The Study On The Characteristics Of Wuxi Food Against The Background Of Wu Cultrue

Chinese culture is extensive and profound, among which food culture is special and valuable. Wu culture is an important area culture of China showing the charm in the long history of the country. As Wuxi is the birthplace of WU culture and it's cultural position is peculiar, my thesis attempts to focus on the characteristics of Wuxi food as well as the background of WU culture. I made a survey and finally summed up the characteristics to support my point. Wuxi food culture has such features: 1. Rice and fish are the main food. 2. People in Wuxi like sweet and now are trying to accept hot food. 3The food is cooked fine, beautiful and changeable.These characteristics are the exhibits of Wuxi's economy, traffic, culture, history etc. Firstly the precocious of agriculture in Wu place is the material basis. Secondly the matured commercial economy is the support of Wuxi food. Thirdly Wuxi's geographic and traffic position is important to keep the development of Wuxi food. Finally the migration of people in the history helped the food communication of different areas.All these phenomena have their strong culture supporting. The development of Wuxi food comes from its culture root. On the one hand Wu culture is open and comprehensive which is the intrinsic factor of food phenomenon. From Taibo's coming, Wu area started to exchange different culture with its neighbors and ultimately becomes the advanced culture of China. On the other hand the inclusion of Wuxi food shows the harmonious of Wu culture. The eating structure of Wuxi people's and the preference of sweet food embodies the characters of Wuxi people. In the future, Wuxi food culture will continure absorbing the distillation of other food culture and build closer relationship with fashion, sense and taste. And the culture strategy to keep the Wuxi Food is to pay attention to the development of famous brand and protect the traditional skills.