在亞洲，特別是在中國，304不銹鋼六格食堂餐盤被廣泛地使用於學校、工廠和監獄等場所。它作為近幾十年來人們飲食方式變化的證明，也被認為是快速現代化和西方化的產物和象征。

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Widely used in places such as schools, factories, companies and prisons in Asia, especially in China, the original form of the stainless-steel canteen plate is considered a symbol of the rapid process of modernisation and westernisation. It makes evident the changes in people’s relations through the changes in the way of eating.

 

盡管有文化上的差異，在不同的時間和空間中，共同用餐總是不可避免地與某些社會文化的理想相關聯。隨著現代科學的發展以及社會的变化，用餐習慣已經被置於社會秩序、公共衛生和健康膳食的範圍內。304不銹鋼六格食堂餐盤的分區是根據飲食研究设计的，均衡了從學生、工人到囚犯等人群的日常飲食。餐盤的形式也滿足了易於清潔、保持衛生的現代需求。除此之外，中國對快速發展從而經濟獨立、政治強大的訴求，使“合餐制”的傳統被“分餐制”所取代。而餐盤作為“分餐制”的載體，成為了一種固定範式和最大化工作生產效率的工具，經過幾十年的使用，也成為許多代人的共同記憶。

 

Crossing multiple cultures, throughout time and space, it is difficult for eating together to escape its sociocultural desirability and idealization. Since the emergence of modern science and social revolutions, dining habits have been associated directly with social order, public health and wellbeing. China wasn’t an exemption. The urge for being independent and strong has driven the nation to develop as fast as it could economically. The original model of the six compartments 304 Stainless-steel canteen plate has been created to increase studying efficiency, to explore the potentiality of the working labour, to control the population by regulating diet balance according to the related studies and to meet the requirement of the imported hygiene standards. Conventions of commensality have been replaced with a collective passion for a social vision. Throughout the utilization of the recent decades of the classic plate with six different compartments, it has become common sense that is shared by many generations.

 

基於原初的餐盤形制，設計並開發了該套1:1的模型板件。

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Based on the original plate model, a set of 1:1 Airfix Kits has been designed and developed.