Comparison of Wine Culture between China and the West

Abstract

China and the West have obviously different wine culture. As far as the used material and category for wine-making are concerned, the most characteristic and notable wine in China is made from corn, while in the West it is the wine made from grape. As to wine-making process, China adopts solid- state and duplex zymotechnics, paying attention to the unity of material, water and distiller's yeast, while the West adopts liquid-state and simplex zymotechnics, taking material as the core of the wine-making process. Looking into the core of wine culture, Chinese people consider wine as a tool and hide their real intention behind wine while the people in the West think of wine as an artwork and they have the direct intention of wine-drinking. These differences result from different geographic environment, materials, produce, means of production, cultural tradition and so on between China and the West.

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