Differences in customs between China and Britain

China food culture is a regional culture with a long history, with broad vision, deep levels, many angles and high taste. It is China people who have created, accumulated and influenced the material wealth and spiritual wealth of neighboring countries and the world in the aspects of food source development, tableware development, food preparation, nutrition and health care, food aesthetics, etc. in the production and life practice of more than 6,543,800 years.

British people generally prefer cooking methods: stew, barbecue, frying and frying. There are unique ways to cook meat, seafood and game; Have a special preference for beef, such as roast beef, not only with seasonal vegetables and baked potatoes, but also with a little mustard sauce on the steak; I like cream and alcohol in the use of condiments; I like fresh spices such as nutmeg and cinnamon.

2. festivals

The main traditional festivals in China include Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. In addition, ethnic minorities also have their own traditional festivals, such as the Water-splashing Festival of the Dai people, the Nadam Festival of the Mongolian people, the Torch Festival of the Yi people, the Danu Festival of the Yao people, the March Street of the Bai people, the Gexu Festival of the Zhuang people, the Tibetan calendar year and the Guowang Festival, and the jump flower festival of the Miao people.

On New Year's Eve in England, people often go out to visit with cakes and wine. They went straight to their relatives and friends' houses without knocking. The "New Year's Eve Dance" is another celebration.

3. Language

In China, among the 55 ethnic minorities, except for the Hui and Manchu who use Chinese, the other 53 ethnic minorities all use their own languages. There are 2 1 ethnic groups with written languages, and * * * uses 27 languages.

In terms of language families, the languages spoken by 56 ethnic groups in China belong to five major language families: Sino-Tibetan, Altai, Austronesian, South Asian and Indo-European.

Britain has no official language in name, but in fact English is the main language. There are other official languages outside England. For example, Welsh is also used in northern Wales, and Gaelic is still used in parts of the northwest highlands of Scotland and northern Ireland. Immigrants from all over the world also speak their mother tongues, such as Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu. Britain has the largest number of Hindi speakers outside India.

Reference source; Baidu Encyclopedia-China

Baidu Encyclopedia-UK