Writing ideas: We can trace the history of China's food culture, the inheritance and development of food from ancient times to the present, such as "Harmony is Beauty" and China's food culture, "Artistic Beauty and China's food culture" and so on.

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Food culture has a very long history, which can be traced back to the Neolithic Age. Its contents are very extensive, including basic cooking theory, cooking techniques, food containers, dining customs, famous chefs and dishes, and "food literature".

The relationship between China's food culture and China's traditional aesthetics goes back to ancient times, and traditional aesthetic thoughts permeate the whole field of food culture. Because China's diet has already surpassed the role of survival, not only for the needs of physical existence, but also to meet the needs of people's spiritual pleasure. Like painting and music, it has rich and diverse forms, profound aesthetic mood and elegant and harmonious aesthetic feeling. From ancient times to the present, many scholars recite delicious food by writing articles.

Lu You's Partridge Sky, Su Shi's Gourmet Fu, Ode to Pork, Huangzhou Eating Poems, etc. The famous painting "Chao Xi Zhai Night Banquet" depicts the grand occasion of banquet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty at that time. The picture brick "Eating Picture" vividly describes the scene of the bartender delivering food. These are typical examples of China's food culture and artistic expression.

"Beauty" is widely used in China's traditional artistic language, and the formation of the word "beauty" is also intrinsically related to food culture. The ancients thought that food was beautiful. In Shuo Wen Jie Zi written by Xu Shen in the later Han Dynasty, the word "beauty" was described as "the most beautiful sheep". "Beauty and sweetness, from sheep to big, sheep is among the six animals, and the staple food is also" "sweet and beautiful, including one from the mouth." The word "beauty" is also a combination of "big" and "sheep".

From the historical development of quasi-aesthetic consciousness, people's feeling of beauty can not be separated from the sensory pleasure caused by taste, sound and color, and their expression is intuitive, both of which belong to the pleasure of natural feeling. The taste pleasure brought by delicious food has already included the bud of aesthetic feeling. As one of the six livestock, sheep is the main use and symbol of delicacy.

"Sheep are beautiful" embodies the most primitive understanding of beauty of the Chinese nation. There are also many literary and artistic works in China that link taste with artistic appreciation. For example, Ouyang Xiu said that "modern poetry is difficult to chew through the ages, but it is also like eating olives, and its true taste lasts for a long time" (61 Poetry), and Su Shi said that "there are many good things in sour taste, but the taste in Chinese is eternal" (send it to the teacher for reference). People often use "lingering fragrance" to describe beautiful poems, and "delicious" to describe the beauty of girls and so on.

As a traditional dialectical way of thinking in China, the concept of harmony is the aesthetic basis of Chinese tradition. The ancients said that "the way of heaven and earth is to take harmony as beauty" and "the beauty of heaven and earth is greater than harmony". From "grain" to "mouth", the traditional aesthetic concept of "harmony is beauty" has also had a far-reaching impact on China's food culture, and China's traditional cooking strives for harmony everywhere.

Zhou Li's "cutting, boiling and frying" means that "harmony" runs through the whole cooking process. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, Shi Bo put forward "five flavors to adjust the mouth". He thinks that "the ancient king mixed soil with Jin Mu, and everything mixed with five flavors ... he didn't hear anything, didn't hear anything, didn't taste anything, and didn't say anything" (Mandarin Zheng Yu). Shi Bo thinks that dishes with a single taste are not delicious, and only various tastes are delicious. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Yan Ying of the State of Qi also put forward "Harmony as Beautiful Soup" to illustrate the truth of harmony between monarch and minister.

In fact, taking harmony as beauty requires not only the harmony of taste and senses, but also the unity with health. As early as the pre-Qin period, people in China had realized that eating a certain flavor of food or eating too much would cause diseases. "Zhou Li Tianguan" said that the taste of food should be adjusted according to the changes of seasons: "Spring is sour, summer is bitter, autumn is spicy, winter is salty and smooth and sweet." Only when the food you eat every day is in harmony with the natural climate can you have a healthy body.

As the ancients said, food is not as good as beauty. The combination of dishes and utensils vividly embodies the aesthetic concept of "harmony is beauty". Yuan Mei, a famous poet in Qing Dynasty, was a cooking enthusiast and collected many beautiful women. A concise summary of the relationship between ancient and modern cuisine and gourmets. First of all, people attach great importance to the color contrast and unified relationship between dishes and utensils. No contrast will make people feel monotonous, while too strong contrast will also make people feel disharmony.

If you put the tender yellow custard in the green lotus petal bowl, the color will be particularly beautiful, resulting in a refreshing and pleasing artistic effect. In addition, the materials, shapes and patterns of the objects are also required to complement each other. According to the anecdotes of the dishes, choose the vessels with patterns corresponding to their contents. For example, China's famous dish "Guifei Chicken", placed in a lotus bowl decorated with a left-handed fairy dancing pattern, will naturally remind people of the story of Yang Guifei's dancing, getting drunk and letting flowers stand in a pavilion.

Secondly, dishes and utensils embody the pursuit of harmony in form. If people put bazhen soup in a crystal bowl, the color of the soup is crystal clear, and through the belly of the bowl, they can clearly distinguish all kinds of bazhen soup, adding a lot of color to it.

Chinese food pays attention to moderate seasoning, and banquets also pay attention to different tastes. Different dishes and utensils are matched with each other, which are thick and light, sweet and salty, and their colors change in contrast. Not only the varieties are diverse, but also the shapes and colors of the utensils are rich and colorful. In this way, the delicious food is dazzling, the exquisite utensils are shining, and the spectacular scenery of the dining table will appear in front of us, so it can be called food.

The beauty of artistic conception is an aesthetic ideological realm formed by the Chinese nation in its long-term artistic practice. China's food culture also has artistic beauty with profound implications and endless aftertaste. Confucius said that "food is never tired of essence, and food is never tired of essence". Chinese food pays attention to color, aroma and taste. People also attach importance to the beautiful artistic conception brought by the visual image of dishes in order to satisfy the spiritual pleasure and the appreciation of real life.

Many dishes are not only delicious, but also create artistic conception through exquisite shapes and colors, which constitutes an inherent implicit aesthetic feeling. Wangchuan Villa, for example, is the work of Wang Wei, a poet and painter in the Tang Dynasty, which was absorbed by gourmets at that time and made into a small platter by Wangchuan Villa. For another example, in the folk, people will steam, worship and eat dough-plastic fireworks, such as "Ruyi Rice Cake" in the New Year and "Yuanyang Cake" in the wedding, praying for happiness and peace.

Folk artists naturally paint a cheerful and warm atmosphere with high-purity colors such as red and green. Not only is the pen pungent and handsome, unrestrained and uninhibited, but it is also vivid, round and unpretentious. It shows the natural and simple aesthetic mood of the working people. Chinese food not only pays attention to the mouth, but also has a unique and meaningful artistic conception. Many modern high-end restaurants are named after freehand brushwork, and their dictionaries are elegant, magnificent, meaningful and poetic. For example, putting white mushrooms on vegetables is called "money everywhere"

China's food culture has a long history and enjoys a long reputation. As a bright pearl in Chinese civilization, China's food culture has a far-reaching influence in the world, which has amazed many foreign friends. The Book of Changes: "Metaphysics refers to the Tao, while metaphysics refers to the device." China's diet, tangible things, reflects the aesthetic mode of the Chinese nation, embodies the civilized form of the Chinese nation and the intangible way.