「歌仔」的飲食主題與修辭

The Theme and Rhetoric of Food in Kua-á

歌仔是民間知識的寶庫，想瞭解閩南及臺灣的民間生活種種面向，自歌仔中可以找到十分豐富的相關內容。散見歌仔、歌仔冊中的各種飲食內容，反映了民間運用生活週遭事物作為修辭的現象，目前尚缺乏專門的探討。本文沿用民歌研究中常見的「賦、比、興」分類，將歌仔中的飲食作鋪排、比喻、起興等功能的分析，探討豐盛宴席與飲食豐足的想像、飲食作為情慾的比喻，以及引出男女歡好場景的關係。

Kua-á is treasury of folk knowledge. To understand the multi-faceted folk life in Taiwan, kua- á served as an important information source. “Food” can be found in either individual kua- á or collections of longer kua- á narratives, indicated common people's inclination to use things around their lives for rhetorical expression. The rhetoric of food in kua- á is still lacking attention from the academia. In this study, I followed the fu, bi, xing classification of folk song studies to analyze kua- á. Drawing examples from a wide selection of kua- á, I will explicate the following, elaboration of banquet dishes as one's imagination of exquisite feasts; food as lust for his or her beloved; and a preparation of a banquet which led to a love scene of a couple in beds.