Chinese Food Culture Handbook

Talking about the culture in food

Food is the God of the people, and the Chinese people have been fond of studying food since ancient times, and like to give certain meanings to the simple eating.

Diet culture is to give food some additional things, such as customs, poems, allusions, etc., under the premise of solving the problem of food and clothing.

Just like wine culture, tea culture, food culture and so on, different places have different characteristics. From the south to the north, China's food culture has been precipitated for thousands of years, the various cuisines represent different regional cultures, and even a small bowl of noodles can reflect the local culture.

For example, Qishan noodles and oil splash noodles in Shaanxi, Lanzhou beef ramen and Ga noodles, Chongqing noodles, Wuhan hot noodles, Tianshui noodles, Huixian dan dan noodles, and so on, the big places have big local specialties, and the small places have small local customs, and the different food, different cultures, are all the life experience of the laboring people who have been saved up for thousands of years.

How to add a little color to the rough and tiring life, in the lack of culture and entertainment in the era, each time the rough and simple ingredients become more refined, more meaningful, will give a layer of cultural color to the diet.

As times change, there are more literati in China, and food has become more poetic.

"A simple osmanthus cake wrapped in walnuts makes a poetic statement that is instantly elevated. "

Simple crucian carp, silver silk chopped, parsley Bijian soup" simple crucian carp, described in verse up more tempting, hooked the taste buds.

When it comes to wine and tea, that is more China's thousands of years of accumulation, often said that the tea culture, wine culture is more esoteric, for example, between friends can drink tea can also drink, but rivals and enemies can only drink wine, but can not sit together to taste tea.

The literati describe tea and wine in verse is more, "wine and grapes night light cup, want to drink the pipa right away," "today's wine today drunk, tomorrow's sad to tomorrow's sad," and the wine inside with the human emotions. Tea is linked to the Zen, tea Zen words, tea enlightenment, etc., all show the depth of tea culture.

Chinese food culture has a long history, precipitated by the wisdom of the working people, showing the working people's expectations for a better life.

Chinese food culture is a long history, profound Chinese culture.

In the traditional Chinese culture and education of yin-yang and five elements of philosophical thinking, Confucian ethics and morality, Chinese medicine and nutritional regimen, as well as cultural and artistic achievements, dietary aesthetic style, national character traits of many factors under the influence of the creation of Chinese culinary arts, the formation of Chinese culinary culture of great depth and depth.

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 reflecting different values of use, which is colorful and varied.