"Eat and drink, drink and breathe. It is a drought in the south of the Jiangsu River, and the people of Quzhou cannibalism. --Bai Juyi, "Ten Songs of Qin Zhongyin""
Throughout the ages, the people have taken food as the sky, and food is the eternal theme of the people's life. According to the Tokyo Dream Record, the ancients really did not tire of eating and drinking, and they were not tired of being fine, among which there were more than a dozen kinds of cooking, burning, roasting, stir-frying, frying, sneaking, etc., of which snacks and snacks, melons, fruits and vegetables were countless. People really want to wake up and go back to ancient times and enjoy a comfortable life without pollution.
We always lament that today's society is difficult, 996 is popular, prices are soaring, and wages are standing still. At the end of each year, spending money like water, looking back at the wallet, shouting to eat the soil, fantasizing about returning to ancient times, sending slaves and servants, bells ringing and eating, so unhappy.
But if we do travel back in time, will life really be as good as we think? We often learn about ancient times from film and television dramas and novels, and what we see is only the life of the princes and generals, the lives of the rich and noble families, and the lives of the real poor in ancient times, I am afraid that this is not the case, if there is a disaster year, I am afraid that I will "eat soil".
First, the day of disaster
According to historical records, China has been up and down for five thousand years, there are almost no years without disasters and difficulties, for the magnates, catastrophes and disasters are insignificant, but for the people at the bottom, whenever they encounter bad years, they are a family of old and young, upside down and displaced.
At that time, don't say anything about delicious food, I'm afraid that it is a grain and grain that you usually eat, and wild vegetable nests are also rare to see. Once in the event of a famine, the people are hungry enough to eat grass and bark, and anything that is visible to the naked eye and can be bitten by cooking can be eaten, but the bark is limited, and the hungry people are more and more with time, and in the end, when even the bark is eaten, they can only eat soil.
This eating soil is not the one that everyone plays on the Internet and complains that they spend more money to eat soil, it is only literal.
Some people will ask, can you eat such a thing as soil?
There is no doubt that this, soil, of course, can not be eaten, but when a person is hungry to the extreme, the whole person has no reason to speak of, as long as it can fill the stomach and satisfy the temporary hunger, who cares whether it can eat or not.
During the famine period, the disaster victims called it Guanyin Soil, not only because of its white color, but also because it was the last food that the people could fill their stomachs, just like guanyin bodhisattva who saved the suffering and rescued the suffering, in the most difficult period of people, fanpu all sentient beings, brought people a false sense of satisfaction; although this soil could not bring nutrition to the hungry, nor could it digest, eating too much would even swell alive, but in that period, even the soil was to be robbed, and even some people could not eat it, until they were eaten, which was really a hell on earth.
However, the world is uneven, the world is unequal, and when hundreds of people are wandering, hungry, and fighting every day for this inedible soil, those powerful people are full of food and are obsessed with pleasure!
There is a poem in the Tang Dynasty that says: "Food is full of heart, and wine is full of vitality." It is a drought in the south of the Jiangsu River, and the people of Quzhou cannibalism. "The magnates were extravagant and lascivious, drinking fine wine and delicacies, and eating mountain treasures and seafood, in contrast to the same year, the drought in Jiangnan, Quzhou actually appeared in a tragic scene of people eating people, one side of heaven and one side of hell."
We often see in the novel or TV protagonist travel back to ancient times, a bunch of servants of the yakuza, the biggest thing every day is to fall in love with the male protagonist, do not know that those who make the background board of the yakuza are originally the most precious treasures in the family, but also the father and mother in the palm of the palm of the child of the petite child, if not had to, the family to the end of the road, who will bear to sell their children to other people's families as slaves?
Second, the role of the government
Natural disasters are often there, but there is nothing we can do about natural disasters, neither preventing them from happening nor preventing their end, but can we really do nothing?
In fact, it is not, the reason why people are human is because we have wisdom and thought, we can use tools to benefit ourselves and transform the environment in which we live, and we can also unite and select an organization that is used to rationally allocate social resources to help the people in the disaster-stricken areas survive the disaster, which is the role of the government.
However, in ancient times, government officials who were supposed to seek the well-being of the people and open up peace for all the worlds ignored the people because of their own selfish desires.
When disasters come, the government personnel who work hard to provide for the people will only loot the people's fat and people's anointing, and they will not know how to save the world, so that small disasters will become major disasters, and natural disasters will become man-made disasters.
What impressed me the most was a classic dialogue in the TV series "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan", and He Yan said to Ji Xiaolan, "Do you know that the person who is about to starve to death is no longer a human, it is a beast, as long as you can live, what bran is there, that is a good thing!" Grass roots, bark, and dirt can be eaten! ”
Bran, grass roots, bark, soil, the people worked all their lives to provide for the rich and powerful, but they could only eat these things that they did not even eat livestock.
There is a poem that says, "Those who are all over the body are not silkworm breeders", and in just one sentence, it tells the pain that is difficult for thousands of people at the bottom to tell.
Third, today's good life
From the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 to the present, social life, Li Min's attitude has been turned upside down from the previous day, and the earth has shifted from the stars. In the great waves of the times, our party government has always adhered to its heart, not forgotten the original vision, and led the 1.6 billion Chinese people to the road of moderate prosperity.
In these decades, it is not without natural disasters, 98 years of great floods, 08 years of earthquakes, 19 years of epidemics, we have experienced no less disasters than any period in history, natural disasters have never left, but the lives of the people are completely different.
Although there is a disaster, but we have the government to give us a solid support, although we dare not say that the mountains and treasures of the sea, but the fine rice noodles, fresh vegetables are always available, and the eating soil in our mouths has also evolved from its original cruel original intention to today's Network hot stem.
epilogue:
No one can predict what the future holds, but we all see China today. We can not only eat full, but also eat well and eat healthy. Maybe there will be bigger challenges waiting for us later, but no Chinese people will be cowardly, we are making progress little by little, getting better step by step.
There is a line in Kissinger's "On China" that "China has always been well protected by their bravest people." "But I think that each of us, the bravest people, is doing our best to protect this China, our common home, so that people living in this land can avoid disasters and enjoy happiness."
The scene of the ancient poem "Zhumen wine smells of flesh, and the road has frozen bones" will never appear again; for we all know that if the rich are like rats and the poor have nothing to rely on, they will be greeted by sickles and axes.
Ancient productivity was limited, food was also very different, if the ancient food is put down today, you may not be able to eat a bite. Ancient and modern eating soil, the word has two meanings, so if it is you, are you willing to cross over to ancient times to eat soil, or guard your own small pockets and eat soil in various festivals with discounts?
Reference: "Light Fat", "Tokyo Dream Hualu", "On China"