论中西饮食文化的差异

饮食与文化密切相关;不同的民族缔造了不同的饮食文化,所以饮食文化具有浓郁的民族性和多样性的特点。中国与英美等西方国家对饮食的观点和态度、饮食内容以及饮食特点等方面都存在着显著的差异。笔者着重分析了中国与英美等西方国家在饮食观念、宴会礼仪、饮食内容等方面的跨文化差异,揭示了导致饮食文化差异的深层次的原因,并阐明了随着跨文化交际的发展,中西饮食文化的交流、互补和兼容的因素也会增多。

A Comparative Study of Differences Between Chinese and Western Food Cultures

Food,an essential prerequisite for the existence and development of mankind,remains a close relation with culture,for food culture varies with nations.Therefore,there are great disparities between China and the western countries in ideas,attitudes,contents and functions of food cultures.This paper endeavors to analyze the cultural differences and their rooted causes in Chinese and Western food cultures from the perspectives of concept,etiquette and content,and points out that with the development of cross-cultural communication,more factors and new variables in food cultures will arise through communication,interaction and imitation.