流动的视觉美学:中国传统饮食文化的审美核心价值

Flowing Visual Aesthetics:The Aesthetic Core Value of Chinese Traditional Food Culture

中华传统饮食文化蕴含着丰富的审美意蕴,传统厨师通过其审美思维对自然食材的生命诗性进行高度体认和礼赞,为现代美食奠定了以自然、美味、精致为主的人文格局。在食材上,传统食料来自于自然,厨师们将食料以线条或块状的式样呈现饮食的艺术之美,高度体现了主体既基于现实食材的感性生命又不滞于对感性生命的追求,凸显出传统饮食的搭配颇具有一定的规范性。在技艺上,中国传统饮食非常注重技法操作,通过厨师娴熟的刀工把自然食材幻化为美味可口的餐食,它超越了个体对食材感性层面的理解,凝结了厨师对食材生命之美的深刻体悟和赤裸裸的追求,承载了食材幻化前的物质性,并形成了强烈的感官刺激,从而给人们带来无穷的美食遐想空间。在食器上,不同种类和不同造型的食器应用于传统的饮食佳肴,以器皿的形态和纹饰来衬托传统饮食的美味与清新。

One can see rich aesthetic connotations in Chinese traditional food culture.Traditional chefs highly recognize and praise the life and poetic nature of natural ingredients through their aesthetic thinking,laying a natural,delicious,and refined humanistic pattern for our modern cuisine.Traditional food ingredient comes from nature.The chefs present the artistic beauty of the food in a line or block style,which highly reflects the ingredient’s sensual life based on the actual food without being stuck in the pursuit of sensual life,highlighting the standard nature of the combination of traditional food.In terms of skills,traditional Chinese food pays much attention to the chiefs’technical operations.Through their sophisticated knife skills,natural ingredients are transformed into delicious meals.While surpassing individual's perceptual understanding of the ingredients,it has condensed the chefs’deep perspective of the beauty of ingredient’s life,as well as their pure pursuit,carrying the materiality of the ingredients before they are transformed.It forms a strong sensory stimulation,thus bringing people an endless space for food reverie.As for food utensils,different types and shapes of utensils are used in traditional cuisine,the shape and pattern of which are used to set off the deliciousness and freshness of traditional food.