Western Zhou Dynasty Food Culture Research

Content:《Mencius.Gaozi》said "appetite and sexual desire is human nature."《Liji·Liyun》stressed "Diet and the relationship of men and women is Human desire" Repeatedly.This shows the unusual importance of eating and is also the basic means of human survival.It not only reflects our nation's history and the living environment and displays our nation's ideology and psychology,but also forms an important part of national culture and includs the essence of Chinese culture.Pitily,it's a so long time since we had ignored the food culture that our culture had been cut off.In order to deep our understanding of the history and culture of the motherland,this article tries to discuss preliminarily the Western Zhou period diet from the diet frame,eating apparatus,food storage, processing,production and other areas,and to revealed that many Chinese people have been forgotten their own culture.The diet of Western Zhou period is no significant difference compared to today's.There is also a variety of cereals as people's main food,supplemented by a variety of vegetables and meat.At that time,the main crop includes shu,rice,kaoliang,ma,the size of beans,wheat and so on,the meat includes many kinds of wild animals such as bears,fox,deers.There are also pigs,cattle,sheep,ducks and geese,and other domestic livestock and poultry.Vegetables are two types,one comes from Artificial cultivation,the other is from wild picking,even today, many of them are still eaten by us,for example,leek and celery.In addition,fruit has existed at that time.It is not only used as food by humans,but also with the efficacy of wine.It is also worth noting that the Western Zhou period,there has been eating class stratification,.Aristocracy has the privilege of meat and vegetables,Also of the grain.But civilians can eat these food only in the harvest,Usually they eat only vegetables.It also appeared in a variety of drinks,such as sweet wine,money,sweet wine,water,Yi, wine,most of which air wine.It reflects a more mature technology of wine Brewing at that time,but most importantly,people have known how to enjoy life,with the idea of health care. In Western Zhou period,food processing and storage has been greatly improved,.It not only has room temperature storage,but also invented the frozen.Storage is not only confined to the object of grain,meat and vegetables have the appropriate storage methods,some of them are higher food production methods.Talking about the production of food,cooking in China as early as more than 2000 years ago has reached a very high level.Judged by the type of food,there are kuai goods,Sunburn goods,wax goods,rice cakes,and other kinds of goods.Judged by production methods,there are frying,grilling,drying and other methods.At that time,the large number of eating utensils includes almost the life of each of the containers used.Their classification is very clear.Different devices have different uses.Some of them also appeared in a multi-use,such as the disk,cans,urn.The use of these devices have strict regulations and requirements,for example the placement and order to be based on the number of users to determine the status and age.We can see the community has reached a very high level of civilization.And the apparatus used in the production of a wide range of materials,such as copper,tile,ceramic,wood,bamboo,lacquer,jade and so on.Among the apparatus,most are bronzed,followed by ceramics,and some of the bronzed and earthenware vessels with two texture.Whether they are actually viewing or supplies goods are produced by very fine and have High artistic value,so that we can not help but feel admiration.Finally,the apparatus combination of diet,amount and type of decoration,the shapes reflects the Western Zhou Li_Yue system and reflects production,growth,peak and decline of the process of the system.It is easy for us to understand the specific situation of the community at that time.To sum up,Western Zhou Dynasty in the food culture has been a very prosperous.At that time,diet is not only of great importance to the Zhou Dynasty,but also given a variety of color-li.At same time,diet is continued to be the innovation.Today,this culture has gradually infiltrated our daily life and have a huge impact on us all the time.This shows our country's food culture has a long history and is worthy of the title that China has a brilliant history of ancient civilization.