Why do Europeans eat separately while Chinese eat together?

Since ancient times, China has been a separate meal system, and it has evolved into today's shared meal system after the Northern Song Dynasty. The history of sharing meals is much longer than sharing meals.

From the ancient murals, we can see that during the dinner, people sit behind their desks, separated from each other by a considerable distance, and each has the same set of meals, and each eats its own meal. This is a typical split meal system. That's how the famous Hongmen Banquet was done.

From separate meals to joint meals, it began in the Tang Dynasty and was completed in the Northern Song Dynasty. This change is the result of social development and progress.

Evolution of distribution methods.

This is one of the most basic conditions for the transition from separate meals to shared meals. When food is relatively scarce, "per capita distribution" is a more appropriate distribution principle. To achieve an average, the food needed to be divided into equal portions before eating, which formed the primitive meal system.

After all, people's tastes, tastes, and habits are different, and their needs are also different, and when the food is relatively abundant, people will have the conditions to choose according to their different preferences, that is, "each takes what he needs". This is the most suitable way to share meals.

As for the Europeans, they are not as lively as the Chinese in terms of personality, and it is also related to the lack of cuisine, imagine that there are not many dishes in the first place, what is it like on a table...

For a long time, the social countries in Europe were not in a state of unity, and various forces were fighting each other, and the main reason for sharing meals was to prevent people from poisoning. Personal opinion.

Habits and environments are different from childhood, and it's the same when you go to Europe.

Twins are also different in many ways.

There's a lot to worry about.

In fact, to put it bluntly, foreigners don't care about what they eat (except for France and Italy). Many times Westerners do not like to eat cold food, but because it is convenient to eat cold food, they will get used to it after eating it for a long time.

When I used to study, I didn't eat cold except for drinks. And if I eat or drink something cold immediately after eating, I will have diarrhea. Later, I went to work, and my first job was at Huawei in Germany, where there was a bakery opposite the company, and I went to buy breakfast almost every day.

After all, as soon as you get to work, you don't have time and mood to make breakfast. But the sandwiches and buns with all kinds of meat in the German bakery were cold. Walk into the store, order what kind of bread you want, the salesperson takes it out of the counter and puts it in a paper bag, and then collects the money, the whole process takes less than 1 minute.

Convenient and fast. Since the beginning of my work, my breakfast has been a cold tonkatsu sandwich or meatloaf sandwich. When I first started eating it, it was really a torment, and this thing was really cold and couldn't swallow it. But I can't help it, I'm a meatless person.

Half a year later, I am familiar with eating this cold meat product, but it is rare to eat freshly fried pork cutlet or grilled chicken thigh at home and eat it without paying attention. Not only my psyche, but also my body is getting more and more used to eating cold. Once I had a hot meal in the company, because the microwave oven was not heated through, I found that the rice was still cold in the middle of eating, but I didn't hesitate and continued to eat, I was not happy to go to the heat again, anyway, I couldn't die.

I chewed the cold sword beans and meatloaf and swallowed them.

After work, I don't have the time and mood to spend a lot of time cooking, and my requirements for food are starting to get lower and lower. When I was studying, the kitchen was not cleaned for a week, as if an atomic bomb had been dropped. Now after work, sometimes the kitchen is not cleaned for a month, and it looks like it has not been used much.

To put it bluntly, I don't pay attention to eating, and I don't want to **!

Even I, a native Chinese, can do this, and for Westerners who have grown up eating as a means of survival rather than a part of life, eating cold has become a matter of course.

But Chinese working in Germany often maintain the habit of eating hot food if they come in pairs. After all, either someone in the family makes you worry, or there is someone in the family who cares about you. When I got home, the two of us had a good meal together, and I was still very happy.

A lonely ghost like me gnaws on pig's trotters like Fan Xu, and browses steam while gnawing on it, whether there have been discounts again recently.

Speaking of the reason, it is probably that cold food is a bad mood for Chinese. Cold rice and cold dishes, like leftovers, or rice flowers. Let's just say that the traditional cold food festival is also to remember the ancients, and it is not really a pleasure to eat cold food, which is a cultural difference.

Although many young people nowadays also like to eat cold food, the general direction is still hot meals.

Foreigners' cold dishes may not be so unsatisfying, and the more cold the food, the more you can eat the taste of the ingredients themselves, although it is light, but the more you chew, the more you taste. For example, most of the appetizers in Western food are served cold. The cold taste of avocado and crab meat is truly a fascinating experience.

