Abstract This paper is based on Ang Lee’s movie Pushing Hands which reflects the differences in cooking culture between China and America. What’s more, the paper reveals the differences of the Chinese and American cooking culture, and analyzes some important reasons for these differences. Its significance lies not only in contributing to a deep understanding of the differences between Chinese and American cultures, but also helping people to enhance the ability in different culture communication. Then they can take effective actions to avoid misunderstandings. What’s more, the paper shoes clearly that the development tendency of Chinese and America cooking culture is mutual collisions, mutual integration, learning from each other and to complementing each other.62483

Key words: differences; Pushing Hands; cooking culture 

摘要本文以反映中西文化为背景的影片《推手》为依托，描述中西文化在饮食方面的差异，并分析产生这些差异的原因。意义在于既有助于深刻理解中西文化中的差异，跨越文化交际障碍，又能培养人们在跨文化交际时的适应力，有效地避免交际双方由于文化差异而产生的误解，并且指出中西文化发展的趋势是相互碰撞、相互融合、相互借鉴和取长补短的。

毕业论文关键词：差异；《推手》；饮食文化

Contents

1. Introduction1

2. Literature Review1

3. Cooking Culture Differences in the Pushing Hands...2

3.1Eating Attitudes...2

3.2Dietary Content....................3

3.3Dietary Form.......5

3.4 Social Function.......6

3.5 Differences in Other Aspects......6

4. The Reasons for Different Food Cultures..7

4.1 Natural Reasons.7

4.2 Social Reasons...7

5.  The Eating Food Situations in China and America..8 

5.1The Global Perspective......... ..8

5.2The Chinese Perspective  .  .9

5.3 The American Perspective .... 9

6. Conclusion.10

Works Cited...11

1. Introduction 

The film Pushing Hands is the typical reflection of cultural differences between China and America directed by the famous Taiwan director Ang Lee. The main reaction of the movie is expressing the Sino-US Cultural Differences, thus the contrast methods are certainly indispensable which can express the idea of the movie thoroughly. In this circumstances, it gives the audience a sense of enormous contrast, thus it can potentially strengthen the theme, and then the theme can sear into people's hearts easily.文献综述

The differences of Chinese and America culture in the film has been described in detail, such as differences in ethics, mode of thinking, traditional culture, diet culture etc. One of the most intuitive and the most attractive is the Chinese and America food culture differences. There is no doubt that Chinese and America cooking culture has many differences. This difference has brought a lot of discomfort to these who live in America Chinese and live in China Americans, but in the meantime, it also opens a window to the Sino-US people to learn more about the different diet culture. Inside the window, China shows food’s color, aroma　and taste. Instead, America pays more attention to balance food’s composition and absorbing the nutrient .

2. Literature Review

When it refers to the Chinese food culture, many people will connect the color, smell, taste and shape in mind. Chinese food culture actually refers to the Chinese people's eating lifestyle. An old saying goes: Food is the first thing for people, which is the most important and fundamental idea in Chinese civilization life. Thus, the Chinese diet is really an essential part of life. When discussing the Chinese food culture, we are supposed to link with Chinese culture. The association between them is extremely close.源:自*优尔`%论,文'网·www.youerw.com/