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【标题】中西方饮食文化的对比研究 【作者】洪晓婵 【关键词】中西方；饮食；文化；不同；跨文化交际 【指导老师】余烈全 【专业】英语 【正文】I. Introduction?As the intercultural contact becomes more frequent, the world seems to become smaller. While the distance between people can’t disappear, people from different cultural backgrounds often feel that habits and customs keep them apart in the communication. There may be some conflicts and misunderstandings because of different cultures in intercultural communication. Culture, in a broad sense, includes beliefs, customs, habits, institutions, techniques, and languages. In a narrow sense, it may refer to local beliefs or customs, which can be found in folk culture, enterprise culture or food culture etc. It is so inclusive that it permeates every aspect of human life and influences people’s behavior.Food culture is considered as an important part both in Chinese and Western cultures, which involves what to eat, how to eat, why to eat and utensils used in eating, eating manners and etiquettes etc. Because of the impact of different cultures, such as belief, custom, value and religion etc, there are different perspective towards food and eating, etiquettes and eating manners between China and the West, showing their own food culture. Every nation has its food culture as everyone has his own interest. There is a proverb that one’s bear paw is one’s arsenic in Chinese; and there is also a proverb that?“One man’s meat is another man’s poison”1 in English. The Chinese use chopsticks while Western people use knife and fork when eating. They all reflect the differences between Chinese and the Western food cultures. This paper tends to study the differences between Chinese and Western food cultures from the perspective towards food, etiquettes and eating manners, and also to explore the cultural aspects causing these differences to help us develop cultural awareness and improve intercultural communication competence.??II. The Differences between Chinese and Western Food CulturesA. The