Chinese's food and drink convention

Chinese's tradition food and drink convention is that food material gives first place to vegetalitas। Be that the five cereals, assists food is vegetable , in addition a few creophagism of staple food. The cause forming this one convention main part is that Central Plains area takes that the agriculture produces as main economy mode of production. But in different stratum, the food allocation proportion be unable completely is identical. Had therefore saying person is "a predator " on the throne in the ancient times.
Food , prepared food give first place to heat , are also one big characteristics of Chinese food and drink convention। This and earlier civilized civilized Chinese sum cook developed technology in relation to. Chinese ancients thinks: "Water lives in fishy , slow moving foul smell of person , grass eats namely middle of the chest ". Hot food , prepared food can "go out fishy get rid of foul smell getting rid of middle of the chest " ("Ls Spring and Autumn Annals. Taste "). Chinese's food and drink always is celebrated all over the world for that the cookbook cooks a technology broadly, delicate but. Historical records is loaded with, southern and northern dynastiets time , redundant Liangwu emperor Xiao cook, one melon can be changed into out ten kinds style , one dish can do out several tens kind flavour , excellence cooking a technology , makes people exclaim.
On food and drink way, Chinese also characteristic having self , this is to gather food system। The origin gathering food system is very early , the disinterment middle secondary a lot of ground culture is lost existing is visible , cooked a meal in the ancient times thinning out and gathering the local eating is unified , cooking a meal thins out the central authority in the dwelling house , go ahead on fire having a bonfire under having a skylight to produce cigarette,compose cook a meal , eat person right away gathering food around fire. This gathers acient custom of food, one until future generations. Gather the long range go around eating system , be that China takes blood relationship family ties and clan attachment to self's family reporting on food and drink way seriously. In the field of dinner service, one big characteristics of Chinese's food and drink convention is to use chopsticks. Chopsticks, shouted chopsticks , had age-old history in China in the ancient times.
Once said in "Book of Rites": "The broomcorn millet has no a meal with chopsticks ". It can be seen that the times, already uses chopsticks to take food at least in Yin merchant. The sort is made into chopsticks with the bamboo , a pair grasps and skillfully applies in hand, is is that simple economy, is very convenient. Much Europe and America person sees Oriental use chopsticks , praises it as the peak of perfection, that Ode is one kind of art is created by. In fact, the east uses chopsticks it's source to come from China much in every country. Chinese's ancestor invents chopsticks , is indeed to one big contribution of human civilization.