摘　要

饮食自古以来都是人们生活中必不可少的一部分。不同国家不同地区的人拥有着不同的饮食文化，就中英两国而言，两者在饮食上有着很大的差异。饮食是生存与发展所必需的，但是因为餐饮产品受到地域特征、气侯环境等因素的影响，，会出现在原料、口味、烹调方法、饮食习惯上的不同程度的差异。正是因为这些差异，餐饮产品具有了强烈的地域性。饮食上的差异同时也能在一定程度上反映出两国人在性格特点上的差别。饮食文化在世界文化中起着非常重要的作用。中西方文化的差异带来了中西饮食文化的差异，不同的国家有自己不同的饮食文化特点。在不同的文化背景下，无论是在观念、对象、方式、餐具还是礼仪等各方面，这些不同都是显而易见的。但是，随着国际的交流与融合，中西饮食文化业将会在交流中共同发展，这对全世界范围内的文化交流将起到促进作用。由于文化传统的缘故，西方人的人生倾向男女关系，而中国人由于对男女关系的褊狭，把人生精力倾泄导向于饮食。由此赋予饮食以丰富的文化内涵，虽然饮食文化在西方不够发达，但这种不发达本身也是一种文化发展的结果，所以对中西饮食文化的比较仍有意义本文从中英两国在饮食文化上的差异以及两国人性格特点的不同上出发，通过对比两国在饮食方面的不同态度和对待方式，收集各种相关的事例，进而分析饮食所反映出的人的性格特点的不同。
 
关键词：中英饮食；性格特点；文化差异

Abstract

Diet is an indispensable part of people's life since ancient times. Different countries have different kinds of the diet culture. Between China and Britain, there are big differences on food. Diet is necessary for survival and development. However, food products by geographical features, climate environment factors, which will appear in the raw materials, taste, cooking method and habits of different degrees of difference. It is because of these differences, food products with a strong regional. Diet differences at the same time also can reflect the character difference of two countries’ people to a certain extent. Diet culture plays a very important role in the world culture. Chinese and western cultural differences result to diet culture difference of China and the west, different countries have different diet culture characteristics. Under different cultural background, whether in the concept, object, manner, tableware and etiquette and others aspects, these differences are obvious. However, the diet culture of China and Britain will develop together by the international exchange and the fusion. And it will promote the worldwide cultural exchange. Because of the traditional culture, Westerners tend to care about the relation between men and women, while Chinese pay more attention on diet. Thus Diet was endowed with rich cultural connotation, though food culture is underdeveloped in the west, but this underdevelopment itself is also the result of the development of culture, so a comparison between Chinese and western diet culture is still meaningful. This paper is based on the diet culture difference and character difference between China and UK, by comparing the two countries in dietary respect the different attitudes and treat way, collect all sorts of relevant cases, and analysis character difference from the aspect of diet.

Key words: Chinese and British diet; character; cultural difference