Cloud Bookshelf: Reading Pan Xiangli's "Foraging"

"Foraging", Pan Xiangli, Jiangnan, No. 1, 2022, read on January 19, 2022.

Appreciation: Survival or destruction, it's a question. What to eat for lunch, it's a more serious question. "Foraging" is a story about eating, specifically, a story about how urban office workers eat lunch.

Eating is a necessary part of maintaining the vitality of human life, "What to eat for lunch?" How to eat? But it has become comparable to "Who am I?" Where am I from? Where are you going? "A philosophical question that is brain-burning and difficult to choose. I believe that many readers and friends have had the pain and entanglement of not knowing what to eat for lunch, why lunch? Instead of breakfast or dinner. Because breakfast can be confused or not eaten, dinner can be enjoyed with family and friends after a busy day, and lunch is often solved in the unit, which produces "what to eat for lunch?" How to eat? " puzzle.

The author appeals to everyone's confusion, and in this story about eating, there are also thoughts and pursuits about love. The author mentioned that urban office workers can generally solve lunch in five ways: the first, eating in the canteen. Advantages: save time and money, health and safety; disadvantages: fixed time, queuing for meals, noisy environment, the most important thing is that it will be greasy. The second is called takeaway. Advantages: free time-saving, busy first choice; disadvantages: food delivery time is not fixed, food safety is difficult to guarantee. The third type: rice mating mode. Advantages: good atmosphere; disadvantages: few people, there will always be cracks after getting along for a long time. Fourth, make your own bento. Advantages: Meet the needs of individuality; Disadvantages: Test cooking skills, time-consuming. Fifth, the Lone Ranger. Pros: Freedom, enjoyment, relaxation; Disadvantages: Expensive, inability to communicate feelings in real time. Here, it is recommended that readers and friends alternate in five ways, make use of their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, and seek advantages and avoid harms.

The protagonist of this article, Su Yunpei, is a "lunch loner", she does not like the noisy environment of the company's lunch, and wants to use this time to relax her body and mind, so she walked into the "grain rice" restaurant, where she met Wang Limian, an "old classmate" with facial blindness, and the two formed a "eating relationship". I thought I was a classmate, but I didn't know that the educational experience of the two people had nothing to do with each other, and the food did have magical ability, just like the red line, which would promote a marriage between a pair of ordinary "rice partners". Although there was also the betrayal of the ex-boyfriend during this period, there was also a tokyo food trip that did not quit. However, the two have understood that each other is the most beautiful "rice partner" in life.

This article starts from "eating" and ends with "eating", a simple story that integrates elements of the times and is a "gastronomic love" that occurs in Shanghai. This reminds me of Liu Zhenyun's "Ten Thousand Sentences in One Sentence", people must not only "speak", but also "eat".