The Philosophy of Chinese food and Tao of Chinese food

January 03, 2020

Know Tao and philosophy of Chinese food for your health 

“Dietary treatment have always been popular among Chinese to become the jewelof Chinese eating habits.

Medicine and food begin to combine togetherfrom the Zhou Dynasty ( 1046 BC — 256 AVJ -C). In historical documents ,there are many books on cures for food. Sun Simiao famous doctor Tang period(618-907) wrote prescriptions great price and supplements the requirements ofgreat price , in which the author devotes several articles to dietarytreatment. These two works had a profound influence on studies.

Sun Simiao estimates that good health wasnecessarily based on a healthy food, and it should not take any medicationwithout prescription. The task of the physician was to clarify the cause of thedisease, by first prescribing a specific diet , then a remedy if necessary. Alldietary methods and their preparation are based on the views of Sun Simiao .

Sun Simiao , having lived more than a century , had no trouble convincing subsequent generations of the merits of his theories . Gradually, the dietary treatment and drug food have become a popular method for keeping fit,prevent disease or to treat them in China.

Dietary treatment is simply to use the different properties of food. In China, everyone knows that you can heal by eating normal vegetables. If someone has a cold, he is preparing a soup by adding brown sugar ginger pieces and sections of greenish white . You drink when it’s hot. Then you sweat , and the disease disappears gradually. Moreover it is said that we must “take the turnip before going to bed and getting up ginger.” Dietary treatment with salt, vinegar, ginger, onion, garlic and other spices grows continuously for centuries in Chinese. There is even now a popular beverage vinegar and coca.

There are over a thousand species offlowers. In northern China,it is one hundred edible , about Yunnan Province which is alsocalled “the kingdom of plants” , it says that there are over 260 .

According the philosophy of Chinesefood,this food made ​​from flowers can be used as medicine ,especially for women. Eg pink stimulates blood circulation and regulatesmenstruation. In addition women also use it for their beauty. Cooking the peachblossoms with fish or shrimp dishes obtained can tone the blood , strengthenthe spleen , stomach, and also serve to preserve his youth.

Dietary treatment has transformed foodinto drugs. Taking well structured meals , diseases are cured . Medicated feedis transmitted from generation to generation and popularized very quickly . Themost common dishes are noodles , pastry flour , soup and culinary medications.There are even restaurants preparing these varied specialties. Each restauranthas its own specialty like soup called ” slurry child” made ​​basedChinese yam , Coix seed and khaki typed. She is known to strengthen the spleenand stomach children. “The soup fritillary bulb and dried orange peel” meanwhile, can cure cough and cold . “The ginseng soup ” isinvigorating , both for patients and for the elderly.

“The Law on Food Hygiene of thePeople’s Republic of China”no longer adds the drug to food , which opposes the culture. In order to solvethis cultural problem, the relevant departments have allowed people to add afew dozens of traditional Chinese medicines such as jujube , ginger, hawthorn ,or mint in food.

Meals as dietary treatments are not onlypopular in Chinabut also in the world. For example, the chrysanthemum wine , tea with driedorange peel , patty , or medical olive , are foods that gradually penetrate theculinary culture of foreigners.

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In what state of mind theChinese they bring to the table according the philosophy of Chinese food?

Firstly they have a thought for the person from whom they receive directly thefood. For children, of course, their parents,for the money spent and the preparation of meals. For adults, it’s their bossthat provides a salary. Others rely on a brother, sister, or otherrelative.

With the philosophy of Chinese food ,they then think of the hard work providedby the peasants, who have put their care in growing food they will now enjoy.Through this work, the food reaches them in the middle of a comfortable lifewithout having to cultivate their own fields. They also believe in theintelligence of Nature which orders the process cycle of the seasons, for birth,growth, maturation and harvest of staple foods.

Then they think they have a chance to make a good meal, despite theirshortcomings in the areas of virtue, talent, and the uprightness of theirlives.

Then they think their chance to meet good foodwithout having to worry about hunger. Indeed, many are poorer than themselves,who would be happy to be able to eat even just, not to mention all those whodie of hunger.

Finally, they think the time and effort it took to past for staple foods aregrown and cooked as they are nowadays generations.

By now ,do you think thephilosophy of Chinese food has a huge impact on your health?

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