The ancients told the son: "Food, color, sex also." (Mencius, "Confession") The confession believes that food and color are human nature, and from the perspective of modern psychology, food and color are produced by hormones secreted by the pituitary gland, which is the animal nature of human beings, which is beyond reproach. But some people have gone too far.
Color-eating also
Ji Xiaolan (1724-1805) paid great attention to "food and color". According to the "Great View of the Wild History of the Qing Dynasty", Ji Xiaolan did not like to eat rice and flour all his life, and the flour was occasionally eaten, but the rice was never eaten. When he ate, he only had ten plates of pork and a pot of boiled strong tea. His friend also invited him to eat and drink in the tavern, and after the dish was served, he did not meet him, and his friend made a poem to quip him:
Situ feasted and toasted the wine first. Not to mention killing Dong Zhuo, that is, cloud drunken mink cicada.
"That is, cloud drunken mink cicada", that is, "Ji Yun's mouth is hungry", laughing at Ji Xiaolan's mouth. The Qing Dynasty has a book called "Insect Song Manga", which records that Ji Xiaolan once said that he was reincarnated by a wild monster, using meat as rice and not a single grain of rice. As for the "color", the "Worm Song Chronicle" records that Ji Xiaolan had to have intercourse with several women a day, once before entering the dynasty at five times, once after retiring to the dynasty, once at noon, once at dusk, and once at night to sleep, five times a day, which is indispensable, as for other times, it is not counted within these five times. What a talent!
Ji Xiaolan statue
Even with such "food and color", Ji Xiaolan still lived for 82 years, which is really enviable. In the TV series "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan", Ji Xiaolan has a dignified appearance and iron teeth and copper teeth, while in history, he is "sleeping, short-sighted, stuttering", "appearance sleeping" is ugly appearance, "short-sightedness" is myopia, and there is a problem with stuttering, it seems that his appearance is not honorable. However, people are in high positions and have the cost of "food color".
Yuan Ming (1716-1798), a Qing Dynasty talent who lived like Ji Xiaolanhuo for 82 years, also invested a lot in food color. Seeing the word "Suiyuan", everyone will definitely think of this person, because there is a book that is particularly famous in the foodie world- "Suiyuan Food List", which was written by Yuan Ming. First of all, a little bit about this Sui garden, Yuan Mei bought the Sui Garden of Jiangning Weaving Sui Hede in 1745 (Qianlong Decade), and then changed its name to Sui Garden, and four years later, Yuan Ming wrote a "Sui Garden Record", which detailed his purchase and repair of the garden here, and expressed his love for Sui Garden. The garden covers an area of 220 acres, and Yuan Mei spent 300 taels of gold. Let's talk about this Sui Hede, he is the Jiangning weaving after Cao Fu, that is to say, this garden that was changed by Yuan Mei to suiyuan was originally Cao Xueqin's family. Jiangning weaving was served by the Cao family from the Kangxi Dynasty and later transferred to Sui Hede. Therefore, some people also say that the prototype of the Grand View Garden in "Dream of the Red Chamber" is this Suiyuan.
During the Qianlong period, the book shadow of the "Suiyuan Food List" was engraved
The "Suiyuan Food Menu" records 326 kinds of northern and southern dishes, which is very rich. According to Yuan Ming in the "Preface to the Food Menu in suiyuan", every time he had eaten in one place, he let his cook go to that place and learn to cook that dish from others, so that forty years of accumulation, they were all gathered in this book. From this point of view, Yuan Ming is really a foodie.
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The aforementioned Cai Yuzi's "Insect Song Manga" also records Yuan Ming's pursuit of "color". Yuan Ming said that he had spent most of his life, unless he was sick, he could not leave the female color for a moment. He even had his own theory, which he said in The Anecdotes of the Garden:
Those who cherish the jade and pity the incense and do not move their hearts, the saints; those who pity the jade and the incense and are moved, the people also; those who do not know the jade and do not know the incense, the beasts also. Man is not a saint, but a man who sees and is not moved? Therefore, he who knows the jade and pities the incense, the man is different from the beast.
That is to say, when a woman is seen, it is the saint who is gentle and unmoved by her; it is the ordinary person who is gentle and moved by her; and it is the beast who turns a blind eye to the woman. Therefore, Yuan Ming widely accepted female disciples in his time, and when talking about learning poetry, he often mentioned beautiful women on his lips. One of Yuan's poems, which ridicules his old wife, says:
Naughty like a stubborn wife, it is impossible to depose. Possessed for twenty years, crawling day and night.
This poem is dedicated to pixiriasis, but it is really funny to compare it in this way. Probably Yuan Mei also had aesthetic fatigue for his old wife.
Yuan Ming's "Suiyuan Lake Building Invitation To Work Map" section
The two great talents are known for their "food and color", and they are also known for their talents, and they have a long life, both of which have lived for 82 years. Enjoying life and living a long life is really enviable.