“饮食文化圈”理论认知中华饮食史的尝试——《中国饮食文化区域史丛书》序

An Attempt to Cognize Chinese Catering History via“Catering Culture Circle”Theory——Preface for Chinese Catering Cultural Region History Series

笔者谋划编写出版历时24年的《中国饮食文化区域史丛书》将于2014年内由中国轻工业出版社正式出版发行。丛书原以中国历史上存在过的11个饮食文化区位各一分册并一综合卷的12册组成,计划600万字,而目前只能以10册的略写本形式付梓。丛书的编写坚持中华食学研究"十三亿人口,五千年文明"的"大众餐桌"基本理念与原则。是以人类或民族食生产、食生活的地理、自然、文化地域要素制约的"饮食文化圈"理论认知中华饮食史的尝试。

It takes 24 years to plan and compile Chinese Catering Cultural Region History Series, which is to be officially published within 2014 by China Light Industry Press. The series consists of twelve volumes including eleven sessions describing respectively the original eleven cultural locations and one comprehensive volume with 6000000 words, and yet, presently only 10 volumes in their abbreviated form have been published. The masses’ fundamental table concept and principle of 1.3 billion people with 5 millennium civilization was always pursued in the compilation of the series, which is an attempt to cognize Chinese catering culture based on Catering Culture Circle theory restricted by the geography, nature, and cultural locations in human or national food production and their catering life.