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In addition to dissecting and explaining the shape, sound, meaning, and research source of Chinese characters at the time, Shuowen Jiezi, written by Xu Shen in the Eastern Han Dynasty, covers the life of the people in the Han Dynasty and before the Han Dynasty. It is an important material for social culture.In the people's livelihood culture, we often say that "food and clothing" is headed by "food". The ancient book also says: " Bread is the staff of life." Diet is the basic principle of human life and life. It can be seen that searching for food and producing food is always an important activity of human beings.Therefore, this thesis will use " Shuowen Jiezi " as the core and subject of the study, accompanied by historical records, ancient texts and other materials, and listed six chapters for discussion, through the The corpus related to diet collected in " Shuowen Jiezi " to spy on the style of the ancients' eating and drinking life, and attempts to construct a general overview of the human diet in ancient Chinese society as seen in " Shuowen Jiezi ".
The first chapter is the introduction, which explains the motivation and purpose of the research, the scope and methods of the research, and the literature review.
The second chapter is about the types of foods seen in " Shuowen Jiezi ". The articles on ancient foods are divided into three categories: animals, plants and drinks. They describe the food types and items of ancient ancestors.
The third chapter is the cooking method seen in " Shuowen Jiezi ". It discusses the way of making ancient foods. It is divided into two categories: fire and no fire, and fire parts are divided into direct fire and indirect fire. Describe the way the ancient ancestors used ingredients.
The fourth chapter is about the eating utensils seen in " Shuowen Jiezi ". It explores ancient food dishes and edible utensils. It is divided into three categories: cooking utensils, complementary food utensils, and wine utensils. It describes the ancient ancestors' food and the utensils used for eating.
The fifth chapter is the dietary norms seen in " Shuowen Jiezi ". It discusses the eating time and dining etiquette of the ancient ancestors in two sections, and describes the eating habits and dietary etiquette of the ancient ancestors.
The sixth chapter is the conclusion, which is summarized in each chapter, summarizing the previous research results and explaining them.
The research of this thesis is limited to the words related to diet and the words of life in the introduction of the text, and a glimpse of the development of the diet patterns seen in " Shuowen Jiezi ".
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