금강대도의 음식문화

Abstract

The food culture of Kumkangdaedo respects all lives and shows itin daily life by practicing the regulation prohibiting fish and meatfrom eating. A characteristic of its rituals is excluding fish and meatfrom its sacrifices offered in the shrine. This is practicing thethought of cleanliness and achieving the combination of mind, andthrough these it makes clean people, clean environment, and cleanworld. That is, it leads the life of future mankind through themorality of reciprocity, aiming at the restoration of cultural andmoral identity unprecedentedly lost due to environmentalcontamination, the destruction of ecosystem, collapsed consciousnessof community, crisis in self.identity, and the trend of lifecontempt. Thus, we expect that, starting from food culture throughthe prohibition of fish and meat, the teaching of the Great MoralTeacher and Heaven and Earth Parents, the life respecting thoughtmay be discussed actively as a social movement and diversehorizons fit for the age of information and globalization may beopened. As an alternative, Kumkangdaedo makes traditional kinds ofsauce and paste, plants lotus and produces lotus tea, and growsmushroom as an effort to lead food culture. Accordingly,Kumkangdaedo is working hard to settle and popularize theprohibition of fish and meat and to attain physical health and mental stability through the practice in daily life.