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我很高兴有机会向各位朋友介绍中国的烹调。大家知道,中国精美的烹饪技术举世闻名。众人非常重视“吃”。“民以食为天”这句俗话迄今还广为传诵。食物可口和营养丰富一直被当作日常生活的基本要素。
I am very glad to have this opportunity to introduce Chinese cuisine to you,our foreign friends.
As you know, China has an excellent reputation of exquisite cuisine.
Chinese people attach great importance to “eating”. There is an old saying still widely quoted today “food is the paramount necessity of people.” Delicious and nutritious food has been regarded as the basics of ordinary life.
中国的烹饪文化源远流长(a distant source),而且,许多世纪以来,一直在发展。中国的烹饪文化起始于商周朝,距今约3 500年。传说中国的烹饪技术是商朝的一个德高望重的大臣发明的。随着各个时代的经济发展,人们一直在探索烹饪技术:品种从单一发展到多种多样,水平从初级走向高级,范围从做日常饭菜到各种筵席,甚至还发明了宫廷菜和各种美味佳肴。
经过历代人民的经验积累,中国现有的菜肴品种有10 000种之多。烹调方法也有40多种。
在漫长的历史发展过程中,中国菜逐渐分化为南北两大口味。一般来说,南方菜讲究鲜嫩,而北方由于天气寒冷油重一些,菜中常加醋和大蒜。北方的主食是面条,饺子以及其它用面粉做的食物,而大多数南方人则以米饭为主食。
The Chinese culinary culture has a distant source and has been developing for centuries. Chinese cooking culture started at the Shang and Zhou dynasty, about 3500 years ago.
According to the legend, Chinese cuisine was invented by a respected Minister of Shang dynasty.
With the economic growth through various periods, people have always been exploring new cooking techniques –from brevity to variety, from rudimentary to advanced stage, from day-to-day snacks to feasts, even to palatial dishes and delicacies.
Through the accumulated experience of the ancient people, t