中国历史文化概况(英文版)Unit-10-Chinese-Cuisine--Tea-and-Medi.ppt

Unit 10Chinese Cuisine,Tea and MedicineContentsBrief introduction about some famous Chinese cuisinesChinese Tea cultureFamous Chinese CuisinesLu CuisineSichuan CuisineCantonese CuisineMin CuisineBenbang CuisineTaiwan CuisineLu CusineLu Cuisine refers to Shangdong dishes,featuring dense taste and favor of shallot and garlic,especially apt at the cooking of seafood,soup and a variety of bowels.Famous flavored dishes include Dezhou braised boneless chicken,braised intestines in brown sauce,and braised Yellow River carp with sweet and sour taste.Sichuan CuisineSichuan cuisine enjoys a time-honored history and is well-reputed home and abroad.Represented by the local dishes of Chengdu and Chongqing,Sichuan cuisine is particular about ingredients,unified in standard,distinctive in arrangement,and vivid in coordination.Sichuan cuisine features spicy,tongue-numbing,savory,delicious,oily and heavily seasoned flavor,using a lot of capsicum,prickly ash,pepper as well as fresh ginger.From high-class banquet to ordinary meal,from street snack to home-made dishes,Sichuan cuisines is diversified in variety,novel in style,and elaborate in cooking.Cantonese CuisineYue Cuisine,namely Guangdong flavor dishes,is one of the four Chinese cuisines.It enjoys extremely good reputation at home and abroad for its unique types of dishes and special charm.Located along the southern coast of China,Guangdong abounds with food of animal and plant sources.At the same time,Guangzhou has been a long-standing treaty port city,which attracted and absorbed various foreign cooking materials and techniques.And thus Yue Cuisine was gradually perfected.In addition,overseas Chinese brought the cooking techniques from Europe,America and Southeast Asia back to their hometown and accordingly enriched the recipes of Yue Cuisine.There are very obvious traces of Western cooking techniques in Yue Cuisine.Min CuisineMin Cuisine,one of the Eight Cuisines of China,is mainly represented by dishes of Fuzhou and Xiamen styles.The dishes of Xiamen style are of strong local flavor of southern Fujian,which feature light soup and flavor,crisp stir-fried dish,and excellent seafood cooking techniques.Taiwan CuisineA hundred miles from the Chinese mainland lies Taiwan.Most simply described,the cuisine of this mountainous island on the edge of the Pacific is Chinese,with some significant Japanese influences.Apart from the staple,rice,Taiwan is a bounty of fruit,vegetables,and seafood.Broadly speaking,the food of China can be divided into four regional styles-northern southern,eastern and western.Fujian,according to E.N.Anderson,belongs to the eastern tradition but is quite distinctive in its own right.Taiwanese cuisine can be see as an outgrowth of Fujianese cuisine.Chinese Tea CultureTop 10 Chinese cities for tea loversHong KongKnown as the Oriental Pearl,Hong Kong remains as one of the most traveled places in all of Asia,with its splendid natural beauty and man-made wonders.To get a break from your busy tours in the city,visit a local teahouse.Most of Hong Kongs teahouses are not fashionably decorated and cannot produce a romantic atmosphere,but they are simple and unassuming,and provide cool and fresh tea,together with scrumptious snacks.TaipeiTaipei is as exciting and attractive as any other major city in China,like Hong Kong or Shanghai.It is also full of a certain charm which makes it unique.Teahouses in Taipai are said to be the most typical of Chinese teahouses.It is quite a comfortable thing to sit in a local teahouse and drink a cup of oolong tea or the Pearl Milk Tea like what locals do.GuangzhouGuangzhou,also known as Canton,is the capital city and also the largest city of Guangdong.Besides endless skyscrapers and shopping malls,this dynamic metropolis also has one of the best local cuisines in China.Guangzhou peoples daintiness about life can be reflected in the citys teahouse culture.In a local teahouse,you can not only enjoy a cup of tea that is exquisitely prepared and served but can also taste various refreshments,cakes and sweetmeats to go with the drink.NanjingLying on the south bank of the Yangtze River,Nanjing,the capital of Jiangsu Province,has brilliant cultural heritage.Teahouses in Nanjing portray latent romance-tinged elegance.The sentimentality of old time is not easily found now,and what is left is elegance and grace.Like other views in Nanjing,teahouses tell the story of past and present of the city.ChongqingChongqing attracts visitors from home and abroad for its hot Sichuan cuisine and world-famous hotpot dishes.Besides,this famous mountain city are also famous for its teahouses.According to a Chinese saying Chongqing has the best teahouses in China.Teahouses play a very important role in Chongqings tea culture.People go to a teahouse not only because they are thirsty.They cluster in teahouses,drinking tea and chatting with old friends,which has become a lifestyle.Shanghai Shanghai,an international metropolis,is drawing more and more attention from every corner of the globe.Shanghais teahouses still keep nostalgic feelings.Many old-fashioned items like antique telephones and tables and chairs create an atmosphere of modern blended with the classic.There are also some modern teahouses in Xin Tian Di,a fashionable pedestrian street composed of traditional and modern architecture style in Shanghai.BeijingBeijing,as the capital city of China,has been the heart and soul of the whole country and has unparalleled cultural wealth which visitors could explore,including its tea culture.Beijing has over five hundred tea houses,including some time-honored ones.Typical Beijingers dont care much about the tea ceremony but about the taste.However,nowadays,most teahouses in Beijing are expensive and become a symbol of luxury.Only a small band of people with dressy appearance like to hang out in a teahouse.Thank You!