摘要饮食文化是民族文化中最重要的组成部分之一。不同的国家有不同的饮食文化特点。为了更好的掌握中国和美国饮食文化，这篇文章从饮食观念、饮食结构、餐桌礼仪、饮食习惯四个方面来描述，分别讲述了中西方餐饮文化的差异。并通过对比，找出了中西饮食文化差异的根源：传统文化和地理环境因素的影响。中西饮食文化的共同发展对中西文化交流起到促进作用。更重要的是，它可以避免跨文化交际过程中由于不同的饮食文化和观念而产生的矛盾和冲突，增进双方的了解和沟通以及促进饮食行业的发展。50356

毕业论文关键词：饮食文化；文化差异；对比分析

Abstract  Dietary culture is one of the most important parts in national culture, which has a close connection with material life and spiritual life. This paper discusses culture differences in eating habits of china and the United States. In order to get a good grasp of the diet culture of China and United States, this article starts from four aspects: dietary idea, dietary structure, table manners and dietary habits. And this paper depicts Chinese and American’s dietary culture differences. People can know more about different culture by learning the different dietary culture between Chinese and American. By comparison the research finds the roots for the dietary cultural differences between China and America which are traditional culture and geographical reasons. The common development between Chinese and American dietary culture industry in inter-cultural communication can promote Chinese and American’s communication. With the development of Chinese and American’s intercultural communication, the relationship between China and America will become closer. More importantly, it can avoid contradictions and conflicts because of different dietary culture and dietary idea when people are in the process of intercultural communication and enhance mutual understanding and communication as well as facilitate the development of catering industry.

Key words: dietary culture; culture differences; comparative analysis

 Comparative Analysis of Chinese and American Dietary CultureContents

 摘 要 i

Abstract ii

I. Introduction 1

II. Comparison of Chinese and American Dietary Culture 2

2.1 Dietary Idea 2

2.2 Dietary Structure 3

2.3 Table Manners 6

2.4 Dietary Habits 10

III. Reasons For Chinese and American Dietary Culture Differences 11

3.1 Cultural Roots 11

3.2 Geographical Reasons 12

V. Conclusion 13

Bibliography 14

Acknowledgements 1

Comparative Analysis of Chinese and American Dietary Culture

I. Introduction

People living in different countries are influenced by respective natural environment, historical background and national culture. China is a country with a history of more than five thousand years, which also has a rich history on its dietary culture. Being a great agricultural country with large population and it has lots of food resource to feed its people. In china, food has always being put at the highest position of the country. Differently, the United States was born and bred by polity and economy. American people don’t pay much their attention to food. In the culture of America, food is just a small part of people’s daily life. The different attention they pay on food leads to different food culture. Different traditional culture brings different dietary culture characteristics. The differences in diet idea, structure table manners and dietary habits reflect the different dietary culture in different country characteristics. It is such characteristics that enriched the research value of food culture. We can have a deep understanding of these dietary culture by learning about food culture. After making a survey about these cultural differences, we can find out good ways to improve the communication between China and America. What’s more, it can help people understand Chinese and American food culture better. People can deeply learn each others’ faith, philosophical ideology and mode of thinking. It has a quite important theoretical significance on the two nations’ cross-cultural communication. Two countries can also improve their economy and avoid contradictions and conflicts when people are in the process of intercultural communication.