Chapter 4 Section 4 The Current Situation and Prospects of the Development of Chinese Food Culture

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, after more than 40 years of struggle, the problem of food and clothing for the whole people that has not been solved in the past dynasties has been basically solved. This is the primary material basis for the development of food culture.Many policies and measures of the people's government, such as the "Spark Plan" to use modern technology to develop agricultural production; a series of measures to improve the ecological environment; large-scale water conservancy, transformation of grasslands and deserts, development of barren hills, development of sea pastures, establishment of grain, oil and livestock production bases ; the introduction of excellent varieties of animals and plants; the development of bioengineering research; the promotion of the modernization of the food industry, etc., have brought China's food and food production to a new level; the potential of China's food resources is being revealed step by step. Another level of material basis for the great development of food culture.Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, hundreds of monographs and newspapers have been published in the field of cooking and food manufacturing; various catering associations have sprung up; chefs, pastry chefs, and food technicians have emerged in large numbers; Festival, Red Fruit (Hawthorn) Festival, Watermelon Festival, Lychee Festival, etc., one after another, showing high-quality specialties and colorful local customs.These are the realistic manifestations that Chinese food culture is becoming more and more prosperous with the development of the country.

China's food culture has both profound traditions and favorable conditions for development.It is a new discipline, which has the advantages of development, but there are still many obstacles and deficiencies.The resistance mainly comes from three kinds of worldly stereotypes: first, contempt for cooking and catering business.This is the influence of the Confucian thought of "ashamed of being involved in agriculture and business, and ashamed of working tricks".my country's long-term feudal society in the past has formed a contempt for production technology and production laborers, and it is believed that being an official and a master is the top grade, and "the good head and the poor" are the right way.In modern times, especially after the founding of the People's Republic of China, this kind of bad habit has been impacted to a certain extent, but the eradication of this historical habit will not happen overnight.Second, equate the research of this subject with the bourgeois hedonism of eating, drinking, playing, and having fun.In fact, hedonism cannot be equated with the bourgeoisie. Many bourgeois scientists, entrepreneurs and politicians are against hedonism.Hedonism is just a rotten idea among the bourgeoisie.Although eating, drinking, playing, and having fun are not the whole content of human life, nor can they be regarded as the sole purpose of life, they are all human rights to exist.What we should oppose is the concept of enjoyment and distribution system of "golden cups of fine wine, thousands of people's blood, delicious food on the table, ten thousand people's ointment" and "the wine and meat of rich men smell bad, and the bones are frozen to death on the road"; the wind.Therefore, we should promote a healthy view of enjoyment and consumption.On the basis of developing production and improving the ideological and cultural level of the whole people, we must gradually improve the people's material and cultural life.Thirdly, in the past, cooking science has long been classified into a separate volume by ivory tower aesthetics. Those aesthetes regarded cooking as a game to satisfy the low-level senses, and believed that aesthetics was super utilitarian; they despised the cooking business and cooking workers , It is really a kind of sectarianism, and it is also a distortion of the essence of aesthetics.In fact, all aesthetics are the sublimation of human perceptual knowledge.Diet is taste aesthetics, music is hearing aesthetics, painting is visual aesthetics, and literary works are meaning aesthetics. They are also a cluster of ever-blooming flowers in the garden of human aesthetics.