Mr. Lu Xun, who uses a pen as a gun to write essays and "crosses his eyebrows and cold fingers", is actually a shop-exploring master and a food blogger in his life. From April 29 to the evening of May 2, the documentary "Fresh History" broadcast by CCTV Documentary Channel told the story of Mr. Lu Xun and food in four consecutive episodes. There were 65 restaurants where he wrote his diary during his settlement in Beijing; he especially liked to eat sweets, so he had 23 years of dental history and 75 times in his life, but after seeing the dentist, he would quietly buy sweets to reward himself...
Lens reproduction: three places follow up to restore Mr. Lu Xun's tongue tip memory
The documentary "Fresh Life History" focuses on the stories between Lu Xun, Su Shi, Cao Xueqin and Bai Juyi, four literary masters, and food, based on historical materials and works, showing the wonderful interaction between characters and food. In the words of the audience, it is simply "understanding history and tasting food, and every frame of the picture has to cry out.".
The first four episodes of this documentary are respectively based on the theme of "The Taste of Mr. Chaohua", "The Table Philosophy of Preparing for rain", "The Fighter Who Loves Sweets", and "The Warrior Who Dares to Eat Crabs", with the actor playing Lu Xun and dubbing in Shaoxing dialect, through "Lu Xun's Diary" and its literary works on the food of his childhood hometown - drunken shrimp, fennel beans, (plum) dried vegetables and other special snacks, as well as settling in Beijing's restaurants, going to Daoxiang Village to buy dim sum, as well as the eating life in Shanghai in his later years, to these cities one by one, Restored the memories on the tip of the tongue of mr. those years.
"For a while, I have repeatedly recalled the vegetables and fruits I ate in my hometown as a child: diamond horns, Luohan beans, zibai, and melons, all of which were extremely delicious and delicious, and they were all demagogies that made me homesick." Lu Xun wrote this in the small quotation of "Chao Hua Xi Shi". This collection of essays documenting his adolescence revisits many of his childhood memories,
The documentary also cites examples of drunken shrimp mentioned 7 times in Mr. Lu Xun's creation of his hometown life and the background of his hometown, and there are as many as 248 texts about various fish, dried fish, bad fish, smoked fish, fish balls... Fish delicacies are varied and make the population flow.
Mr. Lu Xun is also keen to explore the store. Lu Xun's diary also records Lu Xun's exploration of food, and there are 65 restaurants that wrote in the diary during his stay in Beijing alone. Because of his sweet taste, Mr. Lu Xun would even steal the persimmon cream "sugar cube" for treating mouth sores at night, and explained that there were not many mouth sores, so it was better to eat them fresh..... He has seen and treated his teeth 75 times in 23 years, but after seeing a dentist, he will quietly buy sweets to reward himself.
Scholar's interpretation: The documentary allows people to see the "Big Mr." with pyrotechnic gas
For the story of Mr. Lu Xun and food told in the above documentary, is it a reshaping of his life image? Jiang Yixin, director of the research office of the Lu Xun Museum in Beijing and a research librarian, said in an interview with the Beiqing Daily reporter that this is a concentrated presentation of the grounded side of Lu Xun in life. Lu Xun did record a lot of consumption behaviors in his diary, including diet, and this aspect of Mr. Lu Xun is not so familiar with us compared with the standard-bearer and general of the new culture. "The introduction of some details in life in this food program is not a reshaping of the image of Mr. Wang, but can only be said to be a shift in perspective, so that we can see a big mr. with a more human pyrotechnic atmosphere."
Jiang Yixin also revealed that she has done a project of "Lu Xun's daily consumption map in Beijing", which specifically explores Lu Xun's diet and other consumption behaviors in Beijing. Lu Xun left a diary for 14 years before leaving Beijing (copied by Xu Shou in 1922), and there were 1037 results in the search for the keywords "buy" and "buy" in Lu Xun's diary, that is to say, during the Beijing period, Lu Xun averaged about 74 purchases per year, and he had to consume every five days.
Lu Xun is not an introvert and a lonely person, he has warm contacts with his colleagues, and there are many friends. During the period of living in the Shanhuiyi Hall (Shaoxing Guild Hall), although he was a married man, he lived a single life. Three meals a day, because there is no hostess to handle, and make it normal to eat with friends. Jiang Yixin found in his research that whether it is a small gathering, a large gathering, or a personal relationship between the superiors in the ministry, or a confidant drink, it has become the main theme of Lu Xun's three meals a day. In other words, Lu Xun solved the problem of eating in the form of friends and friends, and became a very intriguing way of existence for seven years when he lived in Shaoxing Guild Hall.
Lu Xun's dietary taste is not completely southern, the staple food is by no means exclusive of pasta, often eat steamed buns, sugar buns, spring rolls, shrimp noodles, etc., chicken, duck, fish and hairy crabs also have no taboos, vegetarian food is of course also possible, buns, steamed buns have become Lu Xun's artistic eyes very pyrotechnic imagery. Lu Xun also often went to the food store around the front door to buy snacks and other snacks, and after paying a monthly salary, he went to the bakery to buy beautiful French dim sum, returned to the palace gate, first asked Mrs. Lu to choose the favorite snacks, put them in a lacquer box specially filled with dim sum, and then took them to Juan's room and asked her to choose.
"In Lu Xun's case, 'food' is not just about cooking, it is related to the history of people's lives, urban history, mass consumption culture, and how life enters literature and other broad topics." Jiang Yixin said that the current research on Lu Xun's daily diet, whether it is biographies, papers, monographs, there are also many, but she personally does not like to rely on Lu Xun to the new urban network culture style of "foodies", should avoid taking the fashion filter to re-look at Lu Xun, to always take into account the historical context, especially do not take the sentence association, take it out of context, of course, more so in terms of food.
Lu Xun's descendants: Lu Xun of the "meta-universe" is more real
The Beiqing Daily reporter noted that the topic of "Mr. Lu Xun buys sweets to reward himself while watching a dentist" brought by the documentary has caused a hot discussion on the Internet. In fact, in addition to this documentary, on the websites where many young people gather, there are also many short video stories of Mr. Lu Xun and food that are playing, which have received a lot of attention.
In the view of Zhou Lingfei, the grandson of Lu Xun, the current Lu Xun fever is a way for the public to re-understand Lu Xun, or to hand over a "realistic" Lu Xun to everyone. In terms of the popular elements that young people like to use at the moment, it is hoped to see a "meta-universe" Lu Xun, that is, a plump, three-dimensional, and lifelike image of Lu Xun.
"In the past, the teachers in the school classroom taught the students a Lu Xun who had a tall image in literature and made people feel awe; and the Lu Xun who is hotly discussed on the Internet at present has flesh and blood and a flexible side. Lu Xun is more lifelike, and I think it is not a good thing, but I am afraid that some people will vulgarize and secularize Lu Xun. Zhou Lingfei said that he hopes that in this high-tech information society, responsible historical researchers will preserve Mr. Lu Xun's thoughts intact.
He also said that especially in recent years, young people have begun to care about Lu Xun. Some people like Lu Xun's attitude toward people and want to get some answers from him, that is, spiritual things. Everyone is drunk and awake - this is the uniqueness of Lu Xun's personality, and it is also his ability to see the world from multiple angles and dimensions to see problems, and I hope that young people can also exercise this ability of independent thinking.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Enjie
Editor/Cui Wei