This paper discusses the relationship between the inheritance and innovation of China cuisine.

The inheritance and innovation of China's cooking are both contradictory and unified.

1 Inheritance is the foundation of innovation, and innovation is the requirement of inheritance. Innovation is the development from scratch, not the introduction from scratch. Without inheritance, there would be no China cooking, no China cooking and no innovation in China cooking. So inheritance is the foundation and material carrier of innovation. After inheritance, if you don't innovate, you will inevitably lag behind the changes in the social environment, and eventually you will be out of the game or even defeated. Since it has been lost, how can we talk about inheritance?

2 Inheritance restricts innovation to some extent. People often say that books must be borrowed and not read, which has great practical basis. Many cuisines pretend to be ancestral secret recipes and are unwilling to improve them, which has affected their innovation process to some extent.

3 Innovation also restricts inheritance. Inherited things must have characteristics, and innovative things are not so obvious. If there is only one characteristic of innovative things, it is advanced. But this progress is not lasting, and it is easy to be imitated and surpassed. Once imitated and surpassed, it loses the meaning of inheritance.