Another example is Japanese sushi, which is very strict even on the temperature of the chef's hands during the production process. Overheated hands are not advisable, and the ingredients are even colder. The puffer fish meat is eaten cold but does not feel fishy, and the taste of the frozen crab is also delicious and non-negotiable.

Comparatively speaking, cold food will reduce the greasy feeling and make the taste of eating lighter.

Whether you choose hot or cold dishes, everything should be done in moderation. You can't just lean towards a certain dietary preference, which can easily put a burden on your body. Only with a pair of chopsticks can you taste a richer delicacy.

Why Chinese like to eat hot, sometimes Westerners like to eat cold food, because the gastrointestinal function of Eastern and Western people is different, the intestines of Easterners are long and Westerners are short.

Because the heart and thinking of Chinese people are more traditional, they feel that eating hot food is better for their health.

People have their own hobbies, and a country is also accustomed to such things. So they just love to eat cold, and we Chinese love to eat hot.

Living habits are different, Chinese have eaten hot food since childhood, no matter what food, it is basically cooked, there is rarely raw food, and Westerners do not want to be like Chinese are not afraid of trouble and patiently cooked, they prefer to eat cold food simply. At the same time, Chinese and Western people have different physiques, and the digestion of the stomach and intestines is also different.

Ancient Chinese did not pay attention to hygiene, and it was easy to get sick when eating cold food! In addition to Chinese drinking boiled water, in fact, foreigners drink cold water.

This is a dietary habit that has been formed mainly by people from the East and the West since ancient times. The other is the difference between Eastern and Western food culture, Chinese pay attention to diet, hot food can make a lot of tricks, forming a variety of cuisines of the Chinese nation, and cold food can not do this. Then there is the fast-paced life of Westerners, who pay attention to efficiency, and eat cold Western food to save time.

Because of the differences between Chinese and Western cultures, Chinese prefer to pay attention to color, flavor, and taste. And cooked food is more good for the body, there is no bacteria, so Chinese are willing to eat hot food. And don't like to eat cold food.

This is normal, generally speaking, the West belongs to the high temperature, then he must like to eat cold food more time, then the Chinese spring, summer and autumn can be clear, and winter and autumn three autumn. It belongs to the cold season.

If this is the time to eat cold food. Doesn't that freeze people to death, like summer. It's hot. We also eat cold food a lot.

So. I thought it had something to do with the weather.

Because the traditional culture of Eastern and Western food is different, the East loves cooking and pursues the taste of processed ingredients. And the West pursues simplicity and convenience.

The reason why it is called food culture is actually a heating process, and the promotion of cold food is actually the same as drinking blood, which is in line with the nature of the West to advocate the strong and bully the weak.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that eating cold hurts the spleen and stomach, so eat warm, but now my spleen and stomach are not good, and I can't eat any ice.

Chinese like to eat hot food, because since childhood parents are like this to feed us, since childhood taught us, can not eat raw and cold things, eat stomach will hurt, from childhood to adapt to eat hot, if cold eat more, the stomach will indeed hurt, this is the human stomach has adapted to hot food.

The cultural habits of a nation and a nation are different, and our traditional food culture is frying and frying, and frying and frying are inseparable from heat.

The eating habits of the Chinese are ancestral.

This is related to the scarcity of body hair in Chinese. Westerners have dense body hair. The Chinese entered civilization early, while the Westerners entered civilization late. Compared with the Chinese, Westerners are closer to the beast.

Chinese like to eat hot food mainly has a certain relationship with the traditional food culture of the Chinese nation, and pays more attention to the nutritional combination and eating atmosphere. There is no difference between cold rice and leftovers, and naturally it cannot be used to entertain friends.

In contrast, the food culture of Westerners is relatively simple, and eating cold food has become a habit, and there is not much to say. But for the traditional Chinese delicacies, I am still very envious.

Chinese love to eat hot food since ancient times, parents give their children cooked food from an early age, eating cold food is afraid that it is not good for stomach bloating, Western countries may be different from our Oriental physique, cold food can accept, this is my happy point.

It has to do with physique. The Eastern physique is different from the Western physique, and the living habits are also different. Cultural perceptions are different, and in many ways they show completely different results.

Because there are different environments in different places, people everywhere will form their own eating habits because of the environment over time, such as what you said Chinese like to eat hot food, Westerners like to eat cold food.

Since childhood, my eating habit is to eat hot, and the most common greeting at the dinner table is to eat it while it's hot, you're welcome. The steamed buns are steaming hot, and the dumplings are served with a bowl of hot dumpling soup, and the smoking hot pot is filled with various ingredients. Chinese love the aroma of temperature, and the deliciousness of many foods needs to be 'stimulated' by temperature.

