十七世纪中期西方人眼中的中国食物原料研究<br />——以卜弥格、卫匡国和基歇尔为中心-《中国农史》

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Title:: Chinese Food Materials through the Westerners in the Middle of Seventeenth Century
——Discoursed on Michel Boym, Martino Martini and Athanasius Kircher

Author(s):: ZHOU Hong-cheng; （Department of History, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018）

摘要:: 十七世纪中期，入华耶稣会士卜弥格和卫匡国以及未曾入华的基歇尔均出版了有关中国的重要著作。相关著作中均包含有中国食物原料的重要知识。卜弥格在《中国植物志》和《中国地图集》中，通过可见的图像方式传递了更为丰富的中国食材内容。卫匡国在《中国新地图集》中，则强调从中国的具体地区来认识代表性物产。欧洲本土学者基歇尔在《中国图说》中，援引的主要材料源自卜弥格和卫匡国。《中国图说》被译成多种欧洲文字，多次再版。此三人著作展示了十七世纪西方人对中国食物原料知识的理解和接收过程，也体现出中国饮食西传的历史演变。

Abstract:: In the middle of seventeenth century, Michel Boym and Martino Martini, the Jesuits who lived in China, and Athanasius Kircher who had never been to China, all of them had published the outstanding works on China which contained a lot of knowledge of Chinese food materials. In the book Chinese Plants and Chinese Atlas, Boym displayed more Chinese food knowledge by pictures. Meanwhile, in the book Chinese New Atlas, Martini delivered more information of Chinese food materials based on different Chinese regions. Remarkably, the China Illustration, which was wrote by Athanasius Kircher the local scholar in Europe and was published many times by many European languages, mainly referred to Boym and Martini’s books. Their books showed how the westerns understood and received Chinese food culture, and presented the historical evolution of the Chinese food knowledge spreading to the west.