ABSTRACT
Food, an essential prerequisite for existence, plays an irreplaceable role in the development of society and in the progress of human beings, whether in ancient times or in modern times, and whether in East or in West. food remains a close relation with culture, for food culture varies with nations. Therefore, only within the context of each individual culture can food and food habits be best understood.
There are great disparities between China and Western countries in ideas. attitudes, contents and functions of food cultures. Based on the theory of "the deep structure of culture" and "cultural relativism", this thesis endeavors to analyze the cultural differences and their rooted causes in Chinese and Western food cultures from the perspectives of concept, etiquette and content, and points out that with the development of cross-cultural communication, more factors and new variables in food cultures will arise through communication, interaction and imitation. Since a comparative study of Chinese&Western food cultures is a broad issue, what we have discussed in the thesis covers only a small part. Besides, food cultures concerned in the thesis are mainly confined within the Han nationality of China and America and Britain. However, this research, hopefully, will encourage a further study in this field.
Key words: Chinese culture, western culture; The diet culture; differences
CONTENT
ABSTRACT I
Introduction 1
1.Overview of diet culture 2
1.1 Chinese diet culture 2
1.2 Western diet culture 2
2.Differences of Diet object 3
2.1 The Chinese "plant" diet object 3
2.2 The western animal diet "object 3
3. Differences of table manners 5
3.1 Diet of tableware differences 5
3.2 Different seating arrangement 5
4. Chinese and western diet custom comparison 7
4.1 Differences of the cooking 7
4.2 Chinese and western wine is common 7
4.3 Summary 9
Conclusion 10
References 11
Convey thanks 12
