论《易经》中的饮食与婚配之道

On the Idea of Food and Marriage in the Yijing

《周易》卦爻之中,有颇多与饮食、婚配有关的内容。《易经》的作者重视此二种涉及"身体欲望"的行为的正面意义,并能够从人类这两项最基本活动中加以引申推衍,以至于在德性修养、文化建构等方面创立自己独特的议题。《易经》以饮食的情景得失引喻人生顺逆安危的关键,并对国家政权、人群种族的生存发展表现出深切的关怀;《易经》婚配的思想,以乾坤交泰、阴阳二气相感的原理为根基,又考虑到更多人伦的因素,如年龄、喜悦、得正、感通、适时等等,非仅止于身体欲望的满足,而是以文明教化之提升与调和为最终目的。对饮食与婚配二事的理论生发,体现了《易经》生生不息的精神。

In the statements of the hexagrams and lines in the Zhouyi, there are quite many points on eating ＆ drinking and marriage, by paying attention to the positive meanings of the two basic activities of life involved in human physiological desire, the author of the Yijing extends to the original and distinctive issues of moral cultivation, cultural construction and so on. In the Yijing, the events of eating ＆ drinking are metaphorically used to describe the crucial moments of human life, and the author feels deeply concerns for the state regime and the racial survival; based on the theory of the interaction between Qian and Kun and the mutual communication be- tween Yin and Yang, the idea of marriage in the Yifing takes many ethic factors into consideration, such as age, joy and affection as well, and ultimately aims to promote the cultural cultivation rather than meet the physiological needs. It embodies the spirit of creative creativity in the Yijing to develop the theory of eating ＆ drinking and marriage.