Poster of "Zishan Fish Recipe"
The Korean movie "Zishan Fish Recipe" has a lot of emotions after watching it - I can't help but think of Han Changli's poem: "Oh my party's second and third sons, and I will not return to my old age." ”
The Zishan Fish Recipe is a book that records the marine animals around the island of Montenegro, written in Chinese, classified into categories and meticulous. Most of these animals are consistent with those produced in the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. "Zishan Fish Recipe" is divided into scales, scaleless, intermediate, miscellaneous, a relatively broad classification method, an entry-style list, each sea object also has a common name, as well as shape and color size, mostly seen with their own eyes, so the details are described in detail, although there are also citations of ancient books, but there has been an essential difference with the literati who do paper research in the study. Exile was not a bad thing for him either.
"Zishan Fish Recipe", collection of the Korea Maritime Museum
"Zishan Fish Recipe, Preface", Collection of the Korea Maritime Museum
Ding Ruoquan said in the self-prologue of the "Zishan Fish Recipe": "Zishan, Montenegro also." Yu who Montenegro, the name of Montenegro is obscure and terrible, and the family books are called Zishan, Ziyi Black Also. "The so-called Zishan, that is, the black mountain island of present-day Korea, is dark and unlucky, so it is secretly said that it is called Zishan, and "Zi" has the meaning of "this", that is, the reference to being in this mountain, and at the same time, Zi is a combination of two Xuan characters, Xuan is black, therefore, Zi is also black.
Ding Ruoquan's debasement was implicated in the "Xin You's Teaching Case" and was relegated to Zishan to suffer, but he lived his own pleasure on this deserted island. As the most knowledgeable scholar of the Lee Dynasty of Korea, he arrived at the island of Montenegro and immediately became interested in the animals in the sea, both the traditional Confucian "Gewu Zhizhi" and the influence of Western studies, and naturally came up with the idea of making a fish recipe. At this time, he noticed Zhang Changda.
Stills from "Zishan Fish Recipe"
Ding Ruoquan introduced Zhang Changda as follows: "There are Zhang Deshun Changda on the island, Dumen Xieke, Du good ancient books, Gu family poor books, hands do not release volumes, and those who see can not be Bo, but the nature is quiet and precise, all grass, trees, birds and fish are connected to the eyes and ears, they are carefully examined and contemplated, and their character is reasonable, so their words are credible." Yu Sui invited the museum, and paid attention to it, and the order was compiled, and the name was "Zishan Fish Recipe". ”
Zhang Changda can be regarded as the second author of the "Zishan Fish Recipe", and he opened up a whole new world for Ding Ruoquan. Zhang Changda in the movie "Zishan Fish Recipe" is a fisherman, he studied with Ding Ruoquan, he wants to take the road of "learning and excellence", Ding Ruoquan is writing fish recipes, Changda is quite dissatisfied, thinking that it is not doing the right thing. The collision of two different values is another clue that wanders beyond the book "Zishan Fish Recipe".
The gentleman was seeking from the sea, but the disciple was eager to go to land. Just like the fish in the sea, the flowers are different. Ding Ruoquan wrote in the "Zishan Fish Recipe":
"There are many kinds of totoabas, large and small, and all have two stones in the brain, and the white maw in the abdomen can be glue."
"Anchovy, commonly known as stupid fish, is two or three feet old, narrow and tall, with large and large scales, green back, sweet and clear taste, and after the valley rains, it began to fish on Niu'er Island, and since then it has gradually gone north, and in June it began to reach Haixi, and the fishermen chased and caught it, but it was better to catch it late than early."
Under the bluefish entry, there are traces of Zhang Changda - "Chang Da Yue: 'The production of Lingnan, the seventy-four sections of the spine, the production of Hunan, the fifty-third section of the spine'. ”
Most of these precise figures come from Zhang Changda. However, although Changda knew the sea fish well, he was at a loss when he arrived on land, his eunuch career was short, and the ideal way of the saint finally collapsed in the face of reality, and it was better to return. Montenegro is the ideal destination, and the two masters and apprentices have the same destination.
When Zhang Changda returned, Ding Ruoquan had already passed away, leaving only a copy of the Zishan Fish Recipe, and a letter, which gave the answer:
"Changda, although it is not a bad thing to live as a crane that constantly flies upwards, even if it is covered with sewage and mud, it also chooses to live like Zishan, although it looks dark on the outside, it is full of vitality and freedom, and it has never been a meaningful thing!"