先秦时期非医学文献对“味”的认识

Recognition of flavor in non-medical literatures of pre-Qin Dynasty

本研究对先秦时期的非医学文献如十三经、诸子百家等进行全面系统的梳理,在此基础上对味的含义运用发生认识学的方法进行了分析,指出先秦时期味的两个涵义"滋味"的产生应早于"五行属性"之味的产生,并简述了对于当时人们对于味及五味在保健医疗中的认识。

By systemically sorting of non-medical literatures of pre-Qin dynasty such as the Thirteen Confucian Classics,etc,this article made an analysis on the meaning and content of flavor in that period with the Genesis and Epistemology,and pointed out that there were two meanings of the flavor： the first is the flavor or taste obtained by tasting,and the other is the five-elements flavor,a Abstract flavor.The former flavor should be originated early than the later one.Besides,the article made a brief view on the functions of flavors in the health keeping and medicine.