Mei Lanfang, the master of Peking Opera, is a humble gentleman, and he is very particular about how to deal with people, even if he eats, he is also very restrained.
Once, a ticket friend invited Mei Lanfang to dinner, and found that Mei Lanfang had been eating a plate of dishes, eating most of the dishes, but rarely moving on other dishes.
The ticket holder believes that Mr. Mei Lanfang must be Mr. Mei Lanfang's favorite dish and is not interested in other dishes, so the next time he invites guests, he specially lets the chef make this dish, and the portion is twice as much as the last time.
However, this time, Mei Lanfang did not move the dish with chopsticks, but ate another dish that he did not eat last time.
This made this ticket holder feel very strange, which dish does Mr. Mei Lanfang like to eat?
After consulting, I learned that it turned out that which dish Mei Lanfang ate was not because he liked to eat, but because the dish was closest to him, he only ate the nearest dish, and those dishes that were a little far away from him, needed to extend his arms, or even stand up to eat, he would never eat.
This is Mei Lanfang's moderation, paying great attention to his own image, which fully reflects his humble and gentlemanly side.
Mei Lanfang is not only strict with herself, but also strict with her children's requirements, and his daughter Mei Baoyue is deeply touched.
Mei Baoyue is Mei Lanfang's only daughter, Mei Lanfang is very fond of her, once, Mei Baoyue followed her father to a banquet, saw a plate of brine meatballs that she liked to eat, very happy, but the plate of balls was a little far away from her, she stood on the chair, stretched her arms to clip.
However, she was too young to reach even then, so she had to ask her father for help, hoping that he would give him a clip.
However, Mei Lanfang not only did not help her, but also glared at her fiercely, frightening her to sit down quickly.
After returning home, Mei Baoyue complained to her mother, saying that her father did not help her pick vegetables, and she lost her temper, and her mother said to her: "This is your father's rule, you can't go to a distant place to pick vegetables, and you must remember it in the future, you can only eat dishes close to you." ”
This is the story of Mei Lanfang's "only eating the food in front of him", which reflects his gentleman image of "not acting rashly and not asking for it".
In addition, in Chairman Mao, there have also been stories of "only eating the food in front of you", but it is completely different from Mei Lanfang's reason.
In the 1960s, Wu Liandeng was transferred to Chairman Mao's house as a housekeeper, and in order to make Chairman Mao eat more comfortably, Wu Liandeng arranged a task for everyone: to observe Chairman Mao's daily meals, the dishes he liked to eat, and he would cook more in the future.
Some people may ask: What kind of dishes does Chairman Mao usually like to eat, will the cooks, secretaries, and guards around him not know? Still need to go for special observation?
In fact, they really don't know, because Chairman Mao never picks at meals, the chef eats whatever he does, and has never asked for what to cook for him, so everyone is used to it and has not thought about this problem.
This time, Wu Liandeng put forward this request of "three fires for new officials to take office," and everyone was happy to accept it; who doesn't want Chairman Mao to eat better?
The next day, someone reported that Chairman Mao liked to eat fried artemisia, and he had eaten all the dishes.
Therefore, Wu Liandeng went to buy more artemisia and let the chef make it for Chairman Mao to eat.
However, on the third day, the plate of artemisia annua made for Chairman Mao did not move much, but another plate of fried cucumbers ate a lot.
Wu Liandeng went to buy some cucumbers again, and as a result, the next time Chairman Mao "didn't like" eating cucumbers, there were quite a few left.
Wu Liandeng was very strange, thinking that everyone might not have seen clearly, so he personally went to observe.
As a result, after several observations, Wu Liandeng finally discovered this "secret".
It turned out that Chairman Mao was usually very busy at work, and even when he was eating, he was reading documents while eating, so he only ate dishes close to him, and did not care about other dishes next to him.
Wu Liandeng suddenly realized that chairman Mao had eaten more dishes not because he liked to eat them, but because he was close to him.
After discovering this "secret," Wu Liandeng arranged another task for everyone: When Chairman Mao was eating, someone should watch from the side, and after Chairman Mao had eaten for a while, he would promptly change the position of the dish so that Chairman Mao could eat more tricks.
On that day, after the guard Feng Yaosong brought a meal to Chairman Mao, he did not leave, but stood by and waited.
Chairman Mao was still the same as before, reading the newspaper and eating at the same time, and the closest thing to him was a plate of fried hollow cabbage, and Chairman Mao had been eating this plate of hollow cabbage, and the other dishes did not move at all.
Seeing that this plate of hollow cabbage was almost half eaten, Feng Yaosong quietly removed this plate and replaced it with another dish.
Chairman Mao's eyes had been staring at the newspaper, not noticing the change, and after eating a few bites, he suddenly stopped and said to Feng Yaosong: "What's going on?" Taste changed? ”
Feng Yaosong smiled and said, "I changed the position of the two dishes, and just now you were eating braised pork." ”
Chairman Mao found that the dish in front of him had changed, and he couldn't help but laugh and said, "No wonder, I just ate it creaking, how did it suddenly become soft and soft again!" ”
This is the story of Chairman Mao's "only eating the food in front of him", because the work is too busy to even eat time, so he only eats the nearest dish.
These two stories of Chairman Mao and Mei Lanfang look very similar, but in fact they are very different, both reflect the greatness of the two and are worth learning.