赛珍珠《闺阁》食事之中国食文化解读

赛珍珠的中国题材小说《闺阁》以一幅中华民国年间吴府的世俗生活场景,通过活生生的食事活动向西方读者阐析了中国食文化深邃厚重的内蕴：崇尚礼乐,顺应自然,调和阴阳,谨和五味,饮食有节,食养食治等,折射出中华民族的传统伦理道德、风俗人情、审美心理、人生哲学以及生存理念,同时也客观地回应了西方人习来以久的东方食文化原始怪异的＂他者＂形象,从一个侧面反映了赛珍珠知性、负责任的跨文化阐析理念。

Pearl Buck's Interpretation of Chinese Dietary Culture in Pavilion of Women

In Pavilion of Women, by virtue of numerous dietary activities delineated, Pearl Buck traces deep into the core of Chinese Dietary culture and leads the Western readers to savor its rich and profound pregnancy: being observant of rites, pursuing harmony with nature in accordance with yin-yang theory, advocating a well-balanced diet in moderation and practicing medicinal cuisine for health promotion and sickness-prevention and -healing and etc, which reflects Chinese people’s traditional moral principles, customs, esthetic consciousness and philosophy of living. Pearl Buck’s Pavilion of Women serves as a telling counterexample against Westerners’ deep-rooted “Other” image of the Oriental dietary culture: uncultivated and weird, which, in a way, reflects Buck’s sensible attitude toward cross-cultural interpretation.