中国人饮食方式演变研究

有文字记载以来,中国人饮食方式经历了分餐、聚餐、合餐的演变,从先秦到宋代,横跨3000余年。先秦至汉魏六朝,因《礼》制束缚和客观物质制约,人们饮食方式为分餐制;进入唐、宋兴盛时期,在文人参与带动下,宴饮的盛行和宴饮文学繁荣,以及向商业化发展,人们相聚而（饮）食,久而久之合餐成为必然。

A Study on the Evolution of Chinese Diet Manners

The evolution of Chinese diet manners, which last over 3,000 years from Pre-Qin period to Song Dy-nasty, experienced from individual dining to dining together and eventually to sharing meal since the advent of written records. People dined individually from Pre-Qin period to Han and Wei Dynasty due to the restrictions by hierarchy and objective material. During Tang and Song Dynasty owing to the prevalence of banquet, the prosperity of banquet literature and commercialization of banquet service, under the participation and guidance of scholars, people prefered to dine together. As time went by, sharing meal among people was inevitable.