Taking the Hunancuisine cookbooks, the spot investigation and network investigation as thebasic language material and using reception rhetoric, cultural linguistics,consume psychology as theory basis, this paper try to analyzes itsphonetics, lexis, grammar, rhetoric and cultural characteristic bycomprehensive research on Hunan cuisine name, and strive to describeand interpret adequately.

As a new and practical research in the field of translation, the English translation of Chinese dish names is an important part of Chinese cuisine culture, and meanwhile, it is also a window of Chinese culture to the outside world.