Chinese food culture is profound and has a long history, and enjoys a high reputation in the world. Chinese food culture is based on its deep connotation and can be summarized into four words: essence, beauty, emotion, and etiquette. Many people like to compare countries. In fact, each country has different eating habits and cannot be compared.
Chinese cuisine always has endless selection of ingredients to show the depth of Chinese food culture, but Europeans always look at these ingredients from a different perspective. For them, Chinese people eat everything, have weird tastes, and pay too much attention to form.
A wide range of Chinese cuisine
The earliest objection to Chinese people to eat everything comes from the "Sample of the Book of the Jesuits". It says in the book: The new food developed by the Chinese always breaks people's understanding of food. The delicacies they like are at the cost of destroying the environment, and the methods of some dishes are even very inhumane.
Europeans once commented that Chinese people dared to eat anything, and praised Indian food culture for its health. Some foreigners also say: In Indian society, it is the relationship between man and God, while in Chinese society, it is the relationship between man and man. In front of Chinese people, there is only whether it is delicious or not, and whether it is not possible to eat.
Some European media have specifically introduced the food culture of China and India. For them, the two countries are only separated by a Himalayas. It is amazing that there is such a big difference in food culture. Compared with the food culture of the two, Indian food culture is more humane, and Chinese food tastes weird.
vegetarians protest against people eating meat
There are many vegetarians in Europe. In the UK, 10% of Vegetarians have food every day, and they don’t even eat eggs. In May of every year, these vegetarians in the UK will also organize activities to promote vegetarian through various media, and also hold vegetarian cooking competitions and other activities.
The main difference between vegetarians and non-vegetarians is that vegetarians strictly avoid eating milk, eggs, and honey, which is generally related to faith. Some people even elevate eating meat to the moral level, believing that "eating meat" is a lack of humanistic care and an immoral behavior.
vegetarian dishes eaten by vegetarians
. India is also a place where religious culture is prevalent. Faith is more important than physique. In India, 82% of Hisitians . They have strict control over meat, which is exactly in line with the concept of European vegetarians.
In the eyes of some Europeans, the most vegetarian place is India. There are almost no meat in some Indian supermarkets or stores, and the vegetarian food in India has definitely reached the point of "vegan" without eggs and milk.
For example, the highest social status in India 1 Brahmin Nobles only eat some vegetarian food every day and don’t eat any meat. They call people who eat meat "untouchables" the lowest social status. There is even such a custom in India that you don’t eat meat in a restaurant that can demonstrate the nobleness of your identity.
Mushrooms and taro rice edible by Brahmin nobles
Some Europeans who came to China have always been quite verbal about China's food culture and have become afraid of some foods. There are many records about Chinese food culture in the earliest European books "Geography General" and "Geography General" that introduced Chinese culture, which actually introduces the weird food of us Chinese. The article says: Chinese pigs like to eat pork and even regard meat as their lives. There will be various animals on the Chinese dining table, such as bears, deer, tigers, cranes, and snakes, and various wild animals. These books introducing Chinese diet still have a great influence on some Westerners.
Chinese snake soup
In fact, it seems that foreigners oppose Chinese people eating everything and praise Indian food culture. This has a lot to do with religion. More than half of the people in China are atheists, and they naturally cannot understand our Chinese enthusiasm for "development" food.
