Research On Shen Hongfei’s Essays On Diet Writing

Diet is an significant proposition of everyday life,and it plays a pivotal role in the formation and propagation of the spiritual world of the whole of human existence.Many writers in the Chinese literary world have used food as the object of description to reflect the real life and the inner world of the writer.Shen Hongfei is a representative writer in contemporary column writing in China.He uses food as a carrier,uses humorous and playful language,to show his profound cultural qualities,and cook delicious works for readers.Taking Shen Hongfei’s diet column prose as the starting point,we explored the causes of diet writing,and selected representative diet images to analyze the cultural connotations behind them.At the same time,it deeply explores the personal characteristics of Shen Hongfei’s dietary prose,and affirms the literary and cultural value of his dietary writing.The main part of the work is divided into introduction,main part and conclusion.The main body will be discussed in four dimensions.The introduction begins by explaining the reasons and importance of choosing Shen Hongfei’s diet prose as a research objective.Secondly,it sorts out the existing research results of Shen Hongfei’s diet column prose,and finally explains research means and explains how to write ideas for work.The first chapter combines Shen Hongfei’s personality,life experience and contemporary cultural context to analyze the reasons for his diet writing.First of all,Shen Hongfei grew up in an era when food was scarce,and his surroundings were always full of hunger.The hungry life experience made Shen Hongfei more passionate about food.Secondly,"greedy" is Shen Hongfei’s temperament.He has always been full of enthusiasm for food,and his dietary prose is an eager confession of food.Once again,Shen Hongfei was born in Shanghai,travel in Hong Kong,and finally chose to settle in Guangzhou.His life experience in the three places broadened his literary horizons and gave him a deeper feeling for food.Finally,Shen Hongfei’s diet column writing is inseparable from the promotion of the times.At the beginning of the 21st century,column writing is in full swing,and different columns have their own audiences.Shen Hongfei’s prose is a cultural phenomenon under the joint effect of columns and readers.Chapter Two selects three representative food images to analyze the cultural implications behind them.Soup is an indispensable food on the Cantonese table.A bowl of hot soup ties up the feelings between people and is the bond of emotional connection between family members.As a special diet of Guangdong,morning tea has obvious regional characteristics.The close connection between Cantonese dim sum and the region has become an eventful measure for the emotional nourishment and identity construction of the Cantonese people.Milk plays an important role in the formation of Western food culture,but milk is insignificant in the diet of Chinese Han people.Behind these two divisions is evident the psychological and cultural differences between the Chinese and the Westerners.The third chapter analyzes the unique personality of Shen Hongfei’s diet prose.First of all,Shen Hongfei’s food prose contains rich food culture connotations.Shen Hongfei pays close attention to the delicate relationship between food and people,regions and countries.His prose is a reflection of personal life experience,and also a microcosm of the image of the city,the temperament of the citizens,and the image of China in the era.Secondly,Shen Hongfei’s food prose shows a strong column style,the language is elegant and popular,and the way of using allusions is flexible and changeable.The taste of food and human emotion are interlinked,and it carries the literati taste of food and eroticism.Finally,his diet prose shows a novel and unique aesthetic pursuit.Under the guidance of Shen Hong’s personalized literary concept,his column writing breaks through the tradition of modern leisurely prose,opens a new horizon of food writing,and shows the beauty of prose style with a strong "postmodern" meaning.The fourth chapter clarifies the value of Shen Hongfei’s diet prose.First of all,Shen Hongfei’s food prose inherited the literati’s tradition of talking about eating,and also continued the literati’s taste of food and eroticism,which is undoubtedly of great significance for inheriting and promoting traditional Chinese food culture.Secondly,Shen Hongfei’s food prose is obviously contemporary.He is good at combining paper media with new media to create column essays with characteristics of the times.Finally,Shen Hongfei sublimated food and constructed the aesthetics of daily life,and his unique writing style injected vitality into diversified food writing.The conclusion part combed and summarized the context of the thesis,once again affirmed the contribution of Shen Hongfei’s diet column writing to diet writing,and also pointed out the deficiencies of the thesis.