When we are learning Chinese, we
should make full use of the vast learning resources from the Internet, among which
Chinese culture is easily accessible.
A lot of people have heard Chinese food
from online Chinese. Chinese food is
quite famous for its various flavors and styles etc.
There
are many kinds of food in China such as Cantonese food, Sichuan food, Shanghai
food. So how do these cuisines taste? Cantonese food is a bit light, Sichuan
food is very hot, while Shanghai food is rather sweet.
In the north of China,
people often eat noodles and dumplings. In the south of China, people eat a lot
of rice and seafood.
Another culture about Chinese
food is the dining tools. To many people, Chopstick or kuai4 zi is a headache,
because they can hardly pick up the food with chopsticks. But the Chinese
people can handle it pretty well since they were very young, let’s say 4 or 5
years old. That’s why a foreigner in China will be very impressive if he can
use the chopsticks to eat food.
Chopsticks
are the main dinging tools in China. Chinese children start with a spoon but
will adapt to chopsticks as early as they are 3. A lot of students who learn
to speak mandarin will send chopsticks to their friends because
chopsticks symbolize straightforwardness, because of its shape. Chinese
chopsticks don’t have pointed tip, unlike the Japanese style that is refined to
pick out the bones for their main diet, fish. Chinese chopsticks are mostly of
bamboo, but today there are more and more wooden ones and plastic ones.
For
online Chinese learners, Chinese
culture is important in that it will help you better understand the language
and generate your interest in speaking Chinese
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