The Symbol Of Chinese Food:The Diet Writing In Modern And Folklorism

Today’s society, food has become one of the most important things in life. People love the delicacy, claiming to be "food aficionado". As the same time, diet writing and diet movies have emerged, showing the hot trend. In this paper, I take A Bite of China and other diet writing for instance to show the demands of the current urban middle class groups, revealing the existence of the diet culture of folklorism.This paper is divided into six parts. The first chapter mainly introduces the research origin, research review and the framework. The second chapter mainly introduce the content,style and cultural effect of A Bite of China. The third chapter firstly introduced the changes of China diet writing since ancient times,then analysis appeals of urban middle class in the A Bite of China from natural, hand-made, hometown, folklore, season. The fourth chapter mainly introduces the current situation of the middle class and the situation caused by the "food aficionado", so the restaurant in the city are changed. Finally explain the folklorism in mass consumption society from A Bite of China. The conclusion part summarizes the full text and put forward:"folk" is the backward things, but in today’s society has become the signboard of market. Folklorism as a critical theory, through the prosperity of the market surface, so that we clearly understand cultural products produced by the cultural illusion such as A Bite of China.