The Contrast and Analyses of Customs in Britain and China 发布时间：2007-8-15 21:26:51
es in the water, or make them into cold dishes; even they sometimes eat raw vegetables. They seldom eat fried vegetables. While they often toast or fry the meat, which is often half cooked. Together with some vegetables, the meat is wonderful. They like using the toasted meat in the banquet, and you can also eat this in the restaurant. If they want to eat something else, they often go to some restaurants, which are operated by foreign people. Among these restaurants, there are some Chinese restaurants, especially with some Guangdong food. We should pay attention to British meals, which have their own characteristics. They have four meals one day, but not three. They have breakfast, midday lunch, afternoon tea and the evening meal.
Breakfast is often a rather hurried meal at eight or nine o’ clock. The fresh milk for breakfast is delivered to the house before breakfast. They often eat fried eggs, bacon, sausages, bread with butter and jar. However, as the life pace get faster and faster, most people have less than this for breakfast, and some have no breakfast at all or only a hot drink. The midday lunch time is from about 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. many men work busily, and they don’t mind if their lunch are so rich. But if on Sundays, the family usually sits together to lunch. They give a small quantity of soup as a first course; the main course consists of meat, potatoes and other vegetables. The next meal is afternoon tea, at about four or five o’clock. The British people never miss it, no mater what important tings you have, sorry, please wait for a moment, cause this is Tea Time. At that time, they stop their work, have a cup of tea or cup of coffee, usually eat some dessert and have a chat. They can relax themselves during this time. They have dinner at seven or eight o’ clock. The dinner is always very sumptuous. At about 8 o’ clock, all the family sits together, and enjoys their food.
In a word, British meals are an important element in family life, when they sit together round the table; the meals often have a great cementing effect on family life. In the eyes of the British people, meals are rather formal affairs and are not usually shared with outsiders. Visit at meal time, or ask someone if they have meal is impolite.2.3.2 Eating in China
Chopsticks play an important role in Chinese food culture. Chopsticks are called "Kuaizi" in Chinese and were called "Zhu" in ancient times (see the characters above). Chinese people have been using kuaizi as one of the main tableware for more than 3,000 years.
It was recorded in Liji (The Book of Rites) that chopsticks were used in the Shang Dynasty (1600 BC - 1100 BC). It was mentioned in Shiji (the Chinese history book) by Sima Qian (about 145 BC) that Zhou, the last king of the Shang Dynasty (around 1100 BC), used ivory chopsticks. Experts believe the history of wood or bamboo chopsticks can be dated to about 1,000 years earlier than ivory chopsticks. Bronze chopsticks were invented 上一页 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] 下一页
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