The Research On The Eating Custom Culture And The Symbolic Significance Of The Chinese Dumpling

In the most northern districts of our country, the dumpling is the typical representative of the favorite festival and domestic foods, which is not only the delicious food in people's mind because of its distinctive flavor, but also has become the centre of the eating custom as a result of thousands of years' development. It also has a rich significance. We can understand the Chinese people's eating thoughts and outlook, aesthetic appeal, life attitudes ,and even the nation's psychological and spiritual states formed in thousands of years' living history through the research on the Chinese nation's dumping complex.In order to explain the history,eating custom and the sympolic significance of the Chinese dumpling completely and systematically, this thesis will describe as follows:The first part explains the origin of the dumpling in our country. By using the archaeological achievements and the unearthed material objects, the author hackles the origin and the development of the dulmpling as well as combining with historical documentary materials and the research achievements of the predecessors. And then introduces the forming of some eating habits.The second part describes the various using of the dumplings in our country's folk eating custom by the clue of the important etitquette activities of human life and festivals. This part includes the forming of the eating custom of the dumpling and its manifestation and its function. We can understand the dumpling's folk cultural intension further from the research on the origin of eating dumplings on traditional folk festivals, the symbol of the dumpling and the traditional life etitquette and the eating custom culture.The third part analyzes the dumpling's symbolic significance in the people's life. This part is to expound by analyzing the psychological factors for the forming of the dumpling's symbolic siginificance and its application under its psychological effect. On the basis of the first part, the author analyzes the psychology of the dumpling as a symbol of the people's happy life further, then makes a brief summary of the extended application of the dumpling's eating custom symbolic siginificance in the folk daily life.At last, the thesis makes a brief summary for the central proposition. Through the research on various dumpling's eating custom of the Chinese nation, it fully reveals the deep symbolic significance, cultural intension and its aesthetic psychological features of the Chinese nation formed in the thousands of years' history.