Abstract：Closely related to diet and culture, different nations create different food cultures, so food cultures have strong ethnic characteristics and diversity. There are significant differences between China and Britain and other Western countries in the aspects of the views and attitudes of the diet, diet and diet content and other characteristics. This thesis analyzes cross-cultural differences in diet idea, banquet etiquette, food contents among China and Britain and other Western countries, revealing the deep-seated causes of food culture differences, and setting out with the development of cross-cultural communication, Chinese and Western exchange of food culture, complementary and compatible factors will also increase. With the increasing integration of world cultures, as well as the rapid development of economic globalization, many people tried to study differences between various Chinese and foreign culture, food culture has become an important research indispensable part of the cultural differences between China and the US diet article from the concept of eating, diet, dinner and, in order to better understand the Chinese and American food culture, to avoid cross-cultural communication process due to different food culture and ideas generated contradictions and conflicts, enhance mutual understanding and communication, and promote the development of the catering industry.

Keywords: intercultural communication; Chinese culture; Western culture; food culture

CONTENTS

摘要

Abstract

Chapter 1 Differences of concept between Chinese and western food culture-5

1.1 The idea of generic food vs the idea to eat(pragmatism)-5

1.2 "Compete" VS "simple,casual"-6

1.3 "Collectivism" VS "individualism"-6

Chapter 2 The differences of party etiquette between Chinese and western diet culture-8

2.1 The difference of tableware: "chopsticks" VS "fork"-8

2.2 Present at the time difference: "late" VS "on time"-8

2.3 The differences of seating arrangement-9

Chapter 3 Differences between Chinese and western food culture in the diet content-11

3.1 "Refinement, beauty" VS "rebalancing" of nutrition-11

3.2 The difference of dishes-11

4.1 The Chinese diet idea-13

4.2 The American diet idea-13

4.2.1 The cause of food concept differences of China and the United States-13

Chapter 5 The differences of diet between China and the United States-14

5.1 The Chinese diet structure-14

5.2 The American daily diet-14

Chapter 6 The differences of table manners between China and the United States-15

6.1  American table manners-15

6.2 Chinese table manners-15

Chapter 7 The differences of the banquet between China the United States-17

Chapter 8 The cause of the Chinese and foreign international etiquette difference-18

8.1 The differences of regional culture-18

8.2 The differences of custom-18

8.3 The differences of culture-18

8.4 The differences of religious belief-18

Conclusion-19

References-20

Acknowledgements-21