중국 현대문학 속의 음식문화와 사회변화 연구

Abstract

This paper tries to examine the problem of food culture and social change in Modern Chinese Literature. Through modern Chinese food literature, we want to examine the diversity of food culture and understand the relationship between Chinese daily life and food culture. In modern China, various food and cultural phenomena appeared in the revolution, war, and the policy of reform and opening up. First of all, there are various food cultures appearing in Lu Xun's novels, a leading Chinese novelist. He criticized the traditional cannibalism and reflected the diversity of the people's lives through the daily food of the Chinese people. Even in the food prose of Zhou Zuoren, Xu Dishan, and Wang Zengqi, they introduced the food culture of hometown and folk customs. Within their prose, they reflected various food cultures in the areas of Beijing and Kunming、Jiangsu. From Beijing’s food to Kunming's food culture, from peanuts to yadan and doufu, they are exploring the taste of our family and hometown by introducing various food cultures in our hometown. The works of Chinese literature of the time, such as Wang Meng and Ye Si, reflect the conflict and harmony of Chinese food culture. Wang Meng expresses the mutual conflict and harmony between Beijing's home-style cuisine and Western food culture of bread and milk. Ye Si expresses cultural pride and pride in the Chinese cuisine of Hong Kong and the United States amid new social changes following the return of Hong Kong. In conclusion, through such as diverse of food culture, the Chinese people's daily lives and cultural consciousness are expressed in various ways in the works of modern Chinese literature. From this point on, we will be able to understand the diversity and structure of Chinese food culture in terms of its relationship with social changes.