What are the food culture and eating habits of China

China's diet culture origin early, the earliest can be traced back to the period of three sovereigns, suiren simulated flight after the cooked food, after lodge savary-gilliard evaporate salt technology invention, make people not only understand the boil also learned to move, which laid a foundation for the formation of the diet culture in our country, our country's food culture zhou and qin dynasties gradually take shape, with the development of The Times, The food culture of Our country "gathers the strength of hundreds of schools" in the trend of The Times constantly fusion, collision, development, song Yuan Ming and Qing dynasties is another big climax of the development of the Food culture of the Chinese nation, influenced by the manchu and Mongolian food culture, food structure has undergone a great change, food culture has been further developed.

The Food culture of the Chinese nation is very rich. China has a long history, a vast territory and a large number of ethnic groups. The traditional Culture of the Chinese nation with a long history, the changing dynasties, the unique food culture of each ethnic group, and the climatic conditions with great differences between the north and the south have laid the rich and colorful characteristics of China's food culture. People in different areas to the country's cuisine can be divided into the different cuisines, well-known are well known and generally accepted eight great cuisines of shandong cuisine, sichuan cuisine, cantonese cuisine and the jiangsu cuisine, fujian cuisine, zhejiang, hunan, anhui, in addition to the big cuisines and there are many delicious and more local cuisines, such as yunnan, yunnan cuisine is also a special skill, in yunnan, there is a proverb to word of mouth: "Green food, moving is a lot of meat", yunnan is the famous animal and plant kingdom, combined with their own conditions of yunnan food is given priority to with wild, more unique flavor is its characteristic, yunnan cuisine is not constrained by cooking way, more emphasis is the fresh food itself, it is also closely related to variety of terrain and climate in yunnan. In addition, there are 56 ethnic groups in China, each of which has its own unique food culture, such as roasted whole sheep of Mongolia, niuganba of Hui, sour fish soup of Miao, pipa pork of Yi, etc.

The Chinese national diet culture is characterized by humanistic interest. Chinese food culture have long pay attention to taste the taste, the taste sentiment in the name of the dishes and some of the more famous allusions well reflected, such as "general bridge", the "man-han banquet", "lion", "chicken", "in extremely good fortune", "the hongmen banquet", "dongpo pork" and "a glass of wine the relieving, etc. As a food-oriented nation, Chinese people not only pay attention to "what to eat", but also pay attention to the sense of ritual in the process of food. "where to eat", "with whom to eat" and "how to eat" are also issues that people care about. People often "eat to express meaning", when the family reunion to sit at the table to share food, drink to share the happiness of the family, every happy event will invite relatives and friends to share the joy at the same time served blessing, when parting put wine held banquet practice to express the feelings of parting. In order to improve the ritual sense of "eating", people also like to recite poems, listen to music, enjoy dancing, make tableware with gold, silver and jade, and study how to make different flavors of food with the same ingredients. Since ancient times, people have made great efforts to "eat better".