Essay on Food Culture of the Korean People

The food culture in general can best reflect the characteristics of a nation's life and quality of life, the food culture of the Korean people, not only in China, that is, in the world, also has its own distinctive features. The "soup culture" of the Koreans is one of the best in the world, and I don't know which other ethnic group in the world can play the "soup culture" to the fullest extent as the Koreans do. No matter in the countryside or in the city, no matter in the festivals or in the daily life, they are fond of soup and can't leave it for a while. Dog meat soup, beef soup, pork soup, river fish soup, sea vegetable soup, bean curd soup, cake soup, cold noodle soup, miso soup ...... can be divided into several kinds of miso soup depending on the type of miso used. The Korean people like to soak their rice into the soup and eat it. In the Korean family guests, bowls, pots appear leftover rice is a very normal thing, but generally the soup can not be left. It is not an exaggeration to say that without soup, especially miso soup, the life of the Koreans is as unbearable as the absence of the sun. "Dog meat soup" is a representative work of "soup culture" of the Korean people. According to Korean medicine, dog meat has the effect of warming the middle and tonifying the kidney, nourishing the face and beauty, and strengthening the body, and it is especially effective when eaten on hot days. Korean hospitality guests, served a table of dog meat feast, is a higher courtesy. In the past, difficult times, kill a dog is not easy, often to add three or four times the water, and repeatedly boiled and eaten. Now, eating dog meat has been a very common thing. According to rough statistics, the Yanbian region annually consumes about 300,000 dogs for meat, while less than 100,000 real estate dogs. That's why dog traders have set foot on the north and south of the Yangtze River, inside and outside the Great Wall. Of course, the authorities of the autonomous region attach great importance to this "big market, small industry" contradiction, has been fruitful development of meat dog breeding.