摘  要

在悠久的历史长河中，饮食对人类的生存和发展至关重要，是人类社会不可缺少的一部分。随着全球经济和文化的发展，跨文化交际越发频繁。所以要更好地了解他们的特性。不同的国家因为不同的背景如：饮食习惯，饮食观念，饮食礼仪，饮食历史等等方面而拥有各自的饮食文化。中西方皆按照各自的方式发展并形成独自的性格特征。这篇论文将分为六个部分，在文中将主要运用对比的手法来分析中西方的不同之处。而这些不同之处将被细分为四个部分：饮食对象，烹饪方法，饮食模式，饮食餐具。每一部分都将深入分析。本文会通过不同的方式进行描述。通过了解不同地区人的性格特征，我们将更加的了解对方，有助于减少文化冲击，促进共同发展。

关键词：中西餐；差异；性格特点

Abstract

    In the long history, the diet is essential for human survival and development, also it is really necessary in social life. With the global economic and cultural progress of the world, intercultural communication is becoming more and more frequent. So we should try our best to understand their characteristics more deeply. To understand the characteristics can promote the exchange and make people enjoy different feelings through the various diets. Different countries have their unique dietary culture owing to differences in their own background such as dietary habits, diet notions, diet etiquettes, diet histories and so on. Chinese and Westerners have developed the diet culture in their own way, and each of them has formed its unique characteristic which can be viewed from the diet. The paper is divided into six parts from the introduction to the conclusion. The comparison is the main method used to tell the distinctive characteristics between Chinese and Westerners. The differences are viewed from four principal aspects, diet ingredient, cooking, pattern and tableware. Each of the four parts is stated in detail. Different characteristics can be seen from the comparison of Chinese and Western diet. Today, enjoying the detail with characteristics between China and West has already become the customary thing in contemporary people’s daily life. Through learning the characteristics, people can know each other better. The paper can also help to reduce culture shock and promote mutual development.

Key words: Chinese and Western diet; differences; characteristics

1 Introduction
Diet is the basic factor in human life and plays an important role in our daily life. It is not only the basic need of human survival and development, but also one of the elementary forms of social life. Because of different organic environment, geographic locations, history, culture, weather conditions, different peoples and nations have multiple food culture with a strong national characteristics and diverse characteristics. There are two distinct styles of food culture between the West and China. And they play a different role in each culture. There are some differences as Chinese diet culture is rich, profound; While Western diet civilization is unique, self-contained.