“水饭”是中国传统饮食文化中一种食品的名称,当世几部颇具影响的辞书皆予以立目入典,加以解释,但均或多或少地存在可以再商榷的地方。文章利用大量的语料,试从其历史沿革、制作方法、社会功用、产品特征等方面加以考证,认为“水饭”就是一种以米煮饭,略烂后捞出加水食用的传统食品的名称。 “Rice ” is the name of a kind of food in the traditional Chinese food culture. When several influential lexicons in the world were established, they were explained and explained, but there were more or less places for discussion. The article uses a lot of corpus to test its history, methods of production, social function, product features and other aspects of research, that “rice” is a kind of rice cooking, slightly rotten remove traditional food add water The name.