中西饮食文化差异的餐桌礼仪对比

On the differences between Chinese and western food culture

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Introduction Food is the most important material in maintaining our life and improving the quality of our bodies, and is basic for the development as well. An old saying goes like this “food is the heaven to the people”, which means that food ranks the first in all our needs .we should eat and drink before we engage ourselves in the course of politics, science, art, and religion act’s all producing activities of human, especially food production become a basic condition of the whole history .Food is so fundamental to our life so that all the other aspects of our living are determined by it, built on it, and limited by it. Since the human being cook with fire for the first time and come to a civilian age ,the food we eat has begun to be of cultural property .It is not a history of sub-human eating and drinking ,but a history in which the human being conquers the nature, change the nature, and get adapted to nature to exist and develop .And in this historic process, the human gradually formed its food culture .Food as a category of culture, helps us to understand every area of the oriental and occidental world .With Chinese entry to the world ,plenty of things which are fresh to us ,at once flock to our country .Among them, of course , food culture of other nations come into our too .Nowadays, many people out of curiosity ,taste difference sort of food of other countries .But few of them these people really grasp the essence of the food culture. While the food of one place can reflect i