What is the concept of diet in China?

In the long history of China for thousands of years, due to the differences of region, time and nationality, colorful and varied food cultural customs have been born. However, whether it is ethnic differences, regional differences, or changes in dietary preferences in different times with the passage of time, its core cultural concepts can still be passed down.

To sum up, the core content of China's food culture includes these aspects:

Eat and drink. Eating, drinking, having fun and eating well is the core of China's food culture. We should not only eat well, but also eat healthily. It's also because China people pursue delicious food, good drink and good stew. Except for China, there is no country in the world where China people have such rich and complicated food categories, such as meat and vegetable collocation, cold and hot collocation and decoction collocation, which are so complicated that foreigners are dazzled, and the purpose is to eat, drink and stew well.

Emotional expression. China's food culture contains rich emotional expressions, such as respecting the old and loving the young, loving each other and expressing friendship and affection. In China, the word "love" needs no oral expression at all. Respect the elderly? Have a meal; Are relatives close? Have a meal; Friends should enhance their feelings? Have a meal; Friendship between groups? Have a meal. People in China have many things, that is, eating.

The pursuit and expression of beauty and a better life. China's diet pays attention to color, fragrance and taste. Tableware, tables, stools and restaurants all reflect the pursuit of beauty and a better life of China people, and express beauty and their own better life.

Although wine culture is basically familiar to all countries and nations in the world, China's traditional food culture has some different connotations from other countries. Most of the wine cultural connotations are contained in the food cultural connotations, but the contents mentioned above do not completely cover the wine cultural connotations. The positive essence of Chinese wine culture is basically the same as that of other countries and nations, but there are some cultural connotations in Chinese wine culture that are close to hooliganism, such as persuading wine, playing the temper in the name of wine, showing toughness and strength.