Culture Difference CHINA VS WESTERN JASON JAMES YVES Contents 1 2. 3. Food culture . 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 yves 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!