Bite Of China

A Bite of China is a documentary about fine food which is produced by CCTV and after it aired on television and online, it became a hot topic immediately and was well received at home and abroad. This program combines people’s pursuits of future with food and introduce some very unique and local specialties from some parts of China to all audience inside and outside the country. As an old Chinese saying goes, “Food is the paramount necessity of human” , so you can see Chinese people really pay great attention to what they eat and drink. In China, food, in addition to it’s taste, also contains cultural connotations and humanist features. Therefore, for Chinese people, the five flavours including sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty are not only stimulation to people’s tongue but the inheritance

Those local flavors also can appeal people around the world to China. Therefore, Chinese food culture plays an important role in boosting local tourism development and growth and also can popularize Chinese traditional culture (Tellström R, Gustafsson I B, Mossberg L，2006) . But we all know that there are many differences between Chinese and Western food culture for example many foreigners don’t know some food and ways of cooking in China, so they may have difficulties in accepting those dishes and then will breed prejudice against them. I believe that if we want more foreigners to accept our traditional food and culture, the translation of dish names plays an important role. In the process of translating A Bite of China, dish name translation is the hardiest part, because some dish names include unique Chinese cultural factors and strong ethnic characteristics which we can hardly find even an equivalent word in the process of translating. Therefore, a good translation theory is very important (Liang Lina, 2013:1)