杨万里诗中的食物书写承载着南宋各地的风土特色，跌宕起伏的人生经历及忧国忧民的思想让他终其一生奔波于故乡与宦途，然惟有美食能让他暂时忘却烦恼，抒发自己对现实的无奈。因此，杨万里对自然食材进行了极其细腻的观察与细致的描写，也在其中体悟到不同的人生层面。本文对《杨万里集笺校》中涉及食物书写约300首诗进行了梳理，探讨杨万里书写食物背后的动机和深意。

第一章以地域性为线索，探讨杨万里的人生际遇与食物书写。杨万里将食物与其人生经历作结合，其食物书写可以分别有江西、江浙及南海食事三个部分，分别写出了不同地域的食物志。由于幼年的经历与父亲的影响，杨万里对食物只存有“温饱”意识，到后来官场失利被迫退居，导致他前后期的食物书写有极大的差异性。退居期间，他心中的仕途追求与自我独立人格之间产生了矛盾，他唯有通过食物去疗伤，也向名僧居士寻求佛学禅理，试图调适自己郁闷的心态去面对未来的人生。

第二章以杨万里本人为圆心，从三个方面阐述其诗中的食物书写风貌，即：独餐与“心境”，食物与“物境”，从“食味”到“味外”。杨万里在退居时正因一人清闲自在的时间变多了，后来因缘际会下接触了佛学禅理，从“独餐”升华了寂寞，接受了孤独的事实，把视线转移至眼前的美食，并学会了享受孤独一人食的美好时光。此外，杨万里也在就餐的过程中以三种不同的食后经验谈即“本”味、“和”感与“香”气去发现食物所带来的美感。最后，杨万里还从“食味”联想到了“味外”，发现了味觉可以化解人生的逆境，即食“苦”哀志、食“甘”喜乐及食“酸”隐忍，说明了食物能感物，也可以与人心做交流，更能表达食物存在的意义。

第三章以时间为轴，解析杨万里书写食物的继承性和创新性，探讨其书写的诗史价值。杨万里焚诗以示世人决定摒弃江西诗派，自创“诚斋体”，以前人书写的风格为前提，力求创造属于自己食物书写的定位，挖掘出不同以往文人饕客的思想和精神价值。杨万里继承了前人“饥饿”的书写及食物之雅俗的调和，旨在求新求变，意味着继承是创新的前提。然而，创新是继承的发展，杨万里从“师古人”发展为“师自然”，强调“活法”和“透脱”，为南宋的食物书写做出了进一步的开拓。

The food writing in Yang Wanli's poems carries the unique local characteristics of the Southern Song Dynasty. His life experiences and the care for his country and the people made him spent his whole life running around his hometown and the imperial courts to look for value of life. So that, only the delicious food can give him a break and feel relieved from the reality. Therefore, Yang Wanli, who is a good observant, has done a good research on the natural ingredients used in cooking, and also learnt the meaning of life from his food writing. In this paper, by organizing and categorizing the food mentioned in nearly 300 poems included in The Collection of Yang Wanli’s Poems, it is to discover and discuss the motive of writing and the meaning behind those food.

The first chapter is to explore Yang Wanli's life experience and food writing based on the geographical area. Yang Wanli chooses to integrate food with his life experience, which takes place in different stages of his life in his food writing. There are three main regions, which are Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the Southern China. He has written about the local food from these three different regions. Besides that, his childhood experience and the influences from his father, taught him that food does nothing but only to “satisfy hunger”. And when he was forced to live in seclusion after his failure in official career, this encounterment has changed his food writing style. There were conflicts between his pursue in the official career and his inner self, and he can only seek relieve in food. He also seeks peace from Buddhism, trying to sooth his emotional instability.

The second chapter is focusing on Yang Wanli himself. His food writing style is shown in three dimensions, which are eating alone and “mind state”, food and “physical state”, and from “taste” to “behind the taste”. After living in seclusion, Yang Wanli's has more free time and with his later encounterment with Buddhism, he starts to learn and accept the fact that he is alone, and “eating alone” can sublimate his loneliness. He then chooses to focus on the food tasting and start to enjoy himself during the moment of eating alone. Besides that, Yang Wanli also learn to discover the adversity of life in the process of eating. He used "original" taste, "harmony" sense and "scent" to describe the aesthetic feeling of food. Finally, Yang Wanli writes from "taste" to "behind the taste", where he finds that taste can solve life problems and it can be extended to different emotions, where "bitter" expresses sorrow, “sweet” expresses happiness and “sour” expresses endurance. He explained that food can represents feelings, and also connects with human hearts, to express the meaning of food existence.

The third chapter is taking time as the axis and discovers the succession and the innovation parts in Yang Wanli’s poems, and further discusses on their values. Yang Wanli burns poetry to show the world that he has decided to abandon the Jiangxi poetry style and to create "Chengzhai style" in his poem writing. He strives to create his own food writing style based on the poetry and the writing style of predecessors, and to position himself and to discover the ideological and spiritual values that are different from the previous poets. He inherits the literary concept of "hunger" and the harmony between elegance and vulgar, aiming for innovation and change, which emphasize that succession is part of innovation. However, innovation is the development from succession. From "learning from the predecessors" to "learning from nature", Yang Wanli emphasizes the concept of “Huo Fa” and “Tou Tuo”, which advances the food writing in the Southern Song Dynasty.