The Taoism thinking of dietary writing during Su Shi’s relegation period

• Main Authors: Xiao-yue Zhang, 張曉月
• Other Authors: Guang-ming Jian
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06351204265517709796

碩士 === 國立屏東教育大學 === 中國語文學系 === 100 === Su Shi is a significant litterateur, thinker, and artist, and his plentiful works contain an abundance of dietary writing. Diet is not just the subject matter of creating poems, articles and rhyme patterns, Su Shi also commits his thinking, emotions, and the experience toward life in it. The creation of diet writing connects the life of Su Shi, depicting his life authentically, also said to be microcosm of his life, a reflection of real life, and it’s vital to research into his thinking. This paper is arranged chronologiclly, presenting dietary writing of Taoism in Su Shi’s relegation period and change in thinking, from gourmet feasts in the early years to his later years returning to the natural diet of the life continuity. Looking comprehensively at his works in the relegation period, you can see the context of ideological transformation of Su Shi: In Huangzhou period, from cultivating and diet, Su Shi gets the satisfaction of spirit, and adjusts low-spirited situation because of the relegation; in Huizhou period, he cuts off all desires towards delicacies in the process of simple therapy and be optimistic to the plight without food and wine; in the Danzhou period, Su Shi’s experience to life goes beyond flavored things, "Delicacies exist in difficult situation" is an authentic flavor after a variety of suffering in his life. Different periods of diet writing presents ideas of Su Shi, and can also see him in the face of adversity beyond himself, inherited creatively a tradition of Yu Tao in Taoism, and real experience the words of Lao and Zhuang, and put Taoism into practice. While the dietary writing reflects only one side of Su Shi’s thinking, it is still an important basis in studying his thoughts.