Anderson E N
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside 92521.
Soc Sci Med. 1987;25(4):331-7. doi: 10.1016/0277-9536(87)90271-1.
The hot/cold system is perhaps the most widely known medical belief system in the world. I propose that the wide acceptance of hot/cold ideas is due to the fact that they provide a particularly simple, economic coding for common human experience, such as hypothermia, heatstroke, and fevers. Coding of foods as heating or cooling can be understood in terms of a system of sensory cues that make the foods appear hot or cold. This paper deals primarily with data from Chinese culture.
热/冷系统或许是世界上最为人熟知的医学信仰体系。我认为，热/冷观念被广泛接受是因为它们为常见的人类体验，如体温过低、中暑和发烧等，提供了一种特别简单、经济的编码方式。将食物编码为热性或凉性可以依据一套感官线索系统来理解，这套系统使食物看起来是热的或冷的。本文主要论述来自中国文化的数据。
