co-ordination so that complement each other, mutual penetration, harmony You have me, I have you. Chinese pay attention to the harmonic beauty of cooking is the essence of Chinese culinary art of the office. Dishes point shape and color are external things, but taste is something inherent, rather than deliberate modification of the internal re-appearance, flavor and not overly heavy dishes expose dishes shape and color,
This is the view of China and the United States of eating the most important performance.
In China, the diet has suppressed the United States of pursuing a rational, such a diet concept with the traditional Chinese philosophy is consistent. Eastern philosophy, as the representative of Chinese philosophy, its distinguishing feature is the macro, intuitive, vague and elusive. Chinese food production is to reconcile Ding Nai, ultimate goal is to reconcile out of a beautiful taste. The stress is measured is the overall co-ordination. It contains a wealth of Chinese philosophy, dialectic thinking, everything taste wonderful cuisine, harmonization of degrees, degrees within the ever-changing decision of China's rich and varied cuisine, determine the characteristics of China's Cai Cai department as well as every cook characteristics.
Second, differences between Chinese and Western food objects
Westerners think the dishes are boxes, so designed to eat large pieces of meat, whole piece of chicken and other "hard vegetables." And China's cuisine is "Taste", and so Chinese cooking at the selected materials are also showing great randomness: Many Westerners would consider what is thrown away in China are excellent raw materials, foreign chefs can not be processed things, the hands of a chef in China, can the miraculous. Chinese food in terms of materials evident in the extensive random.
Botanist, according to a survey of Western, Chinese people eating there are more than 600 kinds of vegetables, six times more than in the West. In fact, in Chinese cuisine, the vegetarian is a common food, meat dish only on holidays or when a higher standard of living before entering the normal diet, so there since ancient times "vegetarian food", says that eating vegetables in the diet of the usual dominant. Chinese plant-based dishes, with the Buddhists have a 1000 Roo 10000 silk advocacy links. They see animals as "beings," while plants are "no soul", therefore, advocated vegetarianism.
In introducing the Western diet characterized by their own country, I feel more emphasis on nutrition than the Chinese one hand, there are relatively well-developed food industries, such as canned food, fast food and so on, although taste is monotonous, but to save time, and the well-nourished, so their country the human body generally robust than the Chinese people: tall, long legs, wide shoulders, well-developed muscles; while the Chinese people were looked
diminutive shoulders narrow legs are short, weak quality color yellow. According to the Western diet was significant differences in the characteristics of the object, called the Chinese plant character, Westerners called the animal character.
In the diet, differences in the way
In the Western diet methods are very different, such differences also have an impact on the national character. In China, a banquet, no matter what purpose, there will be only one form, that is, everyone sitting round and round, sharing one seat. To use a round-table banquet, which has created a unity in form, courtesy, a total of interesting atmosphere. Delicious food on the table's center, it is both a table of people appreciate, taste the object, but also the feelings of the exchange table vectors. People toast each other with each other for food, advised vegetables, beautiful things in the face reflects the mutual respect between people, be courteous virtue. Although from the health point of view,
This dietary approach has obvious shortcomings, but it is consistent with our nation, "Reunion," the general state of mind reflects the classical Chinese philosophy "and" This is an area for future generations of thinking, to facilitate the exchange of collective emotions, thus are still unable to reform.
Western-style banquets, the food and wine, although very important, but in fact it is as a foil. Banquet lies in friendship, through the conversations between the guests and the neighbor to achieve the purpose of friendship. If the friendship of the banquet and dance analogy, it can be said that Chinese banquet is like a dance, while the western-style banquet is like a ballroom dance of men and women. Thus, Western-style Chinese dinner banquets and the purpose of friendship is very obvious, but more Chinese-style banquet tables are reflected in the friendship, while the western-style multi-party reflected in the friendship between the neighboring guests. The differences with the Chinese diet is more clear that the West popular buffet.
This law is: 11 on display all the food, we take what we need, not fixed to the seat on the eating, walking free, in this way to facilitate the emotional exchanges between individuals, without all of the words on the table, but also the performance of the Westerners personality, self-respect. However, to eat their own systems, each other interference, the lack of a number of Chinese people talk Huan of mood music.
Therefore, in the final analysis, or the difference between emotional and rational. However, this difference seems to change with the development of science and the fuzzy. More and more Chinese people to no longer focus only on food color, aroma, taste, and more emphasis on its health and nutrition of the. Especially after experiencing SARS. Also, because more people are busy work and I think Chinese food done too much trouble, it is better for a hamburger and so on. As a result the differences in the diet also not clear when.