Introduction to Chinese Culture Why is Chinese food an art?

Chinese food culture is a Chinese culture with a long and profound history.

Under the influence of the philosophical ideas of yin and yang, Confucian ethics and morality, the nutritional and physiological doctrines of traditional Chinese medicine, as well as the cultural and artistic achievements, food aesthetic styles, and national character traits of traditional Chinese culture and education, the Chinese culinary arts have been created to create an outstanding Chinese culinary art, and the Chinese culinary culture has formed a broad and profound culture.

From an outward perspective, Chinese culinary culture can be categorized from various perspectives, such as era and technique, region and economy, ethnicity and religion, food and utensils, consumption and level, folklore and function, etc., showing different cultural tastes and embodying different values of use, which are colorful and varied.

From the point of view of qualities, the Chinese food culture highlights the theory of Yingwei (vegetarianism, emphasis on medicinal diets and tonic), and pays attention to the "color, aroma and taste" are all complete. Five flavors and the realm of harmony (distinctive flavor, the mouth is precious, "tongue dish" reputation), odd and positive changes in the cooking method (kitchen rules for this, flexible), smooth God and happy view of food (literacy, education in food) and other four major attributes, has a different food culture of different countries overseas, the innate beauty of the food culture. Chinese food culture in addition to pay attention to the color of the dishes to be bright as a picture, but also with the atmosphere of the meal to produce a kind of interest, it is the personality of the Chinese nation and tradition, but also the Chinese people's traditional etiquette of the way to highlight.

From the influence, Chinese food culture directly affects Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore and other countries, is the axis of the Eastern food culture circle; at the same time, it also indirectly affects Europe, the Americas, Africa and Oceania, such as China's vegetarian culture, tea culture, soy sauce and vinegar, pasta, medicinal food, ceramic tableware and soybeans, etc, have benefited billions of people around the world.

In short, the Chinese food culture is a broad vision, deep, multi-angle, high-grade long regional culture; is the Chinese people of all ethnic groups in more than one million years of production and life practice, in the development of food sources, food development, food conditioning, nutrition and health care and diet aesthetic aspects of the creation, accumulation and influence on the neighboring countries and the world's material wealth and spiritual wealth.