For most wage earners, they finally have a long holiday that they can get together with their family and friends all year round. They can not only eat and drink, but also exchange feelings and feel life. Of course, many people eat and talk, and they are finished when they are full of food and drink.
However, there is such a group of people who will record the historical origin and feelings of food and leave it to the world to taste. This group of people are the authors of Life is Short, Have Another Bowl, and 20 cultural masters in the 20th century. Among them are Feng Zikai, Tang, Zhang Henshui, Zhou Zuoren, Wang Zengqi, Liang Shiqiu, Zhu Ziqing and Ye Shengtao. Just this string of names is like thunder.
For example, Zhu Ziqing, a famous poet, essayist and professor of Chinese Department of Tsinghua University, devoted himself to the study of classical literature. Zhou Zuoren is an essayist, translator and pioneer of folklore in China. Wang is a connoisseur and collector, and is called "the first player in Beijing". Su Qing is a Shanghai-style female writer who is as famous as Zhang Ailing. Zhang Henshui is a representative writer of Yuanyang Butterfly School. ...
These people who have made great achievements in different cultural fields or research directions have one thing in common, that is, they love food and life.
The collection of essays "Life is short, one more bowl" contains their love stories about food and life, so that readers can feel the fireworks of these cultures while looking forward to their achievements and tasting the words.
0 1 Life is short, have another bowl.
During the Spring Festival, relatives and friends get together and have a few drinks. Some places like to persuade wine, "deep feelings, a stuffy", "not drunk", seems to be enough brothers, enough face. In fact, it is really like that. People who drink are uncomfortable, and those who persuade them are also hard. If they are drunk, they will cause trouble to others.
Feng Zikai is a famous painter, writer, music educator and translator in modern China, and he is versatile. His cartoon art attainments are profound, and he has the title of "the father of chinese comic" and is also known as "the artist who is the most like an artist in modern China".
But what most people don't know is that he also studies drinking. Regarding drinking, he advocates paying attention to fun. In the book "Life is too short to have another bowl", three of the four articles written by Feng Lao are related to wine.
Mr. Feng Lao likes to drink yellow wine. Mr. Feng Lao said in the article "The Fine Wine in Shaping" that he likes yellow rice wine because it is not easy to get drunk. He said that drinking and getting drunk is a utilitarian behavior and will lose the fun of drinking.
As early as the Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu, a great writer, said that "the meaning of drunkenness is not in wine", which Mr. Feng Zikai thought was the wise saying of people who are good at eating wine. Veteran Feng drinks as a way to comfort himself or to entertain his family.
In the article "Eating Wine", Feng Lao recalled several situations of drinking with friends and friends in need when he was young. Even, I had a few drinks with people I didn't know, but I've "confirmed my blindness". People on the same journey all take a few sips as the spice of life, and let them sit together for a few drinks without exchanging names.
In the article "Night Drinking by the Lake", Mr. Feng Lao and his friend CT accompanied the wine with poems, recalled their past experiences, and told the trivial things that parents dragged down their children, which made people feel that a generation of celebrities were ordinary people.
Drinking is to adjust the atmosphere and increase the fun. You can't drink too much. People who really drink drink friendship and realm. Mr. Feng Lao said: It's not because of Chai Mi's well-meaning that he hastily made cups and plates. Although there is pain in life, a bowl can solve thousands of worries.
Three meals and four seasons, look down on salty food.
Eating habits and tastes vary from place to place in the country. Orientals like sour food, while westerners like spicy food. Southerners like sweets, while northerners like salty ones.
Mr. Liang Shiqiu is a famous essayist and expert in Shakespeare studies, and is recognized as one of the world cultural masters of Chinese. Many of his literary works are widely circulated at home and abroad and are praised as classics by people.
He traveled all over the country and ate a lot of delicious food. Mr. Liang laughed at himself and was greedy. He never forgot poetry and wine in his life. Even though he lives in Taiwan Province Province, he still remembers the delicious food in old Beijing.
This book "Life is Short, Have Another Bowl" contains several articles about his special food, such as Wotou, jiaozi, baozi stuffed with juicy pork, ham and so on. Food such as steamed bread may bring you a memory of poverty, but Lao Liang said: poverty is common among scholars, not to mention the working masses.
