Find More Behind Chinese Cuisine Culture 0091124005 Yangyue
In the west people’s eyes, eating is just an easy task everyone should do each day regularly. In their point of view, eating is nothing more than a fuel, just as the text tell us. But the author pointed out that Chinese cuisine make people to believe that eating is not just eating, there is much culture behind it and so will people in the foreign country feel.
I am in favor of the author’s view that Chinese food has become one of the international food. People from all over the world enjoy it because of many reasons.
If someone ask me a question:’ Who enjoys eating the most and which country values food the most’. My answer must be China. The cuisine culture in China has a long history and a lot of people in China put eating on the top of their list. Though the pace of the society has been fastened and people tend to have less time for eating, eating still plays an important role in our daily life. We fulfill our appetite and heart with satisfaction and pleasure at the same time. Nowadays, more and more foreigners love food in China and Chinese cuisine. Chinese food is famous and welcomed by all over the world. What make the Chinese food and eating culture so famous?
Firstly, there is a various kind of flavors in Chinese cuisine. People in the south eat rice and people in the north eat noodles. Food in the north is usually sweet, salt in the south, sour in the east and spicy in the west. And these are just kind of food and flavors. You wil also find it interesting that people’s character seem to have connection with the flavor and food. Northern people are usually sweet and tender. Southern people are open and energetic and people in western areas are unrestrained and strict. Just as the saying goes:’ People are raised by the land they lived on and the water they drink.’ We can judge where the person lives according to what he likes to eat. Is that interesting?
Secondly, people eat different things in different seasons. Light and clean food are preferred summer and hot and oily food are preferred in winter. Instead of eating hamburger, bread and beef almost everyday, we Chinese change our diet and dishes according to the change of the seasons.
Thirdly, in our Chinese’s eyes, eating is not just a thing to fulfill our empty stomach but also a wonderful experience to entertain eyes. So the colors, flavors, taste, shape, the container and the food must be great and suited to each other. Take Dongpo Meat as an example, the meat is full of appealing flavor with red source. The meat is tender with
What’s more, the names of the dishes are very attractive. Some good names can express the color, flavor and the kind of food all together. Some good names show the history or the special stories of the dishes. But it also add difficulty to the translation of the names from Chinese to English. There are also funny things risen from the translation.
Chinese medical science is also one of Chinese specialties in Chinese culture. We can also find some relationship between Chinese medical science and Chinese cuisine. In Chinese medical science, they thought that people live between the sky and the ground, as a part of the nature. So people have some connection the nature. People make a balance between Yin and Yang. This balance can be reached by having a balanced diet. Once people shift to one side, they can adjust their diet a little bit to the other side to overcome this.
Chinese people use dinner or lunch time to have business discussion and family reunion. Food and its culture in China is far more than one could imagine.