Writing ideas: We can describe the food culture in China's history, the inheritance and development of food from ancient times to the present, such as "harmony is the beauty" and China food culture, "artistic conception beauty and China food culture" and so on.
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Food culture has a very long history, which can be traced back to the Neolithic Age. Its content is very extensive, including basic cooking theory, cooking techniques, food containers, dining customs, famous chefs and famous dishes, and "food literature".
The relationship between China's food culture and China's traditional aesthetics has a long history, and traditional aesthetic thoughts have penetrated into the whole field of food culture. Because China's diet has already surpassed the role of survival, not only for the needs of physical existence, but also to meet the needs of people's spiritual pleasure. Like painting and music, it has rich and diverse forms, as well as profound aesthetic mood and elegant harmonious beauty. From ancient times to the present, many literati chanted delicious food by writing articles.
partridge sky by Lu you, gourmet fu by su Shi, ode to pork, huangzhou food poem post, etc. The famous painting "The Night Banquet at Chao Xi Zai" describes the grand scene of the banquet in the Tang Dynasty at that time. The portrait brick "Eating Picture" vividly describes the scene of the bartender delivering food. These are the models of Chinese food culture and artistic expression.
"Beauty" has been widely used in China's traditional artistic language, and the formation of the word "Beauty" is also intrinsically related to food culture. The ancients believed that delicious food is beautiful. In Shuo Wen Jie Zi written by Xu Shen in the later Han Dynasty, the word "beauty" was described as "the sheep is the most beautiful". "Beauty, sweetness, from the sheep to the big, sheep in the six livestock, the main food is also" "sweetness, beauty, from the mouth contains one." The word "beauty" is also a combination of "big" and "sheep".
judging from the historical development of quasi-aesthetic consciousness, human's feeling of beauty is inseparable from the sensory pleasure caused by taste, sound and color, and its manifestation is intuitive, both of which belong to the pleasure of natural feeling. The taste pleasure brought by delicious food already contains the bud of aesthetic feeling. As one of the six animals, sheep is mainly used and a symbol of delicacy.
"sheep are beautiful" embodies the most primitive understanding of beauty of the Chinese nation. There are also many literary and artistic works in China that link taste with artistic appreciation. For example, Ouyang Xiu said, "Modern poetry is hard for ages, and it is hard to chew, but it is also like eating olives, and the real taste will last for a long time" (Poems on June 1), and Su Shi said, "There are many good things in the sour taste, and the taste in the middle is eternal" (Send the reference to the teacher). People often use "lingering fragrance" to describe beautiful poems, and "delicious" to describe the beauty of girls and so on.
As a traditional dialectical way of thinking in China, the concept of harmony is the traditional aesthetic foundation of the Chinese nation. The ancients said that "the way of heaven and earth is beautiful in harmony" and "the beauty of heaven and earth is greater than harmony". The traditional aesthetic concept of "harmony" from "grain" to "mouth" and "harmony is the beauty" also has a far-reaching impact on China food culture, and China traditional cooking strives to achieve a harmonious situation everywhere.
The phrase "cutting, cooking, frying and mixing" in Zhou Li means that "harmony" runs through the whole cooking process. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, Shi Bo put forward "five flavors to adjust the mouth". He thought that "the ancient king mixed earth with gold and wood, and hundreds of things were mixed with five flavors ... Nothing was heard, nothing was heard, nothing was tasted, and nothing was said" ("Mandarin Zheng Yu"). Shi Bo thought that dishes with a single taste were not delicious, only various flavors were delicious. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Yan Ying of the State of Qi also proposed "harmony is like a beautiful soup", which was used to illustrate the truth of harmony between monarch and minister.
