A Study On Edible Medicinal Flowers Of The Song Dynasty

Since ancient times,the flower has a very special place in Chinese culture,Song dynasty society all loved flowers.Horticulture in the Song dynasty also had a very big development,flower cultivation technology continuously improved,flower species and varieties were increased constantly,flower market was flourished.They not only made use of the ornamental value of flowers,but also made use of the edible and medicinal value of flowers further.Based on the edible and medicinal functions of flowers and the health care needs of Song people,flowers were made into a variety of food,drink and medicine in life.And the developed of appreciated for flowers,flower industry,food industry,medicine and pharmacy,as well as the literati’s consciousness of natural history and the practiced of neo-confucianism in the Song dynasty,given birth to a large number of documents on edible and medicinal flowers,and even produced a new form of flower writing──flower spectrum.This paper takes the edible and medicinal flowers in Song Dynasty as the research object.When discussing the activities of edible and medicinal flowers in Song Dynasty,analyzes the cultural implications behind this behavior:The first chapter,flower cultivation overview of the Song dynasty.This part introduced the natural environment,like geography and climate of Song dynasty and analysed the natural conditions and labor situation of the flower cultivation firstly.Then summarized the flower planting technology,flower species,varieties,quantities,producing areas and the development of flower industry in Song dynasty.The second chapter,the medical food health and the vegetarian culture in the Song dynasty.A simple preserving of medical food health before Song dynasty,through the discuss of the Song dynasty ’ s medical food health concept,vegetarian professional development,to analyse the culture background of the Song dynasty’s food health medicinal flowers.The third chapter,the Song dynasty’s medicine and eat flowers in life.Mainly introduce the Song dynasty’s flower eating,drinking and medicinal,and discussed the making process,cooking ideas of flower food and the use of medicinal flowers and its scientific nature in Song dynasty in detail.The fourth chapter,the Song’s writing and spreading of edible medicinal flowers.Thispart expound the writing of edible medicinal flowers and cultural background of Song dynasty,combed the spread of edible medicinal flowers literature,and analysed the influence of the Song dynasty food medicinal flowers writing of later generations.Flowers in the Song Dynasty is an important direction to understand the society of the Song Dynasty.Fromd the development of the edible value and medicinal value of flowers and the writing of edible medicinal flowers,we can see the the social and economic development of the Song Dynasty and the spiritual pursuit of the Song Dynasty scholars.