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Characteristics of Chinese food culture

Chinese diet is characterized by: a variety of flavors, the four seasons are different, pay attention to the aesthetic sense, pay attention to the interest, food and medicine combination.

Because of the vastness of China, the vastness of the land, the climate, products, customs and habits of different places there are differences, for a long time, in the diet also formed a lot of flavors. China has always had a "southern rice and northern noodles", the taste of "southern sweet and salty, sour and spicy" points, mainly Ba Shu, Qilu, Huaiyang, Guangdong and Fujian four major flavors.