摘　要

随着人类社会的发展，每个国家都形成了其独特的饮食文化。饮食文化是文化的一个重要组成部分。中国经历了几千年的变迁，形成了自己的文化。在中国文化中，饮食文化是一个不可缺少的部分。饮食文化渗透在中国人民的日常生活中。美国的历史不长，但也形成了自己的饮食文化。中美两国存在着差异，他们的饮食文化也存在着差异。它们的差异体现在很多方面。这篇论文将主要从三方面来研究中美饮食文化的差异：这三方面分别是饮食概念的不同，饮食习惯的不同和饮食结构的不同。跨文化交流是当今时代的主题。研究中美饮食文化差异，有利于中美两国了解对方的饮食文化，进一步了解美国文化，有利于增进两国的交流，促进跨文化交流的发展。

关键词：中美饮食文化；差异；跨文化交流

Abstract

As we all know, food plays a quite vital role in our daily life. People can’t live without food. Food is always associated with culture. With the development of the human’s society, every country shapes its unique food culture. Food culture is a quite vital part of culture. China forms its own culture during the development of thousands of years. Food culture is obbligato part to Chinese culture. Food culture can be seen in Chinese people’s daily life. Even though America doesn’t have long history, it also shapes its own food culture. There are differences between China and America, and differences also exist in their food culture. Their differences can be seen in lots of aspects. This dissertation are manly taking about the differences between China and American food culture and will do research from three parts to analyze the differences between China and American food culture and the three parts are the comparison of food concepts, the comparison of food habits, the comparison of food structure. Intercultural communication is the main stream in this age in the world. Doing research on the differences between Chinese and American food culture is one of the phenomenon of intercultural communication. Doing research on the differences could help China and America understands each other. It also can help us understand American culture, improve two countries’ communication, promote the development of intercultural communication.

Key words: China and American food culture; differences; intercultural communication

1 Introduction
What is food culture? What is food culture? Food culture is a concept related to natural science, social science and philosophy and is a culture category between narrow sense and broad sense of culture. We also can say food culture refers to the use of food staple, produce of food, and the science, art among the food consumption and the customs, tradition, ideas and philosophy based on food. This paper mainly talks about the differences between China and American food culture. Every country shapes its food culture with the development of their society.