Culture Difference
CHINA VS WESTERN
JASON JAMES YVES
Contents
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2.
3.
Food culture
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Holiday culture
Funeral culture
Diet content
Holiday meaning
Funeral hues
Dietary customs
Holiday gift-giving
Funeral necessities
Dietary characteristics
Holiday activities and customs
Funeral customs
Table manners
Festival food
Burial place
1.
Food culture
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Dietary Structure
regional characteristics
mainly plant-based food,
supplemented by meat
Meat + bread products +
desserts(afternoon tea)
Temperature
cooked food
combine raw and
cooked
hot soup/water
cold water
hot tea
The afternoon
tea(mostly cold desserts)
Distribution
Chinese food custom
Western food custom
based on praying for a reunion
based on religious beliefs
Symbol of festival
derived from the Bible
Dietary
customs
Chinese food custom
Western food custom
TASTE:
NUTRITIONAL VALUE:
Not only to fill the stomach but
replenish physical strength
also to satisfy the craving for food
pouring into feelings, sensuality
preserve the original taste
rationality, pragmatism
developed the fast-food industry
Chinese food
custom
a variety
of spices
Western food
custom
main
course
Overall
Individual
and raw materials
everyone gathers around a table
and side dishes
divided meal system
and enjoys dishes together
buffet
Tableware
Chinese VS Western
chopsticks to hold food
spoons to drink soup
bowls to hold rice
knife and fork to cut food
plate to hold food
Ceremonial seating
order
South-facing respect, “elder and young orderly”
VS
A long table at both ends of the long table
Gender priority
“Males are superior to Females”
VS
“Ladies first”
Ideas about TABLE MANNER
2.
Holiday
culture
James
The meaning of the festival
Chinese festivals mainly originate from the
year of the solar term, praying for their own
good luck and happiness, festival mouth
custom to eating and drink as the theme；
Western festivals are mainly derived from
religion and events, remembering God and
asking for his blessing. The festival custom
focuses on fun. The reason is mainly that
Westerners pursue health and happiness for
life and realize it through religious and
recreational activities.
Holiday gift giving
Chinese people tend to focus on the
substance of a gift, that is, its practical
value, and don't like to see something
useless. Gifts to newlyweds used to be
quilts, bed sheets, tablecloths, etc.
Westerners often pay attention to the
souvenir value of gifts. When invited to a
Western home, you can send a bouquet
of flowers to the hostess and a bottle of
wine to the host.
Festival activities
and customs
Chinese New Year's Eve is just a
the New Year's Eve, as soon as the New
family reunion. Never invite outsiders,
Year's bell rings, people cheer, and can not
even the most intimate friends are
help but run to the street, to see people hug,
very wise, will not gatecrashers on
regardless of whether they know. Chinese
this night, to pay New Year's greetings
traditional festivals are basically formed and
to the first day of the sword, this has
handed down in the feudal society, and
almost become a custom, at least
inevitably bear the brand of feudalism:
thousands of years of history
hierarchical, closed, and family style.
Festival food
Each festival has different specialty
food requirements to distinguish it
from other festivals. Such as eating
dumplings, yuanxiao, zongzi, moon
cakes and so on.
In the aspect of eating, there are
no strict requirements, what
festival does not depend on the
difference of eating. It's usually
just a bigger meal than usual, like
Turkey.
3.
Funeral
culture
Jason
Chinese
Western
Funeral Hues
White
Black
Funeral Necessities
Cerement, paper
money
Cross, holy water
Funeral Customs
Wail
Act Solemnly
Burial Places
Countryside(Remote
Locations)
Churches, Parks(Easily
Found Locations)
Thank you!