They all eat. Some people do it for three meals a day, others for curiosity. But people like Mr. Liang, who are good at observation and rich in life experience, can appreciate the diversity of life from delicious food and write down the geographical features and living habits of different regions in words.
Mr. Liang's prose seems to be handy, sometimes obsessed with piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, sometimes astronomical and geographical, and sometimes worldly. These articles included in "Life is too short to have another bowl" express a delicious, elegant, peaceful and warm feeling with concise words. He not only wrote the taste on the tip of the tongue, but also presented the cultural heritage of China for thousands of years.
Between the lines of "Life is too short to have another bowl", when recalling Beijing's special cuisines and representative cuisines from all over the world, Liang Lao occasionally reveals a trace of homesickness, which makes people deeply moved.
In his works, food is not only used to fill the stomach, but also represents the humanistic customs of a certain area, bearing people's memories of the years and nostalgia for their homeland. Delicious dishes, distant hawking, have the taste of home, but also the shadow of hometown.
Every time I read these words, readers will feel ripples, which will touch the affection and homesickness that will never be erased in our hearts.
I didn't live in 2003. Have a good meal.
Now that there are more guests at home, the host will invite them out to a restaurant for dinner, and few people cook for themselves. In the past two years, if it is not the requirement of epidemic prevention and control, many families have reserved seats for the New Year's Eve dinner in the restaurant outside in advance. It does save a lot of things, but it also loses a lot of fun.
Mr. Wang Zengqi is known as "a lyrical humanist, the last pure scholar in China and the last scholar-bureaucrat in China". He has made great achievements in the creation of short stories, and he also has in-depth research on drama and folk literature and art. He is such a pure scholar who likes home cooking and cooking for others at home.
In the book "Life is too short to have another bowl", Wang Lao recalled some special foods in his hometown: fried rice and baked wheat cakes. In that poor era, these foods not only played a full role, but also gave the author some spiritual support.
In the article Home Cooking and Wine, Mr. Wang Lao thinks that home cooking and wine should be innovative, save money and save trouble. Spinach, shredded radish, dried pork, tenderloin slices, fried corn and so on are all very common dishes, but they are exquisite in Mr. Wang's pen.
Moreover, Wang Lao believes that these simple and easy-to-cook dishes have cheap ingredients and can add some creativity to the cooking methods.
Wang Lao is famous for his cooking across the Taiwan Strait. He likes to entertain guests at home, and he buys food from the market himself. Because there is no need to pursue high-end luxury, the host is very calm and has no pressure on the guests. After the tables are served, the host and guests will have a drink and have a talk.
Wang Lao has some unique ideas in cooking, such as inventing fried dough sticks with minced meat. He said that cooking should use more brains, give full play to imagination, read more recipes and try more. Because Wang Lao likes to cook, and the dishes he cooks are very distinctive, friends from Taiwan Province Province ask for his cooking when they come to Beijing.
Wang Lao once wrote a poem for his life: a book every year, a pen to clean the window and entertain himself, a place to laugh, and a kitchen of six square meters.
From studying to working, Wang Lao has traveled to many places and experienced many twists and turns in his life, but his heart is calm and gentle. Paying attention to the little things in life makes him often find the beauty in the world and supports him to accept everything optimistically.
04 written at the end
Hide the world in a grain of rice and cook time in half a pot.
The book "Life is short, one more bowl" allows us to see a colorful world from our daily diet; It also makes us feel the gentleness of time in the process of eating and tasting food.
20 masters, 54 articles, wine, tea, vegetables and snacks leave us not only the taste on the tip of the tongue, but also the taste of history, human feelings, hometown and memory.
If you can't have a full meal among friends for various reasons, you can read Life is Short, Have Another Bowl. If you feel tired and lonely, you can also flip through this book, make yourself a cup of tea and cook a bowl of porridge.
This collection of gourmet essays contains not only articles by great scholars, but also illustrations by master painter Qi Baishi and painter and seal engraver Ding Fuzhi. Color, aroma and taste are all available, which can be matched with wine. You can sleep with me and comfort others.