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1 The Somatized Religiosity of the Chinese * Sun Lung-kee 麽爲 * 1

2 Abstract The article begins with the stereotyped imagery of the Chinese, to the effect that they are a people not bound by any dietary taboos. The article tries to place this Chinese omnivorism on a religious basis. A comparison with the world-denying Indian religiosity throws into sharp focus the somatized strain of the Chinese religion. This strain underlies the Confucian cult of filial piety, i.e., the perpetuation of physical immortality through one s progeny. The somatization tendency is most notably embodied in Daoist macrobiotics and its quest for corporeal immortality. The Indian Vedanta regards the body as putrid and attempts to transcend it, whereas the Chinese try their best to preserve the body. Amazingly, Daoist deities even establish their abode within the human body. The Chinese concept of matter is food-based, thus the harvesting of nature s quintessence for nourishment is a religious experience. The accusation of cannibalism as a largely Chinese phenomenon is not well-founded, for this phenomenon is universal. The article nonetheless admits that feeding one s flesh to one s parents as medical cure is a unique Chinese religious experience. Finally, the ideal government as laid down by The Zhou Rites shows that the Chinese somatized religiosity coincides with their highest political ideal. Keywords somatization, cannibalism, the Nine Worms of the Three Corpses, bodily essence and energy, macrobiotics. 2

This strain underlies the Confucian cult of filial piety, i.e., the perpetuation of physical immortality through one s progeny.

3 (Jeffrey Dahmer) (Hannibal Lector) 麽麽爲 1 Gang Yue The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China Durham & London: Duke University Press Lung-kee Sun The Chinese National Character: From Nationhood to Individuality Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe 2002 pp (Jeffrey Dahmer)

University Press 1999 2 Lung-kee Sun The Chinese National Character: From

4 (Shahnameh) (Ahriman) (Eblis) (Zohak) 爲爲産爲爲 4

5 爲爲爲爲葱 3 Firdausi Shahnama, as retold by Barbara Leonie Picard Tales of Ancient Persia Oxford, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press 1993 pp Michael Carrithers, ed. The Assembly of Listeners: Jains in Society Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press 1991 pp

6-10. 4 86 109 5 Michael Carrithers, ed.

6 爲爲爲爲

7 爲 8 爲爲爲爲衆

8 麽啓爲爲爲爲爲爲爲爲爲爲

9 (Maitri Upanishad) (Brihadratha) (Sakayanya) 麽麽 (Maitri Upanishad, -I.3) 11 爲爲輭輭 11 Robert Ernest Hume, translated from Sanskrit The Thirteen Principal Upanishads, 2 nd edition, revised. Bombay, Calcutta, Madras: Oxford University Press 1992 p John Weakland Orality in Chinese Conceptions of Male Genital Sexuality Psychiatry, no

10 衆 14 爲爲麽爲

11 17 爲麽麽麽麽

12 爲爲衆衆麽爲爲爲 12

13 爲爲 matter materia mater 爲爲衆爲衆爲麽爲 22 爲爲

14 Spartacus 掺 Boris Godunov Thomas Harris Hannibal Jacques Margeret, translated and edited by Chester S. L. Dunning The Russian Empire and Grand Duchy of Muscovy: A 17 th -Century French Account University of Pittsburgh Press 1983 pp Book II ( ) of The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau New York: The Modern Library no date p Thomas Harris Hannibal London: William Heinemann 1999 p

Dunning The Russian Empire and Grand Duchy of Muscovy: A 17 th -Century French Account University of Pittsburgh

15 27 (Marvin Harris) 28 麽 27 Key Ray Chong Cannibalism in China Wakefield, New Hampshire: Longwood Academic 1990 Pp Marvin Harris, Good to Eat

16 爲爲爲爲爲

17 (Claude Levi-Strauss) 爲爲爲爲鼈爲爲爲爲爲爲 Oliver Robert Gurney, The Hittites Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books 1969 pp

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