A Study On The Relationship Between Dong Minority's Food Culture And Environment

Our country is vast in territory,complicated and diversified in geography and ecological environment,making people create various national culture with local features in the process of adapting and reconstructing the environment they live in.Catering culture is one indispensable part of national culture,even the most featured part in national culture,which also has the closest correlations with its ecological environment.This paper regards catering culture as an organic component in the cultural fact system in Dong nationality,puts into the society of Dong nationality of Hunan,Guizhou,Guangxi area for investigation,and the catering culture of Dong nationality has penetrated into every aspect of social life in Dong nationality.Based on such thinking,this paper takes catering culture of Dong nationality as the research object,and discusses the problem of the relations between culture and environment.The field data of this paper mainly comes from South Dong area.Here,the forest coverage rate is high,the rice field's area is large,and these natural conditions are the decisive factors that produce and form the unique catering culture of Dong nationality.In addition,Dong national people inherit the native belief of animism and the common ancestry,and they still keep the simple life means at present.It can be said that the traditional Dong nationality catering culture is still completely reserved in the southern area of Dong nationality.Catering culture displays the basic characters of ecological culture in Dong nationality,as well as the cultural achievements to cope with,adapt and use the ecological environment,showing the means,process and results of Dong nationality to strive for the harmony contacts with nature.This article starts from the categories of catering in Dong nationality,profoundly discusses the adaptation of catering culture in Dong nationality with natural and social environment,as well as the promotion and protection relations of catering in Dong nationality for the harmonious development of families and society,which includes the memory of the histories of Dong nationality,the persistent guard of the nation,the control of taboo,and the close association of the community.Therefore,by studying the catering customs of Dong nationality,we can expand and deepen the understanding and respect of culture in Dong nationality.The categories of the domestic catering culture in each nation are diversified and features are bright.This paper has the specific reminder values for tolerating and understanding the diversity of the domestic traditional catering culture in each nation.“Bread comes first”,the biggest problem of humans is catering.The research data and achievements provided in this paper have the specific times values and significance to manifest such understanding.