Mengliang Lu
The book Mengliang lu ( Chinese 夢 梁 錄 / 梦 粱 录 - "Dream of the former capital") was written by Wu Zimu ( Chinese 吳自牧 / 吴自牧 ) from the time of the Southern Song Dynasty . It comprises 20 chapters ( juan ) and is a description of the festivities, customs and traditions, everyday life as well as the art and literature of the destroyed Lin'an ( Hangzhou , Zhejiang Province ) towards the end of the Southern Song Dynasty. It is also a rich source on the history of Chinese food and drink culture.
The work was written roughly after the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty. Stylistically, the writing style of the brush records called Dongjing meng Hua lu is imitated. It reports on the customs and traditions of traditional festivals, the cityscape, goods in shops, garden architecture, deeds of people and products of various landscapes in the capital, which was destroyed by the Mongol invasion .
Eating and drinking culture
The kitchen material it contains is quite abundant, introducing various foods eaten at traditional festivals, gastronomy, and famous teahouses and inns, as well as reporting on several hundred names of food and drinks.
Old prints and modern editions
The work is included in the book series Xuejin taoyuan and in the Comprehensive Collection by Congshu . A modern edition is that of Gudian wenxue chubanshe (Shanghai) from 1956, as an appendix to the Dongjing meng Hua lu , which was later published in a corrected version.
Footnotes
- ↑ Our brief description is essentially based on the Zhongguo pengren cidian .
literature
- Zhongguo pengren cidian , p. 662.
- Zhongguo pengren wenxian tiyao , No. 50
- Chuancai pengren shidian , p. 4.
- Etienne Balazs and Yves Hervouet: A Sung Bibliography (Bibliography of the Sung) , Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1978, pp. 154 f. (E. Balazs - Chan Hing-ho)
See also
List of sources on the history of Chinese food and drink culture