术语“宴饮”的详细信息

英译术语:

Feasting

汉语语境:

宴饮是人们日常生活中进食活动重要的一部分，自从其摆脱温饱的生理目的之后，就开始与礼仪密不可分，特别是在古代中国，这种结合显得尤为突出。宴饮在古人生活中有如此重要的作用和地位，以至于人们在处理想象中的死后世界——墓葬的时候，在随葬器物的铺排上，饮食器具都占了相当大的比重。从早期大汶口文化遗址的随葬土陶碗和夏商周三代的青铜饮具，再到汉代大量随葬的漆食器，乃至出现在墓室墙壁上的宴饮绘画，无一不向我们诏示宴饮在死者死后世界中的地位。

英语语境:

As an important part of diet activities, feasting has been closely linked with etiquette since the mankind began to get rid of hunger, and this combination was especially distinctive in ancient China. Feasting played such an important role in the ancient people's lives that cooking and eating utensils accounted for a substantial proportion of the funeral objects when people dealt with the imaginative death world. The earthenware bowl excavated from Dawenkou site, the bronze drinking vessels of Xia Shang Zhou Dynasties, the lacquer cooking vessels of Han Dyynasty, together with the feasting paintings on the grave wall, all of these showed signal of the important roles of feasting played in the death world.