From The "dictionary" "food" And The Ministry Words Of Ancient Chinese Food Culture

Chinese heritage and promote the Chinese culture is an important carrier of the Chinese nation's fundamental identity, is also a significant symbol of Chinese civilization. With its unique construction methods, to reveal to us the rich cultural connotation and cultural resources.Changes in perspective the evolution of Chinese characters in different periods of food out of the situation and related social living conditions. Characters such as the current "Rural", the traditional is town", Xiaozhuan for "(?)", Jia gu wen is (?) Oracle was originally painted two opposite people who knelt around eating on a meal, where the two were virtual means that all the Pan-table. Ancient times, mankind lived a solitary life, a social group is a group seeking food, in this internal, we have access to adequate food for the effort. Oracle, Xiaozhuan shape is a reflection of hard labor after such a group to share the food from the scene. Into the agricultural society, people's living standards greatly improved, the glyph for common consumption rates are used to represent the meaning of feast, and gradually through the glyph simplification or prosperity for the sake of a "Xiang"and " "Xiang"Ultimately, rates of natural drinking feast, "said the text" interpretation "Xiang" for "local people drink also "reflects the practice. Meaning of the glyph table eating and stretched the lead that is also used to reward the military with food and wine or wine and food offerings to our ancestors, worship the gods. Participation rates may be high feast noble, so on the basis of common shape changes in eating out Gong qing the "Big", and then the "Big" on both sides of the glyph and correct to "Yi" and then by changes in the evolution of the administrative jurisdiction of the Gong qing Division of the word "town"Diet and its long-term development process in the formation of the food culture is a certain historical stage of civilization and culture, a comprehensive reflection of style, which permeates many areas of society, can be described as the essence of Chinese traditional culture. Therefore, the study food culture is conducive to further in-depth understanding of our traditional culture.Because the "shi" radical is an important carrier, therefore, the paper comprehensively analyzes and explains it from the perspectives of semantics, morphology, bibliography, folklore and philology in order to further probes into the feature of Chinese ancient diet culture by studying on between the material form and ideological form in vertical view and ancient regional variations in horizontal view. First, the close combination of diet and courtesy is the most important feature of ancient diet culture. By means of plenty of different diet system, especially festival feast activities, rulers coordinate the relationship of politics and the Man in the various classes in order to reach the aim of maintaining the normal dominant order and make the whole society develop continually in harmony and stability. This state reaches its glorious age in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Second, in our daily life, people gradually form a series of diet customs, which are largely encrusted with tradition and have relation with manners. The main performances of these diet customs are catering system, dietary pattern, dinning courtesies and respection of the old man and so on. Third, dietary materials have stable supply system; catering system proceed from two meals a day to three meals a day; staple food is various in forms such as all kinds of porridge, pancake with different methods, various types of soup and so on; Meat is no longer a luxury for poor people; the ways of cooking is various; the skill of cooking reaches a high level.