The Internet celebrity crayfish in the night snack industry, which can sell 100 billion yuan in a summer, is a representative of the hot food cuisine of the Chinese people. The crayfish with thin shell, fat meat and yellow full of crayfish have been professionally cleaned, stir-fried with 100% pure rapeseed oil, coupled with the assistance of different condiments, and the careful cooking of the cooking master, the full shrimp meat, the fresh and tender shrimp yellow, the rich soup, the entrance Q bomb is fresh and tender, the sauce is sweet and spicy, and the layers are intertwined, which makes people have a great appetite. How can you refuse such a delicacy.

The Chinese sense of taste and smell have long adapted to this aroma stimulated by temperature, and the "Suiyuan Food List" says that the deliciousness of the dishes "is all in the pot", and "a slight pause is like mold over clothes, although splendid Qiluo, it is also dull and old-fashioned." "The heat of the dish is the soul of the dish. Steaming food warms our stomachs and hearts.

Mr. Yi Zhongtian once wrote: "In Chinese culture, "sheng" has a derogatory connotation, and "cooked" has a positive connotation. Until now, with fire as the boundary, there is still a difference between raw and cooked, such as swallowing alive and peeling it alive and being cooked in the heart, and dragging it raw and dragging it and being familiar with it.

In addition, words such as jerky, unfamiliar, blunt, made, and rare also have obvious derogatory meanings. As for "shengfan", it directly refers to the barbarians who "do not eat fire"; "Sandwiched" is often a curse word; And "unfamiliar with life" is a very unfortunate thing.

Excessive consumption of raw and cold food will thin the mucosal layer of our stomach and destroy the mucosal layer that protects the stomach. The defense ability of our stomach will gradually decrease, the aggressiveness of gastric acid and pepsin will increase, and the gastric mucosa will erosive, which will eventually lead to the formation of chronic gastritis. Take care of your stomach and eat less raw and cold food, but sometimes it becomes difficult to eat a hot meal.

It may be because of some geographical environment and climatic conditions that Westerners like to eat cold food.

The smoking hot pot is filled with a variety of ingredients. Chinese love the aroma of temperature, and the deliciousness of many foods needs to be 'stimulated' by temperature.

Because there is a big difference in diet between Chinese and Western countries, they are used to eating this way.

Maybe this is some of the hobbies of different countries, we in China prefer to eat hot.

This should be a habit of eating and drinking that has been handed down from ancient people.

Each region will have different habits and body structures.

I think it's because of your eating habits, don't you think so?

The food culture of each country is different, and Western countries have good physical fitness.

This is due to the fact that there is a big difference between the traditional customs of the two.

This is supposed to have been handed down from the ancient people, a habit of eating and drinking, and they were used to eating like this.

As the saying goes, the country is based on food, and the people are based on food, which shows how important food is to us. With the continuous improvement of living standards, people are no longer limited to families and canteens, and it is not uncommon to eat in restaurants. Whether it is in a family, a work unit or a hotel, it involves the issue of a shared meal system and a separate meal system.

The shared meal system is a way of eating with shared utensils. Its main advantage is to save tableware, everyone can share a lot of dishes together, promote the improvement of intimacy between people, and the atmosphere is warm, so it is especially suitable for celebration occasions; The disadvantages are that it can cause diseases, cause food waste, and it is difficult to distinguish responsibilities.

Separate meal system, that is, the way of eating with utensils. The main advantage of the meal sharing system is that it is hygienic and does not easily spread diseases, and those who waste meals are easy to find and are conducive to saving; The disadvantages are that the tableware is used in large quantities, many dishes cannot be shared, and the eating atmosphere is not warm enough. Westerners, on the other hand, mostly eat on a separate meal system, they don't eat on the same plate as other people, most of them eat their own plate because they think it's hygienic.

Most of our countries use a shared meal system, while developed countries in the West mostly use a separate meal system. In the final analysis, it is a cultural difference, the Chinese civilization is the only civilization in the world that has been continuously layered, disappeared, and continues to this day, and will always be passed down through the ages, including food culture, even more so sitting around a table, this habit has not changed for thousands of years, and there is no reason to change. In recent years, with the continuous exchange and integration of Eastern and Western cultures, people are constantly improving their lifestyles.

As far as catering is concerned, the two catering formats complement each other, deriving a way in between。For example, a shared meal system also offers shared dishes, as in the modified shared meal system, where communal tongs, chopsticks or spoons are placed in each plate. It is believed that they will all develop in the direction of health and civilization.