Five tastes of food, contains the philosophy of life.
Wang Zengqi never hides his love for food and good wine, and a copy of "Food Affairs" basically carries his hobby. He did not drink lightly like the literati, but was really drunk on the street and unconscious.
Like drinking, he has a passion for food. The book begins with "Five Tastes", which starts from "sour, sweet, bitter and spicy", the eating habits of the north and south of the world are at hand, and the interesting things of old friends are also cleverly interspersed in the clues of taste, the speaker is full of interest, and the listener is also deeply tasted.
Then we started with wild vegetables and snacks in our hometown, from fried rice and salted duck eggs to tiger sharks, snails, clams in the water, to wild vegetables such as artemisia and goji berries, even if you only turn the pages of the book, you can imagine all kinds of crisp and fresh fragrance, so that the population salivates. If you read it late at night, it is even more "revenge on society", and you must go through the refrigerator to find dishes to be satisfied.
In addition to being hungry, he also had to be impressed by Elder Wang's meticulous intentions. In "Wild Vegetables of the Hometown", he not only cites dozens of wild vegetables to tell their tastes and stories, but also quotes from the Ming Dynasty to the current world, and quotes the words and phrases in the "Wild Vegetable Recipes", so that the people's teeth are fragrant and imaginative. "Home-cooked wine dishes" and other articles are basically recipes, "spinach blanched, cut into inch segments", "melon skin is extremely crisp, chewed sound, all tastes are transparent, there is still melon flavor", "clear wine drinkers, may wish to try", if not a cultured and ambitious senior foodie, it is impossible to observe such subtle details, and record it in plain text.
In China, food is by no means limited to the food itself. Just like the Spring Festival family feast or banquet, eating is just a head or a lead, exchanging information, comforting greetings, accompanying each other and comparing each other are all surging under the surface of bowls of fat meat and cups of white wine. Food not only fills the stomach, but also lubricates interpersonal relationships and shortens the distance between people's hearts.
