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Many people will say northern Chinese eat wheat, southerners eat rice, etc but I feel that it's a naive assumption.
There was rice cultivation in northern China and in ancient times, the poor ate hardier grains like millet or wheat while the upper-classes ate rice. Eating rice was more of a status of wealth. The one exception to rice cultivation in northern china is northeastern China, in which its rice agriculture was a later development from Korea.
In much of inland China where the climate is either dry or wet, people prefer spicier foods. They are often poor, so it tends towards the oily side. So the real difference within Chinese food is rich vs poor, coastal vs inland.
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