What is the change (food) in China's modern history?

The changes in China's modern history (food)

A great change has taken place in China society, especially in clothing, food, housing and transportation, which are closely related to people's lives. The process of China's progress towards a modern society shows the characteristics of pursuing the new and admiring the different, getting rid of the soil and preserving the foreign, coexisting the old and the new, and combining Chinese and western cultures.

From closed to open

The food culture in the Yangtze River valley in modern times was the first regional food culture to move from closed to open, which constantly adapted to the trend of the times, thus promoting the modernization of food culture in China. For example, western flour processing and the introduction of its products had a far-reaching impact on the development of modern food industry in China. Since the end of 19th century, when the method of machine-made flour was introduced in China, more and more flour was imported, and bread and various western-style cakes became increasingly popular.

At that time, Shanghai was the most developed area of flour industry in China. In addition, western food industry products, such as canned food, biscuits and egg products, also had considerable sales in major cities in the Yangtze River valley at the beginning of the 2th century. Chinese and foreign businessmen set up canned food, egg products, beer and other food factories in trading ports such as Shanghai, Hankou and Nanjing. The establishment of western food and related industries has enriched the content of traditional food culture in China and promoted the development of food industry in the Yangtze River valley.

Plus the cost of lottery, alcohol and tobacco. At that time, people rarely asked questions, and then they gradually followed suit, so there were Haitian Spring, Yijiachun, Jiangnan Spring, Wanzhangchun, Jixiang Spring, etc., and they sat in different halls. "

The beer, soda, cakes and all kinds of western-style fast food sold in these western restaurants are gradually welcomed by people, and at the same time, they have accelerated the pace of life of Chinese people. In addition, western food is cooked in China, Chinese food is cooked in the west, and the combination of Chinese and western food is also accepted by people. It can be said that the development of food culture in the Yangtze River basin in modern times is a process of continuous change and survival under the impact of western food culture.

radiation effect

the development and change of food culture in the Yangtze river basin in modern times was centered on the foreign trade ports in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze river, and gradually influenced and radiated to the surrounding areas.

Because the modern western material culture is obviously ahead of China, under this background, China people generally have a cultural mentality of worshipping foreign countries and admiring foreign countries, and they also have a sense of novelty about western food, always wanting to open "foreign meat", which makes Shanghai a concentrated place of western food in modern China. However, due to the luxury of foreign restaurants and the high cost of western food, kai yang meat has become a kind of upper-middle class ostentation and extravagance.

In order to adapt to the different consumption levels of China people, western restaurants include both noble hotels and humble small restaurants. Although these small restaurants are small, they always have a little foreign flavor. "There is always a white tablecloth on the table, a shiny knife and fork, and two foreign words on the food brand, so people like intellectuals and civil servants are frequent visitors."

It should be noted that there were some positive and reasonable factors in this foreign worship in the early modern society. Judging from the historical track of the input and spread of modern civilization, it is often after the specific things that constitute modern civilization show their own superiority that more and more people turn from feeling novel to pursuing, enjoying, worshiping and imitating it, thus forming the trend of worshipping foreign countries, a derivative of modern civilization.

This social phenomenon first centered on Shanghai and the trading port cities along the Yangtze River, and gradually spread to the surrounding areas. It plays a positive role in attacking conservative ideas, eliminating vulgar customs, inspiring people to seek innovation and change, actively accepting advanced western production methods and lifestyles, and promoting social progress in China.

under the influence of Shanghai, the dietary life of Hankou, Nanjing, Chongqing, Yichang, Jiujiang and other cities along the Yangtze River has also undergone similar changes, which has radiated other areas in the Yangtze River basin and promoted the innovation of dietary culture in the whole Yangtze River basin. Especially in the past 2 years, due to the wide opening of the country, western food culture has continuously entered the Yangtze River valley through the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, such as McDonald's and KFC restaurants all over the country.

In addition, the food culture in different areas of the Yangtze River Basin is infiltrating and influencing each other increasingly. With Sichuan flavor in the east and Suzhou flavor in the west, Wuhan has become a place where four flavors meet. The exchange and integration of different regions and flavors have greatly changed the food culture in the Yangtze River Basin, and various innovative dishes have emerged.

the innovation of dietary concept

with the changes of dietary culture in the Yangtze river valley in modern times, people's dietary concept has changed accordingly. As we all know, the traditional cooking methods in China pay more attention to the overall effect of dishes, pay attention to the harmony of dishes, and put taste first, so it is difficult to make qualitative and quantitative analysis, aiming at the beauty and harmony of color, aroma, taste and shape of dishes. However, western traditional cooking methods mostly consider from a rational point of view, pay attention to nutrition and hygiene, but pay little attention to the beauty of taste, showing the characteristics of single taste and clear nutritional value.

With the frequent cultural exchanges between Chinese and Western diets in the Yangtze River valley in modern times, people have increasingly felt the importance of western diets paying attention to scientific nutrition, especially some China people who came back from studying abroad, and realized that "Western customs are more important in keeping fit, regardless of whether they are rich or poor, they are more particular than Chinese. Anyone who has a little wealth must eat and taste every meal, and there must be beef and wine. After eating, there are fruits, coffee and cigars. Drink milk or beef soup in the morning and evening.

Although workers are servants, they must eat beef once or twice every seven days, otherwise it will be said that there is no way to keep healthy. ". When this idea of paying attention to nutrition spread to China, it impacted China's traditional dietary concept of giving priority to taste and satiety. People began to pay attention to nutrition and hygiene. Intellectuals (mainly in Shanghai) also began to translate a number of western cooking works, and then made a theoretical analysis of traditional cooking methods from the perspective of cooking principles and food chemistry, and a number of monographs and papers on the research and analysis of food ingredients and cooking theories appeared.

For example, there are dozens of books such as Cooking a Foreign Food Book edited by Mrs. Gao Pidi, Cooking Secrets of Western Food edited by Li Gonger, New Home Economics edited by Xia Tian Ge, Vegetarian Health Theory translated by Yang Zhangfu, Diet and Health edited by Zhang Siting, Practical Dietetics edited by Gong Lanzhen, and Introduction to Nutrition edited by Hsien Wu. Thanks to the concerted efforts of the academic and publishing circles in Shanghai, the knowledge of western dietetic science has been spread comprehensively and systematically in Shanghai, the Yangtze River valley and even the whole country.

It enriches people's theoretical thinking on food culture and urges people to know their own cultural heritage from the perspective of world culture. In this cultural exchange between China and the West, the ancient food cultures of wuyue, Jingchu and Bashu have gradually entered a new era of world food culture with a new look.

Modern western food culture landed in Shanghai and spread widely. After a period of conflict with the traditional food culture in China, it gradually merged into the food culture in China. As a result of the transition from conflict to integration, many foreign practices have become an indispensable part of China people's life, and our food life presents many different styles from our ancestors and parents.

This has led to an innovation in China's traditional diet life, which contains tradition. The introduction of modern western food culture and the exchange of food culture in different regions of China have made the food culture in the Yangtze River basin have both traditional characteristics and foreign styles, and they are not simple and comprehensive modern food culture, which has completed the transformation from traditional to modern in cultural form and promoted the China society to be more open.