長生不死的飲饌圖像——六朝志怪異食書寫所豁顯的意蘊與思維

Diet Image of Long Life: Description of Different Diet in Six Dynasties Weird Story

飲食，雖然是最基本的生理欲求，但是，透過飲饌書寫，可窺見人類思維底層的紋理脈絡，它不僅是文化的符號意義鏈（signifying chain），含攝風土民俗、宗教信仰、群體意識、環境物產，更兼而有之的是：它具有映現民族思維的託寓（allegorical）關係，能具現地方色彩（local color），亦能再現（represent）文化的個別性（individuality），甚至是一種價值（value）、取向（interest）、權力（power）的示現，具有反映階級等第（hierarchy）的作用性。六朝志怪圖構出來的飲饌思維，透露人類最深層的心理需求，同時也具現中國企求長生不死的文化心理所積潛的伏流，隱隱浮現在六朝志怪的紋理表層。

Diet is the basic desire of life. But we can dig into human thinking of deep level through description of diet. It was the cultural signifying chain that including folklore, religious belief, collective consciousness and local environment. Besides, it could present allegorical relation of national thinking. It could present local color and represent cultural individuality. It might be treated as the value, interest and power and could reflect hierarchy. The diet thinking constructed by Six Dynasties Weird Story revealed the deepest psychological desire of human. It like the invisible water flow that searching for long life in Chinese culture.