Description

This podcast explores the relationship between Food and Rituals in China, from the Shang Dynasty to Modern China. The main inspiration for this topic is the image found in Joanna Waley-Cohen’s “The Quest for Perfect Balance: Taste and Gastronomy in Imperial China” of a tomb at Xuanhua, Zhangjiakou (page 2). Images of food and rituals in modern China were taken during a recent trip to China, where I got to personally witness and experience how ancestral worship is done.

Bibliography

Cook, Constance A. “Moonshine and Millet: Feasting and Purification Rituals in Ancient China.” Of Tripod and Palate : Food, Politics, and Religion in Traditional China. Ed. Sterckx, Roel. New York ; Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 9-22.

Gugong bowuyuan 故宮博物院 (1999). Gugong qingtong qi 故宮青銅器 / Bronzes in the Palace Museum.

Joanna Waley-Cohen, “The Quest for Perfect Balance: Taste and Gastronomy in Imperial China,” in Paul Freedman ed., Food: The History of Taste (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007), Ch. 3: 99-133.

Liu Qiyu 劉起釪 (1992), “Liji 禮記“, in Zhongguo da baike quanshu 中國大百科全書, Zhongguo lishi 中國歷史 (Beijing/Shanghai: Zhongguo da baike quanshu chubanshe), Vol. 2, 547.

National Palace Museum 國立故宮博物院 (2019). Rituals Cast in Brilliance: Masterpieces of Bronzes in the Museum Collection _Introduction. [Online] Available at: https://www.npm.edu.tw/exh99/bronzes/html/page_en_01.html