The Analysis Of The Phenomenon Of Vegetarian And Vegetarian Diet In Song Dynasty

This paper explores the song-dynasty intellectuals and cooking culture in a vegetarian-centered perspective.It points that vegetarian diet had got rid of religious doctrine and been popularized on the basis of monastery vegetarian development.Eating a whole-food vegan diet has become an outstanding feature.The development of vegetarian cannot be separated from the praise of the top especially the scholars in the Song Dynasty.As the main promoter,choose a vegetarian diet means personality in the era of meat-based society.Vegetarian represents recluses'character and morals.They think it's an important means of return to nature.And their strong pursue to the concept of"natural" also affected the changes of Song Dynasty society.The first chapter starts from the vegetarian phenomenon in the Song Dynasty,pointing out that the vegetables in the Song Dynasty greatly enriched,and the vegetarian materials also changed.Vegetables cultivate new varieties as the main content of vegetarian diet on the basis of the previous generation.In order to make up for the lack of vegetables in winter and summer,sprouts and chlorotic vegetables emerged,wild vegetables and medicinal plant became the important addition to vegetables.At the same time,oil-bearing crops changed,oil pressing technique continued to progress,and edible oil from animal oil to vegetable oil.It's the Vegetarian in the Song Dynasty in the full sense.In addition to that,vegetarian production skills continue to improve,the imitation of meat and vegetable dish on behalf of the highest level vegetarian production popular in Song Dynasty.Vegetarian specialty stores appear and continue to expand.These shown that vegetarian food in the Song Dynasty has been greatly developed and has spread.The second chapter analyzes the phenomenon of vegetarians in the Song Dynasty from the whole:the political environment and the good living environment make the scholars of the Song Dynasty more to their own individual world and paid more attention to the vegetarian diet.The diet life changed from the previous disdain to the popular topic.Although scholars have gender differences between men and women,their pursuit of vegetarianism is the same.In addition to fast and belief,the more is active pursuit of life quality and inner character.The meat on behalf of the rights and wealth,at the same time,it also represents vulgar personality.Their pursuit of vegetable food is actually the pursuit of noble character.What's more important is that the yearning for the lofty character has become the main reason of the Song Dynasty scholar eating vegetable food.The third chapter explores the phenomenon of vegetarians in the Song Dynasty from the individual cases:With the continuous development of the vegetarian diet and the increase of the vegetarian phenomenon,the causes of the vegetarian that the pursuit of health and character gradually blurred.But in some cases,the different reasons can also be discovered.Su Shi and Lu You is the best example.Although they put vegetarian as an important means of return to nature,Su Shi's vegetarian is the cause of the lofty character,vegetarian in the long demoted official career comforting his soul.Lu You is due to disease problems,Vegetarian can keep his health.Corresponding to this,there have been many vegetarian works during this period.The emergence of vegetarian works is the sums and sublimation of vegetarian in theory and the best combination of scholars and vegetarianThe conclusion part pointed out that the vegetarian diet of the Song Dynasty was inherited by the food culture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.It developed into the unique scholar culture.Since modern times,vegetarianism with scientific language was separated from the traditional personal accomplishment significance,became a rational choice to promote the national economic and an international popular diet.