一饮食是人类最基本的生命活动,一个时代的饮食风尚最能体现这个时代的特征和精神。明代初、中期,由于立国之初的政令和程朱理学的导向,整个社会崇尚俭朴、节制的饮食风尚,而中期以后渐趋奢靡豪纵,这在不少明代笔记里都有记述。顾起元描述正统年间南京士大夫请客宴饮情形:“南都正统中延客,止当日早,令一童子至各家邀云‘请吃饭’。至巳时,则客已毕集矣。如六人、八人,止用大八仙桌一 A diet is the most basic human life activities, an era of diet style can best reflect the characteristics and spirit of this era. In the early Ming Dynasty and the middle of the Ming dynasty, due to the decrees of the beginning of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and the guidance of Cheng Zhu Neo-Confucianism, the entire society advocated frugality and temperance and diet regime. Gu Jianyuan description Orthodox Nanjing hospitality feast hospitality situation: ”Southern Orthodox in the extension of the passenger, only the day early, so that a boy to invite each other ’Please eat meal.’ , Eight people, only with a Big Eight Immortal table one