Titlebook: Of Tripod and Palate; Food, Politics, and Roel Sterckx Book 2005 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005 China.culture.

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Moonshine and Millet: Feasting and Purification Rituals in Ancient China,he control of the bronze industry to produce vessels for sacrifice. Food production and human fertility were seen as gifts from Heaven—the realm of the High God and their ancestors. The descendants returned the gifts through sacrifices. The “cuisine of sacrifice” in ancient China united all generati

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Food and Philosophy in Early China,lists in late Zhou and early imperial China. Meticulous care was invested in the preparation and serving of food in sacrificial rituals and banquets. Ritual codes suggest that the presentation of food reflected a host’s integrity toward the human or otherworldly guests that were to be feasted. Ritua

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The Offering of Food and the Creation of Order: The Practice of Sacrifice in Early China,deed, the primary difference between them is to be found in food—both in the types of food offered and the ways in which it is given. Ghosts are dead humans who are not fed by living descendants (and thus become hungry and highly dangerous, but also objects of offerings by individuals outside of mor

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A Taste of Happiness: Contextualizing Elixirs in Baopuzi,ntal exercises, and take various kinds of elixirs. Previous studies have examined the chemical elements involved in the production of elixirs and their physical effects on the human body (Needham 1974). This essay intends to take a further step and discuss the psychological effect of the drugs as de

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Buddhism, Alcohol, and Tea in Medieval China,ink of choice at all levels of society. This shift cannot be understood without appreciating the fact that Buddhists were active not only in changing people’s attitudes toward intoxicating substances, but also in spreading tea drinking throughout the empire. Till the middle of the eighth century, te