Chinese culture and food culture

Let's talk about entertaining guests at dinner. People of all nationalities in the world have dinner every day and entertain guests to dinner from time to time. But the ways of entertaining and eating are greatly different. A Chinese businessman made an interesting mistake years ago in his effort to please foreign guests. Urged on by several Chinese friends, that person once asked two Americans to dinner. According to the usual procedure and partly out of politeness, he asked each of those people who were present to choose a dish from the menu. One of the two guests, who had probably been to a Chinese restaurant in the United States or had some experience in this regard anyway, took the lead and chose "sliced chicken with egg white" in a manner that smacks of expertness. The other American knowledge of Chinese food was a blank page. He was still at a loss what to do when everyone else had made their choice. Then, the host induced him to order a soup. Anyhow, it was meant for the whole group to consume at the same time as every other dish that had been ordered. The banquet commenced. The first dish that happened to be served was the sliced chicken with egg white. The American who thought that he knew the ropes asked, "Is this what I ordered?" Having received the affirmative answer, he said with delight, "So I'll eat first." He moved the plate towards him and began to eat with relish, plying knife and fork. In embarrassment the few Chinese present couldn't help but comply with the wish of the guest and began to eat each the dish he himself had ordered. Thus, the other American was doomed. He was forced to eat up against his will the soup with shredded pork and hot pickled mustard tuber, which was served last. As a matter of fact, this was a trifling matter. But it is just in such trifling matters we see the difference in cultural spirits. The ideological core of Chinese culture is consciousness of the group whereas the ideological core of Western culture is consciousness of the individual. What is consciousness of the individual? It means in a nutshell that everyone is a separate entity that exists by itself, and everyone is an independent person with free will. Because of this free will everyone must strive to gain happiness and welfare by his/her own effort and everyone is to be held responsible for his/her own act, whatever it is. Even if he/she has done something wrong under the blameworthy guidance of someone else, he/she alone must suffer the consequence. Because of the belief that everyone is an independent person, one should not tolerate interference by other people in his/her choice or act unless the choice or act constitutes a hazard to public safety or welfare. It is so not only with the choosing of one's food or clothing, but also with one's decision which candidate for a high government position he/she will cast his/her vote for. What I want to eat or to wear has nothing to do with other people. I don't need to ask other people for permission. On the other hand, I should refrain from imposing my wish on anyone else. In a restaurant everyone should choose from the menu the dishes that he/she likes to eat, and everyone should pay his/her own bill.
What is consciousness of the group? It means in a nutshell that everyone is part of the group. The benefit of the group is the benefit of the individual. The individual must subordinate his/her will to the will of the group. The individual is not an entity, alone and by itself. It pertains and adheres to the group. Even the choosing of food and clothing is not something to be done by the individual completely without regard to the wish of the group. When people dine together, especially on festive occasions, there is a greater need for the individual to take into account the interests of the whole group. How disgraceful it would be if each of those sitting around the table should insist on ordering a dish that others had no relish for. Indeed, there would be no reason for them to have dinner together.
Therefore, difference in the ideological core entails difference in cultural personality.
Cultural phenomena, especially those which are almost universal around us, embody the cultural core, though we often lose sight of this fact because the phenomena are "too common".

What is the core of Chinese culture, cultural personality, Cultural phenomena? What is the Chinese cultural behavior and cultural psychology? That is to say, only when a Westerner has mastered the ideological core of Chinese culture can he/she look at a Chinese with understanding, with penetration, and with precision.


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According to traditional Chinese medical practitioners' understanding of the human body, a girl reaches puberty at the age of 14 while a boy does so at 16. Then they arrive at the summit of sexual maturity respectively at the age of 28 (for the female) and 32 (for the male). After that, their physical strength descends with the increase in age. The so-called exercise for people of the right age is no other than physical exercise within measure for a certain age group in terms of strenuosity and amount. It should be kept in mind that the aim of taking physical exercises for aging people is, in the eyes of traditional Chinese medical practitioners, not to train their bodies, but to preserve their health. This is also the case with the restraint of the sexual affair. When a woman has reached 42 in age and when a man has become 48 years old, their physiological functions will begin to decline; therefore, they should rein in their sexual desire, so as to avoid too heavy a drain on their strength.
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No matter whether traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine is concerned, the object of study is man's health and the diseases that affect it, and the purpose of the study is how to maintain and enhance the health of the human body and to defeat or resolve the diseases that do harm to it.
Traditional Chinese medical practitioners hold the view that the human body is an organic whole, that a local change which is a disorder can affect the entire body while a pathological change in the whole body can be reflected as a local phenomenon, and that, therefore, although the pathological essence of the change that is involved in the disease is hidden inside there must be a certain symptom or more than one symptom reflected outside.
In contrast to the “outside-inside” method adopted by traditional Chinese medical practitioners, Western medical practitioners generally adopt the “inside-outside” method for the study of physiological and pathological changes in the human body. All the research methods used by Western medicine in such disciplines as anatomy, histology, embryology, physiology and pathology are of the “inside-outside” type. Thanks to the progress of natural sciences, Western medicine has been able to draw support from the achievements of natural sciences to push forward its process of cognition of the histology of the human body from relying at first on the naked eye to using the microscope and then to employing at the present stage the electronic microscope. As all the procedures of using this kind of method are readily accessible to sight and touch, they afford insights into the substance of each matter involved and make possible cognition through observations with the help of experiments. Therefore, learning is made easier and more acceptable to scholars.
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The pulverized oyster shell, is used as the principal source of calcium in the herbal Chinese medicines to prevent osteoporosis. An oyster belongs to any of several edible bivalve mollusks, chiefly of shallow marine waters, having an irregularly shaped shell which is quite heavy. Traditional Chinese medicine discovered its medicinal value very early in history. The shell was pulverized and used to cure general debility and feebleness in movement. It was also administered to pregnant women and infants for improvement of health. Chemical analyses discovered later that the oyster shell contains 80~95% by weight of calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate and calcium sulphate besides magnesium, aluminium, selenium and oxides of iron. The pine-pollen calcium chewing tablet keeps undisturbed the original relative proportions in the oyster shell of these compounds of calcium and also of the other mineral substances on the basis of the maxim in traditional Chinese medicine that Nature’s selection is better than man’s.
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Anti-hypertension Tea-leaf flower is suitable for the following groups of people:
1. People with high blood pressure, especially middle-aged and young people who often have headaches and are irritable;
2. People who have cerebrovascular disease or cerebral arteriosclerosis and who are often dizzy or giddy;
3. People who have coronary heart disease or coronary arteriosclerosis, especially those who have also hyperlipaemia and are often dizzy;
4. People who have got high blood pressure induced by infection and, as a complication of this kind of hypertension, have palpitations, swollen eyes and dizziness;
5. People with hyperlipaemia complicated by lack of strength, dizziness, and aching waist and knees;
6. People who have been for many years subjected to drug therapy for hypertension, with the consequence that they are suffering from severe dizziness and palpitations as complications and that the chemicals which they have taken for too long a period are causing them stomach and chest pains, making them short of breath and complain of weakened internal organs;
7. People who have not paid sufficient attention to their own illness, who have frequently changed drugs, or who have long discontinued taking drugs because of their detestation of them in psychology, and who, nevertheless, are in constant apprehension lest their condition should become very serious because all the chemical drugs they have so far taken failed to low blood pressure.
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