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Human choice of food depends not only on their personal body characteristics, conditions of the times, the surrounding natural environment, but also depends on its cultural characteristics. Different cultures have different standards of physical and consumption patterns, for example, Chinese people like to eat animal organs such as heart, liver, kidney and other Westerners in particular Americans am sick; Similarly, there is a treasure in French - braised snails, but out of favor in China.

Food culture is very important and very unique cultures in a branch in Guangdong, Guangdong Art Institute of Chicago, "Eating in Guangzhou" has long been known. Reform and Innovation diet can not always leave the category of culture, through description and analysis of Guangdong diet phenomenon, we can perceive culture in their way of life implied.

First of all, in terms of staple food, subtropical Guangdong, food rich in rice, therefore Cantonese mainly rice as a staple food, rice or made all kinds of snacks, snacks, rather Lingnan characteristics, in stark contrast to the north of pasta culture. This is more common throughout the South are the staple food, and Guangdong and other major food culture of different regions, it is made as a straight four Cantonese cuisine to reflect the characteristics of the diet. As a sign of Guangdong Cantonese food culture is admired. Cantonese cuisine can become one of the four major branches, not skin deep, and its characteristics can be seen by. Cantonese cuisine has such a reputation, it has three main features, one: the choice of materials miscellaneous Bo, omnivorous; Second: eclectic, pragmatic; Third: the production of fine, the pursuit of enjoyment. Choice of materials related to miscellaneous Bo, omnivorous this feature, there is no real insight into the food culture of people in Guangdong, will be staggering, he feels cruel, and even nausea. Living in Guangdong or an understanding of food culture in Guangdong who will be welcomed or would feel that this is also reasonable.

In ancient times, Guangdong and Guangxi area River Inlet aspect, rainfall, pleasant climate, the east, north Nanling, west Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, across the region amid the hills, surrounded by hilly topography, Lin Feng grass-mao, Lingnan good fruit is rich, rich woods while pregnant with all kinds of creatures, the south is the vast ocean, where they are in the Pearl River estuary beach is vast, and produce a lot of brackish aquatic amphibians, which makes China's ancient Guangzhou food resources one of the richest regions. The formation of a long history of Cantonese, Qin Han have a omnivorous habit before, after the DPRK generations of change, a large number of immigrants from the north point south, it also brings all kinds of food, which makes Cantonese cuisine can be developed. Cantonese development has two main stages, one end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Emperor led many chefs fled south, many streams and raw food court passed the Guangdong area, the Cantonese get rich; the other is the stage after the Opium War, with the Guangzhou's opening, the large influx of Chinese culture abroad, while Guangdong is first digested this foreign culture, and the culture of reason itself has become a cultural blend of Cantonese specialties, which of course also includes cultural aspects of diet.

After long-term development, it now forms such a distinctive food culture, animals, delicacies, wild flowers, no not into the meat dish, the traditional snakes, rats, birds, insects, dogs, cats, etc. are difficult to other cuisines acceptable, but in recent years there are snails, ants, cactus and other innovations, these other cuisines are unimaginable. Snake, for example, other provinces are afraid of the entrance, while the snake is in Cantonese class share, while the body of a snake gall bladder is even more pleasing. Ancient "South Vietnam foreign body" in there a snake eating songs:. "Boas boas snake, both flood and long, Bin Hengjia feast is a feast beans" Visible Cantonese eat snakes history is too long and now, eating snake atmosphere is still very prosperous, and have intensified the trend, the country has a farm.

In fact, Cantonese this omnivorous character, it is also an open mind reflected in the diet. The so-called side soil support people, different geographical environment created a different geographical character. Guangdong is a Sino-foreign cultural exchanges must pass through, forming an open Cantonese structure of thinking, and because the border is located, has long been subject to less orthodox feudal influence, the influence of traditional culture continues to play down the Central Plains, to have greater freedom and receiving power.

Cantonese cuisine is formed in the Qin Han dynasties, it is based on local food culture, absorb the essence of domestic and western Beijing, Shandong, Jiangsu, Sichuan and other cuisine cooking techniques, and gradually form a unique southern flavor. This is the second feature of the Guangdong Food Culture - Bo public long mining, pragmatic.

Guangdong Food Culture in the absorption of other domestic and foreign cuisine advantage of food culture, have gradually abandon some bad habits, not yet form a luxury, not extravagant, pragmatic style. Cantonese diet, stress concise, even dinner guests, and never extravagant, even to the restaurant hotel banquet will be a budget, try to make people eat without wasting even leftovers like to "package" bring home.

With economic development, progress, foreign exchange society is gradually increasing, which makes the Western fast food culture developed rapidly in China, and in Guangdong, local dietary practices also have a very large impact, with the increasingly tense economic activities the power of media is growing, so many people, especially young people and children eating concept has undergone new changes. This change in diet concept is good or bad, hard to comment, but it is characteristic of this eclectic, is unwittingly promoting the development of dietary practices.

"Eating in Guangzhou," the idea has already spread north and south, famous at home and abroad, many tourists come here to taste, feel this unique Lingnan food culture.

