摘要

饮食是人类社会生活中非常重要的一部分，在当今快速发展的社会中，尤其是跨文化交际在我们的生活中越来越广泛，我们可以深切的感受到中西方文化的碰撞，其中尤为明显的就是中西方饮食文化的碰撞。在不同的文化背景下，中西方发展出可各具特色的饮食文化，而这些不同的饮食文化，又在很大程度上折射出中西方价值观的差异。在饮食对象，烹饪手法，饮食习惯，饮食模式和餐桌礼仪等许多方面，中西方存在许多的差异，而本文就是透过这些差异，从集体主义和个人主义，保守主义和开拓精神以及理性主义和感性主义来阐明东西方的价值观差异。

关键词：饮食文化；价值观；差异； 西方；中国

Abstract

Diet plays an important role in the social life. In the currently fast-developing society, especially when the inter-culture communication is becoming increasingly wide, we can strongly experience the culture shock between Chinese and western cultures, in which the most outstanding shock lies in the Chinese and western dietary cultures. Under different cultural backgrounds, Chinese and the western develop their own distinctive dietetic culture, which, to a great extent, reflect the difference between the Chinese value and the western value. There are so many differences between the Chinese and western dietary culture includes the food subject, dietary customs, cooking method and the table manners. This paper is trying to illustrate the different values that are reflected in the food culture through three aspects: individualism and collectivism, conservatism and pioneering spirit, rationalism and sensibility.

Key words: dietary culture; values; difference; the western; China

1. Introduction
1.1 Background information
Nowadays, the society develops so rapidly, so there are so many cross-cultural communications. All of us can feel the collision between the Chinese culture and the western culture.
As an important part of the culture, the dietary culture is a quite significant part of the world culture either in Asian or in the western countries. Chinese people always say that “Food is the paramount necessity of the people”. The writer of this paper thinks this saying exactly shows the importance of food culture. In the past years, both China and the western countries have developed different food culture under the different cultural background, and thus we can see the different values reflected in these different dietary cultures. To master these two different food cultures and various values reflected can help us to have a deep understanding for the difference and deal with the culture exchange.