Chinese traditional diet custom takes plant food as the main food. The staple food is the five cereals, the dietary supplement is vegetables and meat. The main reason for forming this custom is that China regards agricultural production as the main economic mode of production in ancient times.
Another characteristic of Chinese traditional diet custom is to take hot food and cooked food as the main food. This relate with China civilization and Chinese cooking technology. The Chinese diet is renowned for extensive recipe and exquisite cooking technology in the world. According to the records of history, in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the cook of Liang Wu Emperor, one melon can be made 10 kinds of style, a dish can be made dozens of kinds of taste. So super cooking technology is really marvelous.
The characteristic of diet ways of Chinese is to dine together. The dine together system’s origin can be seen from the exploration of a lot of historical relic sites,
The remotest ancient kitchen of China and locality that the dine together are unified, the kitchen is in the middle of the house, there are skylights above, there are bonfires below, cook on the bonfire, people dine together enclosing bonfires. This custom of dine together of remote ancient times, has been spreading till now all the time. The dine together system show that Chinese pay attention to relative’s relation of blood relationship and the family concept.
In diet tool, the biggest characteristic of the Chinese diet custom is that uses the chopsticks. The chopsticks have long history in China. The chopsticks are generally made with the bamboo, i.e. simple, very convenient. A lot of occidentals see Chinese use the chopsticks, acclaim as the acme of perfection, to praise that it is a kind of creation of art. In fact, Asian various countries custom of using chopsticks mostly come from China. The Chinese ancestor invents the chopsticks, is really the great contribution to human civilization.