In fact, taking harmony as beauty requires not only the harmony of taste and sense, but also the unity with health. As early as the pre-Qin period, people in China had realized that eating food with a certain taste or eating too much would cause diseases. "Zhou Li Tian Guan" said that the taste of food should be adjusted according to the seasonal changes: "Spring is sour, summer is bitter, autumn is spicy, winter is salty, and it is smooth and sweet." Only when the food you eat every day is in harmony with the natural climate can you have a healthy body.
as the ancients said, delicious food is not as good as beautiful utensils. The collocation of dishes and utensils vividly embodies the aesthetic concept of "harmony is beauty" Yuan Mei, a famous poet in the Qing Dynasty, was a culinary enthusiast who collected many beauties. A concise summary of the relationship between ancient and modern cuisine and beautiful utensils. First of all, people attach great importance to the relationship between the contrast and unity of dishes and utensils in color. Without contrast, people will feel monotonous, while too strong contrast will also make people feel disharmony.
If the tender yellow custard is put in a green lotus petal bowl, the color will be particularly beautiful, resulting in a refreshing and pleasing artistic effect. In addition, the material shape and the pattern of the utensil are also required to complement each other. According to the anecdotes of dishes, vessels with patterns corresponding to their contents are selected. For example, the famous dish "Guifei Chicken" in China is placed in a lotus bowl decorated with the pattern of a fairy dancing in the left hand, which will naturally remind people of the story of Yang Guifei, who is good at dancing, getting drunk and spending a hundred flowers in the pavilion.
Secondly, dishes and utensils embody the pursuit of harmony in form. If people put Bazhen soup in a crystal bowl, the color of the soup is crystal clear, and through the belly of the bowl, all kinds of Bazhen soup can be clearly distinguished, which adds a lot of color to it.
Chinese food pays great attention to moderate seasoning, and banquets also pay attention to different tastes. Different dishes and utensils are matched with each other, with strong or light, sweet or salty, and the color changes in contrast. Not only are the varieties diverse, but the shapes and colors of utensils are also colorful. In this way, the delicious food is dazzling, the beautiful utensils are shining, and the spectacular scenery of the table will be presented before us, so it can be called delicious food.
the beauty of artistic conception is an aesthetic ideological realm formed by the Chinese nation in its long-term artistic practice. China's food culture also has the artistic beauty of profound meaning and endless aftertaste. Confucius said that "food is not tired of essence, and it is not tired of delicacy". Chinese food pays attention to color, aroma and taste. People also attach importance to the beautiful artistic conception brought by the visual image of dishes to satisfy the spiritual pleasure and the appreciation and enjoyment of real life.
Many dishes are not only delicious, but also create artistic conception through exquisite shapes and colors, which constitutes an inherent implicit aesthetic feeling. Wangchuan Villa, for example, is the work of Wang Wei, a poet and painter in the Tang Dynasty, which was absorbed by the gourmets at that time and made into a small platter of Wangchuan Villa. For another example, in the folk, people will steam, worship and eat dough-sculpted fireworks, such as "Ruyi Rice Cake" in the New Year and "Yuanyang Cake" in the wedding, to pray for happiness and peace.
Folk artists naturally paint a cheerful and warm atmosphere with high-purity colors such as red and green. Not only is the pen pungent and handsome, unrestrained, but also vivid, round and simple. It shows the natural and simple aesthetic mood of the working people. Chinese cuisine not only pays attention to the mouth, but also has a unique conception, which is meaningful and pays attention to the artistic conception. The names of many modern high-end restaurants are mostly named by freehand brushwork, with elegant and magnificent words, meaningful and far-reaching, full of poetry and painting. For example, putting white mushrooms on vegetables is called "money everywhere"
China's food culture has a long history and enjoys a high reputation. As a bright pearl in Chinese civilization, China food culture has a far-reaching influence in the world, which has amazed many foreign friends. The Book of Changes: "The metaphysical refers to the Tao, while the metaphysical refers to the device." China's diet, a tangible thing, reflects the aesthetic pattern of the Chinese nation and embodies the civilized form of the Chinese nation, the intangible Tao.