Research On The Culture Of Medicine And Dietetic In The Mongol And Yuan Dynasties

The period from The Mongol Empire to the Yuan Dynasty was an era of great exchanges among all ethnic groups in the world.The all-round and multi-level cultural exchanges promoted the development and progress of the world,and the exchange of medicinal food culture was an important chapter in this period.The Mongols re-opened the land Silk Road and developed the maritime Silk Road,bringing the medicinal food culture from Europe,the Middle East and Asia to the Central Plains.The population from outside the western region and the nomads from the south entered the agricultural economy environment one after another and completed the reconstruction and development of their own medicinal food culture in the interaction with the Han nationality in the Central Plains.Chinese medicine food culture has achieved considerable development,which has influenced the previous generations and laid a foundation for the later generations.Through land travel and maritime diplomacy,China has carried out cultural exchanges with dozens of countries and regions in Central and western Asia,Southeast Asia,Europe and other regions,which not only spread Chinese food and medicine culture to all over the world,but also contributed to the integration and innovation of Chinese traditional food and medicine culture.First of all,the expansion of nomads,the parallel trade and trade between land and sea,and the large-scale migration of people all over the country provided the prerequisite for the prosperity and development of medicine and food culture in the Mongol and Yuan dynasties.The war,trade and foreign policies implemented by the government also made a large number of nomads move within the country,the population from outside the region to the east,and the flow of people from north to south,which effectively promoted the exchange of medicine and food culture at home and abroad.Secondly,with the migration of population,the special medicine and food of different ethnic groups also spread in the Central Plains.In the process of cultural interaction between China and foreign countries and between the north and the south,The Chinese nation constantly absorbed the classical diet theories,medical techniques and cooking methods at home and abroad,and integrated them into the traditional Chinese medicine and food system,realizing the development of the medicine and food culture from both theoretical and practical levels.Again,and,Mongolian and other ethnic groups and the rest of Europe and Asia,specialty ingredients and xiang is popular at that time,new characteristics of pasta,soup rice worldwide drink,xiang liu medicine in place of food such as emerging,nomadic food wind storm with local foods and once in the central plains of north and south,and diet structure,society began to adjust to a more perfect direction.Finally,the customs of medicine and food in the Central Plains changed,and the open and inclusive traditional medicine and food culture system absorbed the rich theories of medicine and food and effective practical experience of various ethnic groups.Classic theoretical works such as "Drinking food and Drink" and "Dietary Information",which integrated multi-ethnic medicine and food culture,emerged one after another,and the health preservation of medicine and food became a trend in all walks of life.The preference of the middle and upper society to take medicine for food and diet promotes the traditional medicine and diet culture to bring forth the new constantly.Under the influence of the social environment,the lower people also pay more attention to the taboo in diet life and pursue healthy and nutritious food within the space of choice.The development of medicinal food culture during the Mongol and Yuan dynasties weakened the cultural estrangement between the North and the South,promoted the integration of the surrounding ethnic minorities,and enhanced the understanding of each other in Asia and Europe.At the same time,the medicine culture development in this period to form the abundant practical results and theory of high achievement,medicine raw materials and food medicine development innovation of the theory of food not only benefit the Chinese people’s diet structure,improve the later generations to have taken the attention of the body,as well as the Ming and qing dynasties medicine culture thriving laid the important foundation of Chinese traditional medicine culture to gain progress.