"Eating in Guangzhou" This kind of diet fads Why are so strong vitality? The reason is that the Guangdong Food Culture in "the production of fine, the pursuit of enjoyment," this feature, there is the rich cuisine. With the advantage of the choice of materials, the conversion produces a lot of dishes from the traditional mix and food law, such as a dish to replace the one of the raw materials, then it becomes another to taste different dishes. Of course, one to make delicious dishes, among methodically depends on all aspects of cooperation, in Cantonese ingredients, knife, heat, cooking time, pot, utensils, serving way and many other areas have very strict requirements. For example, do pay attention to that is killing fish that is cooked, so as to keep the fish delicious, making platter must pay attention to the choice of ingredients to achieve the attractive appearance, rich taste effect, a good platter, is not only a delicacy, it is a work of art product, a pleasure to watch, appetites.

Guangdong cuisine pursue the production of fine can be reflected on the production of "chicken". Chicken can be said is one of the world's most important of several meat, and in Guangdong, chicken can produce hundreds of different dishes, allowing guests to Bianchang dozens of chicken dishes and no sense of repetition, almost each restaurant has its own famous signature chicken, such as Guangzhou, Guangzhou Restaurant has chicken, chicken Huadiao North garden Restaurant, Foshan ZhuHou chicken, poached chicken Qingyuan, and many others, with different features. The poached chicken, has become the dishes on the table people, holidays are indispensable. Poached chicken production, it is necessary to carefully cooked, choice of materials must be small hen or capon, making the most important thing is to control the heat to just cooked, cut two leg bones also were bloodshot as microstrip should, if too much, succulent get older, we lose the delicious poached chicken smooth features.

Fine food production, emphasis on personal values ​​and Cantonese, the pursuit of enjoyment of cultural inseparable. Guangdong's economy is more developed, not only as food but also have something to fill his belly, was already in pursuit of enjoyment. This makes food production has become more sophisticated, the pursuit of color, flavor and shape and Italy.

To distinguish it from other cuisines of the characteristics of the diet of only general, truly reflect the Cantonese diet, had to rely on the people table are dishes to reflect.

Cantonese, Guangzhou dishes, Chaozhou and Dongjiang dishes three categories. Guangzhou dishes set the South China Sea, Panyu, Dongguan, Shunde, Zhongshan and other local flavor characteristics, and Beijing, Jiangsu, Yang, director of Hangzhou and other provinces and Western cuisine dishes, the integration, prof. Guangzhou dishes take widely expected, many varieties of flowers, burn dizzying chaos. Flying in the sky, crawling on the ground, drilled soil, the water and swim, and almost all the seats. Partridges, sparrows, fox leopard, civet, pangolin, pike and other game birds Needless to say; cats, dogs, snakes, rats, monkeys, turtles, rabbits, and even be mistaken for "leech" in He Chong, also in the list cook, a cook by the hand, suddenly becomes different products Exotic, delicious food, Chinese and foreign Guamuxiangkan, very surprised. Guangzhou amount of fine food and fine ingredients are many and clever, colorful and decorative beauty, but also good at innovation in imitation, variety, 1965, "the United States and Guangzhou Dish point Exhibition" presented there are 5457 kinds much. Guangzhou dishes focus on quality and taste, relatively light taste, strive to seek fresh clear, pale in for the United States. And with the change of seasons, seasonal changes, summer and emphasis on light, winter and spring biased towards the rich. Taste exquisite clear, fresh, tender, cool, smooth, fragrant; seasoning throughout sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty, sweet main among them.

Guangzhou dishes more typical dishes are: Illustrating, boiled shrimp, roast suckling pig, taro pork, Huangpu scrambled eggs, stewed He Chong, dog meat pot, fried snake multicolored silk and so on. Illustrating where the snake as long as the tiger cat into a pot to pot, for food; there is roast suckling pig is a must, crispy tender ......

Chaozhou known to cook seafood, exquisite knife technology, emphasis on taste fragrant, thick, fresh, sweet. Like to use fish sauce, barbeque sauce, plum sauce, lamb, wine, ginger and other spices, sugar beet more, more than one hundred kinds of styles, materials are secret agents coarse, sweet and delicious. Chaozhou like to put 12 models, serving the order have like head, tail beet, half of the gallery salty snacks. Chaozhou is a former Qin Min, the language and customs of its proximity to the southern Fujian and Guangzhou are different, because of different origins, so the dishes featured are also different. Which represents the dishes are: roast goose, miso chicken, protect the country and vegetables, assorted Wushi ginseng, ginger crab, fried shrimp dry dates, etc., are all features of Chaozhou dishes, Chinese Buddhist Lingnan region and abroad.

Also known as the East River Hakka cuisine dish, which is the more weighty in Guangdong cuisine, the so-called Hakka, the ancient Han Chinese migration from the Central Plains to the south, a guest Lingnan, became Hakka. Hakka people are mostly the whole village and the whole family and move or migration, so many customs still followed the Central Plains, the cuisine features have also been retained. Hakka cuisine with dishes representative of Huizhou, under heavy oil, salty taste, the sauce is simple, but the main ingredient outstanding. Like to use three birds, meat, rarely equipped with vegetables, seafood and freshwater fishes, not many. On behalf of varieties are: East River salt chicken, stuffed bean Dongjiang pay, tasty beef balls, etc., show great ancient Central Plains of fresh air.