Chinese Food Culture

Chinese food culture

Food for the people is the sky, the Chinese people in the life of the production, and continue to explore their own survival, the continuation of the diet, the formation of a rich local characteristics, local flavors of the food and dishes, and a lot of famous dishes, rich in cultural connotations, so that many tourists to a place, will be excited to taste. A tour guide, understand the rich local flavor of the dishes, to the tourists for the appropriate introduction, can add to the fun of tourists.

Chinese food culture has a long history, known as the Kingdom of cooking. Chinese cooking is not only technology, but also an art, culture, is the fruit of hard work and wisdom of our people of all races, is an important part of the traditional culture of the Chinese nation.

In terms of Chinese cuisine as a whole.

Mainly consists of five major parts: local flavor dishes, vegetarian dishes, court dishes, governmental dishes, and ethnic minority dishes. Local flavor dishes are the main part of Chinese cuisine. Regarding local flavor dishes, there are many kinds of criteria for their division, but the most distinctive, the longest history and the most influential ones are the four major cuisines nurtured by the three major rivers: Sichuan Cuisine originating from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Huaiyang Cuisine originating from the ancient Yangzhou in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Cantonese Cuisine originating from the Pearl River Basin of Guangdong Province, and Lu Cuisine originating from the Yellow River Basin of Shandong Province.

The Book of Rites - Rites of Passage records that: the ancient people did not have fire, eat the fruits of grass and trees, the flesh of horses and beasts, drink their blood, and eat their hair. The transformation from raw food to cooked food is one of the symbols distinguishing humans from animals, and is an important milestone in the history of human development. The use of fire for food processing is an important symbol of human evolution, can also be said to be the starting point of human food culture.