What are the food cultures and needs of the Chinese people?

The many characteristics of Chinese food culture, reflected in the food culture, directly affect the development of Chinese food culture. First of all, because of population pressure and the existence of many other reasons, so the Chinese diet since the pre-Qin Dynasty, is based on grains, meat less grain, supplemented by vegetables and vegetables, which is the typical structure of the meal. This is the typical structure of rice and vegetables. Rice is the staple food, while vegetables are for the purpose of rice, i.e., to help rice go down the throat. Why do we need to help the rice go down the throat? That is because the staple food is not palatable and there must be a substance to assist it so that people can eat it. Of course, the function of vegetables and the function of salt have **** the same point, but not the same as salt. This prompted the primary purpose of Chinese cooking is to decorate the diet, so that the unpalatable food becomes exquisite; secondly, because of the Chinese culture to pursue shirt, the development of Chinese handicrafts, so cooking in the dietary processing technology is second to none in the world, reflecting the shirt characteristics of Chinese culture. All these make Chinese food culture have the following characteristics. First, China's cooking technology is developed, many Westerners seem inedible items, after the Chinese chef's labor, so that people see and appetite; Second, the Chinese people's recipes are wide-ranging, where all the food can be eaten, no taboos; Third, China's rescue of the writings of the famine is particularly large, in order to prepare for the year of famine in order to fill up with wild food for the use of famine; Fourth, the Chinese people will be the pursuit of food as the pursuit of the most joyful in life, to eat has become the first Eating has become the first requirement. As the Chinese people can not eat as they wish, there is a poem for proof: the red sun patrols the sky late at noon, the belly of the virtual reality of their own knowledge. It is not difficult to have a full life, but only when the weather is favorable. Therefore, for a long time, it is difficult to eat and wear clothes without worrying, so eating in the life of the Chinese people occupies a special place, the evidence is too numerous to mention. In addition, we can analyze certain features of Western food culture that may deepen our understanding of Chinese food culture. In the West, meat has always been a high proportion of the diet because it was initially based mainly on animal husbandry. In modern times, the proportion of planting has increased, but the proportion of meat in the diet is still higher than that of the Chinese. Because of the natural delicious meat, so the westerners do not need to decorate the diet, the natural delicious food limit the development of cooking, Europeans in the show of affluence, more than the diet of the tools to show, such as a variety of utensils of how much and luxury to become the content of the content of the lecture. In addition, they do not eat this kind of life easy to satisfy things as the pursuit of life's most joyful. The pursuit of life in the West, exactly the same Chinese proverb can be highly summarized, that is, "full of ambiguous thinking about lust". They pursue love more, and Western culture embodies a "love culture", while Chinese culture embodies a "food culture". However, we should also point out that there are many features of Chinese food that cannot be seen in the daily life of the common people. The palace food and the marketplace food can show these characteristics better and more comprehensively. The festive diets of the common people, such as the Chinese New Year, may be able to show some of these characteristics, but the Chinese New Year is, after all, a fleeting moment in a 365-day year, like a flash in the pan.

References:

Xu Wangsheng, ed. --Chinese Food Culture"