| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 藝術與人文教育研究所 === 99 === Diet is both the source of the life and an epitome of the culture. Dietary culture, especially popular traditional dietary culture, is not only a part of life, but also an art that belong to the people. Year after year, dietary culture plays a significant role in our compliance with nature, and family reunions. In comparison with the ordinary daily diet, it is the special festival diet that symbolizes the passing of each significant day in the year. Due to the special bond I have had with my grandmother in my childhood, I’ve grown to appreciate her wisdom and her attitude towards life. The reverent heart that prays for the well-being of the family and the grateful sentiment towards food are all the attitudes toward life that I hope to learn. But she also represents a part of the people and culture of that special generation; a fine grain of sand in the perpetual flow of the great river of time immemorial.
This study was based on fieldworks conducted by myself. The methods included, interviews, participant observation combined with the comparison of reference documents. The aim of this study was to understand my grandmother''s festival cooking, and attempt to portray the dietary culture in her generation. Her cooking was to be shared by the living and non-living as it was offered to the heavens first, ancestors second and then her family; this order expressed the respect for the heavens, ancestors and her love for her family. Her cooking was a part of her view of life, wisdom, philosophy and religion and by energetically putting it into practice, it revealed both her life''s education and aesthetics views. It was these experiences that shaped the unshakeable foundation of her life.
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