1. What are the differences in dietary concepts?
Western diet is a rational concept of diet, and westerners like small but refined food. When it comes to cooking food, nutrition is their starting point and destination. They fully explore and study the nutritional differences of food in different States. As long as it is nutritious, even if it tastes the same, they must eat it. So, even if western food is Chinese, I'm not used to it ~
On the contrary, in China's food culture, the pursuit of "taste" far exceeds the pursuit of "nutrition", and the pursuit of food beauty also trumps rationality-look at all kinds of dishes, which are delicious and spicy. This difference in values forms the characteristics of excessive color, fragrance and taste of Chinese food-this is probably the reason why I am so patriotic as a foodie (≧▽≦)
Second, the difference in diet?
There are great differences between Chinese and western food styles, which also affect the national character.
In China, no matter what his banquet and purpose are, there is only one form-everyone sits around and enjoys a seat. Banquets should use round tables to create a United, polite and interesting atmosphere in form. Food is placed in the center of a table, which is not only the object of appreciation and tasting, but also the medium of emotional communication. People toast each other, take food and exhort each other, which embodies the virtue of mutual respect and courtesy between people in the face of beautiful things. Although it is unsanitary from the point of view of hygiene, it conforms to the general mentality of "happy reunion" of our nation, embodies the influence of the category of "harmony" in China's classical philosophy on later generations, and is conducive to collective emotional exchange, so it is difficult to reform so far. ?
In contrast, in western-style banquets, although food and wine are important, they are actually just foil. The core of the banquet is friendship, which is realized by talking to the guests next door. If the sociality of banquets is compared to dancing, it can be said that Chinese banquets are like group dances, while western banquets are like ballroom dancing for men and women. It can be seen that the purpose of friendship between Chinese banquet and western banquet is obvious, but Chinese banquet is more about the friendship of the whole banquet, while western banquet is more about the friendship between neighboring guests. The more obvious difference from China's diet is the buffet which is popular in the west. This method is: all the food is displayed one by one, and everyone needs what they want, so they can move freely without being fixed in their seats. This way facilitates the emotional communication between individuals, without putting all the words on the table, and also reflects the respect of westerners for individuality and self. But each eats his own food, does not interfere with each other, and lacks some China people's mood of chatting and having fun. ?
Third, what are the different dietary objects?
Because westerners generally believe that dishes are to satisfy hunger, they specialize in "hard dishes" such as large pieces of meat and whole chicken. China's food is "delicious", so China's cooking also shows great randomness in the materials used-many things that westerners regard as discarded things are excellent raw materials in China, and things that foreign chefs can't handle can also be turned into magic in the hands of China chefs. It shows that China's diet has a wide range of randomness in materials. According to the survey of western botanists, people in China eat more than 600 kinds of vegetables, six times more than those in the west. In fact, in Chinese cuisine, vegetarian dishes are ordinary foods, and meat dishes only enter the ordinary diet structure when the living standard is high, so there has been a saying of "vegetable food" since ancient times, and vegetable food plays a dominant role in the ordinary diet structure. China people's plant cooking is closely related to the advocacy of Buddhists. They regard animals as "living things" and plants as "lifeless things", so they advocate vegetarianism. ?
When introducing the dietary characteristics of their own countries, westerners think that they pay more attention to the reasonable collocation of nutrition than China. There are developed food industries, such as canned food and fast food, which are time-saving and nutritious, so people in their country are generally stronger than people in China: tall, with long legs, wide shoulders and muscular; China people, on the other hand, are thin, with narrow shoulders and short legs and light yellow color. According to the obvious differences between Chinese and western food objects, some people call China a plant word, while westerners call it an animal word. In addition, Westerners like to eat more meals a day, which is more scientific than China's eating only two or three meals a day. ?
From the perspective of dietary structure, China people eat much more vegetables than westerners, while westerners consume a lot of protein every day, but they eat too little fiber, which affects gastrointestinal function, so the prevalence rate and cancer rate of digestive system are much higher than that of China. China people like coarse grains, while westerners prefer flour and rice, such as refined white powder. In fact, coarse grains contain more nutrients than flour and rice; People in China love vegetable oil, while westerners like to use animal oil with high cholesterol when cooking, and they also consume a lot of butter every day. No wonder the incidence of cardiovascular diseases in Americans is particularly high: China urban and rural residents like to eat soy milk, tofu, bean sprouts and other soy products, while westerners often "stay at a respectful distance"; People in China, especially in Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta, love to eat pig liver, pig intestines, pig lungs and other internal organs, while westerners do not have this hobby. Animal viscera contains a lot of cholesterol and should not be eaten more; Steamed food has less damage to nutrients. Westerners like steamed food (less nutritional damage), while China people like hot frying (more nutritional damage); Westerners have realized that beef, horse meat and mutton called "red meat" are one of the causes of colon cancer and prostate cancer, and the fat in red meat is also one of the pathogenic factors of prostate cancer and heart disease. They have noticed that eating red meat once a week. Many domestic newspapers and periodicals have reported the problem of red meat many times, but at present, domestic people have not paid enough attention to it.
Therefore, from these aspects, there is no absolutely healthy eating habit. Perhaps, the landlord can have both and create a healthy eating habit that combines Chinese and western ~