Wang Zengqi is a famous contemporary novelist, essayist, successor of the Beijing School of novels, and a disciple of Shen Congwen. He is known as "China's last pure literati and China's last scholar-bureaucrat." This lovely old man is like a breath of fresh air, warming people's hearts - no matter what circumstances he encounters, he will never be depressed and always guard the enthusiasm and vitality in his heart. Now, reading his book "Everything has a heart, the world has a flavor" (China Friendship Publishing Company, 1st edition, May 2019), through his unique perspective, I feel that everything in the world can have a flavor only if there is a heart.

This book contains almost Wang Zengqi’s most representative works. The book is divided into two series: "Everything has a purpose" and "The world has a taste". He writes, draws, and cooks, making ordinary daily life affectionate, interesting, and interesting, and conveys his love for life through every word. To the world - life is beautiful and people are poetic. He is a humanistic man who pursues truth and kindness, and is poetic but not pretentious. He teaches us to see the world with a beautiful heart and live with a loving heart. Life must have light and shadow, sunshine and rain, feelings and hearts, and the taste is all contained here. Reading these words is like listening to the writer "talking affectionately about the life he knows with a friend with whom he can talk."

Wang Zengqi wrote about ordinary people's trivial matters, recorded local customs and folk sentiments, and talked about flowers, birds, insects, and fish. He can write about loneliness beautifully: as lonely as white chrysanthemum tea; he said that the beetle is a "gentleman who cherishes his status"; he likes to tease mimosa, and said disdainfully: "They all say this is bad , what's wrong with that?" He wrote about the rain in Kunming: It's past noon with a glass of turbid wine, and the rain is heavy with the dampness of the fragrant flowers. Writing about the hydrangea in Mount Tai: I stood in front of the flower and stared at it for a long time, and then I left because I couldn’t bear it. It's been more than ten years since we said goodbye, but I still haven't forgotten them. Write about great friendship: kindness and righteousness when we are together, and unrestrained when we are apart. And this book reads amiable, respectable, and lovely, and contains great wisdom that ordinary people cannot reach.

Wang Zengqi has a deep love for life, never feels depressed, has no scheming, and has few vulgar worries. He lived an interesting life, and his words were as clean and refreshing as pebbles. All this is related to the fact that he has lived in Gaoyou Water Town in northern Jiangsu Province since he was a child. The folk customs there are very simple. In Mr. Wang's opinion, "all this is really a holy place." An ordinary scene becomes innocently beautiful through Wang Zengqi's perspective. Wherever his words appear, there is a painting. Modern people like to look at flowers, plants, and food, and are keen to show the details of life. Wang Zengqi's prose has just that: a meticulous observation of life, a tender observation of daily life, which is why many readers like him. .

Wang Zengqi is a person who can bring food and literary creation very close. He once said: "It doesn't matter if your taste is a bit monotonous or your ear tinnitus is a bit bad. The most important thing is to have a wider interest in life." This is how life should be. "How wonderful it is to be alive!" This is Wang Zengqi's straightforward yet profound understanding of life. He has warm feelings for everything in his hometown. His words are "flavored with fireworks". Whether it is his speaking habits, expression methods, or even values, they are all deeply engraved in his mind. This makes his words read cordially, without a sense of distance, and makes people feel comfortable. Enjoy reading, enjoy reading, read again and again.

Wang Zengqi loves to eat, knows how to eat, and writes wonderfully. Even if he writes down "recipes" casually, they are full of poetry. For example, "mixed with shredded radish" is written like this: "Wash the small red radish, remove the roots, but do not peel. Cut into thin slices diagonally, and then cut into thin strips, the finer the better. Add a little sugar and marinate slightly , ready to serve, light red and tender white. Before eating, pour it with three kinds of oil (soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil)." He cooked at home to entertain the Chinese-American female writer Nie Hualing and his wife, including a large bowl of boiled dried shreds. I saw "Hua Ling ate heartily, and finally picked up the bowl and drank all the remaining soup." He often said: "The shepherd's purse in Beijing is not as flavorful as the wild ones in the south." This kind of faint sadness is probably the feeling that people who are thousands of miles away from home can have.

The real charm of Wang Zengqi lies in authenticity and even more in fun.

In the eyes of readers, Wang Zengqi is a "lovable old man". Mr. Shen Congwen said that he is serious and profound, thoughtful and talented. The most endearing thing is his attitude, not being surprised by flattery or humiliation. There is a popular saying among readers: "Many people don't know him, but those who know him love him." He uses personal and trivial themes to aestheticize daily life and correct the collective grand narrative; , implicit and restrained narration, exposes the sentimentality and exaggeration of the style of writing, and makes the return of truth and beauty, daily life, tranquility and grace to prose, and makes prose go out of "thousands of people have the same tone, thousands of books have the same tone", which is indispensable without.

Tie Ning said: "Mr. Wang brought warmth, happiness and extraordinary interest to the literary world." His life was full of ups and downs, but he wrote with a slowness and leisure that is not available today. Ordinary plants, trees, tea and meals become vivid and interesting because of him. He said: "We have had various traumas, but we should be happy today." He wanted to make people feel that life is beautiful and people are poetic. How could you not like such a person?